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Show THE CITIZEN slayer out of the way. Home feared the disappearance of all things that nations hold sacred what the call Kultur. Everything in which a great race excelled was at jkke trade, religion, science, philosophy, law, literature. Rome was afraid that her rival would extinguish all these sacred fires and she fought to preserve them. In the end the Ro- which it is well to quote in this connection Tempora mutantur et nos mutamus in illis. Times change and we change with them, and that is why history does not repeat itself. Perhaps the commerce and the pagan culture of Japan will absorb the world, but w;e know the commerce and the pagan Kultur of Germany collapsed during the process of absorbing. man empire fell and- with it Roman culture and commerce. After that Rome lived only in its memories and its influences. NEVERTHELESS the imagination Ger-man- s IS But if the Pacific be true to its name its competing civilizations will usher in the day of universal peace. Let us hope that the name itself is prophetic. Peck But, my dear, I thought we had planned to go to the theatre ' this evening? Mrs. Peck Yes, I know, but I Boston have changed our mind. Transcript. Hniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiin"lllllllllllllllilllllllllillllllllllllil,l,ll!llt i - cannot help but see the growth of a new rivalry. It may not end as tragically as did the contest of Rome with Carthage and of Great Britain with Germany. In fact, it may have a beautiful ending with the whole human race living together in a harmony undreamed of in these days of racial antipathies. But the rivalry has begun and the Pacific is the scene of the - Germans were fond of dwelling in a mood of fascinated melan-biy- - rpHE on the parallel. Great Britain was to play the role of Carthage and go down to a similar doom. Germany, like Rome, would persist and conquer the world. It is easy to see that the historic parallel was largely hallucination. Rome was able to raze Carthage to the ground and make of the locality a desert where wolves bayed the Afric moon and tigers and leopards skulked amid the scarred foundations and broken pillars and shattered monuments. We do not permit history to repeat itself in that fashion. We simply exact reparation and indemnities and allow the beaten foe to live. Despite rivalries we give him another chance. np HE struggle. The Mediterranean gave way to the Atlantic, and now the Atlantic gives way to the Pacific. It may be a generation, it may be a century before the Pacific becomes the dominant-speak- ing empires, of the ancient drama enacted amid new environments. But none of us can even faintly vision the climax and the conclusion. All that is apparent is that once again two great empires are pitted against each other in the struggle for dominion. But the situation is complicated, in fact positively cluttered, by the existence of other great empires. The United States and Japan are not to be left e themselves. In the equation are Great Britain, China, Russia, France, that the Zea- In the new day will our descendants thank or curse the League of Nations that gave Japan such a good start in the rivalry? By act of the Versailles conference Japan, by taking over Shantung, becomes an empire of more than In a few years, 100,000,000 people. perhaps, Japan will have attained the hegemony of China and then it will be a yellow empire engaged in the old rivalry. But why think of the rivalry as ending in a debacle? A happy imagination can conceive of a grander finale. It can conceive of hundreds of millions sail-- A saying der one piece they repaired it. We repair anything that can be repaired gearings, broken crank cases and shafts, auto frames, tools, engines and machine parts. You wont have to wait for repairs or new parts if you bring your broken parts to us well make them whole. THE GALIGHER MACHINERY CO. 101 West 2nd South (Dooly Block) E E E E E IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIMIIIIIIIIIII iiiiiiiiimiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiini I 1 I 1 Washington says it is as legal to store whiskey as it is to store I 1 King Coal. Lets stores some more high I proof King Coal. can coast from northernmost Alaska to the Southernmost tip of South America, of mammoth nations, each It can conceive of a marvellous Asiatic civilization, both white and yellow. Not only Japan and China will loom colossaly against the oriental skies. The new orientation will include rich and mighty republics in the Pacific isles. Masterful millions will produce a culture which will give Australia and Western Fuel Company I C. H. FISCHER, Manager New Zealand places in the tremendous contest of civilizations. Beyond that the human eye cannot another cylin- - of prosperous people along the Ameri- richer than all the world today. ing of the warships presages centuries of warfare between the United States and Japan for the commerce of the Pacific and, in due course, the utter defeat of one or the other. They see an irrepressible rivalry between ,Mmerican and Asiatic civilization a rl-valry in trade, religion, science, law, ideals, all in fact that goes to make up civilization. The Romans had 1 VUR Navy of the Pacific soon will salute the new day with its bellowing guns. Hail king that is to be! amounts to the United States navy of the Pacific is symbolic of the old struggle of nations, of the westward course will say world. Oxy-Acetyle- ne E sailing of our warships for the rpHE pessimist E E E E E ' A Pacific to form what, in effect, South America, Australia, New land, and other elements. commercially ocean of the world, but the day of the Atlantic is passing. 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