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Show Released iy Western Newspaper Union. GAME OF POWER POLITICS KEEPS IT ITS PACE DESPITE ANYTHING WE CAN do now the game of power politics will be played in Europe as it was for long years before, and for the years since. World War I. At any time between the German invasion of France and after the attack at-tack on Russia we were in a position posi-tion to dictate to England and Russia. Rus-sia. Both countries needed both credit and war production facilities, both of which America could provide. pro-vide. What were but penciled memos, made on battleships in the Atlantic, could have been a formal document, with the signature of the British prime minister, in exchange for American lend-lease credit and an unlimited call on our war production pro-duction facilities. Had we have had signed agreements covering those ideals in which we believed then, and still believe, those documents would have been good. Neither England Eng-land nor Russia would have repudiated repudi-ated them. The Jap attack on Pearl Harbor, followed immediately by Germany's declaration of war against us, made a big difference. It suddenly became our war and we had to win it. To do so we must have the support of both England and Russia. They no longer needed to make concessions to get America's help. Those scribbled scrib-bled notes, that expressed American ideals, became only scribbled notes. England would play the game her way. She would make no pretense of liquidating the King's empire to comply with American ideals. England Eng-land is committed to imperialism. Under such conditions Russia would not consider the maintenance of national boundaries as they existed before the war started. She would take what she wanted regardless of America's wishes. So It was that America's entry en-try into the war again started the game of power politics in Europe. Despite anything we may now do that game will continue. Europe and much of Asia will be spheres of influence, divided between England and Russia, with France attempting to take a hand. The world will be safe for a time. Russia will have what she immediately imme-diately wants. The British empire will remain intact for a time at least. Russia will be boss in the Slav Balkans. England will occupy the same position in western Europe, Eu-rope, and all will seemingly be well. The day may come when Russia will seek to expand in the near east or in China, and if she does she will step on England's toes. Then there will again be trouble brewed from the European power politics of today. to-day. Dumbarton Oaks will be largely an idle, gesture. Nothing Noth-ing we can now do will write for the world an insurance policy poli-cy against a war in the future. The small nations of the eastern east-ern hemisphere will receive and accept orders from the bosses, and some future generation will pay the bill. The Arthur Balfour Bal-four prophecy of 1918, of what would happen should America get into an European war he saw coming, will be proven true. America cannot now be the world's peacemaker. TEMPERAMENT IN BUSINESS CONDUCT TWO OF MY FRIENDS have lived the same number of 76 years. One was English born. Came to this country when a young man. Worked to achieve a competence on which he could retire at the age of 60, that he might spend his remaining remain-ing years at play. Being English the "how" of play was in his blood, and for the last 16 years play has been his only interest. The other has a dozen generations of American forbears back of him. He started with nothing. At 25 he had started and owned a small manufacturing man-ufacturing business. At 60 that business busi-ness employed many hundreds of people. It was successful. The owner own-er had capable sons to take it over, i He, too, retired to play. But he could not stay away from the office and plants. He did not know how to play. In less than two months he was back in harness again, despite the proven ability of the boys. For the past 16 years he has retired about twice each year, for about 30 days each time. Temperament forced him back each time. The difference is the temperament of the English and American people. The English know how to play. The American continues to hustle to the end of the chapter if he is to be happy. TWO TO THREE YEARS AFTER the war American farmers will again be in competition with cheap labor farming, and with a decreased world demand for food. Present prices on farm products will not 1 continue. The middle west soil im-I im-I provement committee urges better I cultivation and soil improvement of present farm acreage, ami not the purchase by farmers o( more acres FANCIED GRIEVANCES Huse j us more agony than real i |