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SQUIRREL FOOD 2) | “AN ELECTRO- MAGNET, WILL STOP OTTO AUTO EAD Filson Presents Peace Treaty oe Senat2 in Address That Terms earue of Nations a Necessity (Continued From Page Two.) ind to the peopie with whom they pingled with such utter simplicity, as iends Who asked only to be of service, hey were for all the visible embodi- bent of What they did made eri d all that she stood for a Wing reality in the thoughts not only if the people of France, but also of pus of millions of men and women hroughout all the toiling nations of a orld standing everywhere in peril of s freedom and of the loss of ever hing it held dear, in deadly fear th, is bonds were never. to be loose pes forever to be mocked and di inted. 1 I “And the compulsion of what they nted food for was upon us who rept merica at the peac ble. uty to see to it that every part in contributed so fa rere able to influence it, to quiet Pars and realize the hopes of the peo- who had been living in that shad- the nations that had come by our ance to their freedom, It was our nty to do everything that was within nr power to do to make the triumph freedom and of right a lasting tri- mph in the asurance of which men ight everywhere live without fear. OLD ENTANGLEMENTS. “Old entanglements of every kind ‘ood in the w promises which gov- uments had made to one another in when might and right were Dufused and the power of the victor fas Without restraint ‘h contemplated any dispo: extensions of that might seem to be the int Bose who had the power to it hem, had been entered into jought of what the peoples conc ight wish or profit b) and uld not a s be honorably brus Bide. It was not easy to graft the n ‘der of ideas on the old and some of e fruits of the gra 1 a time he bitte yptions the men who sat with he peace table desired as sincerely fences, the demoralizing ambitions, e international counsels and expe pts out of which the sini . Germany had sprung as owth. It had been our privilege to ymulate. the principles which were cepted as the basis of the peace, but y had been accomplished not be- en and as- ed on them, nt because they ly acceded as the principles to which honorable hd enlightened minds everywher had; en bred. They spoke the conscience the world as well as the conscience America and 1 am happy to pay ibute of respect and gratitude to the le men with whom it was my priv Pee CO-opt for their unfailing irit of co-operation, their constant ef- rt to accommodate the interests they r ples we were } agreed upon. which ere many, lay in the circumstances, pt often in the men, Almost without ‘ception the men who led had caught rence work Pe ambition rong governments, it, by the hop and aspirations of Mall nati nd of people hitherto nder bondage to the power that vie- uttered and destroyed. Two had been forced into po- and we were the re- was not only to ake peace with the central empires nd remedy the wrongs their armies ad done. The central empires had yed in open ion of many of the | vitil the kinship or sympathy: yjAustria had chosen to force into the} ELECTRO- MAGNET, ER? HAA ~ THEY'RE SURE GETTIN’ UP SOME STICKERS IF A PRESIDENCY ust a plain ma the big gun of a major league fought, dominating alien peoples over whom they had not natural right to itable bondage, exploiting those who were masters and overlords only by force of arms. There could be no peace hole order of central Europe Was set. right. “That meant that new. nations were to be created—Poland, Czecho Slovakia Hungary itself. No part of ancient Po- land had ever in any true sense be- come a part of Germany or of Austria or of Russia. Bohemia was alien in ey- thought and hope to the monarchy which she had so Jong been an ar- tificial part; and the uneasy partner- ship between Austria and Hungary had keen one rather of. interest than of The Slavs, who obedience by nothing but fear. hearts were with their These wer not of un as the imperative task of those who would make peace and ma ligently to establish a. new order which would rest on the free choice of peopl rather than on the aritrary authori of Hapsburgs or Hohenzollerns. “More than that, great populations The: men in the ciation, rights for which the war had been RAZILLA’ has Every Sip Is a Sip of Joy ' When You Are Sipping bound by sympathy and actual kin to a piquant, delicious flavor delightfully different from that of Lo} any other beverage you ever tasted. It is absolutely pure and healthful—a su- premely refreshing and satisfying sum- mer drink. You'll enjoy it plain or in any of the tempting Brazilla § “SPECIALS” which are served at all leading soda fountains. Insist on getting genuine Bra. zilla—for no pare with it in piquancy or flavor. i substitute can com: rule, enforcing, not obedience but ver- u ngements | ri GOSH - WHAT KIND OF. AW- HERE HE COMES ~ WOW TO TURN ON TH’ JUICE ~ STUNT 19 THAT HE'S GONNA }f a FOR ELECTRICITY, AN’ “MAT LIQUID RUBBER Al a OVER “TW MAGNET, KEEPS TH’ JUICE INTERFERES WITH BUSINESS CUT IT OUT FRED MITCHELL ‘DO ONE THING AT A TIME AND DO IT WELL { Fred Mitchell of the Chicago, Cubs isn’t. going to let a. little | : thing like a presidency interfere with the winning of the National |o opinion and judgment to which lib- championship. He has cut the presidency of the Cubs and is now i ager, driving forward to another pennant. The! Cubs are in hailing distance and Mitchell believes they'll win again. Mitchell has been holding down. both the presidency and the managership of the fast traveling Chicago Nationals. The bugs} are crazy for another pennant and Mitchell wants to devote his! entire time to directing his men on the diamond. The manager is team, anyhow. Office jobs and bench jobs are not one and the same. 1 Hereafter the presidency of the Cubs will be held by William | Veck, who was vice president under Mitchell. A ecrececoearavaue ee aaa aaa OCCT CC TT TCC CCTTE Rumania were also linked against their will to conglomerate Austro-Hungarian y or to other alien sovereign-! ties. and it was part of the task of peace to make a tiew Rumania as well as a new Slavic state