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: "Fight for ~~ Thinking By Proxy. page Rew a 3 Sermon on the Mount. There was one magnificient attempt in the Versailles treaty for a better world--the League of Nations.. Our President," Woodrow Wilson, fought hard for it. Those awful European nations, our recent associates, accepted it. America turned it down. = We wanted te preach, not work, for a world of peace and ordered liberty. Yes, there's this and that and-a thousand and one-other things to be said about the "Crime of Versailles." I am merely suggesting a few things to remember, Wo : The fairest summary of Ameriea's participation at the Versailles Peace Conference was made by Clemenceau's right-hand man, Tardieu: "A war won by four could not end in a peace dictated by one." But "We won the war." Sure we did. Almost single-handed., Almost single-handed. Almost. Let's try to be honest with ourselves so that 'we may be fair to others. Let's remem- ber what England and France and our other associates contributed to the winning of that war. For instance, they fought the war for three years while we remained neutral and waxed rich- at their ex- pense. England with a population one-third: of ours, lost in dead alone nearly one million men; France with a population less than one-third of ours, more than a million and a half; Can- 2da, with a population less than New York State, about 100,000, In other words, had the United States suffered relatively as France did our dead alone Would have exceeded four and one half } million men. At it was, we lost about 75,000. ) Decency." An American Says to Americans (Letter written by Mr, Lawrence Hunt to the New York Times, and reprinted in the Toronto Evening Tclegram.) Pontius Pilate' still lives. At the moment he exercises greater influence build a house on our national thinking about foreign affairs than any other person living or dead. He strides the length and breadth' of America, dinning his im- mortal philosophy of neutrality into our minds and hearts. You can hear him on the platform, over the radio, in the club car, at women's club-meetings and labor union gatherings. You can read his words in current books, in magazines and newspapers. "Wash your hands", he says, "of this mess. I did once, and saved myself a lot of work and worry. That was none of my business. This was none of yours. So wash your hands of it now." For the last twenty years we Am- ericans have been fooling ourselves, as Pilate tried to do in another, prac; tical situation, when 'we've talked about America's foreign policy. We still are. It's not surprising. We have been deluged with a constant stream of propaganda about the "Crime of Versailles", "We won the war and what did we get?" the pathet- jc spectacle of a- gullible American caught in the wily intrigues of Old World diplomacy, England expecting every American to do his duty, the "Merchant of Death" and the "Wall Street Bankers." To-day there's a new but equally polluted stream of propaganda luridly warning us against propaganda. The upshot of it all is that the thinking of many honest people has become con- fused, their nerves jangled and their emotions jaded. And as a nation we __have managed so far to escape from reality and the tough responsibilities of being a first rate power. I don't mean that 'we have lost the Puritanical vice of preaching to others, but we have failed to exercise the Puritanical _virtue of doing our share--and more, if need be--of the hard work our very greatness requires of ys. powered, over-a Never Knew Horror . We never knew the horror of an air] - raid, the terror and degradation of an pe invading army destroying our towns and cities and enslaving a large part of our civilian population to be hewers of wood and drawers of water in the enemy country. Fuelless Sundays, Liberty Loan drives, and one piece of | sugar instead of two were among our major enterprises. Yes, they helped-- helped a lot, "turned the tide", and all that sort of thing. But as a nation we were spared the agony our com- rades in arms endured. My point is that when we stop to think and-make a real effort to be fair, the propaganda we have been fed for several years seems a bit indecent. There is something "phony" in the contrast between our noisy pride in our fighting