Evening Star Newspaper, September 5, 1924, Page 9

What Europe Is Saying About America The League of Na!ions.. BY FREDERIC (Frederic William himself at Geneva, during the w Davis® speech of its strong pro-League of Nations' indorsement, elevated that issue to paramountey in the United States presidential campaign. Mr. Wile spent a week at Genéva, ob- serving league wheels going arcund and sounding sentiment there as to America’s attitude to- ward the organization. With 54 nations now owning allegi- ance to the League of Nations, he describes it as a fully functioning machine, anxious for the United States to join, but no longer se- riously concerned as to whether we do or not.) Wile found switzerland, No investigation of what Europe is saying about America would be com- plete without finding out what is be- ing said at Geneva, so this writer spent an instructive week acquaint- ing himself with views of the League of Nations. Let it be said at once that the league bears every external sign of being one of the lustiest four- Year-olds ever reared. With 54 mem- ber nations owning earnest alle ance to its cause, the league is firmly established. It claims a record of achievement that is both unique in international annals and that outs runs the fondest expectations of its supporters, It is convinced it has emerged from the experimental stag and has come to stay It has net re- formed a naughty world, or turned its swords into ploughshares, or abol- ished war. But the lea, least diverted the world away from war and toward p a degree never before attempted or even held possible; has actually pre- vented several threatened armed con- flicts, and unquestionably is steadily attuning the world's mind to the of settling dispute: arbitrame instead of by battle. Wants U. 8. In. It goes without saying that League of Nations wants the United States to join. It is extremely anx- ious for us to do so. It would wel- come us with wide-open arms. Nt is conscious that until we “come in” the league's very title will remain a bit|an he of a misnomer. It is | has “come i except the Unitea | States, Germany. Mexico, Russia and Ecuador. But eager the league for our adhesion, one gathers the distinct impression at Geneva that the time has passed when | there will be any indecorous kow-| towing for purpose of b ing | it ab t. Two or three go | it might have been pc for | us to dictate a sweeping revi f the covenant th of our a cepting it That w hardly be | possible today. The ardor to have | us “in” is not as hot as that. We can | “eome in” on our ow onditions, with all the reservations in the dictionary, | but we could not impose those con- | ditions on the -0odd nations that | are alread For during the four and a half years of our absente ism, the League of Nations has b come a ful ctioning, going co | a of its swaddling clothes | able to walk erect. It might | more briskly if the | ates were a member. but the | hat the league's gait is in ected by the fact that we | That, in a nut-} is being sald at Geneva | shell, about Americ Stand Pleases. ;, John W. Davis' war y of the league and the World | Court evoked a responsive echo in| Geneva. The writer was there at| the time and experienced the warm | ow g ted by Clarksburg speech ceptance. Leaguers joiced that Davis had the courage to Bo further than the Democratic plat- form, its evasive referendum proposal. Geneva is confident that if | there is to be a Davis administration, | American entry into the league will be in sight, for, having elevated the | i into semi-paramountey in the | al campaign, it is considered s in effect is asking for a referendum. ( is violating no secret when records that Geneva's | prayers in November will be not for Calvin Coolidge, who considers the league “a closed incident” for the Tnited States, but for John W. Davis, who avows that he has never wavered | in his opinion that we should en the league. There lights son, from which the di of the league looks out upon Lake Geneva. if the Ides of Nove are kind to John Davis. Could Have Done More. Although the league has prospered without American membership, a peychological conviction prevails that jt could have done even better if our broad shoulder had been at the wheel. When Poland and Russia were at war in 1920, the League was futile, many of its adherents think, because the great, disinterested in- fluence of the United States was ab- sent from the confused counsels of Burope. The powers let the conflict come on and rage because no unsel- fish, powerful finger, such as Uncle Sam could have raised, was uplifted 10 bid the belligerents to hold the dogs of combat in leash. When Ttaly defied Europe and the league on the Corfu incident in 1923, Geneva fcels that the presence of the United States at the council and as- membly would have had a mightily re- straining influence on Mussolini. In Germany, a reactionary element has been opposing the fatherland's entry into_the league on the ground that the United States boycotts it. Who can say, Geneva asks, how German membership in the league since 1919 might not have changed the chaotic fortunes of Europe? Those three episodes — the Russo - Polish war, Corfu and Germany—are named as the sorts of things regarding which other history might have been writ- ten, if the United States were at Geneva. That is water over the dam now. The league indulges in little remorse on that score. Having ac- complished as much as it has without the United States, it simply and se- renely contemplates a greater future on the basis of its past. Feels Treatment Shabby. As a proud and prosperous organi- Zation representing the overwhelming buik of civilized mankind, the league hesitates to carp at America; vet un- doubtedly it feels it has been the re- cipient of some pretty shabby treat- ment at the 'hands of the United States. For a long time Washington didn't even answer the league's let- ters. Once the league had to addres: us on an Important occasion by way of the Dutch government, in order to acquaint itself with the American official view. Nowadays, the league and the State Department are