Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-10-12

the spread OF that fear and that SuS-
picion. We have said to each other
SO far as our navies are concerned
the subject that we have been discuss
ing in particular-so far as our navies
are concerned, there shall be parity be-
tween us, so that neither of us will have
any advantage over the other, so that
we are in state Of absolute equi-
librium.
what is the effect of that? The
chairman referred to why people fight
He was perfectly right People don't
fight for the reasons that they give for
1t after they have got into war. People
fight because something has happened;
because a train of circumstances has
happened which puts their nerves on
edge, which makes them unhappy In
their suspicious, which makes them feel
unsafe and insecure, until, by a con-
tinuation of that mentality, they come
to the concluSion-for Gods sake, let
us end 1t, whatever the price or the re-
suit may be-and before we know where
We are we are at war.
There is no better way of preventing
the development of that national frame
of mind than to prevent competition in
ornaments, because by competing In
ornaments every nation knows that it
has failed to get security. And when
1t has spent its nations income, when
it has frayed its nerves, then it knows
that war is absolutely inevitable and
that there is no cure for the conditions
under which they have landed them
selves except the conflict of arms.
For Mutual Confidence.
Limit the development of arms, then
what do you do? You compel your
statesmen, you compel yourselves to
trust to political security, the security
of justice, the security Of fair play, the
security OF rightnesS of position. the Sc
curing of arbitration, and every agree
ment made between nations consequent
ly to stop threatening each other by
competitive development of arms means
that those nations are driven more and
more into the judicial frame of mind,
into the frame Of mind which finds Sc
curity in mutual confidence and in mu-
tual good will.
THE mind, however, is furnished
always with old furniture that 1t is
very difficult for you to turn out of your
mind. You have the assumptions and
fears that you have inherited and fur
nished 1t afresh with, as you do your
own rooms and your own houses. For in
stance, In our case, our navy is the
very life OF our nation. We have ro-
nance surrounding 1t. We are a people
of the sea. We are a small island
Europe is at our doors for good or for
i'll. The lions of our empire have been
thrown all over the face of the earth.
We have to import our food. A months
blockade, effectively carried out, would
starve US all.
Great powers on the continent trust
to their land forces. Our land forces
must always be secondary force In
| the event of any conflict. Great Brit
aims navy is Great Britain itself
LAS / said, we are people OF the
sea, and the sea is our security and
our safety.
| that your imagination will enable you
| to see the affection, the real under
standable, human affection that is
gathered around our ships OF the sea
when we look into the future and how
hard it is to get the British people to
feel security If the naval arm is limited
| in any way whatever.
81 put that in front of you, not as q
| final word, but as a plea for under
for good will. In that, way, the very
fact that you show that patience and
| that good will enable us to change that
part of the furniture of our mind and
put in its place more modern. fairer.
more comfortable and more substantial
furniture for future use.
other Difficulty TO Face.
"There is another difhculty that you
| and we have to face in common.
You know in this world there is the
wise man. AS q rule he Is very I'M
/ wise man. And a very CHARACTERISTIC
| type of wise man is he who says that
as you have never accomplished any
| thing in certain directions, so you
never will. He is the sort of man
who an hour before Bleriot flew the
Channel would declare the Channel
could never be flown, because at var1-
| Gus times it had been unsuccessfully
attempted and that type OF man comes
in to bother us at the present time. He
knows a little bit about history, he
tells us. He tells us that In 1918 the
holy alliance was formed for the pur-
pose Of securing the world forever In
peace. And then he tells you little
gossipy tales about this nation and
that.
HE tells you how the holy alliance
came to an end. He tells you how
instead of armies vanishing armies
grew He tells you how even the holy
alliance itself instead of securing peace
paved the way for war And he shakes
his head and he says to Mr.. Root and
myself. All. you young and unreli-
able idealists.'
"If the holy alliance does not sat-
isfy you and initiate your faith. he
will tell you delightful stories of the
liberal dreams of democracy in the
region of l848. He will tell you, as
one told me the other day, how Robert
Owen came to the United States in
1845 and called a convention, and
these are the words used-called world
convention to emancipate the human
race from ignorance, poverty, division,
sin and misery. And he will con-
tinue the story down, down, down into
an ever-deepening darkness of failures,
and then the light of dissatisfaction
will illuminate his face and he will
turn to you and say: Have not proved
an eternal positive by a finite neg
,ative?'
take any great human cause that has
triumphed for the benefit of the world,
you will find that originally it comes
down from the clear blue sky of
idealism, down, down, down through
experiment after experiment that has
failed, until at last it touches the earth,
and as soon as 1t touches the earth, by
almost a magical transformation of its
creative power it begins to grow up and
up by physical means and by successive
additions until at last 1t establishes
itself as one of the great achievements
Of the intelligent human will.
Pilgrim Fathers Example.
'It was one of the Pilgrim fathers
who said, Let the government be as
materials be- That Is what we have
been trying to remember during the
last seven days. We have been trying
to amalgamate the two ingredients
Real creative action and an idea which
is just and inspiring with practical ex-
perience that enables us to apply that
idea like practical business men. There
has never been anything done worth
doing that hasn't been dreamed first
of all
81 am told I am addressing some