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Show FOREIGN SERIES PUBLIC FORUM CONCLUDES HERE Consideration of practical attitudes at-titudes for United States to take in world affairs was dealt with by Upton Close, historian and lecturer, in discussion of "What Makes Modern Wars; What ' Americans Should Do About Modern Wars" at the Bingham high school auditorium Tuesday evening. Under auspices of the Jordan school district and federal fed-eral bureau of adult education, ' the lecture was also occasion of a Parent - Teacher association meeting. The first hour of Mr. Close's talk was by way of review of previous forum addresses. Common Com-mon methods nations have used in the past in building up great empires, by looting, by subjugating subjuga-ting nations through peddling opium and dope, by taking possession pos-session of territory by force and by capitalizing on the machine era, were described. "This racketeering called empire em-pire building used to be presented present-ed in history books as a grand and glorius thing. Text books of the future will present to children some of the dirty, stinking things done in building empires. We will never be able to remedy the world situation until the biggest racketeer of all (England) is crushed," Mr. Close said. The United States is caught in the present world imbroglio. Our own political and economic fabric fab-ric is in danger of cracking up. United States wants some assurance assur-ance of safety and well-being, the speaker said, and then pre- scribed that the United States: (1) End the eternal empire racketeering. rac-keteering. Woodrow Wilson had the right idea in his league of nation formula, "Peace Without Victory". United States should not hesitate to throw enough support sup-port to Finland, to other victims of aggression, to assure the aggressors ag-gressors of fighting a losing game; (2) Refrain from going off the deep end (joining England and France in battle) to assist the oldest old-est racketeer of all (England) in getting another fat prize; (3) Stop being the arsenal for little gangsters like Japan and Russia. At any time during the last 20 years United States could have stopped Japan in her invasions inva-sions of China; 90 per cent of Japan's exports go to United States, Mr. Close stated. (Continued on Page Four) school administrators, w. man of the meeting. 'J Richards, president 0f j school district, thanked to. , for the enjoyable- foriln. ' and expressed appreciair' the audience :o sponsors! prpgram. K FOREIGN SERIES PUBLIC FORUM CONCLUDES HERE (Continued From Page One) Blame for the present European Euro-pean war was laid directly on England's doorstep by the speaker. speak-er. A League of Nations loaded in England's favor, her meddling diplomats, her jealousy of Czechoslovakia's Czech-oslovakia's industrial success were enumerated as significant developments contributing to the present situation. In his characterization of England Eng-land as an empire racketeer, Mr. Close described how England acquired ac-quired two-fifths of the territory terri-tory of the world in the process of empire building, how she gained gain-ed a head start in capitalizing on the invention of the machine; how she piled up enormous gold reserves as result of looting India. In-dia. The "war to save democracy" ended with England receiving the continent of Africa, "the nicest ni-cest wad a nation ever received in one piece". Mr. Close affirmed. Dr. C. N. Jensen, superintendent superintend-ent of Jordan school district, who returned recently from a convention conven-tion of American association of. |