prowess and our self-|' - abasement as diplomatic morons, You ' know .that oft-repeated phrase, "Am-|~ and nearby places, our speeds will DOES prestige, prestige with the people "WHAT Looking forward to the hence a Willys is occur...Getafree The purpose of this letter is to sug- gest briefly that we average, citizens question some of these slogans and catch-phrases which are doing so much SiR a fe SRN FRR AER NE Bk 3 rr RS LE ER a > AEE SIE STR A Ar ei rr aes rn th Sper SE 8 i ur RAE in As you buy clothes to fit your to be comfortable but not extravagant--why should an ¢ pointed car, whether new of ALL HAVE THE The most expensive car made truck, an engine capable' of powering a a bridal suite, cost the price of a house--; transportation, therefore the way a car isu DO YOU C If your use of a car is like that of the great ma.' jority of owners, you will commute 98 per cent "of the time--back and forth between home, work or between farm and town-- be far less than 70 failed pos our--you will average fewer than three pe per trip--the traffic conditions will require alert- A LARGE CAR GIVE Some people may think that a large car gives Pe even the "Joneses" smaller bills, promptly paid, create far more ; that mean anything.' it back in. next few years, the cost of taxation and of living show upward trends, not only the best now, but plays safe when such developments demonstration of this quality *. THE WILLYS IS NOT SMALL... D. McKINZEY, Manchester, Ont. i \ erson and purse thoroughly up-to over-sized, over- size, weight, or not éxcessive--tl ple know that fir: of the large car ARE TAXES GOING car (guaranteed car to buy quirements; that gance and -date, brand-new Willys--the car that is adequatel stylishly appointe economies can sive more mone used, be considered? Why not purchase a destination rather than for getting SAME FUNDAMENTAL PURPOSE may have the wheelbase and weight of n aeroplane, the appointments of yet its real pur sed should decide the one to buy. OMMUTE? ness and the parking These are the reasons ) - exactly designed to meet the driving and cost re- quirements of most people. There is no waste of speedily, comfortably and economically taken. PRESTIGE? Pride of ownership vsually disappears 'with the first dented fender. A sale will conclude, as thousands of owners done, that the Willys meets all' motoring re- simply a waste of hard-earned money. MOST CARS ARE TOO BIG! sized, adequately powered, --so that all its' provable to spend at there? a and use Is = \ will not alwa /s be easy. why the Willys is more ower; everything is ample but e long as well as short trips are sman"s real opinion is best known when trading TO BE? for 100,000 miles) and you have any larger car is an extrava. . to paralyze thi moral driving force of the American people. Too many of} peace conference." The next time us have been doing our thinking on}some parlor intellectual repeats that foreign affairs by proxy. A lot of us phrase in the pompous manner of the let the columnists do it. I suggest that ;man trying to make' a conversational we stuff our ears for a while to the impression ask him how 'many and stately measures, the sounding brass what peace conferences: he's talking and the tinkling cymbals of various of about. Did our diplomats lose for us "these, Maybe if we do that we can the American Revolution, the War of 'hear ourselves think. 1812, the Mexican War of 1845-46, the Long before Hitler made the "Crime | Spanish-American War or the World of Versailles" his favorite bedtime} War (when we ducked our job by re- story of rthe German people; many. of pudiating the League of Nations?) our "Intellectuals" were talking and Didn't they do pretty well "in the writing about it in the fevered manner Louisiana and Alaska purchases, the of a town gossip. Psecudo-historians, Oregon boundary dispute, the Alaskan jrresponsible journalists and disgrun- fisheries controversy, the Alabama tled liberals who couldn't digest some claims, the Venczuélan crisis of 18957 of the rougher facts of life all did their You may not be able to convince him, bit. There was also some honest, in- | but at least you will have the satis- tellegent and justified criticism of it. faction of exploding a myth. As a treaty it had imperfections, having been drawn by imperfect men representing