on speaking terms. _ Not long ago, for example, we in- formed Geneva that we could not jdentify ourselves with the league's| proposals for reduction of armaments, | because, among other reasons, to do so would imply a recognition of the Jeague's authority in international af- | fairs, which our Senate had concrete- | 1y declined to sanction. There was a time when Washington wouldn't have committed itself to even that extent. So Geneva is pleased that our epis tolary manners have at least im- proved. Take the matter of the reg- istration ef treaties. The United [TV Sl T e T 173 X3 OXOXO: | the | [ Great Britain, observed at| pich is whet Liberia and Geneva, without any trace of malice l,h,. stnaller Tellow = scmioiiof, in the thought, that the whole world | i<'in excellent financi Turkey. | of its exchequer-chancellor, Sir Her- | as THE EVENING STAR. WASHINGTON, sub- that ®gold One receives payment of its memb scriptions in dollar exchange, being the only one in which trancs are readily purchasable. of the smaller. European nations paid its annual stipend the other day in a remarkable cellection of American bills of every denomination—$67,600 in all The country's representative at Geneva explained to Sir Herbert Ames that, as the national treasury was not able, owing to exchange conditions, to pur- chase so large an amount in dollars or gold frapcs, the government had asked for a popular contribution of dollar currency for the purpose. It happens that into that country there is always a steady flow of money sent Dby relatives in the United States; and it was from those sources that it was enabled to “raise the wind” for league purposes at the fixed period. Prompt Pay As Criterion. ‘The league submits that prompt pay- ment of thelr subscriptions by member nations is one of the classic proofs of their earnest attachment to the league. With the exception of China und a few Central and South American states, the nations make a point of keeping & clean slate at Geneva. Of the first three budgets of the league, about per cent has been collected. League leaders think that is prima-facle proof that the nations consider the® machine they have set up at Geneve & worthe ‘while machine. At Geneva, during the'writer's pres- ence in mid-August, the atmosphere was electrical with anticipation over the approaching fifth assembly. It will have been the ever graced by the presence ministers of great powers, for Mac- Donald is coming from Great Britain, and Herrlot from France. Mussolini, too, has talked of coming. Geneva feels that the attendance of Mac- Donald and Herriot will immensely enhance league prestige. If, in con- sequence of their participation in the Assembly and council the league I8 intrusted with the supervision of armaments in Germany, in consonance with the arrangements effected at the recent London conference, it expects to acquire an accession of authority that may be of far-reaching impor- tance. Ramsay MacDonald’s en- thysiasm for the league is proverbial. Herrlot's bellef in it is less well known. In a recent interview with Norman Angell, well-known Franco- American publicist, Herrlot declared that the “principle on which France would continue her search for se- curity is the League of Nations. Un- is | der Articles 10, 16 and 21, France proposes that the allies should make a common and mutual treaty of as- sistance, and then, finally, when cer- tain existing difficulties have been overcome, invite Germany to become a party to that treaty, with all of its advantages and obligation British Reject Pact. Since then, Britain has rejected the treaty of mutual assistance, alleg- ing the objections of her dominlons the reason, but Herriot's state- ment shows how the League of Na- tions wind is blowing in present-hour France. M. Painleve, president of the French Chamber of Deputies at Paris and future president of the Republic, told this writer that “no gesture the United States could make in the direction of European settle- ment would gratify France more than S AN L e —_— The Greatest Achievement In Modern Shoe Making WILLIAM WILE States Government has not sent any treaties (o the secretary general of although many American ve been registered and publisned in the league of nations treaty series at the request of gov- jernments of other states that are parties. Germany, though not & mem. ber of the league, registered the sepa- rate treaty of peace signed with the United States on August 25, 1921. The treaties of the Washington conference on limitation of armaments wera promptly registered by other powers. Gives Oounsel, But No Caxh, One encounters anothey complaint about Uncle Sam on the shores of Geneva's lake. That is, that while we are conferring and more or less co-operating with the league in nany of its activities (like methods dealing with traflic in arms, customs formalities, opium trafiic, traffic In women, international transi tand com- munications, and various other. po- litical or humanitagian endeavors), we | are bearing no part of the financial | burden of carrying on those activi- ties. The United States, in short, is | contributing its counsel,’ but none of | its cash | The league has become a business proposition of vast magnitude. Its { budget amounts to something like | $4,500,000 a year. About 60 per cent s devoted to the secretariat, or purely administrative branch; 30 per cent to the international labor office and 10 per cent to the World Court. The argument is that while good ulting to the world from accom- | plishments at Geneva, America en- resultant benefits without to herself. Albania pays. Abys- snia pays. The lIrish Free State pays Austria, Bolivia, Cuba and am pay. But the country that sits tride two-thirds of all the gold gives advice. That's | Geneva anent America. | Entry WIill Be Costly. If some day we “come in,” it | supposed that we'll pay into the cof- | fers of the league at least as much | now the largest contributor. which gives $425,000 a car. The “dues,” which are allotted n the so-called “unitary” basis, run way down to $5.000 & year, The league shape, thanks largely to the astute administration bert Ames, a Canadian. It owng its $1.000,000 “palace” (formerly the Hotel National), has $2.000,000 in the bank, has no debts, and holds title o0 a valuable tract of ground upon which some day elaborate head- quarters for the international labor office will be erected. The league treasury requires and H Y/ LUTCHES / wonderful )y Foot-Form Lasts do wonderful work to- ward preserving the foot in health and to- ward Correcting Foot Ailments. 