The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1938-09-23
THE INTEGRITY OF THE
MERICAS
j. Il. Jones
J. q. Jones

Washington, ID. c., Sept. 20,-The
early ancestry of the Good Neigh
Dor Policy may be traced back to
the Administration of President
Monroe, who proclaimed his lasting
doctrine. The enduring friendship
between the Americas Is symbolized
by a marble building in Washington.
Among the throngs of daily visitors
in this show-place are many men,
women and children from the Re-
publics of the South. They cherish
this building, with its tropical atmos-
phere as part of their own partner
ship in all America.
The Pan American Union is an Of
fetal international organization of Fl
American Republics whose major
purpose is ito increase and develop
peace, friendly intercourse, and com
board composed of the Secretary of
State of the United States and the
diplomatic representatives in Wash
| ington of other republics.
When Frank b. Kellogg was Sec
rotary of State in 1926 the Pan
American Union took notice of the
blunt statement of the American
Secretary towards Mexico, charging
it with confiscation of American
farm lands in way that placed that
cantankerous Republic ION trial be-
fore the rest of the World" The com
plant smouldered through all these
years, and the debts have never been
paid.
Ironing out differences with the
Southern Republics has usually been
affected through painless diplomatic
procedure. Secretary of State Hull is
master in the arts of friendly COM
promises, and he received the plaudits
of Americas in the apparent sue
cesses of the Inter-American Con-
ference at Buenos Aires in Deem
Der 1886, which resulted in the
United States Senate ratifying two
treaties and five conventions and
one protocol with the representa-
tives of the other 20 American Re-
1
Americas was reafiirmed. Now the
Americas face a new test. 1t is:
Can the integrity of all America be
preserved, with Communism ram
pant in Latin America?
But on Labor Day, when the Ma
ton was engaged in everything ex-
cept laboring, Secretary Hull spent
the day at his desk in the State
Department. 1.-THE Note" from Mex
leo was before him, and in brief
ter Government to make provisions
for the payment of its debts and
furthermore defiantly asserted that
land-grabbing would continue. Sec
rotary Hull had charged Mexico
with acts of delay and evasion never
heard before lin the history of the
American hemisphere. Other &C
cusations paralelling that one had
been brushed aside by the Cardenas
government.
Little wonder that Washington
reads, with growing concern, such
statements as the following by a
former United States Senator, from
Mexico: 1.-THE Mexican question is
something more than the deliberate
stealing of the mines, ranches, plana-
lions and oil wells of Americans.
1t deals, finally, with the character
of the neighborhood we are to suf-
fer south of our border, under the
good neighbor' policy"
1t is because the Good Neighbor
Policy is a logical continuation Of
the ideals of Monroe that it has
been accepted throughout the
Americas. Our country, in trying
it's best to maintain the high stand
ards of democratic government so
often reiterated in Latin-Americas
Conferences, and in the frequent
sessions of diplomats in the Pan
American Union, clings tenacious
| ly to it's text, that the business
standards of governments should be
higher than those of individuals.
Gods OF The Harvest
Secretary Henry A. Wallace came
into the New Deal as disconnected
Iowa Republican. He brought with
him plan of his own, put it on
trial and called it an experiment"
1t finally became known as the Ever
Normal Granary. The great truth
that man proposes, God disposes,"
has warped the Wallace granary, as
the boundless yields of crops glut
the markets and give one dull,
sickening pain in the pit, as he
reads the daily market prices offer
ed for the golden grain, the snow
white cotton; the tasseled corn, the
sustaining potato, and other pro-
ducts of our farms.
Wallace challeges the farms