Show Washington T Would Jf Fight J THE HE world is not Dot so large as it was was in the da day of George Washington ashington whose birthday anniversary ersary we observe today Even the immortal r Washington could not Dot foresee the thc dawn of n a day which would bring brine the world s situation of the p present resent era When rhen he cautioned 1 the American pe people pie to shun European politics he lie had hadDO no DO conception of the growth world politics would achieve lie lIc could not conceive of the destiny of the new V world being drawn into world politics by the machinations of a European power In the lay day of Washington ashington the world was large and little thon thought ht was g given to schemes for world domina tion The United Ignited States experienced a sense of security it ity in the flue distance which separated the new world worM from 4 the old Washington followed logical reasoning when he advised these thee people a against contamination by contact with plots of the thc European courts He lie considered the United States so far removed remo from Europe as to be immune from the schemes of aspiring aspirin autocrats The thc German mind was as much a deception to him as 18 it is an enigma to the thc world of today The Thc world has grown a smaller since sines sin c Washington's ashington s time Trade between nations nation has been brought closer and closer together by constantly improving ing transportation transports transports- tion lion facilities Inventive genius has solved the problems problems problems lems of distance and today toda the thc United States stands as ns close to Germany Gennan as ns did dil the thc En England land of Y Washington's s time The sc s curit of distance has been lost to us as ast t the he world worM has been made smaller by bv the achievements of civilization The True Prussian scheme of world politics served sen-ed to establish the fact that we could not continue to hold ourselves apart from the world World politics as ns conceived in Germany planned deliberate deliberate deliberate de de- de- de liberate assault on our future safety To have hewed strictly to the advice of Washington would have been suicidal If Washington were here today he would be bea a consistent supporter of the war war- which is being waged wag b b- b the side of European powers against another European European Euro- Euro penn power He would realize that the United States is a part of the world rather than a world in itself and with this consciousness he would fight as we e fight for forthe the thc endurance of the United States and true the abolition of designing schemes of conquest through h the forces of or might l to l Ea b to b I |