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Show T H E C I T I ZtE N 5 about nine months, the Government decided to abolish all of the morning to take a direct motion that Congress should adopt the Boston and appoint Colonel Washington commancorresponding insurance liabilities. Thus policyholders were army before ' left high and dry, and dreams of insurance protection in old age der of it Adams did make the motion and it dropped like a bombshell were shattered.,, Where is the greatest difference between the Russian in the Congress. But after two days it was adopted and the jaethod of crushing private business and the method advocated united colonies had an army and a commander who was to lead m this country of putting the state or government into busi- it to final victory. ness, to the destruction of established enterprise, The compariConcerning Mr. Adams as an irreconcilable, Mr. Litschert son is not overdrawn and in practice the ultimate results are the says: same. It was late in 1775 that the plan of sending diplomatic to Europe was discussed. Mr. Adams advised representatives WAR. OF ENOUGH caution, while others were in favor of making foreign alliances, even at the cost of some of our territory. To all this Adams in the While England is prodding Turkey in the ribs vigorously objected. He declared no alliances, only treaties of Mosul district, Greece is after some territory at the west end, commerce, asserting that we should separate ourselves as far Grecian line in is the that territory present boundary claiming as possible and as long as possible from all European politics to not .which does rightfully belong Turkey. and wars. Adams was therefore the original American nationof Nations to the matter to wants the take Greece League Q alist. His advice on foreign affairs antedated the famous and World Court but Turkey says that she does not care to have farewell address of George Washington. So the policy of no either interfere with her internal affairs. The United States foreign entanglements was born even before the republic. into the be drawn dispute. may i Should the League take the matter under advisement and THEORETICAL POLITICS. order the territory be turned over to Greece, someone will have to go to war to enforce the order. A professor of political science in an eastern university reAs European nations are pleading dire poverty, whereas the came forward with a proposal for another change in the United States is looked upon as the richest country, with many cently of method the election of United States senators. He would soldiers left that were not killed in the world war, the natural have the United States divided into six regions and would have conclusion will be to have us settle the dispute if force has to be the senators from all the states in each region, elected by popular used. vote by all the people in that region. Just why the entire councourt will who world favor the those joining Probably is not to be put into one super-regio- n and all the. senators to to enforce their principles. Most of us try the front willingly go elected at large, the good professor does not state. are of the opinion that the past big war was surely enough for The plan may seem perfectly practicable to a professor of this generation. political economy, but there is one serious hurdle to be gotten over. That is the fact that the Constitution of the United States BE PREPARED. for some peculiar and doubtless frivolous reason provides that It is said that as soon as Deacon Jones had read that the no state shall be deprived of its equal suffrage in the Senate. Senate had adopted the World Court, he came to town and trad- And this guarantee could not well be removed, even by an ordinary amendment to the Constitution. ed his army musket for two pounds of honey. But the plan is interesting in that it gives further light on Surely the deacon is not reading the foreign news column. exHe also does not see the United States disarming. Instead, we the ramifications and processes of the mind of the have just installed one of the largest cannon in the world in San pert in the science of government. When schemes like this one Pedro harbor. This gun can blow a battleship to atoms at a dis- for remodeling the government can seriously be brought formiles. We will also have other big guns ward by college professors of political economy it is not to be tance of twenty-fiv- e mounted, not that we want to use them, but some day we may wondered that certain old fashioned citizens are beginning to say need them for protection, and some day the deacon may be sorry that the college education ain't what it used to be. that he has not his old reliable musket. PROGRESS The World Court is a war machine and not a peace so-call- ed vehicle. FIRST NATIONALIST. John Adams was the original irreconcilable and deserves a place next to George Washington as one, of the founders of the Litschert, who writes in the Republic on the life and opinions of according to Mr. Frank P. fintry current issue of the National our second president. After Concord and.Lexington the army of embattled farmers was around Boston, besieging and harassing the British army, but without an official head and without official standing as an army. It was the courageous stand of John Adams who . remedied this situation. Adams was in the Continental congress at Washington and was discouraged and chagrined by the inaction of the Congress, for in the congress were many weak kneed patriots who advised caution and further petitions to the king rather than a bold sOoke for independence. Finally, one morning on his way to Congress, J olin Adams said to his kinsman, Samual Adams, I am determined to make Congress declare for or against something. I am determined this It's quality, not quantity, that counts, as the old saying puts it. If the United States had GO per cent of the world's area per cent of the world's population, it would seem natural for it to have 60 per cent of the world's telephones as well. But we have only 5 per cent of the world 's area and only 6 per cent of the world's population, yet we have 61 per cent of the total telephones in the world. These figures show us more clearly than words can the vast wealth of our country, the high level of its civilization, the intricate machinery of its social or- and 60 ganization. THE PETROLEUM AGE. The outlook for the future of the oil industry is always obscure. Nobody can anticipate at what rate new production will be brought in. However, production tendency is downward, and as far as can be seen, the industry's prospects are good, believes the National City bank of New York. The heavy stocks accumulated during the years of overproduction still constitute a problem. But with constantly increasing fu- consumption, these stocks, unless materially increased in the . |