improper peoples, most of whom for four years had endured a war that was not exactly perfect. True +. Germany lost some rather unprofitable colonies in Africa (in 1914 they ac- "counted for less than one-half of one per cent. of her foreign trade.) Alsace- Lorraine was returned to. France. Any objections? The house hears none. Then there were the reparations. Much too much. At any rate, ma- chinery was set up whereby they could be scaled down to a reasonable figure and that was shortly done. Volumin- ous tears have been shed over the war- guilt clause. Through all the fog and smoke of controversy one thing fis 'clear. England and France did not invade Belgium, The war was not fought on German soil. "But--but-- the Germans are a proud pedple." Since, when has such pride become a cardinal and cleansing virtue? Germany's Brutal Terma Do you remember what the German erica has won every war and lost every many reasons, would not have entered the war. ness as a nation. heart of America responded. Evading Responsibility. At any rate, let's stop talking non- sense about being "bamboozled" by wily foreign diplomats. It's just an- other way of fooling ourselves and evading our responsibilities. One of the favorite sports of writers who have consciously or unconsciously misled and misinformed the American public in recent years has heen to'de- ride the motives which caused the pur- poses which inspired America's entry into the last World Wor. + They have created bogies and scarcecrows, nam- ing them "Merchants of Death" and the "Wall Street Bankers" and depiet- ing them.as beguiling and farcing the American people against their will to enter the war. . That just isn't so, and you and I know it. The average American does not give a damn what the "Wall Street 'Bankers" say or think or do except when, as in the Nineteen Twenties, some of them sold us gilt-edge fly- paper on which we_were permanently stuck. Both our knowledge and com- g vigil phi A i » * mon sense refuse to elevate the muni- you don't and are really Interested, 1 tion manufacturers into gods of Toms suggest that you dig back into the destiny. They make their unpleasan _ ofiolal documents and the files of. oods and sell them because there are ¢ A y people who want theni and will bay newspapers of twenty-five years 880, yyop, Occasional j 1 and also read the Treaty of Brest! : Y Some over zea gua Litovsk. The peace-at-any-price pro. salesman may have encouraged a Cen . tral American revolution, but to pie- ste to-day will not tell you, nor oo 4p ose practical gentl playing a decisive role in the destinies of the world is plain silly. Faith In Ideals! - A America entered the last war for Sone 3 i SE, shame for that motive and purpose. traditions. for. than it does to-day. now. chestnuts out of the fire, nor will 'the facing-both-ways column. 4 ists. Suffice it to say that had Ger- many won, the Treaty of Versailles, in comparison with the German peace terms, would have seemed like the. shirk? ------ The most immediate and compelling reason Was simply that Germany, after repeating warnings and protests, continued to sink ships without warning, with loss of Amer- jcan lives. If Germany had not sunk our ships and if American lives had not been lost in those actions, we With all our faults, we Americans have a great faith in certain ideals-- a faith that has moved mountains and has contributed miglitily to our great- When Woodrow Wilson struck the moral note, the f Most Americans did:-believe -that we were fighting "to make thé world safe for democracy." Where we succeeded or tailed is irrelevant at this point, We did fight for something worth fighting for and wé need feel no regret or Somewhat allied to the foregoing reason were our national heritage-and English people, 'Frenth people and American people believe in their hearts that individual. freedom is one of those few things worth fight- ing for and, if need be, worth dying The German ideal in the last war, ag in the present one, was different, and--what is important for us to bear in mind--really endangered our ideal Despite all the effusions of Nazi-Communist phil: osophy, of flabby intellectuals, and of demagogic politicians, materialism is not the only driving force in Ameri- can life, It wasn'®in 1917 and'it isn't Nor did we fight-to pull