The evening world. Newspaper, August 19, 1919, Page 2

AE VE ale it re ali ORS pe ant tition Me teed atatiatiti a ne UTERS eke8 z i yy lent sald the notion ney te: = 2 3 3 30 HE E tH Get Mie Hi H tf FE t gi Hi i i i FER Hi al rill i z = 4 if: I : f : i i fi i i i if i i i i Hi i i 45 4 i i a s f Hf i if Hi it ii : i i i contemplated “ett éntitely ons mornt|NATIONS FIRST TO co was not held in the| “The nations that ratif Ca Ld + emaray es PENG. Babu! fay ek A SE TAKES ‘NO POWER. FROM CONGRESS, WILS {ea national budget until then. RATIFY NEFITS. the , euch as Great® Britain, Belgium and France, will bein a position to lay their plane for controfiing the markets of Cen- tral Europe without competition from us if we do not presently act. We have no consular agerits, no trade representatives there ig look after our interests. “Thore are large areas of Europe WILL GET THE questionable tint!l their people know forces which are to admin wurtain it. Without porandrro cannot pro- or confidenss. to set any tril yon, | ment upon the ai of Nations, | m I had the pleasure of with your ed@mmittes @nd with the committee of the House | t Representatives on Foreign At- faire at the White Mouse in March all w to thelr Immediate clarification. Finer CRITICIOMS MET AND AC- 6 United States was whore future will lie uncertain and’ bers lis in no way to be impaired or inter: teed with by anything cortained tn he cotevant, and expression. like used, not ony L anywhere eine in existence or in pesto lation, but only because it wag th t beat to a im ap oh w * a single na- jon, y nothing Is con- Le | in the phrase, “With: pyres to bape oud questions, Article x covenant @x- Drenaly provides that, it in cage of between mom- the matter in+ med by one of the par-~ ound by the Council to Soe af this i v doubt eine tative st taw that such matter as immigra- ene. natu linaaion from contents of the | the A as simply “Und as unreservedly af omni ble," LODGE ASKS THE PRESIDENT FOR MORE INFORMA‘ION. . After the wut Bad delivered SALOMON BeMMkUl bouge Heat Mf. President, sv ful ag 1 an pete sonuily coneerneo-—and 4 think & | represent perhaps the mujurity of the colamittee In that respect—we have no thought of eateripg upon oes, ment to interpretativms of points of that o! . Bar the edeaiit- tee was very desirous of retting in- formauion on dertain points whieh neem not clear and on which thought information would be of value. to have in congideral ot treaty which they desire to hast in every possible way, “If we have to restore Pee to the world, it Is necessary, 1 assume, that there "ynowta be treatle, Ah Austria, Hungary, irkey and al« garia. Those wie more or less connested wi Rte tate with Germany. What ai te prospec! of ropiyion those. pee les for ac-. “Tyabink st te very far as I can judge despatches from my. cotleagu the other side }ot the water, the chief delay is due | to the uncertainty as to w: hat Is Kotte | 0 happen fo thie | Treaty, This eh of the of fer snout Of the others betare H know Ug be 4 eh ae eee sts sy @ model, f think my tt element of delay, they aitny, whee ale {udente: ne a joct of Actual invasion were undis- aera rae eo ret The President ‘The legal obli- counsels of the world.” . tent to sony the cnt wadoubied- Ria ngpakarion Fron ye & svt toe cee not tie. tomatoe aanarioa "TANIA YET TO. WS arme ang cate ware ate ' pet the legal obligation might ig be a very strong Nigation. Pa, plying. te ate MoCum- ohne et ' the President said: “We a jones ' would Wave complete { \ m hi added that pre-war 1 Ah gd a ose oiild ‘Asked whether there would be the! oe it Sret Seas. oan vt yaere pare ame freedom os to application of 4 ees jould decide. He poycott. the Preslient replie lean participation = “oniy in regard to certain, article: in the reparation Os remained to be The breach of certain articiés of the jecidég: by tl aston, ‘ovenant doen bring on what tT or if there had desig das an gutomatic boypott, that id hve ono if _— We would have no choice,’ OBLIGATION. low | ‘pape leans eak q ppowe fi at it a preeuy obvious and ac ly re- there is an external ag- laying = ae @gainst some power, and out the general ne ties our suppose it is perfectly obvious and pee) icy in the Pacific and the assepeea that it cannot be repelled of having sothe base for except by force. of arma, would we Rombtunication upon those island#’ ye under any legal obligation to par- was mentioned, just in, what form Slgipate? a not ‘ The Eregate Na wir, but. we weomed “snouta be tely com. ea aha, es et we Tae ‘don. principal = "Allied and eae Behator Ki re! stad to the White House statement of iy 10, en at powers the authority to make such depositions Sey saw fit of those he said, pea quoted the President as Inlands.’ 