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air Ik* BarmwaU Pm^I^SmUmI. Banwtll 8. C. Tkarwiaj. S^Uabcr 10, 1*M AMERICA’S WORLD EXAMPLE OF PEACE It’s No New Idea; but Sacrifice of Profits on Other Nations’ Wars Is; - * Practicality Remains to Be Tested. By WILLIAM C. UTLEY < W ITH the civil war in Spain presenting new and perhaps near- er-than-ever possibilities of another great war on the European continent, the stage was appropriately set for an address by the President of the United States concerning peace, and how this country shall maintain it in the face of struggle?abroad- The address was delivered before a crowd of 12,000 persons at Chautauqua, N. Y., and additional millions at home listening to their radios. It stamped the nation’s course, at least for the duration of the present administration, as setting the example of peace to the world through the “good neighbor” policy. If President Roosevelt’s speech^" was good political fodder, although it had been advertised as non-polit ical before its delivery, it was that chiefly by reason of the chief exec utive’s unrivaled artistry in seizing the dramatic opportunity to play upon the emotions of an audience, and may have been expected and excused in an election year. Significant was the fact that the most enthusiastic applause came after the President’s passionate declaration: “I hate war!” Signif- Roosevelt Speaks on Peace. leant in another way. perhaps, is the fact that the response would that America was itching to join the fight against them. Our Peace Efforts The picture of the United States, waiting with Wilsonian idealism to be turned to as the great example of peace and the mediator of the conflict, when its sympathies were all too plain, even to the Allies, is to be found in the records of inter national diplomatic correspondence of the period. We got into the war. It was a “war to end all wars” so wheil it was over, the victorious nations at tempted to organize to preserve the peace — assuming that the status quo at the end of the war could be permanently preserved, an assump tion sadly shaken since. We had participated in the conference of the Hague and other international peace movements. Largely at our own President’s suggestion, the League of Nations was formed, with its offspring, the World court, but we stayed out of them. We sat in on the interminable disarmament conferences. And finally, we brought forth the Kel- logg pact which outlawed war—on paper. Unfortunately it did not suc ceed in outlawing war on the earth's surface, and perhaps it was the Kellogg pact of which President Roosevelt was thinking at Chatau- qua when he said: “It it « bitter experience to ut mken the tpiril of epreemenix to ukick we ere • party it mot fitW up to. It it am etem e biller experience for ike wkole have been equally enthusiastic had company of mmtiomt to mimom mot only he hated spinach, red flannels or | tke tp*nt but the letter of imtermmtiomml agreementi tiolaleJ milk impumity and m-ilkout regard for tke ample primciplet of honor” The President cited the nation's attempts to cooperate for peace. “We co-operated.*• he said, “to the bitter end — and it was the bitter end — in the work of the general disarmament conference When it failed, we sought a sep arate treaty to deal with the manu facture of arms and the interna tional traffic in arms. That pro posal also came to nothing Net IsetaUenisU “We participated— again to the bitter end tn a conference to continue naval limitations, and when it became evident that no general treaty could be signed be cause of the objections of other na- washing dishes. Decries ’Foels 1 Gold' The President said that before the 1932 election, “I have made up my mind that, pending what might be called a more opportune mo ment on other continents, the United States could best serve the cause of a peaceful humanity by setting an example.” Later on, he said: “I wish I could keep war from all nations; but that is beyond my power. 1 can at least make certain that no act of the United States helps to produce or promote war.” Tke Preyrdemt ml to tetd “If war ikamld break out ogata im emotker continent, let mi mot blink tke fart that me could find t* tkit ikamtamd* of later team i mko looking immediate neket — laalt gold mould attempt la break damn at exude our neutrality . , , “If we face the choice of profits or peace, the nation will answer— “we choose peace.” The policy of America, the great peacemaker, setting an example to the world, is not new Long and often sorrowful accounts of its high moral achievement and almost com plete physical failure are readily to be gle aned from even the newer pages of history. Rights of Neutrals But the policy of foregoing the profits to be collected from other nations' wars—profits which would provide work and income for mil lions of unemployed— in order to maintain absolute neutrality and peace, is new. Because it requires individual personal sacrifice as well as collective good behavior, it is perhaps on even a higher moral plane than the exemplary policy. Its possibilities in application have yet to be tested in any real way. President Roosevelt admittedly struck the popular chord when he gave