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Show . THEJORDANJOURNAL,MIDVALE,UTAH OLIVER AND JANE ·--- SYNOPSIS- Oliver October Baxter, Jr., was born on a vile October day. His parents were prominent In the cnmmerclal, soclat and splrltunl ltre of the town or Humley. The nt~ht that Oliver October was !Jorn a gypsy queen reads his father's fortune and tolls him what a wonderful future hls son has bE'fore him, but adds that his son will never nach the age of tLlrty, that he wtll be hanged for a crime of which he Is not guilty. CHAPTER II -2- T en Years Later •.ren years passed, years of chang-e and growth-Rumley had not stood stlll during the decade. lt was the prnnd boast of Its most enterprlsin~ cltlzt·n. Silas Link, that It bad done a ,::rent deal better than Chicago : It • had tripled its populntlon. 011\·er Baxter, Sr., owned one of the new busint>»s "blocks'' on Clay l'ttreet. lt was known as the Baxter block, ereC't Ptl in 1896. Mary B;1xter died of typhoid fever when young Oliver was nearin[l: seven. Her untimely demise revived the half!,Ort:"otten prophecy of the gypsy fortnnt.utPller. People looked severely at each other anrl in huslted tones discus ·eel the lntxoruble ways of fate. It was the first "~i~-· thnt young Oliver's tortnnt' was corning true. Of an t>nth·ely d trerent nature was the agitation crentell by the unrighteoufl lwhavlot• of Josephine Sagf', who had finally surr.:umhrd to the Im·e of the st:\ge, leaving her husbanrl anrl child, In order to gmtlfy hr~r life's ambition. Half the women ln town. on f learning til lt "11 e WJ\S going to ('!Jicago tor a hri~rf 1 islt with her fulks, went around to the parsonage to kiss her gord by. J~xeorl.ltion and a stream of ''I told you so's" were bestowed upon the pretty young wife nnd mother when It herame known that she was not comfn~ hack. Herbert Sage was stunned, bewtl· derea. She wrote him from Chicago at the enrl of the first week of what was to have been a fortnight's visit to l•er mother. She was leaving nt once for :·ew York, where she had been p;-omlsed a trial by one of the greate-st Ameriean prorlncers. A month later l'llllle n tel~gram from her say·~g she wns rC'henr:;ing a part ln a new e('e that was sure to be the "hit of season." w!ll he proud of mp, Herhy," ,,.rt't(', "l'"<'cuuse I will take mighty care t!•~t you neve1· hnve any reato he nshnmet! of me or for me nslnmetl of myself. Yon know I mean. I don't suppose I wlll !lay my prayers as often ns I did when :~ou were nronnd to rf·mlnrl me of them, but I will he a good gil'l just the ;;ame." 'l'hat was four years ago. Her confidence in her~elf had heen jnstlfied. anrl. for nll we know, the same may be Herbert Sage's ('onflrlence in . the talent, the voice, Ute all, the mn:.:netism. no holding her back. e seasons she npthenter, following runs of the pieces In playing. one of her letters ana )JrospC'ctl\·e en~agement In she put tl•P question to him : ~-011 want to get a divorce from llcrhyl" Hi~ l'l'ply was ter'e nntl brou~:ht from her the f~llnwlng undignified hut manifestly slncpre telegram: "Neither do I. 110 we'll stlek till the co~-s eome home. ~ailing Friday. \\'Ill C'al.lle. 1\!urb love." Sh•• mnrle a "hit" ln London In the big n::u.lcul succ-ess of that season. 'rhey llk£"<1 her so Wl'll over there that tl·ey wouldn't let her go l>ack to the State~. • • • • • • • She was greatly missed h:y little Oliver OctohPr. For some rea::on t•erbaps she dlrl nnt ext•l:!ln It hersplf-at any rate, "he did not go to the tmuhle of speeniat in~- -she hart takPn a tremendous ffmc~· to the child. This small h>y of the or six wns the only being In town w!tl1 11 hom slte coultl play to her henrt's content, and she made the ·· ·>.St of him. Her own tiny bllby, J e, interested but di<i not amuse ber. Oliver was always to have a warm corm•1' 111 her henrt Cor the gay Aunt Jo"el'hlne, but new diverting games r~ ducl'd his pas~Ionate longlnl:' for her to a l'lld but pl.