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Show Prevailing Opinions 1 Comment of the American Press ' police department to make our streets just aa safe as it can. Is it just possible that somebody some-body is interested In promoting a private business In armored csxs and guards T That, to our mind, would be a step backward toward those long-ago days when every men of rank or property in old Europe moved about with hia own little private army. The San Franoiaco News. A Decline, Not an Advance When Dr. Julian Huxley come out with a pronouncement on mankind's evolution and how he can expedite It, the world listen dutifully becauss of the Britisher' renown ss a biologist Yet there will be questions raised aa to tha soundness of his latest piss for standardised eugenics In marriage, mar-riage, and his suggestion that physically perfect men and women wo-men should hsve children to Improve Im-prove ths racial stock regardless of marital ties. Carried to ita full conclusions, the abstract theory of eugenics would discard most of men's spiritual spir-itual and social advances and put him in the sams class aa breeding cattle. This seems to be exactly what Dr. Huxley proposes. "Before "Be-fore we can place human eugenics on the sams scientific footing with animal eugenics," bs asserts, aoma sqcial adjustments must be made,. Yet this coldly scientific syllabus presumes that man would be elevated ele-vated to the animal-breeding plane, not lowered to it which ia the reels case. If w want to get a quick rtee In ths standard of human population, popula-tion, hs insists, men and women must mste to propagate desirable physical traits. Yet whatever the possible rise In physioal standards, stand-ards, retrogression in othsr criteria, cri-teria, hard-won during centuries of spiritual evolution, would be swift and sure. The theories of eugenics ar plausible to the extent ex-tent of discouraging reproduction of the unfit But men have struggled strug-gled too many centuries to rise above ths animal level to view complacently a return. The Philadelphia Phil-adelphia Inquirer. Sympathy Vt. Neutrality If sympathy which a great many Americana feel toward the Chinese Chi-nese In their struggle against Japanese Jap-anese Invaders controlled our government's gov-ernment's foreign policy, the neutrality neu-trality law would probably never be Invoked, because embargoes would hurt China much more than they would Japan. But If auch sympathies were allowed al-lowed to rule. It wouldn't take long for the United States to ba jockeyed jock-eyed into the thick of the conflict, whether it wanted to fight or not. Neutrality, of necessity. Implies a hardboiled, impartial attitude toward overseas belligerents. It means that wherever our sympathise sympa-thise might lie, it ia to our own aelf-interest to be stubbornly neutral, neu-tral, no matter which aide Is adversely ad-versely affected by our neutrality. It means that aympathlea can ruin a neutrality policy and make it dangarously easy to get Into the war on the aide of those with whom w sympathlss. When a war Ilk this one between be-tween China and Japan breaks out we cannot look things over, make up our minds which side w sympathise with and thsn give such indirect support aa ws can. That way leads to war ss it did in 1(17. Minneapolis Star. It's a Police Job With a oonalatent record of opposing op-posing special privilege, the News cant see the point of those city officials who object to police escort es-cort for firms and individuals transporting money to and from the banks. If ws had the aam standard of law enforcement In thla country that they have In England, auch escorts would not be required. It ia that standard at which we must aim and which we must resolve re-solve to achieve. And until w do, the obligation rest on the |