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“While there ts Life there's Hope" No. VOL. 73 1907 Published by LIFE Awpnew Mittra, President and Treasurer PUBLISHING COMPANY Jaws S. Marcatre. Secretary 17 West Thirty-first Strect, New York English Offices, Roils 1 NE reads that rents are dvancing. and real estate activities ir ing in Geneva at the prospect of having the L that town, gue of Nations domiciled in Geneva takes the League seriously and is willing te bet on it real Geneva is right with money There is going to be a L and that very soon now. The very birth pangs of it attest the necessity that it should be born. not going to make a perfect job of parcelling ont the world. There will be compromises that will need watch- ing, especially the one that gives Japan so many privileges in Shantung. Any one who looks up Shantung on the map will find that its acreage is very con- LENE, The peace terms are siderable, and that its geographical re lation to Peking is very much that of New Jersey to York. But the newspapers say it has forty million in- habitants, which considera the population of New Jersey, unless one counts mosquitos, Japan agrees, formally, to return Shantung to China presently, includir o-Chau, the German stronghold, which, it will be recalled, the Germans obtained from China along with the Shantunz con cessions at the cost of two mission Sew ly exceeds aries, which some Chinese were so in- discreet as to kill To give the Japanese the whip-hand over a large chunk of China is not very palatable to disinterested observ- © nor yet casily reconciled to’ the sentiments of the fourteen points. But it may work better than one would think. If China must be Westernized, it may be that the Japanese are suit- able to help do it, and China, as a ams 1} London, E. C. member of will Nations, than the League of different standing she can have, at present, on her own have a legs. China is so helpless and so patient, that the world in general feels friendly Japan is so clever and has achieved so good an imitation of Western industrial civil- ization, that the part of the world she inclines to look on her with jealousy, She is supposed to have the political vices of Europe, which is an obnoxious thought both to Euro- peans and Ame she is not so bad as all that. bawl-kins CS towards her. has imitated Let us hope LY the war did not break the Europeans wholly of th litical vices, else the Peace Congress wouldn't have had so hard a_ time. When the war first began it used to be said that Europe must learn to think in terms of a continent. Nowadays it is necessary to go further and say that everybody must learn to think in terms of the whole world, and if things go on they will be telling us presently that we must think cosmically, and not let our carth-born prejudices come be- tween us and fair play to Mars. If we could only think more cosmically now, and fuss less over details of ter- restrial ownership and advantage, it would be a great help. Religion is cosmic in that it is not earthbound, and it is the people whose imaginations have been stimulated by religion who seem to be the League's best friends. At this writing the peace terms have not yet been disclosed, though they are said to have come ove: the cable. Per- haps they will tell what is to be ¢ with Dantzic, and what with Fivr though not much sleep is being | this voluminous and benevolen| try over either of those ports. | concentrated talent and learnin Europe, reinforced by the gifted gates of the United States, and ; knowledge of all the employees « State Department and all the ex ur universities, cannot what to do with those places, th. no use of straining our poor p about them. Mr. | will have to settle it. He has a settled Fiume and is Orlando's ¢ capacities date for anything he wants, an may never hear the Jugo-Slav ment that he might have put « Mr. Wilson’s weight had backed Ttali The European nations have too 1 claim. history. It is an embarrassment almost as great an obstacle to m improvement as the graveyards China. The Chinese hate to have wl bones of their interminable anceste disturbed, and would than have railroads. The Europe have interminable historical cl and use them to block peace provision so that you would think they liked war. Yet they profess to have had the war, and now to have all the sub rather st sequent ion, ruin and poverty, that they want. The Americans are working their heads off to avert futur wars, and are shipping tood by th thousand tons and lending money the billion dollars to try to keep rope alive till they get it fixed. they seem to be the only people care a hang for peace, and they fast becoming the most disliked peoy! in the world. UT that is all right, and, on whole, a good sign. If our goo men in Paris had any backers at it might be thought that they w playing favorites. But so long as Italians have bolted, and the Fr remonstrate, and the Japanese threate and the British want a new division of the German merchant ships, the inicr- comicbooks.com