assurance that the nation would dedicate itself to maintain ing neutrality in the case of any war. It is little short of innovation to imply the waiver of the rights of neutrals to trade freely on the high seas in time of war. Yet that, or nearly that, has hern the demonstrated policy of the administration in the Italo F.thiopian situation, uhen it announced on October 5, l ( )35, that Americans mufld deal with belligerent nations at thefr own risk. Before the European war broke out in August of 1914, this nation was definitely committed to neu trality and in the two years that followed made heroic—almost com ic-opera—efforts to maintain it. The government’s secret agents went so far as to shadow persons suspected of having tendencies other than neutral, and put them in jail or deported them. Yet with the perspective given us by the passing of the years it would seem that our neutrality, while it was a legal fact up to April, 1917, was morally non-existent. Ameri can sympathies from the start were with the Allies. They were expertly exploited by the propaganda of the Allied diplomatic services, and only whetted by the inability of the Ger man diplomats, with their blunders inspired by the hopelessness and desperation of their situation as it became more and more apparent tion, we warn our citizens at home and abroad to preserve the spirit and letter of our neutrality. The country’s application of $he neutrality law in the Italian case has been mentioned. The next ap plication was on last August 7 when the government instructed its dip lomatic and consular representa tives in Spain that its policy was one of non-interference, advising American nationals in the same vein. This raises a fine point. Our law applies to fighting between two nations—but the Spanish incident is a civil war and concerns only one nation. International law experts say that political neutrality does not obligate the nationals of a neu tral nation unless that nation has a domestic law which controls such nationals. From this view point it seems that our neutrality law does not cover our nationals in the Spanish case. How Business Cooperates Only one case has been reported which might reflect the attitude of American business men with re gard to non-interference in Spain. That concerned an airplane manu facturer who stood in a fair way to receive an order. He asked the government’s advice, was advised not to fill the order, and didn’t fill it. IThether the cooperation of business men with the government was so satisfy ing in the Italo-Elhiopian soar is not so apparent. Department of Commerce re ports showed a sharp upswing in exports to Italy of military supplies not covered by embargo—things like copper, iron, steel, vehicles and petroleum—even after the neutrality law tvas passed. But it is impossible to tell whether this increase was due to the war or a natural recovery in trade. It fell off shortly before the acknowledged defeat of Ethiopia. To his administration’s “good neighbor" policy the President gave much of the credit for the harmoni ous conditions which he said existed in the Western World. “Throughout the Americas the spirit of the good neighbor is a practical and living fact,” he said. “The 21 American republics are not only living together in friendship and in peace; they are united in the determination ao to remain. “To give substance to this deter mination, a conference will meet on Dec. 1, 1936, in the capital of our great southern neighbor. Ar gentina. and it is. I know, the hope of all chiefs or state of the Americas that this will banish wars forever from this portion of the earth.*' 2.669 Miles ef Friendship He cited the abandonment of our right to interfere in the internal affairs of Cuba, the withdrawal of marines from Haiti, the new treaty with Panama, and the various re ciprocal trade treaties effected un der Secretary Hull, as evidence of our good-neighborliness. The latter treaties, of course, have been fre- Tales and Traditions from i FRANK I. HAOIN uu SLMO SCOTT WATSON BY ONE VOTE RUTHERFORD B. HAYES of Ohio, nineteenth President of the United States, can be designat ed “the man who was elected by a single vote.” His contest with Samuel J. Til- den of New York, the Democratic nominee, threatened for a time in 1876 and early 1877 to bring about a resumption of the Civil war. Per haps it explains in some measure the bitterness of battles today be tween Republicans and Democrats. Hayes faced the disadvantage of running in the wake of the eight years of the Grant administrations, followed as they were by sensa tional accusations of financial frauds. There was little to choose between abilities of the candidates and when first returns were in, Tilden was acclaimed as winner. Shortly after election day, it was revealed that Tilden’s managers were uncertain as to the results their party had achieved in Flori da, South Carolina and Louisiana. Normally Democratic, these states still were in the hands of carpet bagger governments. Tilden had 184 electoral votes and the ballots of any of the three states named would have elected him. Hayes, with 166, needed all of them to have oue more elec toral vote than Tilden. In Louisi ana, the