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There is no creature so contemptible but by resolution may gain
its point. —L’Estrange
NOT A PARTY MATTER.
It isn’t right that the League of Nations should be made a foot
ball for office-seeking politicians to kick around.
The League of Nations is a reality. No longer may it be called
a human dream. It is a living, moving foreq, spreading all over the
world. South America, Africa, Australia, all are practically unanim
ous in support of the League of Nations. Europe, excepting the for
mer enemy countries and Bolshevik Russia, are in the League of Na
tions. So is all of Asia excepting Siberia, now controlled by the
Reds, and the Turk. Canada, too, is marching with the world to
make future wars impossible and to promote a brotherly feeling be
tween nations.
And with such a thing American politicians would play.
Oh, yes! there are some politicians who pretend to believe
there is no League of Nations They would have you think the
League of Nations today exists but in vapory form, merely upon
paper, and not in fact. But you cannot believe them if they argue
in that fashion, for the average American is no ostrich, hiding his
head in shallow sand. He is holding his head high, and seeing what
is going on before his eyes. He sees three-fourths of the world en
leagued to prevent future wars. And he sees his own country keep
ing pace with those who cannot now be admitted into the League of
Nations, the recent foes of wqrld freedom, and the Bolshevik crowd
of Petrograd.
Not only is it true that the League of Nations now embraces
countries with a combined population of a billion, two hundred mil
lion, but it is munctioning as a League of Nations, according to the
program laid down at Versailles.
The League of Nations this day is working to end warfare. Iti
is handling difficult international problems in the Saar Valley, in
Danzig, in former Turkish dependencies, and elsewhere. It is about
to form a high world court. It already has done more within the
past year, to end the thing called “secret diplomacy’’ than was done
in the twenty centuries before.
Shall th office-hunters of the United States long keep this
great League of Nations question as their plaything, as their party
vehicle? Or shall the people of the United States take their prob
lem to themselves to solve in a truly patriotic, non-partisan way?
RED GOLD.
The London Daily Herald is one of the extremist labor jour
nals contributing to the unrest of the workers in England.
Recently it has grown more radical, more Bolshevistic.
And while it has become more acceptable to the "reds,” it has
met with less favor in the ranks of the large majority of conserva
tive labor folk of Great Britain.
Just the other day an interesting fact concerning the Daily
Herald was disclosed. It was accused of accepting bribery gold from
the Russian Bolsheviki. The Daily Herald, admitting that it had re
ceived a Russian "subsidy,” maintained that the gold was merely a
"propaganda missionary."
Now it is clear to all of England why the Daily Herald leaned
so heavily to the Bolshevik side.
The London Daily Mail insists, and has evidence to back up
its charge, that this Bolshevik gold was obtained in London by
Trade Commissioner Kameneff of the Russian Bolshevik govern
ment, through the sale of stolen jewels. Thes e jewels, the loot of
Bolshevists’ robberies in Russia, now are spending themselves in a
vain effort to overturn a government the people of Britain them
selves erected for themselves.
The London Post says this is "the most disgraceful episode in
British journalism-" It is!
But the Daily Herald episode is a mere drop in the bucket.
Who can believe that Russian Reds have not setn gold to others in
England, in the United States, and elsewhere? Who can believe
that Lenin would be content with the bribing of one labor journal!
As long as jewels and other private property may be stolen and
the Bolshevists have made themselves the greatest robbers the world
has ever known, attempts to bribe uncountable must have been
made. Who can say that American Bolshevists, orators, plotters,
journals, have not soiled their hands with stolen gold from Russia.
Call it “subsidy” if you will!
Call it “propaganda missionary" if you like!
But it is bribery, nevertheless.
CARELESSNESS.
Observe lhe next 10 persons you happen to meet. One of
them, during the next year, will fall downst fcs, get run over, trip
into an open manhole, lean too far out of a trindow, peer into a
gun that is supposed to be unloaded, or, to cut it short, drown.
