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©be Mlauia ©rMWetWii Smwnal VOL. XXII. NO. 102. HARDING’S PORCH A LISTENING POST, COX DECLARES Effort Is Made to Hold Fusion Party Intact LABOR WING SEIZES CONVENTION REINS, LAND MS BOLT New Platform Is Being Drafted to Suit Senator La Follette, Probable Presidential Nominee CHICAGO, July 14.—Senator La Follette does not "deem hlmeelf available as a candidate for the new party presidential nominee.” He sent word to the convention that he did not want the nomination. CHICAGO, July 14.—The amalga mated liberal convention, after a morning of parliamentary jockeying by its leaders to hold delegates in check while the platform committee worked feverishly in an eleventh-hour effort to write a new platform to sat isfy Senator Robert M. La Follette, adjourned at 11:50 o’clock today to 2 o’clock when the platform was ex pected to be reported. The convention decided to adjourn following an announcement from pie conference committee that a complete new draft was being prepared.. Frank J. Esper, secretary of the Labor party, said the platform would be agreeable to all groups. The Labor party, it was said, de cided to make concessions on the platform to the Committee of Forty- Eight, when Gilbert Roe, represent ing La Follette, told them the sen ator would not stand dn the one pro posed. Robert M. Buck, member of the executive committee of the Labor party, who js leading the laborites. in their fight for nationalization of mines and railroads with Democratic control, it was said, made the peace offer to the Forty-Eighters. He ap peared at a meeting of Forty-Eight leaders at the Hotel Morrison and told them he was ready to accept amendments’to the draft as prepared overnight. Convention Strikes Snag Hopes for tlfe survival of the new fusion party were at ebb tide as the all-night conference of the new body’s resolution committee dragged along today in an effort to get to gether on a platform acceptable to Senator La Follette. The extreme left, which yesterday controlled the amalgamation and forced its platform desires on the more conservative elements in the convention, struck a snag when it met the veto power of the probable presidential nominee of the new party. Forty-eighters, who consti tute the right wing group of the fusion movement, are bitterly op posed to the more socialistic ideas of the radical labor faction. In th's stand, they have the support not only of La Folltte, but of several minori ty organizations subscribing to the political combination. The first evidence of a possible breaking up of the acw party move ment followed last night’s session when the single taxers withdrew, adopted their one plank platform and nominated presidential candi dates. For president, they chose Robert C. MacAuley, of Philadelphia, and for vice president they selected R. C. Barnum, of Cleveland. They quit the new party, Jerome C. Reis, a single tax leader, said, because it was not only apparent they could not obtain their platform desires and a candidate committed to them, but also because they "could not stand the socialistic ideas’’ of the dominant labor group. Laborites Take Control The birth of the new party yester day, after five days of conferences, was attended by tumultuous scenes in which more than once the fledg ling movement faced shipwreck on the rocks of jealousies and group antagonisms. In the very begin ning, the Labor party organization grabbed the rudder and steered the course until consideration of the plat form resolutions was begun. Several planks had been read and approved when Forty-eighters began to inter pose strenuous objections to their relegation to the background. There followed quickly demands for revision of the procedure by which the resolutions were being passed. Leaders of the Forty-eight delegation insisted on a more prom i-'*nt position in the proceedings. In $4 effort to placate the angry dele sltes, the L*bor leaders surrendered t*»e chairmanship to Parley Christen sen, of Utah, who presided over the original Forty-eight convention. * The concession failed utterly, how ever, to iron out the widely divergent views on platform planks. As a re sult, the fusion movement was again placed in practically the same posi tion in which it had been during more than fifty hours of backing and pulling in conference committees. Forty-eighters then played their trump card when they brought Sen ator La Follette’s influence to bear and demanded platform concessions before their presidential candidate would consent to make the race. Questions of nationalization of es sential industries and a plank dealing with foreign relations were the prin cipal stumbling blocks. La Follette’s representatives held out strongly against inclusion of these planks as dictated by the Labor party. Two possibilities, therefore, stood out today: First, that for the sake of harmony the Labor leaders may (Continued o Page 6, Column 4) SENATE DEFEATS EUGENICS BILL BY A TIE VOTE By a tie vote, 21 to 