-.usant memory. Pet·haps, too, nC'. own daughter had something with Josephine's rudin~ rrom 0!1ver's mind. ll'or .Jnn!e- Sa:;e, at the age of l!ix, was by tar the prettle t nnd the most tought after younr lady in Rumley. OUver was hN' chosen swRiU. llnd do many were tile battles he fou~ht ln P.er defense. The time came when Oliver October Baxter, age ten, had to be told what was In store for him if he did not mend his ways. I•' or, be It here. re·' Oil 0 l ;;loomy srntt"ruent that <lrew rrom the prourl and hnppy minister an unusually harsh rejoinder. "You ought to ue kicked nll the way home for !:':lying ~uf'h n thing a!'! that, .Joe Sil;es." TUJ·uit•g to the slim, pretty :rlrl wlw wa l;ed hL·s•tle him acru~:; the .Tune-warmed t·ampu~. he said comforlin~l~·: "Don't mind thi::; olu eroak er, Jane tll'ar.'' -"- word in pnss'ng about Jane !"age. Slender, gratt•fnl, ~lightly nhove medium height. ju>:t turning- into young \l'omanhtoclu, she was nn extremely p1·etty glt·L ~he adored O!ive1· Oct(lher. There had been a time when she was hi' SWPetilPart, lmt I hat 11 as ar,p;; n:::uwhen both of t hell! were yo•Jn,;! Xo1• he wns suppos~d to he cnga;:ed tt' a girl In the graduating cla!<~-and j, ne was going- to he un old mahl-so the r•ltlldish romance wa,; over. Late in tile fall of lUll, young OliH'r, hal'ing pas,;ed tile age of twentyone, packed Ills hag and trunk, shoolf the dust of Hnmley from his feet, unr~ accet1tetl a po~ition in the construction dPpat·tment of a C'hicago engincn:ng and inYe~tment ct•nL·t•rn. fJariy in 1!l13 he wn~ sent to f1hina hy his company nn n mi~-~ion ll;nt kept him in the Orient fot· nearly 11 )'Par and a hal r. A wC'ek before Cl:ri,.tm:t!'l. the numiL•y Dispatch carne out with 1!114,1 ~~~~~:dtemp~~~r l>~~t u ~u~~1 ~~~:~~e~m;• :~~~~d~;;:::~·~~7r~.;rn~k~::;~~er~ B~xt~~>~,:>~= guinury \vay of making H felL 1 1 He was a rugged, freckle-faced '"etumin~or from the l•'nr East, where he 1 youngster with curly I.Jrown hair, a hntl heen engnged in the most stu- · pair or stout legs, and a couple of hard pendous enterpr!~e e\'er unllertaken little fist><, w!th which he mnlle hi~ hy Americau capital. temper felt. When he arrin'rl, he was met at the . It was after wltncs~lng n pat't!c11lar- 1 tleEnt hy_ a de~·:gt~tion. _ 1 ly ferocious battle b~tween Oliver anrl ~ ~ant !Jel~c1 H ~~~Y e~ e~-no. str, I Sammy Pnrr, that .Joseph Sikes and rnn t, crleu n,r, Oln er, Quaverm;;ly ns Silas r,ink decided that the boy must he wrung his son's hand. "You'n~ hack he warned of the fate that awaited •J;;nln, all>e and ,:ounrl." him If his awful temper was not "You het I'm ali1·e," answE"red Oliver curbed. October, lnyln.!! his arm over U1e old And so lt came to pass that young- mnn's shoulder and patting his back. Oliver Octol.ler learned what was in ''It's mighty good to see you, nnd It's store for him If his "fortune" rame wonderful to be hack rn the old town true. In the presence of his father, ngnin. Hello. L'ncle Joe! \Veil, you his good friend, Mr. Sage, who had op· ~ee they ha>en't ,hung me Yl't." posed telling the boy, and the ':\Ies. r.s. "And the~- ain't going to If I can help r Link and SlkPs, he was made to realize It," roared Mr. Sikes, pumpln; Oliver's the vastnel<S of the dnrk and terrifying arm vigorously. "Xot on yot•r life! shadow that hung over him. It's