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Show DR. VANCE'S DAILY ARTICLE i. If the Golden Rule Is a good rule for ! individuals, can It be a bad rule for nations? If It la binding on men In their personal relations, run It be- less binding on men when organized into national groups? Is there a shift In morula when you pass from citizen to the nation, so that what Is obllKntory on the citizen ha no binding power on his country? Nations ennnot dwell up.irt. The i world has become too smalt for any country' to ll its life alone. ur relations re-lations are complex. Intimate. vital. iWhat Is to control them? Are we to go buck to the stupid game of arma-'ments, arma-'ments, and see who can build the blg-t blg-t nay and maintain th.- largest ui my? it is a coatly game. It will beggar beg-gar the natlona. It will keep uo In debt to the end of time. Nor will it pri vent war. It has not prevented war. What armaments have failed to accomplish, they will keep on fulling to accomplish. It Is worth whil to try the Golden Rule on our national relations. Let Am-rlea put herself In the place of Armenia, and ask horn fhe would llkei to be treated. Then let America de-l Ins hor relations to Armenia Lei WA OS fare Eutope across a t?bl0 at who., Hfc b-a.J sits the statesman of humar BSJ brotherhood. As he aays- "Whatso BH ever ye would that men should do tc H jou. do ye even so to them." Let u Dl SO plan legislation. Would It be a bad thing for the al HBfi lie.- to treat Germany In terms of th Golden Rule? It would b u bran. HF 1 new adventure m statesmanship W would be an net of daring audacity ir , the name of humanity. Should it fall wL h. failure would be sublime. Shoulc MV 3 ' wwi of its succeai would turn loose a riot of lapture Ir ssMHsB iias Ami r., anough faith to build I her international life m harmony with HiHEr , the teachings of Jesus? It was a great BRf mad. sB diplomacy the political nam, for th, that kind of diplomacy It will help t'-W5, loycrses. it will heal here at home. f.rT's i Mm |