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Show THE CITIZEN 11 a FOREIGN POLICY AND DEFENSE IN THIS CAMPAIGN IN MR. HOOVERS speech of acceptance is one of the best summaries of a sound American policy in foreign relations that any of our statesmen has made. He said: Our foreign policy has one primary object and that is peace. We have no hates; we wish no further possessions; we harbor no military threats There are two operating factors in the maintenance of peace the building of good will by wise and sympathetic handling of international relations, and the adequate preparedness for defense. We must not only be just; we must be respected. This as a general statement of underlying principles could hardly be improved upon. Any government which acts judiciously and practically upon it will have the solid support of the American people. Both Congress and the executive, under both Democratic and Republican administration, have failed to realize it and make it fully effectual. But Republican conduct has come nearer to it than Democratic, and it is Mr. Hoover who has thought clearly to the fund-- . amentals, not Governor Smith, whose statement on foreign policy, as we have said, is inconsistent, inaccurate, and ominously sentimental. Mr. Hoover realizes, as all advocates of a strong international policy realize, that we are not and cannot be isolated, and that we must bear our share of international responsibilities. But Mr. Hoover expresses the sound realism of a true American policy when he points out that our people have determined that we can give the greatest help both in times of tranquility and in times of strain if we maintain our independence from the political exigencies of the old world. That is the clear wisdom of Washington demonstrated again in our time. It doesnt avoid cooperation. It doesnt even represent an attempt at isolation. It adheres to independence of judgment and freedom to act upon our judgment upon the facts and conditions before us. And it involves preparedness to defend our rights and legitimate interests and the proper organization of our strength, for, as Mr. Hoover puts it, though we are particularly desirous of reducing by fair agreement the burden of costly armament, we know that in an armed world there is only one certain guarantee of freedom and that is preparedness for defense. There is a conspicuous body of EXPERT KODAK FINISHING 144 So. Main SHIPLERS opinion in this country that holds an opposite view. It favors a maximum of committment to protect our own interests or give weight to our influence. This difference that advocates of an America possessing freedom to act and strength to act is well expressed by Rear Admiral Schofield when he says in an article on The Heart of the Navy. The Navy believes that peace with justice can best be attained through trusting in the integrity of intention of our own country. The pacifist desires to see us weal:, believing that this weakness will guarantee peace. The naval officer believes in seeing us strong, believing that strength is the best guarantee of peace, and that since in international affairs we must trust someone, we can trust best our own government. This is not only the viewpoint of the navy. It is that of the American people when they are constrained by events to act. In peace times our peaceful preoccupations and inherent optimism lead us to neglect the duty of preparedness for defense. We are neglecting it now. But it is reassuring to know that Mr. Hoover doesnt shirk the duty and has the candor to place it clearly before the American people. If we are to take Governor Smiths acceptance speech as evidence of his spirit, viewpoint and intention in this field, he will show no interest in an efficient defense, any more than Wilson did until he was plunged into war. Governor Smith might with justice have criticized the Republican administration for neglecting the national defense, but he has no complaint on that score, and no word for its correction. His criticism is that in 1921 there was negotiated a treaty for the limitation of the construction of battleships and battle crusiers of over ten thousand tons, and this was approved without party dispute to relieving the toiling masses, but that for seven years the Republican ad- ministration has followed it with nothing effective. No limitation has been put upon land armaments, submarines, vessels of war of under ten thousand tons displacement, poisonous gas or any other machinery devised by man for the destruction of human life. In this respect our diplomacy has been futile. We give Governor Smith credit for a keen sense of humor and he must have read this out at Albany with his tongue in his cheek. If it were taken seriously it would mean that Governor Smith has no more sense of the realities of international relations than the proponents of the Ford peace ship. It is in fact what Gov. Smith has called boloney, but it has a very serious aspect, nevertheless, for it is evidence of Governor Smiths lack of thought, of candor, of responsibility as to one of the gravest and most difficult duties imposed upon a President of the United States. Editorial Chicago Daily Tribune. A DENVER woman says she was hypnotized when she married. A great many men feel that way. FROM GUGAN OF THE SAINTS JAPANESE TO COLONIZE IN BRAZIL. By FRANK OCONNOR ADVICE COMES from Rio De Janeiro that a Japanese plan to colonize the Amazon valley is reported from the State of Para with the arrival there of Nachiro Fukuhara, director of a Japanese syndicate capitalized at My house is so silent! So silent you enter! From Gugan of the saints I am called and I answer. $5,000,000, Mr. Fukuhara states Your eyes bright as berries, Your lips and your breast, Have awakened the island This night from its rest. the plan is to send Japanese families to cultivate rubber, rice, cotton, tobacco and cocoa. They will come on Japanese ships direct to Para, beginning in April. The immigrants hope to become Brazilian citizens after two years, it is said. There are already a large number of Japanese in Brazil, principally in the state of Sao Paulo, where one city, Iguapi, is almost entirely peopled by them. The property the Japanese expect to colonize is near the land Henry Ford expects to produce rubber for him. Ghost of. the island, What brought you to me, And whose are the drowsy Cold brows that I see? I am old as the race That my hauntings attend, And this night I shall sleep For my tasks at an end. The old gods when they fled From the conquering races Built huts in the wilds, In the mountainy places. And their hands turned the sods, And the thought faded then Of they that were gods And the rest that were men. And their hands as With days at the Drew fire from the And delight from that they thickened plough AUNT Sally Saltz fell off the walk the other evening and sprained her ankle until she cannot get around. She wont have a doctor. She says a doctor dont know nothing about a sprain. Shes bathing it in apple vinegar and sorghum molasses. She says this is helping it. Lamar (Mo.) Dem. lips the brow. But the girls in their beauty, In love and in prayer, Remembered the gods In the peace they had there. 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