all fixed, Oliver. We've got YOJI "rhen they had finished, he cleared the appointment of city civil engineer his throat. "I wish my rna was here," of Rumley." he said, his lip treml>llng. "You needn't worry about that. 1\J."Amen to that," sail! :\Ir. Sage, fer- ther. Pll not acrept the position." vently. Mr. :Raxter brl::htC'ned. "You won't? "Amen!" repeated l\lr. Link in hi~ Good for you! That'll show Joe Sikes most professional voice. and Silas Link they can't run everyMr. Sage laid a hand on the boy'!' thin~:· I I I r~.r.A.l.7tZJo:rr ..f.tqoe :JpJt.in{fS :t~er.naf" T.lz<9 Oaily Star (nontr.:-al} I I "Yes, Sir," Said Oliver, "I Do." Pre~ently they rlrew up In front of the Baxter rpsidence, and as they did so an unl'ommonly pretty &"irl opened the front door. "Hello, Oliver 1' she cried. "Hello, Jane!" he shouted back, as he rnn llfl the steps. "Gee! It's grC'at to see )'OU. And, my goodness, what a big girl you are.'' He was holdin t her warm, strong hnnds In his ow1 ; they were looking st1·aight into each other's eyes. ''You haYen't grown much," she sahl slowly. "Except that you are a man and not a boy." "That's it," he cried. "The difl'erence in you Is that you're a woman and not a girL" "Come in," she snlrl, with a queer dignity that she herself ditl not un<lerstand. When be came downstairs, after having unpacked hfs bags and scattererl the contents all over the room, he found the "eompany" already as· semi.Jled. As might have been ex· pectell, the guests included Hev. 1\!r Sage, l\Ir. Sikes nnd ~[r. Link, and one outsider, the rna ·or of Rumley, 1Ir. Samuel Belrllng. "What's this I hear?" deman•lerl the latt;:or sternly, ns be shook hands with the youn,. man. "Your father's just been telling us you won't accept the <listinguished honor the city of Rumley bas confenetl upon you. \Vhat's the llllttter \vith lt ?'' "The ~ruth of the matter Is," Oliver un~wered seriously, "I have other plans. I'm going Over There In Fehruary with the Canadians. It's all ~rttled. I'm to huvp my old job back when the war Is over." "eut 1 It's not our war!"' cried Mr Sikes. "It's e1·ersbody's war," spoke youn~ Oliver out of the very depths of his souL "We will be In it some day. Oh, I'll come back, npver fear. You ;;ee, Uncle .Toe, I've just got to pull through alive and well, so that I CRD he hun;:: wh<'D mv time comes." I I I • • • • I ,JJ;;.#i""-HE United States of Europe? I don't kr ow. You don't know. NoI.Jody knows. It would be a strange thing. Yet Ftrange things are done these latter days. No more stunnlnc; surprise !'~"<:t' broke upon this wo1ld t! 1an tl•e Worlu war. Not less stunlling was the surpri~e of the Anlllstlce. And now on top of these !'Urpri<'Cs comes the !'urpri~e of the , Loearno pacts nut] tl.eir Flgnmg. It bese treaties are not mere "scraps of rmper"-:md > lwld them so Is uuthinl<ahle-the United St!lll"l! ~ Euror>e Is their logical outcome. Anyway, we shall !mow more ubout It in Octoher of this ~·eur, when a Pnn-1-:uropean rongre.ss is to be cr..!lecl-independentlr of the League of :\utlons hut not in or•positir•n to It-In an enden>or to hreak down natlonuli,ttc <]h·l!>lon!