21, the state senate on Tuesday defeated a bill by Senator Reynolds, of the Fiftieth dis trict, to require physical examina tion of all male applicants for mar riage licenses. This measure was advocated by the state board of health, and had been under consideration in the senate for two days. Senator Kea, of the Sixteenth, was the most vigorous opponent of the measure on the floor of the senate, consuming practically all of Monday’s session, and a part of Tuesday with a speech, attacking its various pro visions. The senate also killed a bill by Senator Wilkinson, of the Forty-nith, to prohibit the use of fertilizer filler, which, it was contended, is useless for fertilizing purposes. By a vqte of 18 to 10, the favorable report of the committee was disagreed to. When the senate adjourned at 1 o’clock, there was under considera tion another bill by Senator Wilkin son to require 2 per cent of hydrates In all commercial fertilizer. When the senate convened Tuesday morning Senator Kea resumed his at tack on the • eugenics bill, which would require the physical examina tion of all persons applying for mar riage licenses. During the discussion several la dies who were in the galleries found it convenient to leave. Senator Kea insisted that the measure was a piece of vicious legislation and that it would work a hardship on the young people of Georgia. To Control Ice Makers A proposal to place the manufac turers of ice under the supervision and cdhtrol of the state railroad commission is contained in a bill in troduced Tuesday by Senator Fowler, of the Twenty-second. A bill introduced by Senator Nix, would make the crime of burglary punishable by death or life imprison ment under certain circumstances. Where a burglary was committed on an occupied dwelling the punishment would be death or life imprisonment upon the recommendation of the jury. Burglary of an unoccupied dwelling would be punishable by life impris on merit. Efforts were made Tuesday to se cure early consideration of a" resolu tion calling for a legislative investi gation of the office of the state veterinarian, Dr. Pete'r F. Bahnsen. A resolution by Senator Pitman re ferred to the rules committee would set the resolution as a special order for Wednesday. A- feature of the session was the introduction by Senators Elders, Dorris, Pittman and Glenn, of two bills enabling women to vote in, state primaries and general elections in the event that the nineteenth amendment to the federal constitu tion is ratified by the twenty-sixth state. These two enabling bills do not seek to enfranchise women unless the federal amendment is ratified bv the necessary number of states, but in the tevent of ratification, women in Georgia would be permitted to vote in the state primaries this fall and would keep in force the present legal machinery governing voting qualifica tions in Georgia. The measures are patterned after the Mississippi laws on this subject. Girl Who Issued Licenses Is Herself Married to Soldier TACOMA, Wash.—The girl who is sued the marriage licenses to 3,500 veterans of the 91st and 13th divis ions has married a soldier. She was Miss Lois Roberts, offi cial "Cupid” of the county audi tor s office here. She has resigned her place at the big blac*k book to become Mrs. Harold M. Davis, of Minneapolis. For more than two years Lois Roberts presided at the counter where bashful swains brought their blushing sweethearts. She filled out the parchments, registered the names, and directed the couples to the justice of the peace or the near est minister. Even in ordinary times it was never a dull job, for Tacoma is a veritable Gretna Green. But, when thousands of youths gathered at Camp Lewis, on Ta coma’s doorstep, to learn how to be soldiers, Lois Roberts’ work became the liveliest in the court house. Californians, Idahoans, Montan ans, Alaskans, clerks, lumberjacks, miners and cowboys, preachers, bankers and doctors, all wearing the khaki of the new army, marched in review with their brides-to-be, past Lois’ counter. With the 91st was Lieut. Harold M. Davis, of Minneapolis. His fa ther was an old and intimate friend of D. E. Roberts, so he called around to pay his respects. He met Lois. He called again, and aagin. When he sailed away for France, he left a collar ornament behind, and a col lege fraternity pin. He came back a few weeks ago to get his "frat” pin and his officer’s insignia—and Lois. Socialists to Demand Pardon for Eugene Debs From President Wilson DETROIT, July 12. —A delegation of Socialists will call upon President Wilson within the next fortnight and demand that he immediately par don Eugene V. Debs, Socialist presi dential nominee, now serving a term in the Atlanta federal penitentiary on a charge of violating the espionage law, it was decided here today at a meeting of the • Socialist national committee. Probe Committee to Meet in August WASHINGTON, July 13.