1 have | ‘WILSON INSISTS ONLY MORAL | vo emp Ne ‘et rt On ON ASSE RTS) thet we meee claim noth-| tions wauld immediately arise it the | ‘ : “The ae Whe Fe. "NEARING SOLUTION; WOMEN TO GET AD thdeaaiivnent ols 4 of Discharged | Men to Be Referred to a | Disintefested Party. ‘The first of a series of conferences | © mettle the dispute between the Brookiyn Rapid Transit Company And its employees was held to-day at the general offices of the company | Edward smith was chairman of the employees’ committee, and P, J Smith of the Amalgamated Associa- tion of Street Railway Bmployees, which won the recent strike, was are to be given effect to. ‘United States is a party to the policy the United States with juéstions’ I have men- fact, already been ac- the Commission, and there ent with them in the draft of the pert first adoped—the draft which was the subject of ous discus- sion in March—but no objection waa made to saying explicitly in the text in all bad supposed to be itfrplicit AL PROTECTION QIVEN To ne MONROB DOCTRINE. “The Dootring is express|: tok: mandoech anon Sota the tinkling glass of Tetiey’s iced cooling and refresi- a hitceaines “The right of any soverdign atte; to withdraw had been taken for te but no objection was made making it explicit. Indeed, so pon as the views expressed at the White # House cofference were jaid be- fore the Commission it was eh gees Lodge: te 5) i a as 4 boi conchded that it was best not ve the answef to #o important a question Mreoigd with saat gy vatanngid bas) Reve he eat: “Yes, and signed: ta egal net etn so | nation had in faot tal iy submit ‘all international obligations | the action on = 9 Ra. 74h sad Wehe (oped aot ita obligations under tne Peg hee ‘a ao mn ther that that tee the tentative Le “it : dvention muse eee to be re reat Britain, Sante ay ved by the conscience of the | Fine sam ye nation pe withdraw, ‘the BF age es Se proposi te T must sayethat it did not | them,se thecemmitte with pleas ‘ihile to be had’ 1 Sook it for aronted thet Canela ar wanes verears 8 ain in my hands remain vaphazard way. “The tiah draft was the enly ane, that was in the form "ot Senator Lodge: “They garded grabs to tne eae ton of reaty The President: garded as such, no, “They are not re they fallow’ failed to fulfil ‘them and never will, “Article X, is in no respect doubtful medning when read in the of the covenant as a Ie. League can only iT pon’ the menns by which abligations of that great article Unless the mi the final formul: ye com: ‘hove esac ee a Shey pres pre in “1 remember saying to the com- mittee when I was here in March—t have forgotten the expression something to thi then constituted basis.” 1 thought siecwerg that that wae misléading and I am very the committee Just what iT DRAFT BASED ORE PLAN. ‘Some months before the conference assembied a plan for the League of Nations had been drawn up by a ‘British committee, at+ the: head of which wi Mr. Phillimore, authority on international law A copy of that document was sen’ to me and I built upon that a re- draft. I will not now say whether I thought it was better or an improve- ment, but I built on ghat a draft which Was quite different, inasmuch as it put definitensss where there had been what seemed indefiniteness the F Phillimore stiggeation. tween that time and the time of the formation Settee coma iniee op the League or Ons advan- tage of & paper by Gen. Smuts of South Africa, who seemed to me to have done some very clear think- ing, particularly with regard to what ‘was to be done with the of the dismembered empire. After Paris, therefore, I rewrote the docn- ment to which I have alluded, aud you may have noticed that it con- sisted of a series of articles and then > | armenerery agreements, It was in the supplementary ments that I embodied the additional ideas that had come to me not only from Gen, Smuts's' paper but from other discusslo: That is the full story of how the pian A ed I sent to the committee