<, to briug ab(Jut eeouomlc co-operation null to pl'Omote di ' arma· ment. If Count me-hard Coudenho>e-KnlPrgl Is a bit chl': ty these dny~-lncitlrutally he Is In tha United States at this writing and Is being made much of-he shoul<.I he purdone<l. For he Is the head or the Ur ited States of Europe moYPmPnt. And, what';; more, as a prop! et no SPI-enth «on of a li'eYenth ~<on hn9 anything on him. Tht·ee yenr:l ago lte wrote n book, "Pun-Europn,'' which at the time seemed merely the uttC'rance or a d1·camer Yi>:ionlng an Utopia. Yet the hook has cor.w strangely true-so true In part that one wonders If it is to come true ln whole. \Yh~·. Count Coudenhove-Knler~l evr•n dared to. prophesy a recondlintion between France nnd Gcnnany. liP fi;::ured that they would come to a rral!z:•ti(ln tl•at continuetl ho~tility nwnnt ruin for both; tliut to save themselves they would I have to cnme to a "mutual solidarity l>n,;ed on common !?ense." • C'o11m Coudenhove-Knlergl will not be like most prophets-not "!thou~ honor suve In his own country-for If ever ther(' was n cosmopolite It Is l1e. He cerl!tlnly w!ll be honored somewhere. lie I~ believed to hall at pre:::ent from Ylenna. '!'he Couclen!JOI·e fnmlly Is or the Belgian nristocrury. The Knlergls n1·e an old Greek family ot note. Count Hichard w:1~ horn In Tolo·o of an Austrian father nntl a .Jnpnnese mother.' IIe was e<lucnte!l in Bohemia, Au~trla and Germnny. Ile I!> now n citizen of Czechosl.nval>ia. His wife Is Tria Holand, 11 ('entral Enropenn actresq of note. HurPiy Count Coudenho\·P-Kalergl should know folnethin~ at least or European conditions, needs and tendencies. 'l'o ~how how <'lose to the trpe lmrnrdness of things Count lllchard came three ~·ear!l ago, here are some of the things he said then in shoulder. "Do you say your prayers every night, Oliver?" "Ve~. slr-I do." "Well-er-if Brother Baxter doesn't mlnd. and if you gentlemen will excuse me, I think I will go upstairs with Oliver 11nd-and listen to his prayer." A little Inter on, the tall, spnre pastor sat on the siue of young Ol!vf'r'~ trundle bed and talked In a contltlentlal whisper. "I am going to tell you something. ·-;=================:;, /' Oliver, and I want you to helit>ve It 1; :-Johody on this e:u·th can for;~tel! the Off to the war! Well, he's future. All that talk about your b~ safe. He'll have to com~ back ing hung some day Is poppycock-pure to be hanged. poppycoek. ))(ln't ~·ou believe a word of it. I came upstnit·s with you jusr for the purpose of tt>lling you this(TO Bill CONTINUED.) not really to hear your prayers. Now don't you ft•E>I hetter?" What Am I? "Yes. sir," sail! Oliver. "I do." I have s••attered hrearltrnsts, tin "\\'hut I want you to do, Oliver, I~ to can~. Snnr!ay !nrppll"!lltnts, paper go on--ll'arlin·~ a-l'r-regnlar hoy's plate!=!, )Jil)>cr t..ug,.;, ehicl;en hones an I life. Do the things that are right and fntit sl\ins from the wilds ' f Maine square. he hone:st and fearless· :tllll to the tip of Florida. no harm will evet• come to yon • ·ow, I have hacker! [flrt>St trees and left turn over and go to sleep, there's n ("HtniJilre!< hurnlng fr••m tlte California good hoy!' c-oast to the Atlantic St'llboard. And the kind-hearted minister went I have hooked apples from New downstairs feeling that he had glven En~:land orchards, walnuts from the the poor lad something besides the \\"lllamette Yalle,r nnd orun~,;es frorn gallows to think nhout. our southern .:;;tntes. 1 • I ha1·c rolled rocks Into the sap· It Is not the purpose of the narrntor phire depths of Cl'liter luke and ttruwn of this storv to deal at length with the tin can:; into gur;;lin:; brooks in e>ery de~s. expl.,its, mi;;haps anti sl'n><atlons state in the Union. of Oliver October as a child. lie was I ha1·e seen ull. heard nil, know all ~eventeen when he left Rumley hl~h and in my weak way have destro:~ed school und became a freshman n t the mueh. state university. The last of the three I am the American tourist who der.·ades allotted to him by the gypsy through care 1ess m·d thoughtless actil WliS Shorn o( its first twelve month~ I.Jr!ngs tllshonor to respoU!