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Show THE CITIZEN 4 'v WHA T PART WILL UNITED STA TES PLA WORLD IS ASKING? What part the United States shall play in the affairs of Europe becomes a still more complicated question as a result of the invasion of Poland and all those new states which were formed as a bPjj of Germany by the allies. The invasion was timed with much political wisdom. Before our government could conclude a separate peace with Germany the allies reached a decision which challenged us to make up our minds whether we would stand by them and, if so, to what extent. We read that President Harding has' requested the senate to pass over the Knox resolution 'providing a separate peace and take up other matters until the European situation is clearer. At the very least, the allies have postponed a step which would have weakened their prestige. They have placed the problem of a separate peace in a new orientation for us. We cannot look at it from the viewpoint that would have been ours had there been no occupation of Germany. It was fortunate for the allies that the invasion took place at a time when the government of Lenine and Trotzky was beginning to show signs of final disintegration. It is too early to pronounce upon the Russian situation, for the world is not sufficiently informed of the events of the revolution. Nevertheless, we are able to discern one distinct, if temporary, effect. There can be no sudden between the Bolsheviki of Russia and the commilitary munists of Germany in an attempt to swamp Europe. They may come later, but for the present the peril is not ominous. Were the driving power of the revolution less than it appears to be the German communists would be tempted to carry out a design which they have cherished ever since the armistice as a means of foiling the victorious allies. No doubt they still cherish the plan, but they see the danger of trying to carry it out in the face of a revolution which seems to involve all the military energies of the Russians in an internal conflict. We say seems because the news from Russia is obscured with doubts. European news cannot be entirely trustworthy so long as the nations are at war. Propaganda injects itself into every crisis. The dispatches are colored in every channel through which they pass. We must not forget that the dispatches during the last two years have given the impression of a tottering government in Russia. The armies was exaggerated as was the strength of the disorganization within the ranks of the Bolsheviki. In every campaign the Bolsheviki were triumphant except in the war against Poland. A few months ago the last important army was defeated in the Crimea and from Kronstadt to Vladivostok and from the Murmansk perinsula to the Caucasus the cause of co-operat- ion anti-Bolshev- ik counter-revolutiona- ry Lenine was triumphant. The present revolution began suddenly and progressed enormously before we were well aware of what was going on, and it may end as suddenly as it began. A few weeks hence we may be asking ourselves whether the victorious Lnine and Trotzky will join hands with the German communists in a campaign to crush the republic o 1 j between Germany and Russia. However interested we may be in the evolution of Europe we are interested much more profoundly in the relatirRj5r them of our own country. We cannot see far into the futurjlja; with the aid of those principles that were determined by the dential election. Nevertheless those principles will be the stars of the administration. We decided against the military alliance to rule Europe whose world. We decided against a be law everywhere and whose edicts should be backed by the mjsnojSs strength of all the members of a League of Nations. iry1 Our decision does not require us to make a separate peacejlt Germany; nor does it require us to plunge at once into anotherthc pean conflict. Yet we cannot console ourselves that we shall nlppat le 'us required to make important decisions. There will be immense pressure from the allies to forctjbTf hands. They will ask us whether we intend to desert them in hour of need ; whether we are going to betray ourselves into by quitting an alliance in the midst of war; whether we areV to allow the German menace once more to cast its shadow oveirfS world. And because the allies are still at war with Germany in v fact and because we are at war with Germany by declaraticOT h congress, the allies will feel that we cannot extricate ourselves out repudiating our word. The strategy of their movements excite our admiration while arousing our anxiety. pes The best the Germans can hope for is American ence. That was their hope in their first enterprise to rule the v. but it was shattered. We cannot say that the allies are in as good a position as they were when we entered the war. Then they appeared k !( like archangels fighting the battles of God. Now they have sunP earth with bedraggled wings. They are in a Pandemonium of own creation. The sin of the allies is not the magnitude of their bill of rep? ! tion. Their cardinal offense is that they have changed pk. with Germany and are actually exerting the world control V was Germanys elysian dream. True, the League of Nations, which was to be the medium of:h world domination, has failed, and Great Britain and France mi rely on their alliance as the only means of attaining their aims.! J It is certain that we cannot afford to indorse their imperialist However much we may approve of complete reparation on the f.p b of Germany we cannot allow our approval to lead us into a betrs! th of American tradition, ideals and institutions. If it ever was t, that we were fighting to make the world safe for democracy tainlv could not be true if we should join hands with the allies schemes for world dominion. their ict super-governme- nt ' L t0 non-inte8- '" ; ,i'1 . far-reachi- ng t ud THEORY OF A CRIMINAL TYPE PROVE TO BE A SCIENTIFIC MYTH The theory of the criminal type has been the vogue for more than forty years. Its conspicuous champion was the Italian, Professor Lambroso, who wrote ingenious books, filled with wise saws and modern instances, to prove that certain specimens of the homo sapiens are predestined to be criminals. Lombroso furnished curious and even thrilling, details regarding the physical marks of the criminal monster. There were, he said, physical stigmata that were unmistakable and to which the mentality and emotional nature of the criminal corresponded. Peculiarities of the nose, ears and lips, the low, receding forehead, flat feet, the e lAf criminal leer, the satanic conformation of the skull, the bird-- ; prey visage these were the unfailing stigmata of the criminal Now the theory is questioned, perhaps shattered, by a whole tion. The prison department of the British home office has subject the Lombrosian theory to an exhaustive test. It is astonishing th with the facilities at hand in every prison the theory never befr was tested scientifically on a large scale. The Lombrosian theory lent itself alluringly to dramatic tre:Je ment. It was woven into a thousand novels and unnumbered sh. stories; but fiction, was hardly more fascinating than the pseitf i |