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Show o THE CITIZEN 6 licenses for deliveries to governments themselves. It is especially designed to prevent wartime arms from falling into the hands of It provides for those who arc designated the less civilized peoples. office to control the trade in arms. And the assembly proposes that this body be used to exercise control over the private manufacture of munitions of war. The purpose of all the provisions in the covenant, in the treaty, and in the assemblys report is to make the strong nations stronger and the weak peoples weaker. They are designed to keep the people of India and Ireland, of Africa and Asia Minor from obtaining arms for revolt against the St.-Germai- n empires. The United States is lending its official support to this program. Through President Wilson it agreed to a program whereby the little peoples of the world would be prevented from fighting for their liberty. Fortunately the senate of the United States has not joined in the conspiracy. The league covenant provides for an arrangement whereby arms can be sent to native militias created for the defense of the dominating empires, but it places a ban on the shipment of arms to natives who are trying to throw oil the yoke of the tyrants as we threw off a tyrants yoke in our revolutionary war. That is why we hear so much complaint from certain delegates in the league assembly against the United States. The arms our private manufacturers are exporting are going to the little peoples as well as the great peoples. Naturally, the empires cannot think of disarming so long as their subject peoples are being supplied with implements of war. Obviously it is a complicated question. Someone has said that the only way to disarm is to disarm. So long as arms are manufactured people will fight, but the converse of the proposition is even truer. So long as people fight arms will be manufactured. So long as tyrants rule subject peoples men will fight and arms will be made. Disarmament can come only when the world has attained its ideals of justice. There will be no difficulty about disarmament when the nations abide by the golden rule, when the lion and the lamb lie down together with the lamb safely outside. Disarmament begins, not in the shipyards and the factories, but in the hearts of men. When mens hearts are right then may we expect disarmament. If we ask Great Britain to join with us in a naval truce we must be as careful as were the Germans when Winston Churchill proposed a naval holiday in 1913. After some negotiations the German government ascertained that while Great Britain would agree to suspend naval construction she would not constrain Canada or Australia to suspend their building programs. LET OUR ALLIES REPAY treasury received about $437,000,000 in. that way, but of late pracOn November 15, 1920, there tically none of it has been forthcoming. was due more than $700,000,000. On December 18, 1919, the Secretary of the Treasury wrote a letter to the chairman of the tax committee of the House of Representatives stating that he did not want to insist that the allied governments furnish that vast sum of money at once, as it would interfere with their work of reconstruction. An effort has been made to induce the allies to exchange the promissory notes for bonds. There is a provision in the notes that the exchange will be made whenever the secretary shall request it, but the allies have the idea that the loans they have received from the United States are not a debt at all, but should be considered a gift from us as part of our contribution toward winning the war. They argue that the issue of bonds in definite acknowledgment of that loan would fix the debt upon them and they could not assume the role of mendicants' after that. The saving of $9,500,000,000 to the people of the United States by securing from the allies bonds in that amount, and the collection of the back interest on the debt and the interest that will come due in the future, is one of the tasks of the new administration. Success and will will mean the reduction of our tax burden about result ultimately in the payment of nearly half of our national debt by foreign countries. one-eigh- th Greek nursery rhymes Eeny, Tino, tiny toe. Laughing at the allies so ; When they holler, out you go. Eeny, Tino, tiny toe. you are on top, But when the storm bursts your cradle will flop ; And when the allies reach for a rock, Then Tino, methinks, theyll knock off your block. Rock-a-bye-Tin- o, We read that the arrival home of King Constantine was not marred by any incidents. The allies are keeping the incidents until later. Some people are sore because President Wilson got the Nobel peace prize, but we think it a good joke. 56 5 The Hungarian throne has been offered to a prince named Axel. Why not make Axel Greece king? 5(5 S(C 5jC The building crafts of New York think of changing their name to building grafts. 5(5 The crimes waves in our own countrv make Ireland look like little bit of heaven. a m When congress enacted laws directing the Secretary of. the Treasury to sell Liberty bonds, a paragraph was included providing that he could loan some of the money to the allies to aid them in carrying on the war with Germany. The secretary was told that these loans must not exceed $10,000,000, just about half of all the money the people paid into the treasury for the bonds. Beginning with April 25, 1917, the treasury turned over millions of dollars to the representatives of the allied governments stationed in Washington. Even as recently as September 28 of this year a payment of $10,000,000 was made to France, and the secretary-saythat other payments are to be made. Altogether the money the United States has loaned to foreign governments amounts to about s 5(5 A New York burglar stole 8,000 French francs. When that money was received by the allies they gave a receipt for it, stating that interest on the loan, at the rate of 5 per cent every year, would be paid until the loan was returned to the United States treasury. Of course if that interest were to be paid it would amount to about $475,000,000 a year and could be applied by this government toward the payment of more than half the interest which has to be turned over to Liberty bond holders every year. At first the interest was paid by the foreign governments when it became due, and our Petty larceny stuff. 5(5 5(5 The threat to increase the price of hair cuts again we regard simply barberism. 5(5 5(5 5(5 5(5 a? 5(5 His hotel in Paris cost Wilson a lot of money, but so did House. 5(6 li 5(5 Business genius is an infinite capacity for taking gains. 5(5 $9,500,000,000. 5 5(6 5(6 5(6 The miners strike in England didnt produce much gold. 5(6 5(6 5(6 5(6 A mince pic is no good unless it is breaking the law. 5(5 3(6 5(6 Automobile bandits report the steal trade improving. 5(5 3(5 5(6 The allies have been able to control the oil supply but Greff . proved too slippery. |