A Step In Advance

A STEP IN ADVANCE

By signing an arbitration treaty Great Britain and France mutually agree to be better neighbors in the future than they have ever been in the past. This new agreement and the good understanding that also exists between Great Britain and Germany promises much for the future. It is in no way an alliance. Each government has more or less intimate relations with the other. They all have contiguous interests in Africa which are going to lead up to the most troublesome and dangerous class of disputes, the question of boundaries. With a good understanding, these three powerful factors in advancing civilization can go ahead with freer hands. They will be relieved of a certain degree of hesitation by the fact that whenever interests clash in the dark continent or there is a crossing of claims, the disputants can call a temporary halt, submit their respective cases like good neighbors and compromise like gentlemen. It should hasten by half a century the enlightenment of Africa and it is becoming to the spirit of the twentieth century. - Detroit Tribune.