That person will be among the 11,037,000 who are injured in
accidents m this country every year. Os these, 75,000 will die as a
result.
It takes no seventh son of a seventh son to promulgate these
statistics. All it needs is an actuary and an adding machine. For
centuries the world has been struggling to eliminate plagues and
diseases that sweep away whole segments of the race. But no sooner
is one unnecessary cause of death removed than another is quickly
invented. The safer science makes life for the taxpayer, the more
irresponsible the taxpayer seems to grow.
Today’s immense accident figures in America reflect the per
sonal carelessness of the American. The disease rat p also reflects it.
Life keeps speeding up around us and while we are very much im
pressed. for instance, with the fact that 31.000 Americans were killed
in the late war, we do not stop to think that 126,000 died of acci
dents in the same period.
There is a battle going on around us more violent and fatal
than any fought during the war. People face a hunched deaths dai
ly in the street with a persistent blindness. Nine of them survive.
The tenth—well see to it that you are not the tenth.
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THE RUNAWAYS.
It lUFFY MOLE and Floppy Field |
Mouse stood still and listened as i
ter they had slid down the hole in
the school house floor, but their|
hearts were hammering so they coulli
scarcely hear a thing. But they end
JMbk-y J. JIB
So along they trudged through the darkness.
make out Mr. Scribble Scratch’s
voice saying to look down the hole,
and they almost fainted with fright;
but instantlj- Markie Muskrat declar
ed that the runaways couldn’t have
gone that way, as there was a spider
web completely over it. So little
Sar’ Ann Spider had kept her word
after all! They began to breathe
more easily then.
“Come on,” whispered Flop. “Let’s
get out of this!” And he pushed
Muff ahead of him in the darkness.
Os course, Muff had to go first, for
they soon came to the end of the pas
sage, and it was necessary to do more
digging to get to safety. Flop
couldn’t dig worth a cent, but Muff
was the best ever. He worked hard
and fast but not fast enough for the
anxious truant behind him. “Oh,
Confessions ofaßrkfe
(Copijrigftt 1920, by J
THE BOOK OF DEBORAH.
Ann’s Pet Raccoon Digs Up a Sur
prise From Bob’s Clothes.
Ann’s pet raccoon had proved him
self a persistent mischief maker
Ginger was as tame as a kit
ten and as bothersome as a pupy.
Ann carried him wherever she went.
When she became nterested in the
event of the hour, she set down her
pet and promptly forgot him, and
presently the party was obliged to
scatter to find the precious thing !
Jim never spoke of him except as
“that darn coon!” Jim’s voice then
expressed much more than his words.
It takes only a trifle, sometimes, to
destroy masculine patience. Jim
could be a hero when the engine of
his plane stopped hitting 5,000 feet
up in the air, but “that darn coon”
seemed as inevitably destined to de
stroy his happiness as the serpent
did Adam’s.
Little did I guess it could ever dis
turb my life when Ann held it out
to Deb on my verandah.
There is always a look of wonder
in Deb’s eyes when she considers
Jim’s wife. It is as if she were ask
ing herself, “Would Jim have loved
me had I been like that?”
Deb was politely unastonished to
find Ann petting a coon, and gen
uinely interested in its cuteness.
When our talk finally turned from
Ginger’s diet, Ann put the raccoon
down, and as usual, promptly forgot
him.
Two hours later, after we had
made an exhausting search of the
house, we discovered Ginger upstairs
in the closet of my husband’s room,
sheer and white. Ann picked it up.
The beastie was nosing something
It was a woman’s handkerchief.
“I’m afraid he’s spoiled it, Jane!
Naughty Sweetsie! Too bad, for it is
a wonder.”
I gave the handkerchief one
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| hurry up!” cried Flop, giving him a
I P US E-
i “Hurry up yourself!” said Muff
•| crossly. “I’m doing the very best
li I can. Why don’t you dig your own
I I hole.”
0 “I would but I can’t,” answered
, Flop more politely.
