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I H el 2 GOODWIN'S WEEKLY B B Norway, Holland and any of the eastern and southern European B nations that still survived. m Neither France nor Italy, however, wants such an alliance. They B want the active support of Great Britain and the United States. They B want Article X of the league covenant so that they may use the B "i, armies and navies of the United States and Great Britain for their Bj protection. Consequently they are enduring the policy and presence B . of Mr. Wilson with as much patience as possible. They hope that B within a short time the League of Nations will be established and that, B through the league, they will be able to meet and defeat Bolshevism. B 1 They believe that the league will be the best instrumentality for pro- B ' tection because it will make available for warfare the two greatest B navies. Moreover, there is a chance that the league will quickly over- B come the Bolshevist powers and pave the way for universal disarma- B ment. K Alliances would simply continue the military system and insure B, the bankruptcy of the solvent nations. Then the whole structure of B European industry and civilization vould collapse into the chaos B sought by the socialists and communists. Europe never could get B " out of debt and, if it adopted Bolshevism, it would never try to, for it fl would repudiate the debts of all nations, including our $9,000,000,000 B taken out of the pockets of o'ur people. B Germany sees all this. The Bolsheviki see it. Both of them are B using Wilson as a club to frighten the entente powers. B That is why Wilson has become a spectre to Europe. H H OUR SOLDIERS IN THE CHAIN GANG. HOW many of us expected when our soldiers went to France that the survivors of that heroic combat would be thrust into chain B , gangs on their return home? B George Rothwell Brown, Washington Post correspondent, tells us B that the Sixty-fourth heavy artillery was penalized for alleged dam- B ages to a French chateau by being compelled to work like convicts B clearing stump lands eighteen miles from Newport News. Because B the hobnails in the shoes of the men quartered in the chateau ruined B the hardwood floor and because other damage was done to French B property by members of the regiment and because the bill for dam- B ages, said to be $500, was reported after the men had set sail from B I France, these American soldiers were sentenced to a month's hard V labor. To collect $500 by taking it "out of the hides" of the men B ' the war department held the regiment in service for thirty days at a H cost of $150,000. B f. We hope this story is not true. Perhaps it has been denied, but, if B i so, we have not seen the denial. We would not give it credence were B a it not for some of the monstrous things of which our national adminis- B i tration has been guilty of late. B These men sailed gaily for "the land of the free and the home of B the brave" and on arriving found that it was a penal colony and that, Bj practically speaking, they were regarded as criminals. B Perhaps we flatter ourselves that the peril of Bolshevism is so B slight in,'this country that we can disregard it. But it may become a B'l real menace if Baker and his kind continue to sow such poisonous H seed. Br r r P n Hi THE COAST LEAGUE. WHEN the war came to America it drove many joys out of our lives and among them that peculiarly American joy baseball. BI The world looked dark for baseball when the kaiser invited us to ex- H change bullets and bombs with him. In a spirit of self-sacrifice which B had not been known since the Civil war we surrendered numerous B things that had made life worth living. We allowed a strict govern- H! ment to take away from us free speech, lighted streets, meat, sugar Hj bowls, sherbets, binoculars and baseball. Bf . It will be remembered that baseball continued to be placed before B' us" even after meat and sugar had been taken away. There was a R feeling that war could be made too gloomy for the civil population, Bf that there would be a tendency toward pessimism if all diversions were suppressed. But the time came when the .ball players. we,re needed in the army and in the shipyards. Many of them were em ployed in the Red Cross and some of the most noted of them were called upon to carry the joy of classic baseball to the boys in France. We have baseball with us once again and great is the rejoicing thereat. Perhaps we ought not to indulge in criticism in these delight-'' some days when baseball has come back to us, but we cannot forego just one incurve at those "piker" towns on the coast Vho tried to bat Salt Lake out of the league. Their pretensions to superiority re minded us of some bad breaks of the same kind made by a certain bush leaguer named William Hohenzollern. These coast cities wanted to exclude Salt Lake from the league and include Tacoma. That would be very much as if the League of Nations decided to include Monaco as one of the "Big Five." Do you remember when Salt Lake first entered the league? They demanded a guarantee of $2,000 a week or something of that sort from us, fearing that we would fail to keep pace financially with the old members. We agreed to the guarantee with the provi sion that all members of the league should give the same guarantee. The result was a surprise to the others and a delight to us. At the end of the season the other towns owed us money. And yet one or two of them had the presumption this season to demand that Salt Lake the league's money-maker should be frozen out. All went well with the "pikers" until Salt Lake proposed that the guarantee system be revived and offered to raise the pledge to $3,000 a week. Recalling their former experience, the other members hastily rejected the pjan, but agreed that Salt Lake remain in the league. Where is this Tacoma that they talked so much about? I 'r T T THE GERMAN GAME. EVIDENCE continues to accumulate that the German government is creating anarchy throughout Europe so that it may frighten , the peace conference into favorable terms. As never before in the world's history war by intimidation is being waged. When the mili tary conflict was in progress Germany used the terrorists to stir up revolutions in enemy countries and they readily lent themselves to the cause of Teutonic imperialism. Even in the United States the I. W. W. fought for the kaiser and kaiserism. Having been. defeated in the open field Germany has fallen back on secret propaganda. Her agents have gone abroad into Hungary, Austria, Bavaria, Spain and other countries to foment revolutions and set us Bolshevistic misrule. At Barcelonia twenty-eight Germans were arrested after it had been established definitely that they were responsible for the revolutionary strike. Is it possible that those who rule in Germany are ready to turn the country over to the Reds if the peace terms are unsatisfactory? Professor Delbrueck says so and declares that the Rhine will be the -western border of Russia. The classes still ruling in Germany are the war profiteers, the ' junkers and, indirectly, the militarists. They will not surrender the nation to Bolshevism unless they are convinced that it is futile to'K continue the fight for their wealth. i Germany is surrounding herself with a fiery ring of Bolshevistic states. Her agents have set the Bolshevistic fires burning in Hungary and in Bavaria, which practically is detached from the German state. They tried to give the Bolsheviki control of German Austria, but failed because the people there knew that they would starve if the allies refused to feed them. At home Germany crushed Bolshevism so that she might say to the allies : "Give us peace terms that will permit us to retain out wealth and that will cause us no great economic hardship. If you re fuse all Europe east of the Rhine will go over to Bolshevism. Then collect if you can." The threat means that all of Europe east of the Rhine will go into voluntary bankruptcy. By active resistance if possible, by passive resistance if they can do no better, the Germans will seek to prevent the allies from collecting their just debts. Meantime the Germans will hope that Bolshevism may rend Belgium, France, Spain and other