SORT OF A PEACE TIME FARCE :
Paine, Robert F.
Sort of a Peace Time Farce : By ROBERT F. PAINE THE Nicaraguan affair is becoming comical, as well as bloody. Secretary Kellogg says that Gen. Sandino is a mere nobody, having no political party...
...Back from France comes Ambassador Herrick, carrying in his pocket an actual treaty proposed by the French government to outlaw war between her and the United States...
...The masses they control simply obey...
...If the university needed that library and La Follette were living, he would fight for that library to a finish...
...Sandino's 300 was "inhuman...
...B. L. To discover the favorite perfume of a destructive insect is the prime aim of the naturalist...
...And, as to those passenger liners, there wasn't a company running any of them that wouldn't have given $10,000 for the advertisement in rescuing those aviators...
...He is a member of one of the most indubitably conservative administrations in the history of our country...
...Salowon de la Selva, Nicaragua delegate to the Pan-American labor conference, at Washington, stands right up, in open meeting, and roasts Kellogg with all the English at his command...
...But, save your money for the big show...
...Desiring to lower a St...
...Petersburg, Fla., bandstand floor, consisting of a 16-ton concrete slab to a new base 18 inches below, the contractor found he had no satisfactory screw jacks...
...relatively...
...HIS MEMORIAL WISCONSIN'S Senate defeats the" bill to appropriate $920,000 for a La Follette memorial library in university grounds...
...Pacifism o.uiets bed-fellows of marked discord...
...The murder market is temporarily quiet, divorcers are resting before the fall scandal term, even Mr...
...Splendid...
...Such a statement scarcely promotes the Tribune's desire for bigger and better wars...
...Threatened with death, they took no chances...
...In an issue before Congress, which would have the more advantageous standing, Mr...
...To put it in shorter, uglier words, the people's funds are to be looted by the armor and gunpowder makers, with false pretence...
...Hereafter, civilian aviators must be dead certain that they're drowning before they disturb the Navy with SOS...
...Next time you cross our path we anticipate an agonized picture of Friend Tribune hueing and crying at Mr...
...The delicate sensibilities of the Tribune are further outraged by the churches...
...Founded on the principle of genius, they are actually reported guilty of trying to promote peace...
...Herrick for becoming "enmeshed in the interlocking directorate," of pacifists, communists, and other radicals.—I...
...John Smith or Director H. B. Spencer...
...The present age average of the prisoners is 27 V-2 years and the warden reports that this average is steadily lowering...
...That's a lovely attitude given to the brave fellows of the U. S. Navy, by their boss...
...They declare war...
...TO SOFTEN, NOT HARDEN SAN QUENTIN, CALIF., prison, largest in the world, is about to make use of its new additions, provided for segregation of its youthful prisoners...
...War, in any of its aspects, as a possibility between the English speaking people should be disregarded, at the start...
...Houghton and Mr...
...No other person than Ambassador Houghton, holding the highest diplomatic post within the gift of the United States, comes home from England and tells the Harvard Commencement exercisers that war is brought about "by little groups of men called governments...
...Wilbur's office...
...Whereupon, Kellogg sicks secret service men upon de la Selva's private record, with the suspicion that Selva is a warmed-over Mexican revolutionist, who got in while Kellogg was snoozing on his job...
...It caused a number of Navy craft to rush to the rescue, says Mr...
...SINCE NICK IS HUMAN NICK LONGWORTH, speaker of the House of Representatives, is doing the Pacific coast region as a guest in the private car of Director H. B. Spencer of the Great Northern Railway...
...Women's International League wires Coolidge that the blowing to pieces of Gen...
...There never was a minute in the life of Wisconsin's grand old statesman when he wouldn't fight the use of other people's money for his own advantage...
...Two disarmament conferences leave her just where she was, if not worse off...
...Carrie Chapman Catt, who is known to be bending her great capabilities toward peace...
...Peop1e's Reconstruction League wires Coolidge to quit fishing and come right home to stop "the brutal violation of a neighbor people's rights...
...The aviators explain that, when they signaled SOS, it seemed certain that they must land in the sea, and then their radio broke down...
...Coolidge has exhausted the costumes of the Black Hills, although it is too early to predict if he has caught all the fish...
...Bees will desert a lush clover field to gather around formic acid and the very bad Japanese beetles come miles to a bag saturated with geraniol...
...Pacifism kept alive by fifty organizations...
...Arthur Sears Henning, the Chicago Tribune's well-known correspondent, in a series of articles, reports on his summer sleuthing...
