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Show THE CITIZEN 4 in haste. It was discovered that he never had been in the service of the army or navy, but had gone to France as an auditor for one of the relief organizations. was seeking the office of mayor, he represented himself as a service man and joined the Legion. In the midst of the campaign his Status was disclosed to the officers of the Legion and he resigned . WILL DRA GONS TEETH BE THE HAR VEST From Europes wars and woes the world has turned. its gaze to those first scenes that mark the' coming struggle to control the Pacific. The war being ended, it was inevitable that the world should sense the perils of a new era in a new world. A century ago Japan did not know that California existed and there was little of California to know that, across the Pacific, existed warriors who would one day contest for a race of mastery with the white race. As we turn our gaze back over those regions where history has been written in blood our imagination is staggered by the naval battles that have incarnadined the seas stretching round the shores of Europe from the Aegean to the British channel. Enough blood has been shed to float the warships of the world. And now we ask ourselves whether the ageless tranquility of the Pacific is to give way to the scenes of fire, blood and havoc that made lurid the Mediterranean and the Atlantic? Has the organized movement for permanent peace come too late to prevent a repetition of those struggles of races and peoples? Or is the name Pacific a sacred and prophetic symbol dark-skinn- If it is to be war then the wars of the Pacific will make the wars of Europe look like the contests of mechanical toys on a checker board. Fronting the Pacific are even now great and populous countries like the United States, Japan, China, Australia,, Canada, Peru and Chile. Soon Alaska and Siberia will have teeming millions redy for friendship or the fray. Some are saying with diplomatic smoothness that war between the United States and Japan is unthinkable, and yet everybody is thinking about it. And because everybody is thinking. about it Japan and America are trying to pave the way for enduring peace. They are hoping that there is no irreconcilable conflict in the differences that have arisen because of the migrations of the yellow and white races over the broad Pacific. They are hoping that some entente may be formed that will eliimnate once and for all the causes of con- ed of a better day? We see the powers of Japan and America engaged in a peaceful attempt, at the very beginning almost of the Pacific oceans development and civilization, to set the course of empires in the channels of peace. We see a humane effort to establish barriers of justice against war. At the same time we see opposing races unable to assimilate and keen to make laws barring each other from regions over which they have extended their sway. The seeds of love and hate, of war and peace, have been sown. What will the harvest be? It were idle to attempt a prophecy. At most we can but vision in a weak way the stupendous growth of the empires of the Pacific. If that ocean is to have peace it will be a larger peace than any ever enjoyed along the shores of the Mediterranean and the. Atlantic. flict. . But war is by no means unthinkable. It may even be considered inevitable if the two races are to cling to their conflicting ideals. On the one hand is the mightiest republic of all times, on the other a military absolutism hugging to its breast the old ambitions of despotic power, reaching out to wrest from China her children or islands of the to place the seal of ownership upon the tropics ? We turn from crushing the most powerful military autocraq of Europe to face a similar power across the Pacific. The great rivalry has already begun. The diplomatists are marking off the battlefield, hoping that it may be turned into a field of unending peace. But the world may not go on in the old way. The human race has learned something from experience. The sanguinary lessons of the European struggle may teach even a grasping race of warriors such as the Japanese to discard a militant for a Pacific civilization. i star-gemm- ed SHIPPING BOARDS BLACKLIST AID TO GRAFTERS In fine, high words, signifying but little, Admiral Benson, head of the shipping board, seeks to minimize the effects of the disclosures at the congressional investigation. He would have us look at the whole picture, rather than at the details. He would have us see the forest and not the trees. We may assume that the public, when all the evidence is in, will give the shipping board, or rather the deserving officials of it, due recognition. Meantime, the public will be more interested in the details than in the admirals impressionistic picture. The details as they present themselves at this stage of the investigation are more than repellant; they are ugly and sinister. Men who, apparently from the purest patriotism and honesty, sought to prevent the government from being robbed, were discharged from their positions and blacklisted. Even after one of them had been restored as the result of an appeal to the White House he was persecuted and soon dismissed once more. In another case an American consul, a favorite of Champ Clarks, who was accused of abetting graft, bribery and other offenses, was promoted after Admiral Benson had promised that he would be recalled. The accuser of the consul is Captain Chambless, master of the Lake Elkwood, which lost three of its four propeller blades and made Rio de Janeiro for repairs. We have the testimony of the captain that the necessary blades could have been fitted to the ship at a ' cost not to exceed $2,000. Over his protest the consul and his aides held the ship in port for nearly fifty days and the bill for repairs mounted to $100,000. At the very outset the captain protested. When he refused to keep silent one of the conspirators offered him $1,000 to withhold his objections. Refusing the bribe, he continued to protest and the consul had him arrested and taken from the ship. Only by an appeal to the supreme justice at Rio did he obtain his release. But that did not end the persecution. He was set upon and beaten by the chief engineer and other members of the ships company and crew. Meantime the ship was pillaged. Its rich cargo was removed and $1,000 of the ships money stolen. And finally the vessel wa sent on to. Buenos Aires in ballast, although it might have carried a profitable cargo. d s c t r v n Stranded on a foreign shore, Captain Chambless sent home for help, but the money cabled him by his wife for his passage back to . the U. S. was held up by the consular agent with no other purpose, obviously, than to keep him from returning home and testifying again51 the conspirators and robbers. Arriving home as a passenger on a later ship, he was refused his salary and placed on the shipping boards blacklist. He now a suit pending against the board for his pay. The shipping board seemed unwilling to investigate the complaints of protesting employes. On the contrary it or its subordinate5 t ha-- 1! g E E t: tl v |