Show r Neutrals Sh Should uld ld Unionize Isn't it about time the neutral nations of th the w world organized to end the anarchy that has grown grown out of the present rese t European war 7 Daily the disregard of noncombatants' noncombatants safety seems to grow From rom Rotterdam comes the following dispatch which h shows plainly V liO How Bow the rights of neutrals are be being ng violated The Holland American line announced the Nieuwe Amsterdam will be accompanied as far as the Downs by tugs with life saving materials These tugs also will escort the steamship Rotterdam in incoming incoming incoming coming from New Y rl from the Downs to this port I Is it any wonder that crews now refuse to man ships leaving Holland until their government will promise to protect them 1 At a aid id meeting ting under the Auspices of th the Sailors' Sailors Union in Amsterdam last night Dight- six crews resolved not to join their ships until their governer government govern govern- pent ment er t would woul make definite arrangements for or their safety When it becomes necessary for innocent women and children to r lives when tr traveling on n n thc Ike o n ns n's s seas as' as when it bec becomes I les n necessary essary for tugs with life saving materials t to accompany pany passenger vessels because one or more mere nations will not respect human rights and international l law isn't it about time the neutrals banded together for pr protection i In III the early days of California the bad men laid aside all rules of humanity and nd honest honesty and began murdering and robbing on the highways What That did the citizens do 1 They simply ban banded ed and exterminated the assassins and highwaymen And then others who ho would otherwise have turned murderer and robber perhaps refrained from doing so because of the sure punishment that w would ul ulbe be meted out i. i Perhaps the banding together of neutral nations for the protection tion of human life and property would have some such effect on willful violators of international law on the hi high h seas |