The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1940-05-17
BAD NEWS FROM ACROSS THE
WATERS
BY j. E. Jones
BY J. E. Jones

European war brings troublesome
news reports that are practically of
the same moment as appeared in
American newspapers in the Spring
of 1915, months after the beginn-
ing of the World War.
The shortest way to define the
foreign policy of the United States
in 1915-16 was: To keep Uncle
Sans nose out of foreign wars"
That is exactly the honest position
of America today.
There may be officials and individ-
uals who have different ideas on this
subject but the policy of the United
States Government is real Neutral
ity. There is an almost universal
desire among American people as
well as the representatives in the
National Capital, including the Ad-
ministration and Congress, to avoid
involvement in the affairs of coun-
tries engaged in war.
You may call this Isolation" if
you want to, or you may call it
'tpacifism "-that makes no differ
ence, since the fact is both of the
old political parties are evading
all temptations and issues that would
change the policy of the United
States. They'll stay there, fastened
to peace, unless the people, fasten-
ed to their radios and daily news
papers go war-crazy.
There is solid satisfaction and
comfort in the present condition
which finds national sentiment unit
ed for America First"
But you don't have to be very old
to remember that the agitation to
fight with the Allies did not begin
to Crystalize until the very year be-
fore we were in the war, up to our
ears, in April, 1917. In the previous
November the presidential election
was carried by mere scrath on the
issue that President Wilson had kept
us out of the war; That is history
and remember that history re-
peats!" Some curious, unforeseen
circumstance may inflame our coun-
try and bring about change in the
present sane foreign policy. When
the change started late in 1915 it
swept the Nation like prairie fire.
Former President Theodore Roose-
welt was the widest leader of all.
He helped push us into the World
War.
Young America should watch his
and her step and never forget the
truism that nobody wins a war,
everybody loses"
See The Greatest Country On Earth
The Chief of the United States
Travel Bureau says that the rail-
roads and bus lines are whole-heart-
eddy backing Travel America" Sum-
mer. Low-rates are offered for circle
tours that furnish swing round
the country for thousand lovely
miles, almost any way one wants to
go.
Everywhere in the grandest country
on earth there is magnificent scenery
along level country, in the hills and
valleys, amidst woods, lakes and
rivers, and in cities, villages and
towns, and those wide spaces Of our
land have a different grandeur which
visualize the gifts of God and nature
which were unfolded to those pione-
ers who did so much in developing
the new world that we call "ours"
as we a-wheeling go.
The American holiday season is
recognized by Uncle Sam who gives
his employees a month off-and now
a lot of lazy guys down in Washing
ton are trying to get a five day
week, to boot.
The Good Old Summertime seems
to have been planned by the wise
Creator for the very purposes defin-
ed in the official call to Gravel
America" in the coming weeks. The
Automobile makes it possible to Wis
Lit relatives and old friends and to
keep up the human contacts, which
otherwise might be skipped-over.
Many persons believe that there
never would have been a Civil War
in the United States if the people
of the North and South had met on
DIS friendly and intimate terms as
they have since the automobile be-
came SO popular method of trans
portation.
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