Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-12-30

we owe the brilliant campaign
which in the darkest hour turned the
tide and saved the cause of the
Revolution"
Individual strength, Character!
Initiative and self-reliance! That is
what makes accomplishment, wheth-
err in war or business, Today we
are told that war is out of date, but,
whether that be true or not, the ele-
ments which won battles are still
the elements that win life. Since
the war to end wars" the world
has had % wars. There has been
scarcely a month of peace. Even
while the Paris negotiators of peace
We're busy in 1919, defeated Ger
many fought three campaigns
against the Soviets, then Russia
began her invasion of Poland-a
three-year struggle-and Greece in
vaded Turkey-a four-year war
and there were three or four lesser
wars, none smaller than Washing
toms capture of Trenton, but all
overshadowed by the magnitude of
the World War
In March, 1919, Egypt rebelled
against British rule and the Afghans
invaded India. The Poles invaded
Galicia in May and the Rumanians
invaded Hungary in August and
D'AnnunZio captured Fiume for
Italy in September
In 1920 while our Senate was de-
batting whether to adhere to the
League to lend wars" the French
were at war with the Arabs in Syria
and for two years there was war be-
tween France and Turkey. while
Italy warred with Albania and Great
Britain with Mesopotamia and
Poland warre1 with Lithuania in
sitting Wilma.
The following year (192D Greece,
backed by the British, and Turke~
then backed by the French, continued
their war, and Lloyd George, prime
minister, sounded out the dominions
of the British empire as to their readi
ness to support Britain in war with
France-in less than three years after
their alliance in the World War. But
the dOminions Wavered.
At the same time, the Monte
negrins fought Jugoslavia, and Spain
fought the Moroccans.
Then came 1922, with it's com
munistic uprising in South Africa
against the British, and China started
it's civil war. and the Greco-Turkish
'
destruction of Smyrna.
In 1928 the Lithuanians seized
Mcneil. the Bulgarians murdered their
premier and started a revolution and
Italy bombarded Corfu, an island OF
Greece.
In 1924 Brazil had revolution, as
also had Mexico.
In 1925 France was drawn into the
Moroccan War, as Spain was de-
Gated. France also had war with
he Druses, in Syria, and shelled
Damascus. Greece had war with Bull
garia. And this year G926) Brazil
has another revolution, and Mica
ragua also. while China is in civil war
verging on anarchv. with the powers
threatening intervention.
Peace, peace, Wne-. there is no
peaCe!" There has not been one year
of peace since the World War.
x i X
In 1878. at the call of Bismarck,
there was held a conference in Berlin
to revise the Russo-Turkish treaty
of st. Stefano and readiust the inter
national boundaries Of Europe. Ger
many, Austria, England France,
Italy, Russia and Turkey were rep
servers" present That conference
was to settle matters. Yet from 1878
to the breaking out of the World
War, the only years of peace were
1886, 1888 and 1889 and 1910. In all
the other years there was war, and
no year since 1910 has been free from
war. Today, q quarter of the world
population is at war.
century ago the worlds popula-
ton was less than 700,000,000 today
it is billion more than that; by Pops
AID, it is estimated that the world
Will contain 5000 600, 900 people, and
all nations will be struggling to ex-
pand territory because of oVerpres-
sure and lack of food.
Nations, what of the future prob
lens of state? ~
lCopyright. 1925. by Paul Y. Collins.l