Life — May 6, 1920 — page 26: what you’re looking at

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MAY 6, 1920 “While there ts Li) there’s Hope”" Published by LIFE PUBLISHIN COMPANY Cartes Dana Ginsox, President Grorce RB. Ricwaroson, Vice-President Le Roy Mitre, 7 Geoxce p'Urass 17 West Thirty-first pwaro S, Martin, Edi Tiowas L. Massox, F. De Sates Street, New York ing Editor + Art Editor don Offices, Rolls House, Breams Bldgs., London, I OW would it have set on the sensitive stom- pach of the Monroe Doc- trine to have Canada accept a mandate to look after Armenia? Our Uncle Sam is th duty, but owing to circumstances w need not here be retold, he has so far bashfully shrunk from that responsi- bility ailing the United States, was suggested at k » that Cana- da should take t reported that 1 and the papers Curzon, British Foreign Minister, id that Canada would do it if it was desired. Whereat the sour have smiled, 1 in his smile there observer must must have heen a lot of admiration of Canada, as a country limited as yet in resources, but whose motor is not stalled, nor her tires deflated. Here at last, he must have said, is a bit of America that can act. Give her an idea and she can accept it. But the news did not wash, and the suggestion of Canada me to nothing, except for what value it may have to help bring home to these States a re tion of what duties they are neglecting. San Remo is interesting in spite of the detachment with which we Ameri- cans must look on at proceedings there. It is there that the representatives of the League of Nations, and especially the Big Three—the heads of the Gov- ernments of Great Britain, France and Italy—are trying to make the League of Nations operative. We have not joined the League, and we cannct join the councils at San Remo, but Mr. Wilson appears to have sent Amb; dor Johnson there to look over the fence and watch the game. Even that approach to action on his part seems to be noticed in Europe, certain effect. Of not satisfy him. His feelings about our nd to have ¢, it does Present position arc disclosed in his letter to Jouett Shouse, of Kansas, read at the Democratic Convention Wichita (April 22) which selected Mr Shouse as delegate at large to the Democratic Convention, The issue,” said Mr. Wilson, “ which it is our duty to raise with the voters of the country involves nothing than the honor of the United S d the redemp- tion of its most solemn WiONs 5 its obligation to its associates in the great wa nd to mankind, to whom it gave the most explicit pledge that it went to war not merely to win a vic- tory in arms, but also to follow up that victory with the establishment of such a concert of nations would guaran- tee the permanence of a peace based on justi F course, that is the issue and will still be the issue after all the gen- tlemen who feel that Mr. Wilson ex- ceeded his authority in Paris have said and reiterated all they have got to say. Mr. Lodge at the Republican boom- dinner to art and letters at Atlantic City on April 23th named the blocking of the Peace Treaty without rese tions as one of the two great accomplished by the recent Re Congress, but at the same dinner Used- to-be Senator Albert Beveridge pre dicted, as reported in the Times, that within two years, regardless of the out presidential election, fron ten to fifteen million workers will | come of idle, industry will stand still, and on! the steadiest kind of a hand will say the nation from disaster and oblivion Let no one die of fear premature! because Mr. Beveridge sees thing dark, for sometimes he is mis! his forecasts, but if we, with our pres resources and power to help, let Middle Europe go down in black ruin for lack of aid that no one else can give, the pinch two years that Mr. Beveridge predicts will 1 more than a mild penalty for ov callousness and a f our fatuity. tural conseque R. DAVISON, coming home from the Red Cross Conference in Geneva, brought detailed reports out of which the HWorld computes that while the neutral countries of E are all right, and Belgium, France Italy and England can take care of themselves, and rmany will work out somehow, and Greece is not hope lessly impaired, in all the rest of Eu Russia, civiliza tion has and “ something like two hundred million people, disease, bereavement and suf rope, except possibly broken down, fering are ‘present in practically every household, while food and clothing are insufficient to make life tolerable: These people, living between the Baltic and the Black Sea, cannot get started again without help. They lack food and all necessities and raw materials for manufacture. They have no gold to buy with, and their paper comicbooks.com