<ible, respectwhen he rereived his de~ree. As 1\lr. uhle und r.:arefnl fellow travelers-old Sikes announced to RevcrPnd Sage at Colony Memorial. the conclusion of the commencement exerci~es, he had less than nine 'lnore 1\lost advice Is goof!, hut yo" an years to live at the very outside--a ;!Yen no will oower with U. • By JOHN DICKINSON SHERMAN • I I ul'an"'i~uropn": \Vherens the 43 r~publlcs o! North AmE'rlca are united politically and economicnlly In one .single union, the 26 democracies of Europe are undermining their politic-al an(] economic sovereignty and. hy means of their policy In peace and war, arc systematically destroying e.ach other. 'J'he United States of AmP.rlcR Is the richest, most powe rful and most highly developed country In the Yorld. Her citizens are not liable to uo.tversal mll!!nry service. Upon her territory no war hR'9 bt'<'n fought for over half a century. Industry nnd L•.grfculture r>I'osper there nnd A'11ertcan matE>rlal and intellectual cultur•' grows from year to year. • • • • • • '!'he European problem will never be .,otved until •be nations of I•:uropc jotn together. This union \l Ill Pf'CUr either \'Oluntarily, by \he creation Of 8 l'l\n- European fe,Jera•lon, or It will be forced upon 1·;, r >Pe ~ q a result of a conquest of wcs,ern Eu· t·oy e l y Ru~ela. "'hethcr or not H•e Europran problem Is "<>ived !Jy 1:urope herself or by Russia, one fact remain•: tile .)re -ent l.:uropcnn ~ystem of small nations can. n< t maintain its<'lf tE'rmanently In the t;~cc o! the !ou: gn:at fprl(·ratic.,ns of the future; the British, I~ us• ian, American and East Asian. * • • .. . • • rn.tead of comhtntng the peoples nnd countries of 11\e worl<'l according tp their historical, et•onolr.l" cultural and geograph!cal relationships, the I.e ague of !\"ntlons without consideration for geogra).hY. history, culture or economics, puts together rn•,chaH!cally, like so many bricks, big and little, A·•l!lt1o r..nd ~uropcnn, neighboring and remote, t' & tlons, • • • • • • • • • • Euro!>f• world hegemony le Irrevocably lost; htt· ln~epe:ndence, however, is not yet lost, nor are hor colonial empire. her cn1ture and her future. 1! ltuyope would but form a union while there te yet ume, she might l'et participate In the dtvl· a:!on ot tho earth llB the fifth big factor, enjoying ththL" -equal to thoto of the other four; but, It she ,., 11 • 1 lr • cut up Into ~mali pieces, she must needs 'r• h 11oen=•· a,u<l dueper Into poUtlcal powerlen• • ·~· l.!ntll aome c1Ay, having fallen Into bank• , q·, l!ll~er,r an4 4obt. 11ho tall• o. prey to a 1~ ~~ ... 1. 2lU!S'h\. 6 6 -•" 1.0 • :r•an a.fter America, lJ:IUC proclaim to the world her own Monroe Doctrine; Europe for the. Europeans! And now, three yeqrs later, Count Cou<lenh:>veKn!ergl says, "I told you so," ln a '·ery polite nnd n:odest way an1l comments on the present ltnprovlng situation after this fasl1lon: 'l'he alms of the Pan-Europe movement that 1 Initiated three years ago are: The union of all democracies of the European continent on a basb• of peace, good will and proa· perlty. Tha close co-operation of the Pan-European and Pan-American unions with the great British com· monwealth for the reorganization or world pE>nce on the basis of continental understanding. lntE>rnatlonal understanding must be reorgnnlzed in o. form that rsecures America from being drawn Into any European difficulty and, on the other band, secures America from any Europenn lnterfE't ence. The !Jasls for such a reorganization Is the continental sectioning o! the League that would reconcile the principles of Wilson and Monroe. The Daw"s plan waa the first step toward & United States of Europe and the Locarno conference was the second step. and all serious thinkers In Europe are looking upon the United States all having furnished a model for a successful contederatlon of states. The Unltec\ States o! Europe became possible after the victory o! democracy In Central Europe. Liberty and peace are sisters. There fore, the liberation of Europe was a condition ot Its union. The most difficult question Is the position o! England, which Is at once a European power and a part of the Intercontinental British commonwealth. I believe that the greater part of the English nation would be opposed to gngland"s entering Pan-Europe, Canada"s entering PanAmerica and Indla"s entering Pan-Asia. They would prefer the British Empire to be considered as nn independent entity and to have England outside Pan-Europe, just as Canada Is outside Pan-America. England must be attached by special treaties to Pan-Europe; then England will haYe the position of a great bridge, and this Atlantlo 16 olldar1ty between Pan-America, Pan-Europe and • Britain will be the greatest possible g-uarantee ot peRce. Many political leaders during the laat few months have declared their sympathy with the Idea ot a United States or Europe-Hcrriot, Pain· I eve, Calllaux, Loucheur, Jou venal, Marx. Lo~be Koch, Simona, Nitti, Sforza, Bene-s, Skrzynskl: Seipel. If Pan-Europe Is not constituted politically, we 1hall very soon have another war In Europe; It Pan-Europe Ia not constituted economically the ruin of Europe Is sure. and European Bolshevism probllble. The only way to secure European peace and prosperity Ia the creation of Pan-Europe. Count Hlchard's ldi'a of world deYelopment, aa set fortb In detail in "Pan-Europa," Is that political leadership Is centered In Wasll!ngLon, London, Paris, Tokyo and Moscow. ?ower ln «·orkl terms ls American, British, European, En!'t Asian and Hussian. Therefore the world shoultl be divided Into five corresponding groups of nations, united on a basis of common expediency. These five grouvs, thus classllied, woulu compare in IJollUiatton nnd in area {square miles) tut follows: Population Pan-America ............. 212,000,000 British I-~mplra .••••• , , , •. 4£4,000,000 Pan-Europe •••..•••••• , •• 231,000,000 Eastern Asia , •.•...••.•. 4J8,000,000 Ru&8la .••..•••.• , •.•..•.• H5,000,000 • • • • • Area n.ssu.ooo • 1Z,896,000 10,036.000 4,632.000 11,492,000 'l'he Pun-American group Includes the wl:ole \\'estern hemisphere (except Canada), loosely federated untler the het.-~mony of the United States. 'l'he l'an-Amerlcun group Is composed o! Continental Europe, together with Its African colonles-a compact federation of nntlons extend· lug from the Korth cape to soutl,ern Africa. T11e nucleus or eastern Asia Is Japan nnd Asia, lolilcully bound tocether by racial, linguistic und cultural ties. nus~a ln~udes, or course, both European and Asiatic Russia. The table shows that federation or Europe would give her a "bloc" ot nations which would put her on terms of pnetlcal equnllty with the other four divisions-second in population and third In area. Only by SU('h a union can Enrolle hope to make head against the other four ted· erations. whick are every day I.Jelng brought nearer realization by force of circumstances. Well, Ute SCI!mlng!y impossible hns huppened and France and Germany are reconclled-suJDclenUy for all practical purposes-by the Rhineland treaty of mutual ,::unrantee hetween Fr: nt e nnd Gcrl'Jnny anrl betwf'Pn Belg-Ium a•td t:~Cm nny, whidt ls gu trantet•d I.Jy England unci Italy. It Is state(] that "Geru.auy ntl(l Belgium und al~o Germany mHl Frunce mutually und rtake that they \1111 In no case nttnck or invade cueh oth<>r m· resort to war ngalnst each other." lt Is further stated tltnt: "GI'rn.nny and Bp!glnm anrl 6er1uany and France undertake to settle by peneeful means and In the manner laid <iown her<>in nil questions of e\·ery kind which mny arise bet WI'Cn them anll whleh It may not be [lO;>:;Ible to settle by the normal methods of diplomacy; uny ques~lon '"lth rl'gard to which the !