; ! So along they trudged through
■ the darkness, Muff shoving the dirt
! out of the road and Flop keeping
■ an eye behind them for danger.
s Everything was going finely, and
I in another minute Flop would have
■ broken through the top crust into the
sunlight and off into his beloved
> corn patch, when Muff suddenly
I stopped. There was a sound of nib
bling and a gulp. “My, that was a
• good one,” he remarked, smacking
■ his lips.
“What’s the matter and what was?
i a good one?” peeved Flop.
“Earthworm,” answered Muff.
“Oh, go on, I can’t get out here,’
urged the mouse-boy.
, (Copyright, 1920, N. E. A.)
glance. It was a wonder—and it was
not mine!
“My—what a love of a kerchief!”
Ann cried, holding up the delicate
trifle for Deb to examine.
Deborah Burns loves all things
beautiful and she scrutinized the
fine hand-hemming appreciatively.
“It looks like that Belgian girl’s
work, you know, the refugee Mrs.
Van Eyck is getting orders for.
That edge must have been button
holed under a microscope!” she said,
then suddenly she gasped, “Oh! Take
it, Jane!” as she tossed it toward
me.
Ann snatched at it with:
“I must see it again!” And she
looked as mischievous as her weird
pet when she spread it out and read
the initials in one corner:
“K. 0. M.”
She raised a pair of round eyes to
mine, caught her breath and giggled:
“For the love o’ Mike! In Bob’s
closet! Can you beat it, my dears?”
Perhaps the flush in my cheeks
informed the silly bebe that she had
made a heart-bulking mistake, and
that Deb’s attempt to save my pride
by tossing the handkerchief to me
had been a fine thing.
But since the secret was out, Ann
made the best of it, according to her
own light:
“I suppose Ginger found it in the
park,” she remarked carelessly.
“My! What strong perfume!” She
threw the bit of linen to a waste
basket.
“Give it to me!” I exclaimed:
(To be continued.)
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LEAGUE OF NATIONS ALREADY HAS MADE GIAN TSTRIDES
OF PROGRESS IN HANDLING INTERNATIONAL PROBLEMS
(This is the second article from
Milton Bronner, who is studying the
workings of the League of Nations
from a non-partisan, independent
standpoint.)
BY MILTON BRONNER
Manager of European Bureau of
Newspaper Enterprise Association.
LONDON, Sept. 17.—The League
of Nations has no citizens, but it is
responsible for the well-being of po
litical, racial, religious and linguis
tic minorities in Poland, Czecho
slovakia, Jugoslavia, Austria. Ru
mania, and Turkey.
The league Jias no territory, but
governs the Saar Valley with its
t>50,000 people.
The league has no city of its own,
but it governs the important seaport
of Danzig with its 200,000 people
and its big trade.
In those three paragraps is sum
med up some of the most important
work of the League of Nations. The
matter of protecting the minorities
has not gone very yet, but the gov
ernance of the Saar Valley and Dan
zig is in an advanced state.
The great Saar Valley is tempo
rarily taken away from Germany.
The Saar Basin .coal is given to the
French in payment for the German’s
destructions of French coal fields at
Lens. Fifteen years from now there
will be a plebiscite to decide whether
the inhabitants want to be united
to Germany or to France to remain
under a commission narhed by the
League of Nations.
Commission Rules Saar.
The League of Nations’ Council
named Victor Rault, of France, M.
de Boch of Saar, Major Lambert of
Belgium, Count von Moltke-Huitfeldt
of Denmark and A. Waugh of Can
ada as the commission to rule the
territory. They chose the city of
Saarbruck as the capital, and have
issued various orders concerning the
governance of the coal mines, rail
ways, taxes, etc. They have also held
an election, under which the inhabi
tants chose their municipal and dis
trict councils.
Danzig, formerly a German city,
has been made a free city by the
Treaty of Versailles. It is under
the protection of the League of Na
tions.
