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Today And Tommorrow; Wilmingt oris Great Dollar Days Cloudy Today and Tomorrow Local Thunder Showers 100 PEE CENT AMERICAN FOUNDED A. D. 1867—VOL. CXI—No. 65, WILMINGTON, N. C., TUESDAY MORNING, MAY 8, 123 OLDEST DAILY IN THE STATE. WOMEN BEATEN, SHOVED, LEFT WHERE THEY FELL IS STORY BROUGHT BY SURVIVOR OF CHINESE BANDIT RAID _ ' -v _ g - ATTACK ON AMERICAN travelers strains friendly relations Minister Schumann, at Peking Ordered to Make Strong Representations There WAR DEPARTMENT IS READY TO BACK PLANS Recounting of U. S. Forces Now in China Shows Nearly One Thousand; Maybe Necessary to Use This Force to Cope With Brigands; Reports Reaching Here Telling of Re lease of Travelers and String ent Orders of Government Fail to Ease the Extremely Tense Situation. SHANGHAI, May 7.—Women beaten, shoved ahead as they lagged behind, spat upon by the bandits and some of them eventually left where they dropped in their tracks as the maraud ers set a terrific pace over ttte^ hilly country, was one of the pictures drawn by the American newspaper man who liimBelf escaped clad onlv in his pa Lehrbas said he was in the hands of brigades for three hours. With the others captured on the train men and women, most of them clad only in, their night clothes as they were routed from their berths, he was driven away from the scene of the hold-up in his feet, while the guards about the party continually menaced them with revol ver ands rifles. Lloyd Lehrbas, reported on the China Press, of Shanghai, formerly of Poca tello, Idaho, and of the Chicago Tri bune, who ascaped from the bandits who held up the Peking, express on the Shan Tuns border, arrived today with the first eye-witness etory of the affair. WASHINGTON, May 1.—Action of Chinese bandits of Shantung province yesterday in holding up an express train and capturing a number pf foreigners, including: 19 Americans, has created a situation regarded as seri ously affecting the continuance of friendlv relations between the United States’and China. The eituatlon is held by some of the officials as con taining elements of still broader scope, possibly entailing other governments in a similar entanglement with China. Minister Schurmann, at Peking, in an official report to Secretary Hughes re ceived today, openly characterised the developments as serious and was im mediately instructed by the state de partment to press his Inquiry, report the facts to Washington and make strong representations to the Chinese government. Still other steps were said to be in progress but officials here declined to throw any further light on the course taken by Minister Sehurman, it was. In dicated many phases of the situation which could not be the subject of de tailed instructions from Washington, were left in the hands of Mr. Schur mann for execution. One of these was understood to be the ouestioff* of initiating a concerted military action against the bandits, in co-operation with the Peking govern ment in the event the Chinese authori ties proved impotent and no other ef fective way of attaining the release of • he prisoners was found. The councils of the ministers of the various governments represented in Pe king is expected to tnee tomorrow to discuss a course 6f action. Ready To Back Up Acting Secretary of War Davis, atter s conference with Secretary Hughes, announced that the war department "'as being informed and was ready' to “back up” the plan approved by the council of ministers and the state de lta rtmen t. T'nder the final protocol signed in Scntember, 1901, by the governments "bich participated in the expedition, an international military force has been maintained in China for the purpose of beeping open communication between Peking and the sea. In accordance with this agreement, ♦be United States has at present a force 39 officers and 888 men stationed at rientsein. under command of Brig. t'Cn. Wm. D. Connor. Official govern ment statistics show Belgium main tains one officer and 14 men at Peking, be British 31 officers and 944 men; the *• f»nch 24 officers and 1,050 men; Italy one officer and 35 men; Japan 59 off) -ers and 1.082 men. and the Nether tands one officer and 76 men. There is also at Peking one battalion of TJ. S. ■ larines stationed as legation guard. Military Force* There a composite military force of this nature, ip the opinion of military men, "oiiia be more than sufficient to cope ,lth the bandits in Shantung. It is o so pointed out that .mobilization of ’•ch a force would have a decided sa (Continued on Page Two) atorv effect on brigands and lrregu Congressman Lyon Gi That World Court As Bumper Agaim The opinion that the world court will serve as a bumper between the American nation and periods of finan cial depression, ie the view advanced by Rep. Homer L. Lyon, of Whitevllle, in support of President Harding’s pro posal to 'have the United States take part in an international court of Jus tice. Mr. Lyon’s views are expressed in a statement prepared for the Morn ing: Star last night. The statement in full follows: “I am for American entry in world court as I believe this to be the first step in world adjustment and Euro pean stability.