•artlcs nre in cor tl'ct us to tl Plr respective rig! ts shull be submitted to judicial decision, nnd the pa.rties uudert.:Jke to comply with such decision." And this, be It remembered, on'y six n onths aftt'r the election of Von llind£"nburg as President oC the reich had bPen hailed tilrnu;::hout Europe liS the beginning of the Nationalist policy of revenge! And on top of this Germany to become u. member of the League of Nntlonsl Moreover, thl~ Is hut a be~:;inning. 'l'here nre nl·o an arbitration treaty between Germnny tmll France; an arbitration treaty bPI ween Germany ttnd Belgium; an arbitration treaty bt>tween Gernwny null Poland; an arbitration treaty !.Jetween Germany, und Czechoslovakia. There are also agreemeuts between Franc-e nnd Polnnd and France nnd CzeC'ho;;lovakia. J-:uch or the four ari.Jltrution treaties opens (with change of names) like this: "All disputes of every kind between Germanr nnd Czechoslovakia with regarll to which the parties are In conflict us to their re~:>pectfve right!:' and which it may not b£< possii.Jle to settle nmlcablr by the normal mPthnds or diplomacy shall be !i-Ubmlttetl tor decision either to un urbitral trii.Junul or to the Permanent Court or luternatlonal Justice." 'l'he truly momentous lmportanre ot these treaties Is clearly shown by the attitude or those 11 hose wishes run to the contrary. The Gennnn l\ntlonallsts, for example, exclaim In Indignation unll protest: "Instead of forming the hasls for a real peuce these treaties are but another step further toward the sul>jugation or Germany to the ullles; the only hope Is that it will ~e oossible to prevent our entering the League ot l'\atlons." ned Russia, to which European concord Is unatltcma, Is. of course, furious. It charges the Germans with treachery In abandoning- th~t ltupallo treaty, culls Uermany "England's polltlcnl tool," sees a "new war against Roviet Hussla" nnd declares the npw nrraugement "full or the ~:>eed of future lntel'!latlonal conflicts." It is significant ln thi.!l connection that the nntl· l;ol::;heylk newsp1111ers puhlfshed outside nussl ure quick to point out tl at Soviet Hussla is now lsoluLell In rJurope nntl that this is a body l.J,ow to the 'l'l;lrd lnteruatlonule and its domination ove1· Hu~~iu. 'Ihls new era of concord In Europe Is not dne to any spiritual rea;eueratlon or the nations. 'l'he Instinct or self-preservation, strong In nations as In men, Is the secret of it. Quit fightin~. reduce armaments, go to work and help one auotherthat is what the nations of Europe lun·e to do to prosper-and even to survive. And they know u. It has taken them seven years to find It out. But they know lt now. Two generations ago, when "The Hub'' clalmeQto be the center from which all American rultnre radiated. a wit raised a nation-wide laugh -n·Hh this joke, "Boston Is not so much a place ns a state of mlntl." The snme idea can be nppl!ed here In nil seriousness. Tbe signing or the Locarno pacts In London by the representatives of tbl.' seven signatory nations was significant of tt state of mind. 'l'hat state of mind was n sort of mental disarmament. The &lgnlng of tha treaties wu the fl:i:ation of a mind for pence. |