...So our ravening neighbor is forced to bring out and dust off her ancient skeleton, only to find it more active and vicious than ever...
...Mostly, insects -like odors that are disgusting to humans...
...Sandino is a mere nobody, having no political party back of him...
...He has it...
...It is officially realized that "no boy is hopeless," but that he is apt to become so through daily association with hardened criminals...
...But oh, pray don't call it "thought...
...Yet Mr...
...We are watching for Mr...
...During the last fiscal year, 595 persons under 25 years of age were admitted to-San Quentin...
...When a perfume is discovered that will draw an insect away from food, something has been found that will help in killing off that bug and his tribe...
...and, probably, it sours about 95 per cent of them...
...GET TO AN AMERICAN POLICY IT IS the consensus of opinion in Washington that collapse of the Geneva conference will be followed by the strongest pressure upon Congress, by the big navy element, headed by Speaker Longworth, for spending $400,000,000, or more, upon putting the U. S. navy upon a parity with Great Britain's...
...Sort of a 5-ring circus effect...
...and, it is about time that the spirit of control changecf from vengeance to possible rescue...
...So he placed 32 fifty-pound cakes of ice under the slab, removed the supports and the sun did the rest...
...Houghton has never been in prison—he is no wild-eyed radical—he could hardly be called a liberal...
...But, wasn't it just terrible that several crews of the Navy, out there in the Pacific, with little to do, save to eat and draw pay, should have to hustle for 200 or 300 miles...
...No liner had to rescue anybody, but the thrill the passengers got will be talked about for years, with profit to the liners, if there is any merit at all in advertising...
...However, Smith and Bronte were not navy, but civilian aviators...
...But worse is yet to come...
...Gnash your teeth and whittle your quills, oh Tribune...
...Wilbur, while several Pacific liners diverged from their course, "an even more serious matter for passenger liners than for our own ships...
...Mr...
...America refuses to enter the League or the World Court...
...The Tribune, of course, will align itself with the D. A. R.'s, believing "we have the approval of too many readers of thought in the United States, including President Coolidge and Secretary Kellogg...
...Henning's report on the "communistic" activities of Mrs...
...IMPECCABLE PEACE-MAKERS THE GOOD old summer-time is hard on even the "world's greatest newspaper...
...If there were the slightest possibility of Britain and America engaging in such horror, America should not, for a minute, consider any sort of disarmament but should "arm to the teeth...
...And the people's Congress should not permit it...
...The Geneva conference produces more or less of British-American bitterness...
...and, all civilization might well get down upon its knees and pray to the Almighty to wipe out this one and start a new world, with barbarians as the original stock...
...The Chicago Tribune goes on to confide that they are "boring from within," but we could whisper to her in strictest confidence, that it is even nearer the core than she seems to suspect...
...It is time for America to disregard Great Britain's navy, and all others, and take care of America, exclusively...
...If the library were to be erected, with the people's money, merely as a memorial to him, Bob La Follette would fight it, from foundation stone to roof...
...The English speaking people—not the diplomats—will not permit a British-American war...
...About the same average holds in most of the great prisons of the country...
...The Tribune pursues these formidable headlines with the history and doings of Jane Addams, Julia Lathrop, Roger Baldwin, Norman Thomas, William Allen White, and many more individuals admired and respected, if not always agreed, with, by thoughtful Americans for their spirit and courage in standing up and sacrificing for what they believe...
...And so, as individuals, they merely accept the decision and go out to pay the bills of war with their bodies and perhaps with their souls...
...Bitterness is about all that America has got out of any international confab, since Wilson presented his League covenant...
...That is, the spirit in control will no longer be that of vengeance only...
...WILBUR'S BREAK ONE OF the silliest things publicly perpetrated was Secretary Wilbur's rebuke of the Trans-Pacific flyers for their premature SOS flash...
...This will be along, next year, when Kellogg, with some of the U. S. army, navy and hand-picked professional politicians, will supervise a presidential election in Nicaragua, gving those benighted people a pure election, for the first time, suppressing anything like Pennsylvania or Illinois proceedings, and shooting Nicaragua off the face of the earth, if she doesn't put up with Wall Street's man...
...and their action will be approved by about 120,000,000 Americans, mostly outside of Mr...
...He knew that the only enduring memorial is a record of loyal service...
...Better yet—why else pacifism...
...They make the issue...
Vol. 19 • August 1927 • No. 8