canvassing board threw out 13,250 Democratic votes and gave the state to Hayes. Republi cans asserted their candidate had won in both South Carolina and Florida. But Democrats of the three states returned votes for Til den. To make the situation a typical American scene, congress was di vided, one branch being Democrat ic, the other Republican. It was decided finally to appoint five congressmen from each party and five judges of the Supreme court to make the decision as to which set of returns from the disputed states should be accepted. The election of Hayes was as sured by the vote of Justice Brad ley, whose participation gave the deliberative body a margin oi eight Republicans to seven Democrats. And congress approved these mo mentous findings Just in time to enable Rutherford B. Hayes to take I the oath of office as President. Spanish Snipers Hide in Church. tions, we concluded with Great Britain and France a conditional treaty of qualitative limitations which, much to my regret, already show signs of ineffectiveness. “We shun,” he continued, “polit ical commitments which might en tangle us in foreign wars; we avoid connection with the political activi ties of the League of Nations; but I am glad to say that we have co operated whole-heartedly in the so cial and humanitarian work at Geneva. . . . U IT e aye not isolationists except in so far as we seek to isolate ourselves com pletely from uar. Yet we must remem ber that to long as war exist* on earth there will be some danger that the na tion which most ardently desires peace may be drawn into war." The gist of our new neutrality policy has been indicated It is simply that we will not sell military supplies to any nation or nalions which are engaged ta war. la addi- quently upheld as too neighborly. The outstanding example of good neighbors are the United States and Canada, thfe President said: “The noblest monument to peace and^to neighborly economic and so cial friendship in all the world is not a monument in bronze or stone, but the boundary which unites the United States and Canada — 3,000 miles of friendship with no barbed wire, no gun or soldier, and no passport on the whole frontier.” To which his opponents might add that the lowefing of the tariff wall January 1 has permitted multiple increases of imports over that frontier. But few could disagree with him when he said: "We seek to dominate no other nation. We ask no territorial expansion. We oppose imperialism. We desire re duction In world armaments. ” And Americans, to. a man. it may be supposed, “hate war.** • Waatar v IMPROVED UNIFORM INTERNATIONAL S UNDAY I ■ chool Lesson By REV. HAROLD L LUNDQUIST. Data of tha Moody Rlbla Inatttuta •f Chicago • Weatern Nawapapor Ualoa. Lesson for September 13 THE COUNCIL IN JERUSALEM LESSON TEXT—Acta 16:2t-2»; Gala tians 2:1, 2, 9, 10. GOLDEN TEXT — For jra, brethren, were called for freedom; only use not your freedom for an occasion to the flesh, but through love be servants one to another. PRIMARY TOPIC —How to Settle a Quarrel. JUNIOR TOPIC—How to Settle a Dis pute. INTERMEDIATE AND SENIOR TOP IC—What Is Christian Living? YOUNG PEOPLE AND ADULT TOPIC —How to Live as a Christian. « Qmtiw Do not uncover a steamed pud ding for the first half hour of cooking. • a • Tarnish can be removed from brass articles with a mixture of lemon juice and wood ashes. a a a Green bananas may be ripened by placing in a paper bag and keeping in a dark closet for a few days. • • • To prevent the juice in fruit tart boiling over, mix a little corn starch with the sugar before add ing it to tart filling. a a a Aluminum pots and pans that have become discolored may be brightened by rubbing with a cloth moistened with lemon juice. O Assoc la tad Nawapapars.—WNU Sarvlca. NAMING A PARTY IRONICALLY enough, the names * ef the two principal political par ties once were combined as Demo cratic Republicans, e group of which the standard bearer was Thomas Jefferson, referred to per haps oftener than any other leader when Democrats trace their po litical origin. Under Jackson the party name was shortened to Democrat, which It continues to bear. Republicans emerged as a sepa rata party as early as 1854. al though its first nominating conven tion was held two years later* Up at Rtpon. Wis . in a corner of the campus of Ripon college, stands the Ripon Congregational church, scene of the first G. O. P. meeting The Ripon meeting had been called by Major Alvan E Bovay, a Whig lawyer, who generally receives credit for suggesting the name of the party. He had passed on his idea to Horace Greeley who later advo cated the name Republican at convention in Jackson, Mich. Although Ripon had a voting list that hardly exceeded 100 in those days of exclusively male suffrage, more than half of them attended Bovay's first gathering. The im pulse which brought them together was the conviction that the slavery question was comint rapidly to a head and that those who opposed must unite in a new group, regard less of geographical lines. Northern states naturally proved the most fertile ground for spread ing the new doctrine. Before the party’s first national convention, which was held in Philadelphia on June 17, 1856—a