England's. We never have. . The propagandists who say we have done so.cannot prove a single instance in our entire history as a hation to support their falsehood: And yet by using the Nazi-Communist tac- tle of repeating a falsehood again and agat they have deceived some honest well-meaning folk and have soothed those frantic people who cannot bear to face the simple but sometimes hard truths of life, Have you observed how [ these same propagandists will scream) with rage because England is at moments reluctant to do the hard jobs of elvilization which they urge us to WILLYS OF CANADA, LTD., WINDSOR Warped By Propaganda 1 'have been discussing" the propa- ganda about America's part in the last war. - At first sight it may seem like beating a dead horse because we now have another great war and must make up our minds what to do about it. The'old propaganda has been men- tioned because it has tended to warp our present attitudes. ' Consider brief- ly now some of the present-day pitfalls that constantly thieaten our thinking. "They're all alike". Who says s0? the Soviet Minister of Foreign Affairs, Hugh Johnson ang our milksop in- tellectuals--who-only--yesterday were screaming at Chamberlain and Dala- 'dier for-their-'cowardly- surrender' at Munich and their "betrayal" of Re- publican Spain. And to give point to their propaganda they tar us with their brushes, Mofotoff. referring to our treatment of the Cubans and John- son to the American Indians. : .We can.ignore the Communist bunch for the moment--they are part of the pfice we pay for the freedom we cherish. But the propaganda is vicious to the extent it helps us to fool our- selves. We know better. Magna Carta, habeas corpus, the common law, William Shakespeare, the King James Bible, John Bunyan, Voltaire, Lafay- ette,.the Rights of Man, Wordsworth, and Bobby Burns--they are part of our heritage. They dre not Prussian nor Nazi nor Communist. The conquest of Austria, the ruins of Czecho-Slovakia, the massacre of the Poles, the attack on Finland, the torture of concentration camps, the bestial crimes against race and re- liglon, purges, "blood baths," Mein Kampf" and the Communist Manifesto ~--théy are not English or French or American, No--we are not "all alike." We know all about that. But how long shall wg Iét these: propagihdists 'help us delude ourselves? | Perhaps the loveliest self-delusion we are enjoying at the: moment is the picture of Ameri¢a acting as a sweet holier-than-thou peacemaker when the : ppy; comfort abla and "disinterested" Our former associates will have gone through the hell of a war they desperately tried to avoid; they will be suffering, poor and Such strange bedfellows as Molotoff, |. tired out, Therefore, we can do some more preaching, tell them what sort too harsh on the Germans, because they are a "proud race"), 'and how they must behave if they are to be like us. ~ : EN Suppose Nazis Win. 3 Wait a minute. Suppose the Nazi- Communists win? Well, brothers and sisters, if that happens; we'll have. to do an awful lot more than preaching-- far more than if we frankly and ac- tively aided England and France now. 'It might be that we are counting -& little too comfortably on the Maginot Line and the British fleet. And. de- spite the peace-at-any-price = propa: gandists, we do count on them, 5 If the Allies' win without our aid, by what right will we have a voice in the peace terms? What will have been America's contribution? A few cheers, lots of "moral support" and good for cash down. Again, I say don't "let the propagandists fool us. Let's not fool ourselves. We should at least be too adult for that. The latest trick of the Pontius Pilate propagandists is to warn us against propaganda. 'Apparently they assume that Americans are a simple, childlike, almost moronic people who need nurses and guards to keep them out of mischief. :. It is insidious stuff, which, i : SEATS ARE NOW ON SALE AT THE BOX FOR ALL PERFORMANCES at-any-price people who, consciously or unconsciously, are giving daily aid and will do some harm and create more confusion before the courageous com- --you'rt a fake," They won't d selves when the hour of decision is at hand. "sucker". of peace they should have make (not|_ ! indicate. 