—The sen ate expenditures investigating com mittee will meet here next month to decide on its future course, Senator Kenyon, of lowa, chairman of the committee, said today. Senator Pcmerene, of Ohio, who is returning from San Francisco, and Senator Spencer, Missouri, will probably sit at St. Louis this week and continue taking evidence regard ing expenditures there. INCOME TAX BILE FAILS OF PASSASE IN H CLOSE VOTE z Move to Reconsider Made ; With Chance of Adoption Later House Passes Tech Commerce Bill The bill to amend the constitution of Georgia so as to authorize the general assembly to levy a tax on incomes, inheritances and occupations lacked ten votes of the necessary two-thirds majority to pa§s the on Tuesday. The vote in favor of the bill was 119 and the vote against the bill was 45. Notice was given of a motion to reconsider the action of the house in failing to pass the bill, and the indications are that it will be pass ed when it comes up the second time. This bill was a part of the gen eral program of tax revision, work ed out by the special tax commission of 1918 and introduced in the legis lature in 1919, and ‘'brought over to the present session as unfinished bus iness. It has the Indorsement of Governor Dorsey, the budget com mission and many others who have studied the fiscal problems of the state. , ..4 ft A r disposing Os the income tax lull, he house passed a bill bv Rep resentative Moore, of Fulton, admit ting female students to the school of commerce of Georgia Tech Educational Bill Up The house had under consideration when it adjourned at 12:45 a bill to amend the constitution so as to au thorize appropriations for education al purposes other than the common schools and the University of Geor gia, the object of the bill being to re move all doubt as to the constitution ality ot appropriations which are now made and have been made for many years to various educational in stitutions which are not within the strict requirements of the constitu tion. The bill went over qs unfished business -until Wednesrqy.’ Representative Arnold, «of Clay, who has made a very thorough study of the subject of tax revision, open ed the debate in favor of the in come tax bill. He explained that the ways and means committee pre sented this bill ahead of the other tax bills for the reason that there was less opposition to the income tax than to other features of the gen eral plan recommended by the tax commission. He presented briefly and comprehensively the reasons why 1 the state of Georgia should obtain a revenue from incomes which at present are not taxed by the state. Most Equitable* Form He argued that the income tax was the most equitable form of tax ation as applied to corporations, bus iness concerns and private individ- | uals having large incomes from sources other than real estate. He showed that It would cost the state very little money to obtain a list of the Incomes of all individuals, firms and corporations In the state of Georgia, inasmuch as the income tax returns of the federal govern ment are available for the use of all state authorities in states where a state income tax is collected. Among the bills introduced in the house Tuesday was one by the Bibb county delegations to place the man ufacturers of ice under the jurisdic tion of the railroad commission which would fix the rate to be charged for ice in the same manner as it fixes the rates of railroads, public utility corporations, compresses, etc. THE ATLANTA TRI-WEEKLY JOURNAL rAc FROM NOW rA C U TO JAN. Ist V The National Conventions of both the Demo cratic and Republican Parties have met and nomi nated a candidate for president. Now comes the campaign between these two parties trying to convince the people that their candidate is the best. There will be some “hoc times” in these United States for the next three months. Keep up with them by reading The Atlanta Tri-Weekly Journal. We will now send it to you. More Than 5 Months 50c This will pay your subscription till after the national elec tions in November, giving you all the campaign news as well as the results of the election. We are making a special offer to send The Atlanta Tri-Weekly Journal io you from now until January 1, 1921, for only 50c. •SEND YOUR 50c TODAY If you wish to secure your subscription without cost to you send us four new subscribers at fifty cents each for this offer and we will send you The Tri-Weekly Journal till January Ist, 1921, for your trouble. THE ATLANTA TRI-WEEKLY JOURNAL, Atlanta, Ga." Here is 50c enclosed, for which send me THE TRI-WEEKLY JOURNAL, from now until January 1, 1921. Name R. F. D P. 0............................. State ATLANTA, GA., THURSDAY, JULY 15, 1920. THE “RUBBER STAMP” CANDIDATE .. ..'■■..JW! '.'■■■l'ill I 11.J1... 1. II I I. «!«"l ...111, - i - ■ ..H.. Hl'. I. 11. 1.... 1. 1 J..'..I 1 . . 1 ..-!...•• I- 1 ?! ■Si dl a J 11 11 •• s' 1 Pill Hl LABOR APPROVES OF GOVERNOR COX, I LEADER DECLARES COLUMBUS, 0., July 14.