^ . ‘ I believe that had we entered the league of nations we would have avoided the period of depression of 1920 and 1921 as financial arrange ments wpuld have been made by which' the markets of the world Would have been open to our commerce. This country cannot enjoy the pros perity it is capable of until we have markets for our surplus agricultural and manufactured products, and we cannot have these so long as Europe Is torn with internal and financial strife. The world court will not undo the harm or relieve the suffering caused by our heretofore policy of isolation, but our entry will be the beginning of a foreign policy that will no doubt result in great good to the entire world.” HEAVY VOTE IS CAST IN TOBACCO CO-OPS DIRECTOR ELECTION First Step in Selection of Offi cials Made by 89,000 Members RALEIGH, May 7.—Election returns from the 89,600 members of Americas largest co-operative marketing asso ciation show that a very heavy vote was cast in the first step taken by the organized tobacco growers to elect their directors for 192J, in Virginia and the Carollnas. One delegate for each million pound* of tobacco vims elected last Saturday by the membership of the AssociiStlefr which extends tol27 counties of three states. The elected delegates will meet at 22 district meetings in North Carolina, South Carolina add Virginia to name the 22 directors of the tobacco co-operative for the coming year. Saturday, May 12. The annual meeting of directors of the Tobacco Marketing association will take. Place Tuesday, May 15 in Raleigh, headquarters of the association’s field service department, where the present board of directors will then hold their last meeting. The new board will take over the affairs of the association on June 6. When they are scheduled to meet in Raleigh. New Members have poured into the tobacco association Blnce the decision by the supreme court of North Caro lina which upheld its marketing con tract Over 450 members joined the tobaqco oc-operatlve in April, while many new contracts were (Blgned last week throughout the old belt of North Carolina and Virginia, following the payment (of class to $2,000,000, by the tobacco co-operative to its members in some 40 counties. With a rapid-growth in membership the tobacco growers’ co-operative as sociated ha* increased its local units units, of member growers to over 1,600, which how extend into 91 counties of three states, assisting headquarters to keep contract with the associations. Membership the local organizations have assisted in the collection over $600,000 in damages from contract breakers, and are now in weeklyn communication with headquarters by means of the letters mailed, from Ral eigh to every local of the association in the Carolina* and Virginias. Cuban Reserve Bank Question Undecided WASHINGTON, May 7.—The question whether permission should be granted the Boston Reserve bank to establish an agency in Havana, remained unde cided tonight, but the federal reserve board, after a. three-hour hearing, bad in its possession a mass of data bear ing on the Boston bank’s application. The board, it was indicated, will act soon and its decision probably will establish a policy with respect to re serve bank legislation. The Atlanta Reserve bank has had an application for permission to extend its operations in Cuba before the board since 1931 and, as a result of the two requests and the opposition raised against the Boston application, it ap peared that the board would consider them together. One board member de clared the question would not be con sidered as between granting permissioh to either bank against the other, but that the needs of both as well as the requirements of Cuban and the domes tic trade would have to be weighed in any -conclusion. The principal objection to the pro posed notion by the Boston bank, headed by W. P. G. Harding, former governor of the reserve board, came from the banks of the Atlanta federal reserve dlstfiot and the Atlanta Re serve bank, J. H. Case, deputy gov ernor of the New York Reserve bank; Chafles E. Mitchell, president of the National City bank of New York, and other New York financiers, however, took exceptions to the Boston bank s plans for various reasons. WANNAMAKER, HEAD OF COTTON ASSOCIATION, CRITICISES WALLACE In a Reply to Department Head Made Public Last* night ST. MATHEWS. S. C., May T.-wHla at tack on the department o {agriculture for issuing Its recent crop acreage and yield forecast was reiterated and coupled with criticism of the govern ment’s activity in the sugar situation by J. Skottowe Wannamaker, president of the American Cotton association, in a reply made public tonight, to the letter of Secretary Wallace, who cKafgedTiiW witfi'riiESW8,ifOSS mis statements" concerning the government policy. “Whatever may have been your in tentions or the policy of the govern ment which actuated this unprece de nt'ed-departure from established cus tom," Mr. Wannamaker wrote Mr. Wal lace,'“the result has been witnessed in the most marked deflation in the mar ket values of staple farm products and the creation of a buyers’ ‘pr.nic almost equal to that of 1920-1921.” ’ The government started In campaign to deflate market values, the cotton association head declared, by Its at-, tack upon sugar and In condoning com mercial mob violence by strikes and boycotts on the part of the ultimate consumer. This