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Show THE CITIZEN 8 JMMMMMIMIHMMMMMNMMMMHMNHNMNMNINININIIMMMMIINIIMIIIIIIINMMIIIIIIMMMMMIMIMHMMMMIIIIIIIIIIIIMMIHIIIIIIII enforce their demands. They come into a country devoted to liberty under law, reap all the advantages of high pay and a comfortable standard of living to which they were unaccustomed in their home lands, and, at the first sign of unrest, they are ready to make war on, not only their employers, but the public and the government itself. Yet, if reports be true, radicalism is growing among our teachers and small wonder. It is difficult for even the most brilliant minds to maintain a proper mental balance and to see life in a right perspective when economic conditions produce such flagrant injustice. If the Rockefeller fund can assist in lifting the scale of wages among professors and teachers al over the land it will have achieved a good work. It is unlikely that it will bias the minds of the teachers in favor of corporations, but it may have some effect ultimately in eliminating the bitter moods into which our educators have fallen. OBSERVATION PLANE a iwimi BwnuBwwiNniiiwiiMmBiH index of scorn are like the knights that sought this Holy Grail. They feigned the purest motives in conduct- Expatriates Insult American People fTTHAT black magic is it that ing the war, but when the. peace conference came they demonstrated that however pure and holy their motives during the trial by fire they were not sufficiently sanctified to resist the temptation to plunder. And when they had set aside their plunder and properly labeled it they asked the United States to guarantee them in the possession of it. What is the United States asking today that warrants the American expatriates and their foreign friends in ascribing to the United States selhsu motives? It is asking no material gains. It is not asking for colonies, mandatory provinces, gold or goods. It is asking only that its sovereignty as a nation be preserved and that it be relieved of the responsibility of guar- into a transforms an American ' babbling loon when he has passed, a few years in London? The members of the American t Chamber of Commerce of London have addressed to Senators Lodge and Hitchcock messages on the treaiy which are false in fact and insulting in tone. Intentionally or not, the financiers who live by British favor have slapped their own countrymen in the face and misrepresented them before the world. .Consider, for a moment, this tactless and insolent message: ..The failure of the United States to ratify the treaty and enter into working arrangements with the allies is causing our motives for entering the war and our hestitation in going into the reconstruction plans to be misrepresented and misunderstood. America owes it to herself as well as to the world to come to the help of the disorganized and starving portions of Europe. The international machinery started by the peace conference is falling to pieces. All actual progress, towards peace is checked, and peoples are slowly drifting towards famine and anarchy, which can be remedied if the United States will decide quickly and assume her reBusiness, manufacture, transportation and even agriculture are wholly or partly paralyzed. Whether the covenant be ratified as it stands or with reservations, .is infinitely less important than that international working agreement be agreed on which will remove the uncertainty and enable private enterprise, upon which the main burden of reconstruction must fall, to get to work without further delay. some We therefore urge you to use your utmost endeavors to secure ratification of the treaty, with such reserva- tions as may have to be made to break the present deadlock. Is there any people in Europe that same out of the war and the peace conference clean enough to dare question our motives? those who played the old game of secret diplomacy and b undless greed at Versailles suspect By what right do motives a people that asked 'nothing and obtained nothing? The nations which our lofty expat- triates represent as pointing at us the of unworthy i of predatory anteeing the territories ,s powers. It is not much to ask, but it is enough to provoke insults from American expatriates who have lived so long in an atmosphere of greed that the seizure and shackling of half a world seems to them but the normal 1 . sponsibilities. nnmwimimwimiiMiBiwi8iwmitiinmi . There is not much evidence that our teachers are preaching Bolshevism in the high schools and the grammar grades. It is true that in New York City a number of teachers have been dismissed for that very thing, but the practice has not been general. At a time when the educators of the land are underpaid because skill; ed and unskilled laborers are paid so well and, be it said- because corpora-tion- s still continue to reap unconscionable profits, the gift from John D. Rockefeller to help increase the pay of university professors seems hardly more than justice. Those who oppose such gifts are inclined to process of a benign civilization. Therefore, they besmirch their own kindred and arrogantly call upon the United States to decide quickly and assume her responsibilities. If the land that had the misfortune to give these men birth is being misrepresented they are responsible. It would be maddening, were they worthier of respect, to have them accuse of selfishness the people who, throughout the war, displayed a charity and a philanthropy unparalleled in history. And now, forsooth, we who - -E- ATIT and assimilation. this extra toastifig the starches are dextrinized and the By body welcomes such food. 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