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League Of Nations About To Be Put To Acid Test Italy's Ground That League Has No Jurisdiction Because Greek Government Not Recognized Regarded as Unten able and League Has Power to Intervene If Chooses By DAVID LAWRENCE C??rr4?M I HI TH? 0?ll? Washington, Sept. 3.?Italy's refusal to permit her contro versy with Greece to be considered by the League of Nations at Geneva on the ground that the present Greek government has not been recognized by the powers as legal, need not prevent that j League from assuming jurisdiction. This is the view taken by those who have studied the Cov-I enant of the League of Nations,] particularly thq famous Article [ II, which was so often inter-; preted by President Wilson in' his speeches as giving any na tion the right to bring to the at tention of the League any dis pute in any part of the world likely to affect the peace of the world, whether it was between members of the League or be tween a member and a non member. Indeed Lord Robert Cecil on his recent visit to the United States de clared that under Article II the rep-; aration dispute could be considered,! but that out of deference to the wish es of France the controversy had not i been taken up because the parties in-' terested believed they could ulti mately adjust the matter by direct negotiation between governments. In the present case one of two par ties to the dispute actually appealed to tlie League which cannot say it will keep hands off out of deference to Italy without seeming to take the side of Itnly. The question of wheth er the present Greek Government has the right to appeal to the League Is not considered pertinent here for it is pointed out by international lawyers that the Greek membership in the League of Nations is not a member ship of any particular administration or regime but Is permanent. In other words the Greek nation enjoys the membership to the fullest extent ir respective of the existing type of gov ernment In G.eece. Nations do not lose their treaty right simply because of an internal revolution or domestic disturbance. Ample precedent Is af forded in the case of the United Ffal' M and?Mivvicw. *fn??. rovnlr.ed government has existed in Mexico for several years, but the 1'nlted States has insisted upon protecting Ameri can property rights under earlier treaties made between the .Mexican people and American people. The general feeling her eis that It aly has seized upon the pretext of an unrecognized government in Ath ens as a means of shelving the issue so far as the League Is concerned. It involves the acid test of the League's real strength. Should the League of Nations accept the Italian interpre tation and keep hands off. Article II. of the Covenant will become a dead letter and faith in the League Itself will be lost bv many of Its warmest supporters. Should the League, on the other hand, step In .and call Italy to task for violating the Versailles Treaty?as the covenant Is an inte gral part of the treaty?the prestige of the Geneva Institution will rise considerably. The main value of the League, which has been admitted even by Its staunchest opponents, has been that part of the Versailles covenant which makes it obligatory for any nation having a dispute with another to wait at least three months before be ginning hostilities. The belief was ? proim* you agnlnat wild-cat tiiYPHtmcntn. Tile host buslneaa aometlmen falls for the amooth tontupd oil ntock salesman and other distributor* of "Blue Sky ' ae cu rltlea. l'ut aside so much a week and compound Intereat will iiutcklv Increase and mul tiply the principal. Your money la safe here ? from possible poor Judgement on your part as well m the pub lic at large. Carolina Banking & Trust Co. that during the three months Inquiry! a peaceful solution would be devised especially as national passions would be expected to subside during the' waiting period. The doctrine of a cooling off spell was promulgated by Secretary of State Wm. Jennings Bryan in thirty j treaties between the United States' and all the important powers of thei world except Turkey. Japan, Ger-| many and Mexico. There never has been an Important test of the prln-, ciple until the present outbreak of hostility between Greece and Italy. , The question now being asked is whether a nation in time of excite ment over a massacre of it scltliens would be likely to care any more for' treaty obligations than did Germany I when she made a "scrap of paper" of her treaty with Belgium In 1914. While the I'nlted States Govern-; ment Is not taking any part In the | effort to bring Italy and Greece to-i jgether, the authorities here are i J watching to see whether the media tion of the League of Nations will be successful. If it is not. there is noth-1 Ing to prevent the Department of State through American ambassadors abroad from exercising good offices in an attempt to bring about a peace ful settlement. The Italian govern ment Just now is very anxious to be on good terms with Washington and might be mor*1 willing To listen to a voice from afar than an European In termediary. The next few days will decide whether the old-fashioned di plomatic intervention is to be of any avail. IHK OF TKLKORA.M IN TURKISH REIJGIOt'S FETES IS CRITICIZED Constantinople. Sept. 4 ? Reli gious conservatives throughout Tur key are much excited because the Minister of Religious Affairs has or dered and the Religious Court has approved the sending of a telegram to fix feast dates. Conservative newspapers oppose the methods as "too progressive," a view which has many supporters. The trouble begin recently when a national religious feast day was ob served. Customs provide that the (east open when someone sees the, new moon. But different Turkish cities saw the new moon at different times, this year. So there was a suc cession of services which should hare been simultaneous. The Angora government decided to offaet this, by putting all power In the bands of the religious minis ter. who. on being properljr con vinced someone had really seen the mon. could send out a general tele gram. Older churchesa ppealed the order, but the religious court upheld ll. 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