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Show THE CITIZEN 6 in advancing humanitarian policies which we wish put into effect, and it is useless for us to hope for the effective administration of humanitarian policies already undertaken by the federal government until we have prepared to create an administrative center for the application of our program. General Sawyer, the presidents physician, recently submitted th' recommendation that Washington be made a great medical center to take care of the former soldiers who are sick and wounded. If this idea is carried out the present hospital room will be increased and a home for those whose minds have been affected will be created. Not onty would these plans make the care of the soldiers some thing to be proud of, but it would also make Washington the medical center of the country if not of the world. By increasing the hospit' room it would mean that a large staff of doctors and nurses would be brought into the national capital. YARNS FOR LANDLUBBERS (I Men have always lived in a real and an unreal world. Probably it is safe to say that they have enjoyed the unreal world of their own creation more than the real world in which they have been compelled to earn their bread by the sweat of their brows. On board ship life, as Longfellow has it, is real, life is earnest, almost as much so as on land, but on land the unreal world takes many fascinating forms. Aboard ship, especially the larger ships, it has become necessary to provide the unreal world so that the real world of hard work and achievement may not be inter- fered with. One company is looking for expert yarn spinners to answer the hundred and one cpiestions asked by landlubbers, especially juvenile passengers. Various seamens organizations have been called on to choose their best yarn spinners and an official board will pass judgment. Of course, ships had their yarn spinners before. Ulyssess went on his long journey of adventure. Homer was but repeating and sublimating the yarns that survived to the dignity of classic myths. The new idea is the professional use of the old tar who knows how to spin a yarn with the light and magic and mystery of the sea, He who was once an unpaid poet and took his requitement in the thrills he caused the youngsters by the tall tales he told them, is to become a professional and must devote his art to practical uses. It is to be hoped that the laureates of Neptune will not lose their sorcery now that they have turned from art for arts sake and have accepted pay for spinning their yarns. O, the moon never beams without bringing fair dreams, To the wonderful, tar; And the stars never rise without a jump of surprise At the wonderful, tar. yarn-spinni- yarn-spinni- ng ng The yarn spinners are busy folks nowadays. They spin on the stage, they spin on the reel, they spin on.land, they spin on sea. Ho, for the life of a yarn spinner! DEAN INGES PROPHECY t The Dean of St. Pauls is England's pessimist laureate. He has been seeing the future in dismal outline for several years and has not restrained himself from communicating his forebodings to his uncomfortable countrymen. Just now he foresees the downfall of England and Americas supremacy as a world power. But he goes farther, predicting that Germany and Russia will form an alliance and will drive .England out of Mesopotamia and Palestine. If we concede his premisses we shall be inclined to accept his conclusions, but we must beware of what Einstein would call the absoluteness of simultaneity. In other words, the things he predicts as occuring at the same time may be fairly well distributed through history. And they may not occur at all. But let us to the prophecy: In 1914, Dr. Inge declares, I prophesied that whatever mi be the outcome of the war, it would lose us our naval supremacy If we won the war, I pointed out, America would take the lead, and if we lost, Germany. I believe our dominions probably will remain under th: XJnioj Jack, but they will also try to insure themselves with America, and as time goes on, they will lean more and more on what w ill nation. be the dominant English-speakin- g Our nation is not played out, by any means ; but now, in time of peace, it is unwilling to pay tlie price which made our island a great world power, and that chapter of our history, is nearing its end. As soon as a civilized government is set up in Russia it need the help of Germany, and we may expect such an alliance. Germanys war indemnity will be repudiated in a very few years, and neither England nor France will be able to exact it. accord-ingly- , terms, we shall not be worth it. But the Russians will order us on; of Mesopotamia, which, strategically, is quite indefensible, and wi probably will be quite glad enough to quit Palestine. as America will be the greatest world power and alliance against her is not unthinkable, although I do not expect it.' We must form a definite idea of what a world power is befort we begin to weep with the dean. It is a military concept. A world power is one that can hold the world in awe or, with the aid of it allies, can prevent itself from being conquered by the rest of the world Its riches and resources, from this point of view, must be deemed as merely the auxiliaries of the army and navy. Would it not be well if the world could be done with sud powers ? Would it not be an era of millenial bliss if we could socr have a new kind of world power? If we are confirmed in pessimism we are apt to take the dean'? view, but if we are optimists, as most Americans are, we shall pain: the future in pleasanter colors. Let us, for example, make an optimists forecast. Things art going badly for England just now because England is pursuing Her sins are heavy upon her. Ant ancient paths of wrong-doinher principle sin is trying to maintain a worn-omilitary imperialism and an effete aristocracy. But England shows signs of getting over these things. IVt shall make our forecast rather as a hope than as a prediction, be. we can see great days ahead for England. In a few years she will set 'Ireland free and form a perpetua1 alliance with her. Then India will be set free. After that Grea Britain, having shrived herself of military imperialism, will dispose of her other possessions in accordance with the dictates of justice In those cheerful days England, Scotland, Ireland, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa will live in unity, amity and justice and all nations will wish to be their friends. Then will Great Britair be a world power of a new kind, a world power that no nation vt wish to attack unless grounded in injustice. The United State? will not need a dominant navy because Great Britain will have cic loose from Japan. The alliance of Germany and Russia will not be necessary. Only only an alliance against the dark races will be imperative and tlun if the unexpected happens that is to say, only if the dark race? maintain a solidarity which the white races, in their days of injustice and war, have not possessed. Let us rather forsee the dark races accepting not only our civ tion but our religion and joining with the white races in an ssocia tion of nations for justice. ;ccdtf Altogether too optimistic, you will say. Very well, go the deans husks. 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