Judge — October 18, 1924 — page 17: what you’re looking at

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Out of Geneva Some day the wise guys of statecraft will accept it as an axiom in their trade that the smaller the states are in any geographical group the greater is their urge to unite. Woodrow Wilson was roundly cursed for Bal- kanizing Europe. His insistence on the “self- determination” of nationalities was the occasion for raucous jeers from all the hard-boiled amateur diplomats on both sides of the ocean. How could he expect to promote the cause of peace by breaking up the Continent into smaller fragments? What a set-up for his silly League of Nations! etc., etc. Too bad he couldn’t have been on hand to listen in on the recent proceedings at Geneva as a salve for the sneers that were so plentifully his. Suppose this country were composed, not of a lot of little dependent states, each afraid of the dark, but of official units the size of our East, our Middle West, our South, our Northwest, ete. The Union, if it could have been formed in the first place, wouldn’t have held together. Even as it is, the rivalries of these self-sufficient sections have caused one Civil War and have shown up regularly in every Presidential campaign. The present campaign is, obviously, no exception. If these sections were real honest-to-gosh political entities, we should have in this country much the same condition of mutual hatred and belligerency that resulted, in Europe, in the World War. Before the war, practically the whole of Europe was divided up among the Scandinavian bloc, Russia, Germany and the Austro-Hungarian Em- pire, France, and Italy. To-day, Europe is made up for the most part of a host of little states, more than half as many as we have ourselves, almost none of them with any degree of economic self-sufficiency. The day of little business is definitely over. The day of business on a continental scale is at hand. They can only live as parts of a greater economic organization. It is their individual helplessness that is molding Europe into a federation for which the League of Nations is the convenient framework. And Woodrow Wilson fecit. Countless industrial combinations of an inter- far Fisher. Dramatic Jean Nathan national character Geneva protocol. hope it takes. wait on acceptance of This is its real significance. Cut-ups of the Cloth Long before the newer psychology came along to turn our sex life inside out it was known that religious emotion and love murder, » closely allied, and, of course, love and This is the stock explanation to. of the scrapes into which so many of our good ministers seem to be getting. But these men are also the victims of their own senti- mentality. The job of a minister, particularly of an evangelical minister, tempts him to glorify his emotions. ‘They are his own peculiar distinction; they are also his bread and butter. He comes, in time, if he is not careful, to confuse their mandate with the will of ( The reverend gentleman who poisoned his wife and persuaded his mistress to poison her husband, that their love might flourish in the sight of heaven, is an excellent example of this type of sentimentalist. He'd no mor think of drinking, chewing, smoking or swearing, probably, than he would—well, of playing a friendly game of poker or of flirting with evolution. These things are of the devil! But love, especially his love. . . .! And then there is the Buffalo divine whose heart blec so for the sins of his city that he had constituted himself its Smedley Butler. He was discovered one night recently in a parked sedan with another man’s wife. No doubt. his love, too, transcends earthly understanding, and that’s why he is doing thirty day Martyrs both. Wilburitis What is there about the job of Secr ary of the Navy that makes a man an ass? Our memory goes back to George Von L. Meyer, who, unless we are mistaken, came within the definition. Josephus Daniels certainly did, whatever his compensatory qualities. So did the unfor- tunate Denby; and so, in the opinion of the Republican National Committee, does the present encumbent. Before taking up, in a serious way, the elevation of the guns on our battleships or'the expansion of naval aviation, wouldn't it be well to tow out for target practice this type of Sccre- tary? Or would that alter the 5-5-3 ratio? A correspondent suggests that William Sheafe Chase is one canon that ought to be fired.