The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1937-09-16


run from many quarters and it is
now being overrun again; but 1t has
never been conquered. That sounds
like broad statement but history
proves its truth. The Chinese
through all of their thousands OF
years of history have managed to
survive and maintain their racial
characteristics and traditions. They
never have sought additional terri
tory. They have been content to do
things in their own way and to abb
sorb Western civilization slowly. In
other words, the Chinese have gen.
orally allowed human nature to
change only as human nature does
change through the years.
So, those who favor the present
American neutral hands-off policy
will tell you with emphasis that the
Japanese are engaging in suicidal
aggression. They will tell you that
even though Japan defeats the Chi
nese armies and takes possession
OF North China and fills the fertile
valleys with colonies of the Mikado
China will eventually win. China
will win because, as in the ages
past, the Chinese swallow up, alb
sorb, all races that enter their bor-
ders.
But what of other world powers?
Lately, the Chinese have entered in
to treaty with
What OF Soviet Russia by
Other Pouers? which that nation
promises not to
participate in war against China.
The treaty is simple enough and yet
what is written there is only shad-
ow of what it all means. The So
Wet, while apparently not desiring
to engage Japan in hostilities, is
unwilling to see Japan 60 too far in
extending her frontier. 1t is only a
short while since Japan set up the
puppet state of Manchukuo. 1t bor-
ders on Russian territory and the
feeling along that border has been
none too harmonious. 1t seems quite
logical then that the Soviet was de-
sirous of showing to Japan the pos
sibility of an attack from two sides
if Japan forces her tentacles too far
inland in continental Asia.
Also, it ought to be mentioned that
the treaty between the Soviet and
China may be influential in Europe.
The general understanding is that
Hitler has committed Germany to
the aid of Japan if the Soviet moves
against the island power. Besides
this circumstance. the Soviet is un-
willing, if one may judge circum-
stances of the last two years, to en-
courage the ill will of Great Britain.
Dictator Stain does not want to
have Great Britain and France ar
rayed against him and he can see
obviously that Great Britain and
France, as well as the United
States, must favor China over ia
pan in sentiment even though it may
never be voiced in an official pro-
nouncement.
relate these various possibilities
and potentialities, not because en-
terrain any fear that we will be-
come embroiled in the Far East, but
} cause one must understand all of
the various connections if one is to
realize fully that the Japanese have
embarked upon program for
which they are responsible, but
which they probably will not be able
to control very long.
Word comes by cable from Paris
that the French government has ma
tionalized all of
Takes OUer the railroads with
Railroads in the borders of
that nation. 1t
may be that this news item will be
passed over by many persons with
the remark that the condition is sew
eral thousand miles across the At
lantic. 1t is, however, a most sig
nifcant step because France, along
with the United States and Great
Britain, long has held to the idea
that private initiative and private
brains always are better than gov
eminent initiative and government
brains.
l call attention to this develop
ment for another reason. 1t hap
pens that about three years ago
members of President Roosevelt
so-called Brain Trust were planning
exactly the same thing for the Unit
ed States.
Strangely, the terms by which the
French government, which is now
completely socialistic, took over the
railroads of France are identical
with those which were under consid-
GRAFTON by the Roosevelt Brain
Trust.
1t may be news to many persons
to learn that the bunch of theorists
who infest our government once
actually drafted a bill for action by
congress to nationalize the Ameri-
can railroads. That bill would have
taken over the rail lines for their
bonded Indebtedness and would
have left nothing at all for the stock
holders. The French radicals have
done exactly that thing in national
izing the French railroads.
1t may be that 'tIt can't happen
here" but I must confess a very
deep fear. 1t seems to me the time
has arrived for those who believe
i'll ownership of their own homes.
possession of their own money
whether the sum be small or large
Ito awaken to the trend of world
events.
Q Western Newspaper Union.
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