Show QUOTES I COMMENTS ON CURRENT TOPICS BY DY NATIONAL CHARACTERS Opinions ni expressed tn In is tie the paragraphs ph below belot ore era slot not necessarily concurred In 1 b bf by the editor o of othis this newspaper WARS WAR'S MENACE U By DT VISCOUNT NT CECIL T TUB TilE na nations ons in America no less leAs than In Europe are preparing for tor further war 11 More ore m money ney Is at the present time being spent for tog armies armlet navies nules and air forces than ever over before before before be be- fore In peacetime Moreover on ong one onu g great t country In defiance of all treaty obligations has launched a war Mr of conquest against another And ADd yet let the tho contest coolest which finished In 1018 was a war to end war We are drifting toward another world catastrophe worse orse even evell than tho the last Jast Can nothing be done to to prevent It U Certainly good Intentions and pious aspirations are arc not enough No doubt the peace-loving peace nations will wm wish to remain at peace But nut wo found In 1914 1014 and you found three years lears later that In spite of ot our wishes we were driven into war What happened then may nay may noy will happen will happen again agUn unless we take adequate steps to prevent It PRESENT AMERICAN ECONOMY on fly SECY A. A VE T m is us DB much need t today for fora a Declaration of Independence as ns there was for a Declaration of or Independence Independence Inde lade In 1770 The typical New England farming community of the tho Eighteenth century was 05 per cent economically Independent Inde lade pen pendent lent of the rest of the nation and the tIle world The rest of ot the colonies might have e suddenly disappeared and the community could continue to function Of or how bow m many many- ny communities In America could that be said today Merely to ask the question Is to answer an Iwer awer it And if tr farmers with the help of ot government should today achieve even a CO ro per cent economic sufficiency self as compared with their present 20 to 30 per cent the result would be the starvation of many millions millIon In our clUes cities A change of or this sort Bort might be brought about slowly but brought about rapidly It would prove a catastrophe FAITH IN THE LEAGUE Dr Rr JAN N SHUTS T TilE THE lIE league Is not moribund oron or oron on Ita its last legs but only finding linding Its Us feet foot only beginning Its Ks career Henceforth more and more moro It Jt will stand forth as the determined foe of ot imperialism of that spirit of aggressive sive expansion and annexation that characterized the old war pre war pre and which was fondly thought to have hare been killed In the World war wat but Is again showing Its horrid head headIn In lu world affairs No the message of Armistice day isn't forgotten Long live the League of Nations I FOREIGN INVESTMENTS It HERE 0 Oy Sly 1 P. P E NOLAND Is a great buyer of s se- se cantles l and while and other nations of Continental Europe Europ s are re doing most of their business with England they now are beginning begin ning- ning to swing to America From IS 15 to 2 25 per pet cent of the volume on the London randon Stock exchange Is II In American securities There I is very great confidence abroad in the American situation and In the belief bellef that conditions areso areso are areso so secure here that this Is La much the better place to keep keer money Franco France FrancoIs Franceis Is still struggling with tho the problem of devaluation and Industrial plants planta are suffering but the tho o people are bitterly bit terly opposed to Jt L t. Laval Is 18 makIng mak makIng Ing lag a brave effort to save the day daf and his bla stature has Increased ol olover all allover allover over Europe The leaders of both business and politics abroad feel the tho American recovery recovery recovery re re- covery accomplishments are remark remark- able |