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Show DR. VANCE'S DAILY ARTICLE .A. A. By DYl. JAMES I. VA2CC13 Founder of Inter-Church AVorld Movement and Chairman, Federal Council of Churches of America. Whoro does America draw its trade lino? Tho field la tho world: The American trader Is out for a dollar wherover It can bo made. Ho clamors clam-ors for a world market. He resents any legislation that puts his business in a jacket or shunts commerce Into a blind alley. He has a world Interest when It comes to making money. Nothing short of the sky will satisfy him. Whoro docs America draw its dobt lino? Must not the field be the world here also? Must not our debt lino bo as wide as our trade line? Can America keep out In responsibility any country It cntors as an opportunity? oppor-tunity? Do not obligation and opportunity oppor-tunity go hand In hand? The nation that runs from Its debts can nevor hope to keep tho world's respect. It may pile up money, but Its wealth will bo but tho badge of Its shame. w Nations cannot be selfish any more than Individuals. If it be tho infamy of a man to llvo only for himself, Is it any loss tho infamy of a nation to llvo only for Itsolf? What Is individually individ-ually base can nover bo nationally rc-Hpoctablc. rc-Hpoctablc. What degrades a cltizon can never ennoble a country. America, cannot shirk its responsibility responsi-bility for Europe. We may hanker after a splendid isolation, but tho appetite ap-petite is not to our crodlt. Wo may try to kcop out of trouble, but tho contagion spreads, and there is no way under heaven today for a country to stay half way decent and play tho part of a hermit. We may declaim, de-claim, against ontangling alliances, but it wero far more respectablo for us to preach and practice service. "Bear ye one anothor's burdens, and so fulfill ful-fill the law of Christ" is sound doc-Jtrlno doc-Jtrlno for tho nation as well as for tho individual. Thero Is something greater than nationalism; It Is humanity. Germany worshiped nationalism, and found her god had clay feet, |