was buil the or action in question, her own a firmative vote in the council in neces. sary before any advice can be given, for @ unanimous vote of the council juired. If she is a party, the trouble is hers anyhow. And the unanimous yote of the council ia only advice in ahy case. Each Govern- ment is free to kejeot it if It pleases. “Nothing could have been made more clear to the conference than the right of our Congress ay our o ep rl law, ARTICLE x. TH BACK BONE oF THE ENTIRE COVENANT. “Articlé X. seems to me to consti- tute the very backbone of the whole ts Without it the e ‘hardly more than an in- Boonte! debating society, “It has several Deen @ times gested, in public debate and in vate conference, that interpreta’ of the sense in which the vi be Soansee la cules such prearpcetapaas | Soon panying the act of ratification provided they do not form a rt_ of the formal ratification it Most of the In- which have been sug- gested to me embody what seams to me the plain meant of the in- strument itself, But if such inter- pretations should constitute a rt of the formal resolution of ratifica- tion, long delays would be the inevi~ table copsequence, inasmuch es all the many governments concerned would have to accept, tn effect, the language cf the Senate as the lan- of the tréaty before ratifica- he would be complete.” SSENT OF GERMANY WOULD! The President: “No, it was not be- WAVE TO BE OBTAINED. | fore our commiesion,” i? “The assent of the German 6 President said a draft of sembly at Welmar ar would ie b's Paring wee Senator Johnson baa tained, among the rest, an t committee “waa part frankly @ey that I could *ohs Reich | of the draft which Preceded the the greatest reluctance ayproseh | which was sent to you. ly tor permission to read | Senator Johnson said he had taken the Treaty as we understand it and | 't from the Independent, &u those who framed it quite cer-| The President; “I read it with tainly understood it, Srentent ‘watersot Decause T had tor- “If the United States ware to 2 apy Rah hoa | a ee, S eROOwe qualify the document in any yey. wane it aa soon as I read, moreover, ft am epntident jenator Johnson: It wes tl inal plant” rae, Mee oh, mee ane mayen "the President: “Tt was the original | form ot Article X., yes,” | Asked by Senator Lodge whether jhe had seen the resolutions for a | League submitted by Secretary Lan- olny, the President replied: Yeu," “Benator Lodge: “No specific action was taken upon them?” ‘The President: “Not in a formal The President: “Yes. WILSON. SAYS REDRAFT WAS PRIVATELY HI6 OWN. Senator Lodge: “Then there was & previous draft in addition to you bave sent to us. You @ redraft, That was not submitted to the committee?” President “No, that privately my ow! Benator Lodge: “Was it before our comm aston? orig- ently be'slouded ite clauses to the othi “Pardon me, Mr. Chairman, if 1 have been entirely unreserved and |plain-spoken in speaking of the great WHY U, 8, GETS NO PART OF THE REPARATION FUND, PACIFIC, * referred to the een Great Hritain and Japan pen Me seet pre me isa eb ars ating to w ity it was Pee *etaiea that Ovrinan aang tain should aoe th south of ¢) bation tor th te coun: ee ie tome, Skt reise ireaty The Presid nis view of the ‘ti sag FE Terucijo » “Onip cable te yhvention. Btraction by a ie col That note of the Bri mbassa\ @ that we $e about signs i |,| phraseology of t jerpret: cause jt vould form a part of the conscience’ of thi he close of the two-year periad.” UNITED STATES ONLY BOUND BY OWN SENSE OF OBLIGATION. moral obli- gation which the States would feel would be "the Preside reaity.” eaident: . certal Benator Borah asked whether the Council would in reply to Senator McCumber president repeated that he fit’ nt would be @ mistake to embody inter- er tek in the resoluti¢n of ratif! ry si ww Uelteation. Jegal obit gation can be enforced by such ma- shinery as there is to enforre it. Wi therefore at liberty to interpret got tol fhe Sota aot” abeapt nations the "other rely f. 4] superior toa teem! obligation, and if fy I may say 50, has @ greater binding debatable taatity, that in our dlacussions fn ki mission on the League of Ni bm pi 3.8 did not discuss ideas eg ranses “lesion. Pittman: not expressed herself to the. com~ mission with regard to thgse moot questions.” ‘The President: mien tro * league exce fh very strong desire