The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-06-01
Will Rogers to the Ladies.
(New York World Telegram )


 Will Rogers is going to get hooked for a Cabinet post something bigger if he doesn't stop showing that he knows about running the country than the politicians. It took him just week with an airplane in the Caribbean to find out what our State Department after twenty-three years is only beginning to discover
 Will dvulged this secret of foreign policy to the lades-we would not dare to say, "old sisters , as he did-of the D. A. R. convention in Washing ton. Said he:-
 We've got our army and navy messing
 around in everything; well, but
 we just don't get away with it. have been
 talking about it in all these countries, and
 they think we ought to stay at home. We're
 in bad in fifteen countries. I have
 been told that in confidence by their big
 men, and it is time we quit and got back
 home.
 To which say, Amen.
 The only trouble with Will is that he doesn't go far enough Or perhaps we should say the only trouble is that he did not stay in General America another week. Then doubtless he would have covered the constructive policy which should replace the American intervention fiasco. q After we take Wills good advice to quit and get back home" what do we do then? For that does not solve the problem. There will still be Central American revolutions. There will still be periodic destruction of United States property and killing of citizens
 There will still be demands of European powers for to protect their nationals threat their There will still be occasions when outside police power required protect legiti mate international rights.
 And when those crises come, all of the hard sense of Will Rogers and the good intentions of the White House are not going to keep several million excited brethren and sisters of the patrotic ganizations from pushing us back into the Big Stick policy.
 Then shall rush South again with high hat in one hand, gun in the other. a battleship in the background-and proceed to clean em up in the name of God, country and bonds
 That is what has always happened before, and will again.
 Unless
 ternatonal rights there is not our job but in- job
 Unless cruisers and marines as part of international police force
 Unless we substitute for Monroe Doctrine of Yankee paternalism new Pan-American doctrine of mutual equality and mutual responsibility of all the American republics for protection of their joint interests and rights.
 Unless renounce selfish diplomacy and dictatorial power in favor of Pan-American union which can and will act
 Peace is not preserved by mere good intentions Disputes are as inevitable in this hemisphere elsewhere Military interventions and wars are not ended by words International organization is sary International law is necessary International enforcement is necessary
 As Will Rogers says mean well. But that has not kept us from making mess of things and earning the hatred of neighbors. Nor will Will Rogers's policy of withdrawal mend things.
 We must built where we have destroyed We must turn their hatred into good will We need them; they need us. We must live with them and work with them equals
 There is only way. Call it American League of Nations call it effective Pan-American Unon-the name does not matter. But that is the only way out.