firm “toehold” had been secured by senatorial repre sentation at Washington. History fails to record what part, if any, Major Bovay played in the Philadelphia meeting. The dele gates were unanimously in favor o: nominating John C. Fremont and he was selected on the first ballot. Another Republican attended, however. He was the gangling Illi nois rail-splitter, Abe Lincoln, anc some of his colleagues had the temerity to advance his name as a candidate for vice-president. “Honest Abe” lost the nomination but four years later he was to carry the party to victory. Q Western Newspaper Union. Rivers That Flow North The St. Johns Rive* in Florida i* supposedly the only river ia the United States which flows north ward throughout its entire course There are others, however, which flow north for a part of their course, These include the Monongahela in Pennsylvania, the Tennessee tn Teiv neesee and Kentucky, the Rev* River of the North in Minnesota and North Dakota. Big Horn tn Wyoming and Powder in Wyoming a Although the first council at Jerusalem (Acts 11) had decided that “to the Gentiles also hath God granted repentance unto life, the question did not stay settled, for there were persistent Judaizing teachers who now contended that even though the Gentiles could be saved, they had to come into the church by way of Judaism and fulfill the Jewish rite of circumci sion. This raised the vital and fundamental question of I. Grace versos Law (Acts 15:1). The entire future of the gospel ministry was in a sense depend ent on the solution of this problem. Christianity is the only religious faith in the world that presents justification by grace, all others follow the path of works. The question now was, shall works of the law be mingled with grace — can Jesus Christ alone save men, or is salvation through Jesus Christ, plus something else. How was such a serious question to be settled? Should argument and strife be permitted to go on until the stronger party prevailed? Bet ter judgment indicated the desir ability of H. Council Rather Than Contro versy (w. 2-21). There may be times when it be comes the duty of the Christian worker to take an uncompromis ing stand for the truth of God and refuse to be moved, come what may. But certainly there should be no such spirit in dealing with differing interpretations of Scrip ture on the part of sincere and earnest Christian brethren. The question was honestly and carefully considered by the second council at Jerusalem, with the re sult that there was a III. Vindication of Iho Preachers of God's Graco (Acta 15 22-29; Gal. 2:1, 2. 6. 10). After presenting a plain disavow al of those who had troubled them and subverted their souls (what a serious thing it la to teach error concerning God's Word!), tha council being of one accord gave recognition to Paul and Barnabas as men who had "hazarded their Uvea for the name of the Lord Jesus." No man should think more highly of himself than he ought. HumiUty is a Christian grace Which weU befits a sinner saved by grace. But the Bible abounds with admonitions to honor one another, to recognize the labor r as being worthy of his hire, to give recognition to those who are over us in the Lord. How long ia it since you or your church comforted and encouraged some faithful teacher, preacher, mission ary, or other Christian worker, by giving such recognition aa the council at Jerusalem gave to Paul and Barnabas? The final decision of the council is sent not only by Paul and Bar nabas, but also by a committee from Jerusalem, a gracious gesture of fellowship. Courtesy is not out of place in dealing with even such difficult things as controversies on Christian doctrine — in fact it should be most in place in such a situation. But as a matter of record they also sent IV. A Letter Which Brought Great Joy (Acts 15:23, 31). After addressing the Gentiles as “brethren,” this letter, which has been well called “the Magna Charta of Christian liberty,” re viewed briefly the history of the matter, disposed of the subverters, commended Paul and Barnabas and then without mentioning cir cumcision at all puts upon the Gen tiles “no greater burden than the necessary things.” And what w<?re these? Purity of life, as those who were enjoying Christian liberty. The law of Moses need not be kept as a ground of salvation. They were saved by grace. But grace can newer be the cloak of careless living, Aior can liberty in Christ be interpreted as license to live in sin. We are set free in Christ, not that we may sin, but that we may “go and sin no more.” Following an Ideal Blessed is he who carries within himself a God, an ideal, and who obeys it; ideal of art, ideal of sci ence, ideal of the gospel virtues; therein lie the springs of great thoughts and great actions; they all reflect light from the Infinite —Pas teur. Week’s Supply of Postum Free Read the offer made by the Postum Company In another part of this pa? per. They will send a fall week’s sup ply of health giving Postum free to anyone who writes for It—Adv. \ Do Your Promises You become a person of prom ise, not by promising many things, but by accomplishing what you promise. 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