—Labor I in general classifies Governor James :M. Cox, Democratic presidential nominee, as “a real friend,” William ! Green, secretary-treasurer of the United Mine Workers, declared here : today after a conference with the Ohio governor. “The working man never forgets a real friend and my opinion is that the majority of labor believes Gov ernor Cox comes within that classi fication’,” Green said. Green had just, returned from the San Francisco con vention. “On his labor record as governor at least two big accomplishments stand out,” Mr. Green continued. “One is the Ohio workmen's compen sation law, which was a big - step forward, and the other is the mine run act, which compels mines in computing miners’ wages to weigh coal before it is screened.”. Governor Cox Thanks Senator Smith for Assurance of Support Senator Hoke Smith, Wednesday morning, received a letter from Gov ernor James M. Cox, the Democratic nominee for president, thanking him for his telegram of congratulations. The letter is as follows: “State of Ohio, “Executive Department, “Columbus. “My Dear Senator: j “I am very happy, indeed, to 5 have your message, carrying , ’ with it the assurance of an un- * divided democracy of Georgia. I It is gracious and thoughtful of ( : you to send it. J "With all good wishes, I am, "Very sincerely yours, JAMES M. COX.” ’This letter was in answer to a telegram sent the governor by Sen ator Smith on the morning after his nomination, as follows: "Accept my heartiest congratulations. All of Georg la is with you.” Carrollton’s Census For 1920 Is 4,363; More Counties Gain WASHINGTON, July 14.—The census bureau today announced the following 1920 population results: Marine City, Mich., 3,731; Superior, i Wis., 39,624; Carrollton, Ga., 4,363; Plymouth, N. H., 2,353; Sevier coun ty, Tenn., 22,384; Union county, Tenn., 11,615; Warren county, Tenn., 17,306; Wilson county, Tenn., 26,241; Richmond county, Ga., 63,692; Deca tur county, Ga., 31,785. Increase, since 1910: Carrollton, 1,066, or 32.3 per cent; Plymouth, 153, or 7.0 per cent; Sevier county, 88, or 0.4 per cent; Union county 201, or 1.8 per cejit; Warren county, 772, or 4.7 per cent; Wilson county, 847, or 3.3 per cent; Richmond coun ty, 4,806, or 8.2 per cent; Decatur I county, 2,740, or 9.4 per cent. Decreases since 1910: Marine City, 39, or 1.0 per cent; Superior, 760, or | 1.9 per cent. 233 Memphis Firemen Quit; Leave 30 at Work MEMPHIS, Tenn., July 14. —Two hundred and thirty-three Memphis firemen have tendered their resigna tions to take effect at noon tomor row. Only thirty firemen will remain at work. The city will organize a volunteer fire department, and all men who quit work will be forever barred from the department, losing their pension and all other rights. Mayor Payne has called a mass I meeting for this afternoon, to decide I on definite action to be taken by the I city. The firemen declared they could I not live on their salaries and asked I for an increase of from 15 to 25 per I cent, which was not forthcoming, so they resigned. FURTHER PROOF - THAT CHAUFFEUR KILLED WOMAN NEW LONDON, Con., July 14. Further evidence to strengthen the authorities’ contention that Bernard Geisler, chauffeur, killed Mrs. Arthur De Cordova, wife of his employer, and then shot himself, was disclosed today. Authorities learned that Geisler was acting strangely before the mur der. He was practicing with a re volver, other chauffeurs staying at the summer resort here, said. Recently Geisler had remarked to a friend “not to be surprised if you my name in the headlines in newspapers.” A lock of blonde hair was found in an envelope in Geisler’s pocket. On the envelope was written: "In case of accident or death place this under my pillow.” Mrs. De Cordova’s hair was blonde. Authorities also were informed Geisler had some trouble with his wife and she brought action seeking an allowance pending a suit for sep aration on grounds of cruelty. That Geisler and Mrs. De Cordova had made a previous pilgrimage to the spot on the road where the shoot ing took place Monday night, was stated by several persons today. They informed authorities that Geis ler and Mrs. De Cordova had been seen at the same place on the Wed nesday before the shooting. Seyeral persons who passed the auto, which backed into the bushes alongside the road, shortly before the shooting, were found by the officials. It was learned that the bottle of whisky found half emptied in the auto after the murder, was full when the two left the hotel several hours previously. Teh dead woman’s husband left here with his wife’s body last night. He was convinced ‘ that Geisler had done the shooting. “I came up here with the inten tion of taking back two bodies but after investigating the circumstances of the shooting, we will bring back only one,” he said in a statement Issued through friends. In regard to the finding of the whisky and cigarette butts in the auto. De Cordova said that while his wife may have smoked once in a while, she never drank. Mrs.- Geisler was expected here early today to claim her husband’s body. GEISLER’S LOVE REJECTED, HUSBAND’S LAWYERS SAY NEW YORK, July 14.