2 Y:|'team, and so have Port Perry. But taken in too largy doses, is likely to cause moral impotence and intelléctual | sterility. It is reminiscent of the old; world's mad: except thee and me, and even thou art a little mad." We are asked to shut our eyes. to the most blazing truths, to avert our: temporary life, to stuff our ears and: to harden our hearts so that somehow, tough realities of this world and, as a our moral promising forces of destiny. have set for us to do. ganda makes many an average citizen throw up hig hands and say, "What oain-1-believe 72- Well--yo pve in yourself, your own common sense, your own decent instincts, your 'own values and traditions which you cher- an_be ish enough to fight for. These peace- Quaker's remark to his wife, "All the | £ gaze from the. plain facts of our con} : nation, evade the tasks which nature, | y ditloris 'and the uncom- | {; This propaganda. against propa-|ji 'PORT PERRY, ONTARIO, Born 1868. . ' OPENING MONDAY AFTERNOON APRIL 15th + at 1,80 pm, IN LOVING MEMORY OF EDWARD ~ Lake i { " AFTERNOONS MAIL ORDERS EVENINGS a) 130°. | send money order and at 8 p.m. 75¢ self-addressed stomped $1.00 Except loges envelope for choice seats, Except Loges ALY, SEATS RESERVED ALL SEATS RESERVED GRIFFEN Died 1940. i, Sougol Lumber & | Co., Ltd., ort Perry, Ontario. Exactly as. Shown at Its Fomed Atlanta fF Premierel THE WIND OFFICE + I EXCEPT AT.ADVANCED REGEN comfort to Comrades Hitler and Stalin mon sense of America says, "Enough This Picture Will Not Be Shown Anywhere PRICES UNTIL 194). $k T Por Jnformarion ephone Oshawa 8500 IS OOP EcICItIocecececeoeoeceseses had travelled ove game, which would have some effect. The deciding game will be played on Thursday evening, April 4th, either at Port Perry or Oshawa. Come and give the boys your support, because we'll stop deceiving _our- 1 Fashion to Snéer The fashion of our present-day pro- pagandists is to sneer at Uncle Sam for acting in 1917 the role of the Good Samaritan. According to these people the Good Samaritan was a fool and a He actually inconvenienced himself in doing his share as a mem- ber of the human family. There were no profits in what he did. But the Levite was the "wise guy". He "mind- ed his own business" and went his own way. Didn't lose a nickle. Perhaps Uncle Sam should do the same, I don't think he will. He isn't that sort of fellow. = In due course, he'll rub his eyes, stand up, take off his coat, and do a man's job in a hard but woithwhile world. . LAWRENCE HUNT, (Continued from front page) was in vain. Port had all. men up and fighting hard when a Midland player with only 8 minutes left, broke away with no one to stop him but Carnegie, caught him off guard, and in went an- other for Midland. It now stood 10-3. There is still another gdme to he played with Midland and Port Perry are not beaten yet as the score might Midland have a fast, even balanced Port didn't seem to get the breaks. They were playing on strange ice and _ JEMISON'S | "KEEP THE HOME atl "able Fuel adds greatly "YOUR FAMILY BAKER | Can relieve you from baking ~ worries, and provide the best in Bread and Pastry. THR HOME OF GOOD BREAD AND PASTRY Phone 98, Port Perry. This is the sedson of the year when Depend- Mrs, James Swan had a very suc- cessful sale on Saturday. Congratulations to Mr, Ben Hitch- ens and Miss Ruth Mitchell on their recent marriage. der Mr. Wm. Bell of North Bay.spent the week end at Mrs. J. Swan's. Glad to report Mr. Swan able to be out again, Best wishes to Mr, and Mrs. Weir in the birth of a daughter. Miss O. Bassett returned to her teaching duties after * spending thg Wm. holidays with her parents in Dun- or barton. rin rad Misses * Olga, Delza and 'Mildred Lakey spent the holidays at their home here, h 3 Miss Jean Miller with her 'parents Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Miller over the holidays. Mr. Walter Reynolds returned to his school after visiting at his home here, SALVATION ARMY CANVASS POSTPONED : Owing to very bad roads, the Salvation Army canvass had to be again postponed until Tuesday of next week. | 5 PARLIAMENT MEETS? The forecast of the Financial Post is that Parliament will convene ahout the 15th or 18th of April, or at latest, the 26th. ACA fl SA RSA teed BAKERY - "TWEE HELP YOU TO } FIRES BURNING" § to the comfort of the ~ * home. 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