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Show LET'S KEEP COOL Day by day the Sino-Japan-ese situation seems to be getting more serious. Warships of the United Spates, Great Britain, France and Italy are at Shanghai Shang-hai to protect the interests of these nations in case the fighting fight-ing spreads to the international quarters, it is the duty of every nation, of course, to protect the lives of its citizens when there is trouble. It is equally clear just now, that this is as far as the United States will go or should go in the Far Eastern situation. While it is true that public sympathy generally in the United Uni-ted States is pro-Chinese it is not to be forgotten that after all the Chinese are not blameless. blame-less. For years the country has been torn by conflicting armies, headed by the factionist who in some cases are little better than brigand chiefs. China has been unable to form a .strong centralized centra-lized government for itself, and is now paying the consequences consequen-ces of disorganization and lack nF nHnrml rlafoncQ TP H,n nUin ese cannot organize and protect themselves it is too much to ask that other nations shall continually do this for them every time a foreign foe arises. The Japanese claim that they are in China to protect the lives and property of Japanese citizens citi-zens who have, been attacted by Chinese. While the average American may be inclined to believe that the Japanese have gone farther than necessary to do this, still there is not much we can do about it. Our principle prin-ciple duty is to see that American Ameri-can lives are safe. Outside of that we have no military duty in the matter and Americans should keep cool in this time of crisis. |