—" Infatu ation of the chauffeur for a woman who never returned it." That was the motive for the mur der of Mrs. Arthur De Cordova, wife of a wealthy New York broker, and suicide of Bernard Geisler, her chauf feur, according to a statement made today by attorneys for the dead wom an’s husband. De Cordova returned to New York late last night with the woman’s body. Later he held a two-hour con ference with Mrs. Geisler, the chauf feur’s widow. Neither would disclose on the sub ject of the conference. Must Go to Work in Spite of Legacy KANSAS CITY.—A $25-a-week in come from a legacy isn’t sufficient to permit a man to remain idle, de clared Judge Edward J. Flemming in ordering Lee Atherton, thirty-two, to go to work. Atherton, in court for failure to support his wife, was fined S2OO and paroled on condition that he go to work. LLOYD GEORGE TILLS ■DELEGATE HUIES ARE NOHWING Scions Informed That Ver sailles Treaty Will Be En / forced Unless Coal De mands Are Met SPA, Belgium, July 14. (By the Associated Press.) —Premier Lloyd George received Dr. Walter Simons, the German foreign minister, at the latter’s request this afternoon and told him emphatically the allies were not bluffing. The. allies, Mr. Lloyd George de clared, intended seriously to take measures for enforcement of execu tion of the Versailles treaty unless the Germans meet the allies’ modi fied terms regarding coal. In an effort to compose the differ ences between the Germans and the allies over the question of coal de liveries by Germany and prevent a break up of the conference here, a series of Informal conferences was arranged early this afternoon. Following a brief talk which Dr. Simons, the German foreign minister, nad with Sir Philip Kerr, secretary to Premier Lloyd George, it was stated that conferences looking to this end would be held, beginning with one between the British premier and the German foreign minister at Mr. Lloyd George’s hotel, to be fol lowed by a meeting between Pre mier Lloyd George and Premier Mll lerand, of France. HUN METHODS MAY FORCE ALLIES TO OCCUPY RUHR SPA, Belgium, July 14.—With summoning of Marshal Foch and Field Marshal Sii; Henry Wilson, al tted occupation of German territory and other measures to enforce the Versailles treaty seemed inevitable today as a result of the conference deadlock and exasperation of the al lies at attempts of the German dele gation to temporize and evade Ger many's obligations. Germany’s flat refusal to meet the allied demand for 2,000,000 tons of coal monthly resulted in suspension of the conference and calling of the allies’ military leaders. Plans have already been completed for action against Germany and unless some so lution of the situation is reached to day the French army on the Rhine will be ordered to proceed into Ger many • Although the German foreign min ister, Herr Simons, declared Ger many was without military means to resist an allied invasion, members of the Belgian delegation said today that there was likelihood* Germany would attempt to prevent occupation of the Ruhr by force. Herr Simons insisted that the limit of coal Germany could deliver to the allies was 1,100,000 tons monthly, to be increased to 1,700,000 in October, 1921. When Simons had delivered this statement, M De La Croix, pre siding, declared this amount was not acceptable and adjourned the Ses sion sine die. Following the session, Simons de clared occupation of the Ruhr would have little effect, as Germany would lose this district in any event, even if the delegation promised deliveries of coal as demanded by the allies. Simons said he was acting on ad vices of German experts, who had informed him that the miners would refuse to work the necessary hours for producing the coal demanded. Simons declared that, should the del egation promise deliveries of coal and the German miners then refuse to produce it, Germany would be placed in a bad light before the world. Called Political Move The action of the German delega tion was regarded in French circles as a political maneuver, enabling them to return to Berlin and say they had refused impossible demands In the national interest. Simons pro posed to the allies that Germany deliver 56,000 tons of coal daily after October, 1920, and 68,000 tons dailj' from October, 1921. Simons empha sized that these deliveries could only be made if Germany were permitted to operate the mines of Upper Silesia now in the hands of Poland. In event the allies decide to In vade Germany to enforce the peace treaty, Belgian and French troops will form the nucleus of a military body which will receive volunteers from all countries. No other nation will be asked to send regular troops to Germany, but volunteers will be encouraged to enlist for the work. ’ Meantime, the allies are facing a difficult situation in regard to Poland. It was learned that should the Mos cow government decide not to accept the allied offer of an armistice, the allies will furnish unlimited war ma terials to the Poles, the Ukrainians, General