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Show America Is Only Nation in Which Orient Places Trust her powers and cent nil to the world problem. prob-lem. That is why mature ubsr-ors nf conditions condi-tions in the near oast hit unwilling to se-i America .nhllcd With he I ronhloHonwi Armenian Ar-menian pi-u.ihm :iml all her inti-icsj nm energies engrossed lij t hi.s c.-i i ions in -clilenlal task. 'I'hcy wunt hrr to cxm-lse a ina ndutc over a pivotal a ml aucMuit territory, sorh as ( 'ousla u t i noph; and n'! of Turkey, Thcv know (bat the hi- job Will be really asler (han the lltlhi uni-Hnd uni-Hnd thaL America will d It with an e.-o single to tlie. wervieo nf tho inhabitant and to the wellnre of the world. tt was America's reputntlon for dning big tilings iniiekiy h tut lluiruiighlv t lia t finnll- broke tlie morale uf Tie ;erman:i and i-nd'-il it;, wnv. It Is now Aiiiwt''a'M ! reputation fr r aitiailrm and cffteiehcy that 1 may s(jl'e tiie old near astern problem. ' I'.eeause fi.ie will surely get out when tho . time jm rip" all the people nio.sl interested want her to come in. East Judges Powers by Past Performances Instead of Present Promise. , BY WILLIAM T. ELLIS. (Copyright, 1919, by the New York Herald Her-ald Company Ail Rights Reserved.) (Copyright, Canada, by the New Y'ork Herald Company.) JERUSALEM, July 10. Like an elaborate elab-orate jug with a big handle, this intricate in-tricate problem of near eastern mandates may be easily grasped. The test question is, Are you a letter-go or a holder-on? That is how tlie residents have laid hold of it. They have shown the unerring un-erring common sense of the plain people peo-ple when a great l.sue is at stake. Paris i may struggle In the coils of a thousand incidental considerations; It knows ho much that Its f ree action is hampered, like an overtaught and impractical youth lot loose upon a world which yioklri its prizes to the man who can see one thing clearly and do it well ; but while J'aris natives goes, the whole question of who I shall be favored as mandatory settles j itseli into a matter of reputation, .bike j individuals, nations, especially in this i quarter of the globe, have good names and bad names. England Never Lets Go. So tho Orlentnl mind has firmly grasped the handle of the jug. It sees that some nations are holders-on and one is a letter-go. In dealing with weak peoples certain powers have never let go oi territory ter-ritory that has once come Into their "sphere," unles.i by bargain or battle with oilier great powers. Kven circa l Kritain holds fast to all she gets. However How-ever fair and reasonable her motives for planting herself on foreign soil, she never gets out. Where the bhiglish Jack goes, there it stays. AVhieh suggests the old epitaph : "Here lies thc body of Mary Ann, Who rests on tiie bosom of Abraham. Mighty nice for Mary Ann But rather hard on Abraham!" Tn this case "Abraham" is tlie little or weal: nn tion that does not want to surrendpr its own soil or sovereignly. Tho Uritlsh empire girdles tho worid today to-day and vastly increases its possessions by tho war boeause where tiie Uritinh once move in they never move out. JVa-tivr-s whom foreien oflices would not J dei'ii to notice point out clearly and with illustrations this fT'L and its bearing upon the future of tlie feeble folk. Your Oriental Is as able to see as far through a stone wall as the ne?:t man in. Therefore the cry is running to and fro throughout the near east so t nat v ery J n vest i gator hears it. "We like Great Britain, but she never lets go of a la nd I she once bakes. Tf she becomes our mandatory wo shall never K"'urM our j own independence. We arc afraid of her his; one imperialistic policy." I Have Confidence in America. I W he t her this fe;.r Is deserved or not, it is freely expressed. Always It lb spoken with thc other remark: "A merb-a lets go of tlie nat ions she trains. She does not want our territory. Her policy, as proved In 'uo;i and the Philippines, is to help th p- opie to help tleins"lvff-' and then t o e;ive. liieni with her bl s-jini. No otin.