The port will be used as an out
let for Poland’s trade, as that coun
try has no seaport of its own. The
situation there is peculiar. The
The town is largely German. The
country around is largely Polish. The
town is necessary to the country and
Poland is necessary to Danzig. The
prosperity of each depends upon the
other and yet there is intense racial
bitterness.
It was decided to give Danzig a
constitution and also to frame a treaty
between that city and Poland. The
League of Nations has appointed Sir
Reginald Tower as High Commission
er for Danzig. Upon him have de
volved the duties of drafting rules
by which an election of delegates
to a constitutional convention were
chosen.
Thanks to the efforts of the
League of Nations, a Permanent
Court of International Justice is one
of the strong possibilities of the very
near future.
World High Court Planned.
From June 16 to July 24 last some
of the greatest lawyers in the whole
W’orld, named by the Council of the
League of Nations, sat at The Hague
and drew up detailed plans for this
court.
Baron Descamps, Belgian Minister
of State, was chairman of this com
mission.
Lord Phillimore of England, was
a member. He was a Lord Justice
of Appeal for years and at one time
president of the International Law
Association of Loder, a member of
the Court of Cassation of Holland,
represented that country.
Rafael Altamira, a Senator of
WHAT LEAGUE OF NATIONS HAS DONE.
The present Council of the League of Nations consists of repre
sentatives of Great Britain, France. Italy and Japan among the great
powers .and Belgium, Brazil. Greece and Spain from the smaller powers.
The vacant place is that not yet filled by Uncle Sam.
1— Appointed commiiiion now fixing the boundaries of the Saar Basin.
2 Named the Governing Commission for the Saar Basin and this body
of men are now ruling the Saar region under supervision of the
League of Nations.
3" Appointed the High Commissioner of the free city of Danzig.
4 Named a committee of ten famous international jurists, including
Elihu Root of America, to draft a plan for an International Court
of Justice.
5 International Health Conference prepared plans for a permanent
health organization, under the League of Nations’ tasks of main
taining freedom of communication by rail and river.
7 Summoned a conference of world-famous financiers and econo
mists to take up the present serious international financial sitna
tion.
® Dr. F. Nansen, the eminent explorer, has accepted the task for the
League of Nations of looking after the repatriation of those pris
oners of war who still remain in Russia and Siberia.
9 Aske< * al * cou “*«es represented on the Council to nominate one
military, one naval and one air representative to advise the Coun
cil on their specialties, to advise on general reduction of arms
nents, and to control private manufacture and export of munitions
and arms.
10—It has named a Secretary-General and appointed a staff of experts
who are collecting and collating information for the use of the
League of Nations. A secretariat has been temporarily established
in London, but will eventually be moved to Geneva, which is to be
the permanent seat of the League of Nations.
Spain and professor of law at Mad
rid University, represented his coun
try.
America was represented by Elihu
Root, former secretary of state and
a member of the Permanent Court
of Arbitration at The Hague.
These eminent men and others like
them drew up a plan for a court that
will be always ready and open for
cases; that will consist of permanent
judges to allow the development of
strong judicial precedent; that will
hav e the right of obligatory adjudi
cation in a strictly defined field of
law, and that will base its decisions
not upon compromise. but solely upon
the law and facts, as would any other
court.
It was resolved that the court
should consist of eleven permanent
judges with four alternate judges
serving for nine years. This court
would sit at The Hague permanently
and would form a compliment to the
existing Court of Arbitration, which
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would retain its power to deal with
all cases of arbitration.
The main things that would come
before the court would be deputies
about the interpretation of a treaty;
disputes about any questions of in
ternational law; arguments as to the
existence of any facts which, if
established, would constitute a
breach of international obligations:
and, finally, arguments as to the ex
tent of reparations to be made for
any such breach.
In order to expedite favorable ac
tion upon the plan, the Council of
the League of Nations has sent cop
ies of it to all nations which are
members of the League of Nations.
The plan will also be considered at
the next meetings of the Council and
Assembly. If adopted by these bod
ies, and ratified by the nations
which are League of Nations mem
bers, the court will become a reality.