clustering about Serbia, NO NATURAL FRONTIERS, “And no natural frontiers could be found to these new fields of adjustment and redemption, It was necessary to lvok constantly forward to other re- The German colonies were They had not been they had been exploited without thought of the intere: inhabitant sh empire moreover, had! fallen apart as the Austro-Hungarian | had, It had never had any real unit; Its people cried aloud for e, for! uccor from unspeakable d. all that the new d ig dawn, Peoples hitherto in utter darkness were-to be jled out into the same light and given a ‘helping hand. Undeveloped people! jand peoples. ready for recognition bat j not. By to ume the full respon- iD of statehood were to be given dequate guarantees of friendly protec- n, guidance and assistance, “And out of the execution of these |great enterprises of liberty portunities to attempt what eS) had never found the way before todo; an opportunity to throw’ safeguards abont the rights of racial national and religious minorities by solemn’ interna tonal covenant; an opoprtunity to lim- it and regulate military establishments} wher were most likely to be ‘mis- cLievous; an opportunity to effect a complete and ematic international- ization of waterways and -r which were necessary to the free eco omic life of more than one nation and to clear many of the normal channels of conmerce of unfair obstructions t come opportunity to secure for labour ncerted protection of definite in- ional pledges of principle and practice, NECESSARY TASKS. “These'were not tasks which the con- ference. looked about it to find and went out of its way to perform. They were inseparable from the settlements of pea They were thrust upon it by circumstances which could not be over: looked. ‘The war had created them in all quarters of the world old established relationships had been disturbed or broken and’ affairs were at loose ends needing to be united again, but could not be made what they were before. ‘ihey had to be set right by applying seme uniform principle of justice or en- lightened expediency. And they could adjusted by merely prescribing aty what should be done. states were to be set up, which could not hope to live through their first period of weakness without assured support by the great ions that had onsented to tl creation and won for them their independence, “All government colonies could not be put in the ds of governments which were to act as trustees for their people and not as their masters if there Was to be no common authority among the nations to which they were to be sponsible in the execution of their trusts, Future international conven- tion with regard to the control of wat- n ordinary human rights of their ji |were obliged to ac -| skeptical turned’ more and more to erways, with regard to illicit traffic of meny kinds, in arms or jn deadly drugs or with’.regard to the adjustment ot many varying international adminis- trative arangements could not be assur- ed if the treaty were to provide no permanent common international agency, if its execution in such ‘mat- ters were to be left to the slow and uncertain processes of co-operation by ordinary methods of ‘negotiations. If the peace conference itself was to be the end of co-operative authority and common counsel among the govern- ments to which the world was looking to enforce justice and give pledges of an enduring settlement regions like the Saar basin could not be put under a temporary administrative regime which did not involve a transfer of political | connections by popular vote to be tak- en at a distant date; no free city, like Danzig, could be created which was un- der elaborate international guarantees, to accept exceptional obligations with regard to the use of its port and excep- ticnal relations with a state of which it was not to form a part; propérty safeguarded plebiscites could not be provided for where populations were at some future date to make choice what decision with regard.to many matters dealt with the treatv™itself; the long reparation which Germany was to un- dertake to complete within the next generation might break down; the re- istration arrangements and restrictions which the treaty prescribed but which it was recognized might not prove of lasting advantages or entirely fair if tvo long enforced would be impractic- able. BECAME. NECESSITY. “The promises governments were making to one another. about the way in which labour was to be dealt with, by law not only. but.in fact as well, would remain a mere humane thesis if there was to be no common tribunal eral statesmen could resort for influ- ences Which alone might secure their redemption. A league of free nations id become a practical necessity. Ex- mine the treaty of peace and you ill find that everywhere throughout its manifold provisions its of nations as an indispensible instru- set up in the world—the world of ciy- liized men. B “That ther nations to steady the councils and main- tain the peaceful understandings of the the accepted principles of-international law, as well, the actual rules of con- duct among ‘the ‘ governments “of. the. world, had been one of the agreements acepted. from the first as the basis of peace with the central powers, The statesmen of all the belligerent. coun- tries Were agreed that such a league must be created to sustain the settle- ments that were to be effected. ‘But. at first I think ‘there was feeling among some of them that for the formation of such a Jeague practical men, long ex- rerienced in the world of affairs, must ree very cautiously and with ‘misgiv- It was only as the difficult work of. arranging an all but universal ad- justment of the world’s affairs advanc- ed from day to day, from one state of conference to another, that it became evident to them that what they were ing would be little more than some- thing written upon paper to be inter- preted and applied, by such, methods ag the chances of politics might make available if they did .not provide a means of common. counsel. which all x pt, a. common au- thority whose decisions’ would be rec- ognized._as. decisions which ‘all must accept. EVEN SKEPTICS CONVINCED. “And so the most practical, the most the league as the authority through which’ international action was to be sectred, ‘the ‘authority without which as they liad come‘ to see it, would ‘be difficult to give assured effect either to practical statesmen’s hope of success in many of the most difficu. things he was attempting. thought of every-member of the con- ference as something much bigger, sovereignty they would live under; no|much greater in every way. than a certain and uniform method of arbi-|mere instrument for carrying out the tration could be'secured@ for the settle-| provisions of a particular treaty. It ment of anticipated difficulties of final) was universally recognized that all the peoples of the world demanded of the conference that it should create continued supervision of the task of;such a continuing concert of free na- tions as would make wars of aggres- has just ended forever impossible. A consideration and revision of admin-)cry had gone out from every home in every stricken land from which sons and brothers and fathers had gone forth to the great sacrifice that such a sacrifica should never again be ex- acted. been exacted.” It had been exacted be- cause one nation ‘desired dominion over other nations and other nations had known no means of defense ex- cept armaments and alliances. had lain at the heart of every ar- arrangement of the world—that pre- been told that fleets and armies which they toiled to sustain, meant peace; and they. now know that they had been Jied to; that fleets ‘and armies had been maintained to promote na- tional ambitions.and meant war. They framers|knew that no old policy meant any- hove felt obliged to turn to the league|thing else but force—always Corce. And they knew. that it was intoler- mentality for the maintenance of the|able. r néw order it has been their purpose to|and every enlightened tudgment de- manded that, at whatever cost of in- dependent action, every government nat that took thought for its people or hould hela league. of for justice or for freedom should lend, itself to a new purpose and ut- ea s ‘ terly destroy the old order of politics. world to make, not treaties alone, but Statesmen might see difficulties but brook no denial. had bled white to bear the terror that of atms and a_ new balance. monster that “had resorted to arms must be put in chains that could not be broken.’ The united power of free nations must .put a stop to aggression and the world must be given peace. Tf there was not the will or the intel- ligence to accomplish that now, there must be another and a final war and the world must be swept clean of every power that could. renew the ter-' ror, merely an instrument to adjust and remedy old wrongs under.a new treaty | says Doctor Connor, formely of Johns Hopkins hospital. fering from: fatal diseases would be ih perfect health today were .it not for the deadly now process to rid yourself of the tobacco habit in any form. Just go to any _up-to- ate drug store and get some Nicotol : men t » favoid. it, this treaty or to any other internation~|tapiets: you will be surprised at the tee of the treaty to be worked vinéed were workable. They could go forward with confidence to make ar- rangements intended to be permanent. The most practical of the conferees were ‘at last the most ready to refgr to the league of nations. The superin- tendence of all interests which did not all administrative problems which re- quired a continuing oversight. What had seemed a council of perfection had come to seem a plain council of neces- sity. The league of nations was the Must End Wars, “And it had validated itself in the sion and spoliation such as this that It was manifest why it had War arrangement. of Europe—of every ceded the war. Restive peoples had Every true heart in the world the people could see none and would A war which they, lay concealed .in every balance of, power must not end in a mere victory The admit of immediate determination of | CGF YOURS-| SEND ITIN — tc depend for the maintenance of peace.}of peace; it was the only hope for ‘The fact that the covenant of the} mankind. league was the first substantive part out and agreed on while all else was in solu- tion, helped to make the formulation of the rest easier. The conference was, after all, not to be ephemeral, The con- cert of nations was to continue under a definite covenant which had been agreed upon and which all were con- Again and again had the demon of war been cast out of the house of the peoples and the house swept clean by a treaty of peace; only to prepare a time when he would en- ter in again with spirits worse than himself. The house must now be giv- en a tenant who could hold it against all such. Convenient, indeed indis- pensible as statesmen found the new- ly planned league of nations to be for the execution of present plans of peace and reparation, they saw in a ject of the peace, as the only thing that could complete it or make it worth while. They saw it as the hope of the world and that hope they did not dare to disappoint. Shall we-or, any other free people hesitate to ac- cept this great duty? Dare we re- ject it and break the heart of the world? “And so the results of the confer- ence of peace so far as Germany is concerned stands complete. The dif- ficulties encountered were very many. Sometimes they seemed insuperable. It was impossible to accommodate the interests of so great a body. of (Continued on Page Seven) PROMPT RELIEF for the acid-distressed stomach, try tya.or three KI-MOIDS after meals, dissolved on the tongue—keep your stomach sweet—try Ki-molds—the aid to digestion. MADE BY SCOTT & BOWNE new aspect before their work was finished. They saw.it as the main ob- For ————- a ol PRINTING —— FINISHING DEVELOPING AND ENLARGING MAIL US YOUR FILM Orders Filled Promptly by Experts HOSKINS Bismarck Bismarck Construction Company General Contractors Western Sales Bldg. Phone 35. e Bismarck. ‘ Bismarck Clearing House Association C. B. LITTLE, President E. V. LAHR, Vice Pres. B. C. 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