to a aitted 10 te Senator Williams: “Mr. President, suppose for example that @ reservation, x Massachusetts calls many did nothing about it at all, and afterward contended that so far as that was oo! it was new mat- tor, to which ahe was never a party. Could her podition be justifiably dte- puted?" ‘The President: “No.” ‘ t| ONLY A MORAL OBLIGATION TO TAKE UP ARMS. Senitor Borah quoted Article X under which the ® i sees members undertake to “ and preserve as against fataraal aggression the te ritorial in joo My sete, politi- “ inde: all members of Longes,” a8 “No, we have no ex« eae it " and said he had heard peated that this was simply a obligation, President: “Yes, sir, inasmuch Th as there ts Do sanction In the treaty.” Senator Borah; ‘But there would be a eae! etienten so far as the Uni ie concerned, if it should enter into, would at not?” The President: ‘I would not intor- pret that way, Senator, because thera is involved the by ot judgment as to whether the territorial intog- rity or existing polisteat indépendsuce Senator Lodge then asked whether the United Riatee would receive any the critical situation of affairs | Part of the German reparation fund. serve as my justification, The Preside Toft that question fasues that manifestly hang upon the | Pe, Henator, bec a did not feel conclusions of the Renate with, re, | that I had any fibal right to decide it. ce and upon the time of | Upon the basis that was set up in the ‘0 40 grave and so clearly | reparation clauses the portion that sceptible of being thrust on one the United States would receive |matters we gil have so much at \heart. If excuse ceded, I trust ide or postponed that I have felt it | Would be very amall at best, and Sah sears eae rh is invaded or impaired, In other words it is an attitude of comrade- ship and protection among the mem- bers o fthe League whioh in its very nature is moral and not legal.”’ Senator Borah: “If, however, the actual tact of laveeion were beyond dispute, then the legal obligation, it to me—t ] simply throwlng iaveccam ne arising from ite own | pli jon’ } is to do immediately what she would otherwise be bound to do der the League covenant. The President—4 did not use the word “bound” but “morally bound,” (oj Let me say that you are repeating $ dofensiv: pan Te LE STATION IN That we would ersly bind the United “Of course it is under- uid have to be convinced unprovoked movement and they at once ac- what 1 said to be other represen ia i seieeeed int ry serious practical mistake PON ed cation: re liberty, contem; neously with aur acceptance of the treaty, te Ineltpret our moral obligation it article.” under Kno: f we embody in lution of ratification a ptate- that we understand “Section ing more to that effect.” ‘It. would need con- “Yes it would need in seat sense. “My y, {eheeeat in ing of that in the terms of the resolution of ratifica- tion would be cn pot only tn the int retation, in the very ation, be- contract,” tor Borah quoted Article X! Geclaring “any war or threat of war, &@ matter of concern to the League and directing that “the League shall take any action that may be di fectual to safeguard "the the interpretation of a moral ‘tian also to ¢! article. He re- his construction of Article XI Was the same as for Article X. Senator Harding—“If there is noth- ing more than @ moral obligation on the part of any member of the walls Article 10 and ‘Why, “Senator, itis t that question ahoula if we undertake an ganctions, Now a morn! obligation is. of course. | force. In every moral obligation there ig an element of judgment: in a le- «al obligation there is no element of judgment.” Senator Johnson—"But, Mr, Pre’ dent, when the moral obligation in undoubted it will impel action more readily than a legal obligation.” ‘The President—"If it is undoubted. yen; but that Involves the cireu: stances of the particular case. We would be our own judges as to whether we were obliged in those cir- cumstances to act in that way or not. Senator Hitehcook—In such a case the Council would only act unent- | Mously and our representative on the Council or course would heve to con- eur in any advice given. | ‘The qonference was adjourned In the ¢arty afternoon for luncheon at the White House, and it was not r sumed, the members of the commi!t- tee departing at 2.45 P. M. GLYNN AND FINLEY HERE | FOR