Judge — January 28, 1922 — page 21: what you’re looking at

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————— in these days, and golf at Chevy Chase, and pardon Debs and write urgent paragraphs if Presidential messages de manding Federal aid for maternity hospitals, thus quite up setting the theory that the doctor brings the babies in his little black valise; a theory m@eh- respected in McKinley's day. Times change and we change with them; but not en- tirely. There is Mother's Day with its carnation. The day and the carnation are a hang-over. They remind us of the time when the land was ruled by sentimental gentlemen in Prince Albert coats and ladies in bustles who were really no better than they could be! “BRINGING IN THE SHEAVES” IME has pressed many events into the two months that have passed since the American Secretary of State, Mr. Hughes, gave the world its first real thrill in three years. The naval experts, of course, took some- thing of the zest from the thrill in the final settlement and interpretation of the meaning of five-five and three. And the four-power treaty has its energetic and carping critics. China is not preparing her robes for the millennium, and the disillusion still lingers in her eyes. But at that she came out of the conference stronger than she went in So, everything considered, the conference for partial disarmament was a most important event. It marked the official beginning of another era in world politics. Before the conference it looked as though the harvest of death, with its woe and pain and loss, which the war had cut, would be wasted. Men sneered at the high aspirations of humanity in war, and no one could deny the justice of their sneers. It looked six months ago as if it was just another war that had racked the world: a greater war than other wars, a wick- eder war, but only that. There were the windrows of death, lying out in the weather, ungarnered through any gain of man in his travail But the conference called by the Americans has at least set the harvesters at work The war to end war” may have some meaning. The world may be made safe for democracy after all. In the Pacific, where war is most liable to break out, a ten years’ truce has been achieved Provision has been made to arbitrate the differences in the Pacific that lead to war, and the prin ciple of mutual disarmament replaces the old order. “Peace on earth among nations of good will,” is at last finding a fair trial emong civilized men The idea of conference as a basis of settlement of international disputes is no longer a by-word and a jesting. Humanity is at least straining to attain its idea', and not through powerless and extra constitutional bodies, — churches, lodges, associations, conventions and societies—which at best can produce nothing better than three cheers Humanity is seeking its, ideals to-day through the regular channels of polit- ical institutions. Some of the gilding of the Golden Rule has rubbed off and is smeared upon the time-worn ma- chinery of diplomacy. That is the net gain of the conference. We have begun to garner into the barns of our human institutions some of the great harvest of hope and faith and love of mankind that the war released. When that crop is gathered the victors of the war cannot keep it for their own. In- deed, those who tried to grab:in ma- terial things — boundaries, colonies. trade advantages and the like —the fruits of victory, will find those fruits 7, to be apples of Sodom. The fruits of victory of this war, perhaps the fruits of victory of all wars, in so far as they really are gathered at all, come equally to the victors and the vanquished. The god of battles is a sardonic cuss! How he laughs at the con- querors! In truth, one might say, looking back over the world’s long, awful record of cruel wars, that no one nation ever won a war and no brave people ever lost it BLOCS AND BLOCKHEADS NEW YORK member of Congress has introduced a A bill to prohibit the forming of blocs in Congress, which includes in their membership men from any particu- lar section of the country. This is a fierce bill. This is likely to scare the wits out of the Westerners who are form ng the agricultural bloc. It might be in order for some member in the bloc to introduce a bill prohibiting any mem- ber of Congress from voting according to the dictates of the boss. As between a bloc and a boss, as between the farmers of the Middle West and, say, Penrose’s successor, the more timid of those who are engaged in lending their support to either is not to be seriously attracted. The agricultural bloc will probably function Whether or not the Administration will like it is for the Administra- tion to consider. But the bloc will not be bluffed by sumptuary legislature against it Another Arms Discussion