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What Geneva. fails (o grasp s our readiness to be of vast, constructive and real aid in league and general Kuropean activities—our louns to help put Austria d Hungary, und now Germany, on thelr fe our co-oparatipn In the Dawes reparations plan; our helpful- ness in every philanthrople and humani- tarian endeavor that enlists the world's Interest—and our Invincible pussion for doing all these things unofMolully, and more or less covertly, as If It w becoming to wrap the Stars and Stripes around them. Why not come out into the open, asks Gonevi, perplexed. She cannot reconcile our refusal to do o with our reputation for practs mon wense. The league finds us willlng to pluy the game, but plicably oppoked to huving the na a roversal of the old saw. With past year the United Stuter Govern- ment has been represented at five Inter- national conferences hold in the league of nation. conference on obscene public D. C, FRIDAY, SE In France, s & member of the admin- Istrative wectionws In charge of mat- torn rolating to the Saar and Danzig areas. Howard Huston of North Di kota, who was & captain on Pershing’ stafl, has been “establishment officer’ of the league, In charge of bulldings,’ grounds und equipment, since 1919. Arthur Bwoetunr of Washington, D, C., In assistant director of the (nforma- tlon sectlon. Manley O. Hudson of Missouri, who i» Bamis professor of International law at Haryard Univer. wity, Is @ member of the legal seotion of tho league and spands four months of every your dt Geneva. He was in- timately assoclated with the drafting of the proposal recommended by P'rosident larding und Secretary Hughes for American entry into ‘the World Court. Other Americans have bonn temporarily asaociated with league activities off and on. Many Americans attended gust the first session of the Geneva Institute for International Relations a wort of league “Willlamstown and were able to aoquaint themselves In Au- TEMBER 5, 1924. CHICAGO WOMAN CRAZED BY LEOPOLD-LOEB TRIAL Fourth of Her Sex to Become In- sane as Result of Brooding Over Murder. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, September 5—The fourth woman belleved to have become in- sane as a result of brooding over the trial of Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb, who confessed the kidnaping and murder of Robert Franks, was examined at the county hospital yes- terday, according to Dr. J. P. Percival. She {# the wife of a c ter, who #ald she talked and thought of noth- ing but the Franks trial since it be- | gan. Rightness expresses of action what | stralghtness does of lines, and there | GLADIOLI Fr;day and Saturday SPECIAL $2 and $3 Dozen Delivered Superb, fresh-cut blooms of- fered at an unusual price to at- tract new customers 14th and H consultation on opium traffic ference on customs formalities, (4) con- feronce on transit afd communications and (8) consultation on & new arms trafic convention. Commenting on this facade of representation in an unof- ficlal and consultative capacity,” an American prominently fdentified w present-hour league activities in Gene at the fountain head with league ac- tivitics. They came away, as did thals writer, oconvinced that whether America lends her adhesion or not there ia estublished at Geneva gn in- stitution which has introduced revo- lutionary changes into the relations among natlons. It is at least difficult to mee the league wheels going around at Geneva without the f ing that a skilfully organized, san ly conducted and powerful organism In now in belng to make the world a better place to live in. Idealtsm Is writ large abeve the portals of the league. Fifty-four nations are per- suaded that it is practical idealism. The league, consclous that the United “But tho inadequacy of such collabo- ration is apparent. In certain large orises, such as the Corfu orisls. the rd at all. our representatives do s#peak, their worda do not carry full weikht. They appear as onlookers rather than participants. They sit apart, and they | States 13 peace loving and altrutstic, are usually men of inferior official rank. | I* confident t in _our owd good It would be w simple -thing for the |time will reach that conclusion, United States to avow an open, frank |00 But meantime, whether we and firm policy of effective co-opera- | "COMO In" or stay out, the league's tion. motto is: “Full steam ahead It only remains to be sald that the (Cprright, 3 league is In splendid hands—and ex- clusively young hands. Not a man aged as much as 50 {s anywhere visi- ble on its premises. Sir Eric Drum- mond, the secretary-genoral, is only 48. Heads of important departments aro all fellows in thy 30s and early 40s. Although the United States’ chair {s vacant, several of our young people are in responsible positions at Geneva. Miss Florence Wilson, the chief librarian of the league and organizer of its fine collection of 50,000 volumes, is an American, who came to Geneva direct from the American peace mission at Pari after a distinguished librarian’s ca- reer at Columbia University. Huntington Gilchrist of Auburn, N. Y. & captain in the American Army GROUNDHOGS BOY’S PREY Illinois Youth Collects $316.25 in Bounty on Heads. ROCKFORD, 1IL, September 5.—Few of the groundhogs in Winnebago County get a chance to eee their shadows on February 2d as harbingers of continued Winter or an early Spring. And the reason is Sterling Wornits, a farmer vouth, who collected $316.25 bounty on 1,265 groundhog heads under a State law which provided payment of 35 cents for each head presented. 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