-r nation would I li'iAO given up the rl'dr If'find f ( iTia, j lyinc at its vt-ry door, to pw.pie v ho are not nearly so Ji l for ,' 1 -1: o ern n n t as any of the near eas'ern ru '". Look at the r'hiilpj'incs, a pric-1 '-, 'Make' jn i tne fir i1, and yet Airi'-rii u, af;:r an I i Tni.ejt .,i;rn ' lie e m i n . 1 1 1 r of mom Y nd i I lif a'i-l la:. or. i-i mum!!.- the l.-iandf1 ! un -I'- lib' o ! v t the ! , i ha M ' a nt n you wonder that, we ;, v. a i t A rv rh a as mandatory rv r u?7 We -ref. r- to ',rn-t Arner:e;is ev,nrip,e of iP ds rather than m-1 e proies.- ,ons a t 1 'l; Is. " T:.;i t :-. .. re; mi...; ion v,:j ,,,. T F'T'S ;!'.(" H X.U''.'- a t K'Tl of o'!-fa?-',iO,',ed S-:nd V on) t -a ' . . I j t l'. Of I .'Ti A ; icr ; ;i '-M'-d a: -,s br.L-i.oi ;.t Ht..l. ho' ra f n n . ( rta ; n 1 - --a s bnpr a ' - th ;il,v J.ji-iiistie. )-,,omI, tr,d;f,'. ti.al viy b: .'i.S'U ll:ae-- J.er Jo;e,'. t &UlfM:g li.e ' prtv, ' i o' (. i : h 'A hat -!;! e ft nd ' pn ;-f!T-.na 'fciid not per'hase for t'.t; ':h-r T :'';: s ro,i," to her 11 n a '1- ej . j h'M'!-. 1.:- ). art of h u roa n ; 1 v iu J . r ) 1-ard. I-.-.-; ,;,od- t;nvtH J.e,. ew-fvhoov I '.'7 ,7 1 M ).- -I the J, H of in''T!.;i- ' w;.;.t 1:- ;i : v i r i : -. ; i , i , t f;;!l t-i 'Tlx- I tn b .1 A:r;ei,t;i. j ,of- .,(, : s the "roodj Want U. S. Mandatory. jj I Vir'- ' hrl-.'e h 7.-. i.e fr,: ), , )- .... I iV.f , 'ine ,. ; ; .. J Kr, ;,. , t s :a. ' or for ; er j o-;:,fe-!: ;. u 7m.i.-i j (;.; on ':, h.' Ihm on 1 1; ,e r. vi ; a ' e v.iih philosophizes thc east speaks. Thc lit tie nat ions out here know what i hey want. Tho lure of self-determina-t ion and self-government has been lifted before t hoi r eyes, and they are resolute to achieve it. Nothing can crowd back these awakened races and peoples into their former state of subjection and oppression. op-pression. Tiie ' pece conference may change its mind, but they do not change theirs. They want to rule themselves and tacir own lands ; tha t desire has become a passion and a purpose. Nearly ail the nat ion a! sr roups in the Levant onite clearly understand that they need help at. first In achieving self-reall-zat ion. They approve of the mandatory Idea. They know that the world is now headed west; its future lis alone the line of the adoption of occidental usages and appliances. Therefore instruction mid guidance from westerners Is essen tial. Orient Is Suspicious. One point upon whl'-h t lie gre;i t Iviro-pean Iviro-pean powers seem not to be wholly c)e;ir is to the oriental as certain as sunrise.. It is that the inea o.r mandates con I em -ipiate.u the welfare of tlie pnop under : mandat e as the pri mary considera tinn. Mandates are not rne.-ejy a new rn'h"'! o' creating "spheres" or of furlhe-htg ex- ! p'oi'a ' io'i b preat pov ers. The end fsonpht -a not tiie pr''sperity or a-eran-i d IZ'uuer.t , hut the development of the. mankind. I I'.'o'k In America t'.at sounds as ;mne j a.s A H C. It Is obvions. J'retdent Wilson Wil-son and the friends of t'- ie;i-no of r.a- tions nevpr ha 1 ar.y oOr ;de:i. W'Ln'. I is t..e of wrifr.g artjcics abo'jt any- thin? ?o rtxtrrtiC in Je:";;-alem, ar.d eisewherp ji; ; th" r.ear east. therc ar'pears an ;ndnr,t re;i on for a '.. It.-t: a;' er, - Ion to the ,mj ;,. ' J-et. I. hold-? thf of t:jo f-jturp. ( I'rT.o's her" i.ioits r---j,-:d ur. a 1 1 f ' a-. 1 derth mnttf r. The-,- s;,v. and d'-i h, ; : ,,ave p:,-y nf n -a e,-.,j,;yT U, fr-jp- I ! cr : ' r-.r view, h''t Mn )-r-vrs i,;- a'--ij.'t row "TiL'-mcd In t'.eir o' 1 crime of t-.-:;,pjr h'.bi of r.e t'--rit-,ry of w.-ahfr ;e, ,;,,. f-,r th-dr own a d n ' ' . ' r ' - ;o'-s as a hi-fi"-.-. r--f rme rr.a n t" " Ih.ro,e"in T'O'.'-'rs :r::;v r,r,vr i vr-, I t'- e'r !-: -I'a'v.r, niHirC t "m T' i - j f-f i:t--h' i : " ro; to a f:ud'r.t -.f the f "-:o- j that. o far an tne Citude of |