Wrangel and all other anti- Bolshevist movements, regardless of their affiliations. At the same time a rigid economic blockade wlil be inaugurated against Russia. It was admitted that it would be impossible to send British troops to Russia, but all nationalities would (Continued on Page 6, Column 3) Scents a copy. $1.50 A YEAR. SENATOR IS RAPPED FOR HARKING BUCK TO BO YEARS AGO- Roosevelt, Also Replying to Harding’s Charges, De clares Latter Has Ancient Grudge Against Wilson COLUMBUS, 0., July 14. Charge ing that Senator Harding, the Re publican presidential nominee, .had made his “front porch a listening post,” Governor Cox, the Democratic nominee, today issued a statement re plying to Senator Harding’s state ment of yesterday that the Wilson administration had saddled the League of Nations upon him as the chief campaign issue. Governor Cox’s statement said his campaign would be dedicated to the task of "bringing peace with honor, of readjusting the affairs of civiliza tion and of creating a new day out of which we will make the best of the lessons of the past.” The governor declared tho things Senator Harding believes vital and pertinent “from his isolated perspec tive, will not, in all probability, be so regarded by me.” The governor’s statement follows: “I recognize the eagerness of the gentlemen of the press who are as signed here to develop news copy daily. I have no disposition to dis courage that enterprise, but at the very outset, it is well that we have this understanding of a very funda mental phase of the present situa tion. "Senator Harding has made two definite announcements; that he pur poses to hark back to the days of thirty years ago, and that he will make of his front porch a listening post. This means that he will be as far removed from the running cur rent of progressive thought as the senatorial oligarchy of Lodge and Penrose and Smoot has been removed from the hearts beats of the Ameri can people for a year or more. "My campaign will be dedicated to the task of bringing peace with hon or, of readjusting the affairs of civ ilization, and of creating a new day out of which we will make the. best of the lessons of the past. There fore, the things that the senator be lieves vital anti pertinent from his isolated perspective, will not, in all probability, be so regarded by me. His last statement is but a reitera tion of what has been said in the senate time after time, so that if this campaign on the one hand de velops into mere morning sessions of the senate, you will very readily perceive the uselessness of dally re sponse.” WILSON’S VIEW FORCED ON COX, HARDING SAYS MARTON, O», July 13.—Senator Harding charged in a statement Tues night night that President Wilson had forced the Democratic presidential and vice presidential nominees to ac cept his view that the League of Nations should become the domi nant campaign issue. Tho presi dent’s one concern, the senator said, is the "vindication of his foreign policy” and he insists upon "his is sue regardless of costs or conse quences.” “The Republican party and candi dates gladly accept the challenge,” the statement said. “We are more than willing to make the election a national referendum on the question whether we shall have four years more of the Democratic readiness to surrender this republic.” The statement resulted from the announcement of Franklin D. Roose velt, the vice presidential candidate, following his conference yesterday with Governor Cox, that his cam paign would be made chiefly on the league issue. Harding's Statement The statement follows: “Columbus dispatches describing the conference between the Demo cratic nominees for president and vice president on Monday say that ‘Governor Cox left it to the vice presidential nominee to make known the conclusions reached.’ And. thus authorized to speak for both of them, the vice presidential nominee stated that he considered the League of Na tions one of the dominant issues of the campaign, not only in the east but in the west. He expected t<» make his campaign chiefly on the League of Nations issue.’ “So we nave the complete proof that President Wilson h«» von forced acceptance of his paramount issue. The party machinery has been taken over by the Tammanies of New York, New Jersey and Indiana, League of Nations to function ef fectively so iong as the United States has not ratified. The obvious implication is that when the United States ratifies, the league will pro ceed to settle up these matters; to enforce its authority in the conflict between Poland and Russia; to set tle the Adriatic troubles, compel peace between Turkey and Greece, assume responsibility for pacifica tion of the whole Near East and mid dle east. Would Require Force “All this cannot be done unless th© league employs force. America would have to contribute its army and navy. President Wilson has urged acceptance of a mandate for , but President Wilson has forced his issue on them. He has but one con- (Continued on Page 0, Column 4)