Judge — February 1936 — page 20: what you’re looking at

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Judge The New Neutrality ATER a generation of nonsense about imperialism, we are through re Western Pac If any war whatever gets now or later, there is no re heaven why we should get into it. We out of the Philippines, having do neither them nor ourselves any good commensurate with the costs. Wee still have Guam, an isolated outpost rounded by islands under Japanese con- trol, and theref a liability rather than gh it now serves as , or ougl om under sur- jor our air-clippers to at except for Guam, which we ldn’t fight iterest west for, we now Hawaii and our have no large Of course we have our traders investments and our missionar in China. But the w neutrality, if it means anything, means that we going to spill A blood guard American dollars, and that such of our nationals € not nerican 0 safe- $s may choose to go adventuring in foreign parts, whether to sell chewing gum or to convert. the heathen, must do so at their own risk and not shout for papa if their skins are in danger. Yes, we are through in the Orient, except for the peaceful pur- suit of trade as long as we can get it without the aid of battleships. And the sooner the Pacific Coast joins the At- lantic States and the Middle West in realizing this, the better. Whether he meant it or not, Pre dent Roosevelt said something in his stump speech at the opening of Con- gress. For the first time “the Amer- North and South America to- were held up as a unit in e contrast to the other continents. Not that we reall fa unit yet. Our neighbors to the south still distrust us, and the record of the past gives i gether, them good reason. But the hard eco- nomic facts us to join our f t f the Americas. resources ke the other natural United States as nearly a self-sustaining area be found on the But we uch as rub- i an be had from our southern ne a few lobe. other d furs, can be Standing together, the Americas have England, ig Taw Italy and Japan have, to Is and exploiti This is at the bottom of our ality. We may our familiar trick of putting ona fi yak of ideal ism, se the truth is that we materi g markets ove But of cou are no better, no more human or the I Islanders. We converted. to no more Italians just b becom new because e can afford to he neutral and can't afford to figh Too Few Teachers P. SSIMISTS argue that the advance f the machine will continue to throw so many people out of work that never again will the world have use for all the people who are born into it. This is a narrow view indeed. It misses al- together the fact that there is a gr deal of needed work that isn't being touched yet, and that machines can’t do, One of our favorite examples is den- tistry. ures show a shockingly high entage of people whose teeth are never cared for. Double the present number of dentists could be kept busy if some way could be found to pay for their services, and that ought to be pos- sible in a prosperous nation, A more immediate example is that of the school te: r. In New York state the number of children in public schools has increased 29 per cent since 1920. But during the depre at least we haven't kept up ac ion years sponding increase in the number of teachers. Classes are too large, the children are not getting eno indi- 18 vidual instructi sands of unem; and there are thou- It seems simple matter except for the economic ed teache! actor—how the additional teachers are sing to be p: In modern economics nothing is simple. But that we shall m1 v just income and ou’ that the ne we have faith learn to read essary ji 1 will be done We Ss now ne by the people now i the soluti the Machine, the very in present confusion, that of the Machine A spect that econor put us in nd that way er the job of the gene fi © we are at prese central schooling t scamping Not the Head Villain HE traffic in munitions has been somewhat curbed in thanks to the League of Nations and to the American neutrality resolution, No doubt the revelations made by the Senate investigating committee have helped to. the evil trade. But they have also given many Americans the impres- sion that our own country has been the he past year, scotel 2 chief “merchant of death.” That this is not the case is shown by the latest figures compiled by the League, for the year 1934. The largest exporter in the arms traffic was Great Britain, the sec- ond Czechoslovakia, the third France, the fourth Sweden, and the United Ss fifth. (Incidentally, the nation that bought the most was China, torn by revolution and civil wars and men- aced by invasion.) So long as we make a single penny by selling goods with which men can kill, we have no right to an ounce of pride. But it is some small comfort to know th ¢ of our repu we are not the head Is mi for dollar-chasing. villain of the wo comicbooks.com