TALK, WITH GOVERNOR Commissioners to Discuss Plans for Definite Programme in War on Profiteers, ' Former Governor Martin H. Glynn and Commissioner of Education John H. Finley, were reported thiy after- noon to be on thelr way from Alvany for a conference with Governor Smith at the Hotel Biltmore. on the subject; of profiteering in food. The former Governor and Dr. cenily desienated 4 special ‘on the ubjec rhe. aultinabe will consider whether new legislation, Je necesaary, whether a tpeclal seasion of | the Leglelation Shoutd be other matters re- | Jating to & “actnite Programme for the War On pron SPECIAL NOTICES. HORLICK’S THE ORIGINAL MALTEDMILK . + DVOVG WHINOTIORS end Bubets swees Liha Seeeaaeh present, At the conclusion of the session Shea told reporter# that it had been amicable and that some progress been made, It waa agreed,” he suid, “that the question of the re-instatement of men discharged by the company should be referred to a disinterested third The questions of hours, wages and general working conditions were discusged and will be studied by both sides separately, If we fall to reach 4n agreement a third’ party will be called in to sit with us. We also discussed the situation as regaris women employees. Mr. Royce, the general manager, said the women would be employed in accordance with the law and that te would do the best he could for them,” A committee representing «he women employed ‘on the B. R. T. as Suards and conductors went to the general offices in the hope of induc- ing the men’s committee to act for them too. Margaret Hinchy was chairman and spokesman for the committee, She had to wait @ long time for a hearing and im the interval told an Evening World reporter what the women wanted. “During the war were impor- tant to the company,” she said, “We worked long hours and made good money, But now the company is let- ting us work only three or four hours & day and some of us are being trans- ferred from the trains to the ticket booths, where the pay is 10 to 12 cents leas per hour, Some of us now earn only $4 to $10 a week, “Formerly there were 830 of us em- ployed‘on the ‘trains and cars, and now there are only 200 left. It may be all right for the company to 1e- fuse to hire more women, but the jo! med |of those who still have them should be protected. We have stood by the men and we think the men ought to stand by us. “The company says the law won't permit it to keep women on the cars at night. If it ts not right for a woman to work on @ train at night, opening and closing doors, why Isn't It just as bad for women to ride on the trains at night unescorted?” Harry Jones, President of the Paterson Division ‘of the Amalga- mated and Chairman Smith went to Hempstead last night and enrolled all the 150 employees of the Long Island Traction Company in the Amalgamated, Ripe 140 DEGREES IN FRANCE. vineyards in the ported by the newspapers to-day as a result of the heat wave of the past week. At one point a lenrathare of 140 degrees Fahrenheit was reported, the hottest in twenty HOUSE ORDERS I ‘ieee INTO HGH COST | SHOES Refuses to ma ho Investigation ‘So As to Cover Clothing and Food, However, WASHINOTON, Aug. 19. tion directing the Federal mission to investigate the coat of shoes and determing the cause for prices wan adopted to: by the House, whieh refused to ex- tend the inquiry to cloth! BOSTON, Aug: 19.~The grand jury of Suffolk County at @ abort session to- day, listened to more evidence as to the high prices charged for shoes, one jurer testified that a shoe be id wold for $1 a pair, was ad- vaneed In price to $3.45 In July and $4.90 in Augdst, It also appeared that & Boston retail dealer considered it necessary to get a profit of 50 per cont. FIRST TRANSPORT HERE OF THREE DUE TO-DAY Koeningen der Nederlanden Brings Mainly Casuals From Brest; Louisville and Niagara Awaited, The transport Koeningén der Ned landen docked 12:80 b'eloek to: on'the north side of Pier 3, Hobo! Her military passengers were mi casuals from Brest, The Louleville, also from Brest, and the Niagata, from Bordeaux, are due to-day. All three are bringing 2,584 troops. sinatra Catholic Men's Union te Meet. The firat convention of the Catholic Young Men's National Unton held the end of the Great War wi’! twke at the Hotel and Sunday next. 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