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Show THE CITIZEN THE WA Y OUT FOR THE YAPLANDERK OF THE UNITED STATES This. is. unquestionably an. age. of conquest, of conflicting interests, of an environment which demands much compromise. Therefore, it .would appear ' that, those among us who are struggling so valiantly to internationalize the United States should be willing to compromise on the internationalization of Yap Island, plans for which are now being discussed by Japan and this country. And having accepted that as a compromise they should be forced to make Yap their place of residence. There they would find many things to which their extraordinary genius for internationalism might be applied. They would find stones used for curenrcy in Yap. A fair sized grindstone takes the place of a British tuppence, or an American 'nickel. The internationalists count certain large financial interests among their strongest supporters and it seems the Yap currency question should interest those gentlemen especially the grindstone part of it, on which they could whet their international axes and remove their minds for a time at least, from the project to make America the province of a super- state. And why is it that these gentlemen of finance still keep the internationalistic ball whirling? Why do they foist their scheme to sell out the United States upon innocent preachers and half-bakcollege men, and accept the plaudits of the socialistic element which they distain to recognize in any other field of endeavor? Is it their belief that while socialism would spell disaster for this nation, yet as a world institution, under the benevolent operation of a supreme council, it would be the savior of all mankind? Not on your life. Not by a jugful. Not by any one of the thousand and one idealistic sophistical theories held up to view by for the uninitiated to gaze the proponents of the fondly upon. They want economic control of the world. They want this country, rich in manhood and materials, to back their gigantic world control scheme ; they sense in this idealistic scheme for a worldwide government the complete elimination of the national spirit, the blotting out of patriotism and love of country, to be replaced by the fetish of international obligations and duty to foreign lands and peoples. The average American citizen may not know that the combined international banking interest of the world is back of this scheme But such are the facts. to make this country a part of a super-statBig money international finance knows no flags, respects no government, and courts no dictation from high place except from that which it economically controls. With the League of Nations proposition foisted upon this nation big business would have the mightiest power the world has ever economic plan, with her mighty known to guarantee its world-wid- e treasure and best of all with her almost inexhaustable supply of canon fodder. The American heroes who swept back the German hordes at the battle of the Argonnc Forest, showed these big financial interests that they were the men they could depend upon to intimidate and regulate a reconstructed world a world built anew on the theory of the greatest profits for those with the greatest power and the biggest army to make that power stick. Under a League of Nations, with foreign control of all the most vital elements of our national life, how long would the nation survive as it was designed and buildcd by the fathers? How many Americans would lie today in foreign graves, in addition to those sacrificed to national honor in stopping the Hun in his mad ambition to gain world dominion, if the Wilson plan had been adopted? Who, among the more rational, but believes that they would have policed all lands, fought all the petty wars that have been staged since the armistice, that edict that was supposed to signalize the cessation of turmoil in continental Europe, and which was signed on Flanders ed super-governme- nt e. Field? Yes, the United States has the money, the manhood aurl sinews of war above all other nations today, and the men of national ideals .want access to all this. They want it to hol; world in check while they glean the profits accruing from k tional and domestic commerce. It is the old story of a meast selfishness and of greed and of ambition that has destroyed in days long past and will do so again if given an opportunity. j SOCIALISTIC SOPHISM INVADES WOMANS COLLI Those who hold to the belief that the constitution of United States is the Magna Charter for all humanity will dlJ to scan closely the educational institutions to which they puiprS send their boys and girls to finish their education and render fit for citizenship in the greatest democratic nation the worii ever known. In an address delivered at Bryn Mawr college, the othe in honor of Madame Curie and at which Madame Curie wasp: the following utterance was made: We demand of government, under power of revolutie overthrow, immediate disarmament. Bryn Mawr is a womans college where the daughters well-to-d- o go to get an education'. If this utterance from its dent is an index to the nonsense taught there, it certainly time that its doors be nailed up, its classes disbanded and its:. put to work at some needful and gainful employment. It goes without saying that a girl who falls for such trai internationalistic foolishness, must be picked up and dusted of vigorously before she can take her porper place in good society If Bryn Mawr is teaching this sort of socialistic rot, Bryn is worse than useless to the nation and its daughters and the? it is suppressed, wiped out of existence, the safer for the of the present rising generations, and that yet unborn. In far too many of our higher educational schools sucha ous socialistic drivel is being taught and immature minds art stuffed with a lot of inflammable nonsense which has for itself Girls are end the driving of this country into a super-stat- e. actually led to believe that such arrant undesirables as Bouck Upton Sinclair, Ferdinand Pinney Earl, Gene Debs and Soul Herron are the scions of advanced thought and true patriots!' revolution. what this country most needs is a red-hAre degenerate and lecherous men going to be permittedt forth such ravings as are vouched for by the socialist parry: future mothers of the race to absorb? When colleges of the and glory of Bryn Mawr take to making socialists of the vc: the nation it is time to get busy with a club. is ot A PLEA FOR THE UNEMPLOYED SOLDIERS, j "r IPipt From one who is interested in humanitys cause." The. ) 1 received the following: iwhe i v Editor of the Citizen, Dear Sir : I notice from the press that efforts arc being put ton, iat;tl I and the war evils took root with that during away proper to call your attention to the proposition of married who through the scarcity of men during the war filled posic arc still occupying them. Many of these women have not I their husbands arc holding good positions and in as much .1 are hundreds of men out of employment, some of our boys the injured in the war, many men with families, while others after boys who have mothers to support and copld hold such P011 This, in the opinion of the writer, is a disgrace narrowness and selfishness on the part of those conecrmyjnh MEfigl; press, commercial bodies, and society should make life tlu-- f j 1 -o M lj |