was promptly, followed by the issuance of a most bearish re. port through your department on ceUtig ton acreage, livestock and grain- As a result of these harmful and totally ly>w and unprecedented activities a wave of pessimism has swept over the country and commercial buyers’ strike has again been inaugurated in the midst of what should be a steady re vival of business and prosperity in all lines of Industry. “A declaration from the president to day that the laws of supply and de mind would function unrestricted and unrestrained on agricultural products; that business is sound; that the federal reserve banking system carries a vast amount of unused credit; that it is time for the world to get busy,”' Mr. Wannamaker asserted, “would immedi ately displant, destroy, this phycho logical murder which is being used for assassinating business.” “Taking advantage of your high of fice to abuse me,” he continued, “will not bring relief to the present dis tressing conditions of the farmers who have lost millions during the past few weeks as a result of the report on your department, and the special committee oh “intentions” of farmers to plant and the present agricultural outlook, which report has temporarily destroyed the market for staple form products.” Mr. Wallace’s criticism of Mr. Wan namaker’s action in appealing the President Harding and Attorney Gen eral Daugherty for an Investigation of the' report, the cotton man wrote, “can only be justifled in defense of the action of your department in issuing an unprecedented report Without giv ing notice to the public in advance.” “X do riot feel that I have been guilty of misrepresentations as charged in your letter,” he wrote, “and base my defense on the published- report is sued By the special committee of 18 representatives made up of federal re serve bankers, meat packers, cotton< merchants, university professors eimnomists and others who assembled in Washington April 21 by Invitation of your department and Issued the report on the agricultural outlook.” CASWELL GEAS *21,000 WINSTON-SALEM, May 7.—Forsyth county commissioners and the Win ston-Salem hoard of aldermen have voted $21,000 for erection at the Jack son training school of a building for delinquent boys from this county and city, the -work of construction to be gin at once. At their meeting today the commissioner^ ordered that th* county’s half share of the fund be ap propriated immediately. Under this plan ojnly delinquent colored boys will be oared for in the reformatory here. At present youths of the two races are housed in the same Institution. POPPELL'S DEATH WILL BE INVESTIGATED BY FLORIDA OFFICIALS Demise of Star Witness in Prison Cases to Be Inquired Into j TALLAHASSEE, Fla., May 7.—The state’s executive department win see that a thorough investigation, if war-> ranted, is conducted into the death of Jerrj* Poppell, former Jailer and star! witness In the legislative Investigation' Into the death of Martin Tabert, of North Dakota, It was determined this' afternoon after a conference of Repre sentative Davis with the governor and attorney general. Mr. Davis carried the executive first news of PoppelVa death, it Is under stood. Previously he had considered the advisability, with Representative Keller, of asking that the legislative committee be directed to have an au topsy performed on Popp ell’s body. Poppell died at Quinoy, Saturday night while en route by motor with his fam ily to appear before a Jury in connec tion with a peonage case growing out of the Inquiry into Tabert’s death. The Immediate cause of the former jalior’a death was given as appoplexy. There was little tendency of officials to believe that Poppell’s death was brought on by other than his heavy drinking of moonshine whiskey andi lit tle credence was given to reports that he had been given wood alcohol. The fact that the man had Just concluded his testimony here and was on his way to give more coupled with a statement Just before death attributed to him by his widow, that he had been poisoned, prompted officials-' td decide upon an Inquiry which will determine whether they consider further Investigation necessary. PROTEST LOWERING OF TARIFF VEGETABLE OILS IN PETITION Southern Association Asks President to Use Authority By H. R. C, BRYANT WASHINGTON, May 7.—The South ern Tariff association today filed a pe tition with President girding protest ing against a reduction a fthe tariff duties on vegetable oils. The signifi cant .point In this Is that Governor Thomas G. McLeod, of South Carolina, and Commissioners of Agriculture J. J.* Brown, of Georgia, W. A. Graham, of North Carolina; J. M. Moore, of Ala bama; C. W. Kotner, of Virginia; and, B. H. Harris, of South Carolina, all Democrats, have Joined the protestapts. The Fordney-McCumber act carries these duties: Cocoanut oil, two cents per pound; cotton seed oil/ three cents per pound; peanut oil, four cents per pound; and soy bean oil, two end one half cents per pound, Governor Mc Leod and the’ other petitioners assert that even docketing vegetable oils as one of the subjects that the tariff\iom mlsslon will consider, will hurt busi ness. The peanut Industry, it, is pointed out. The peanut industry,;fft Is pointed out, is practically an infant industry. The people represented by your peti tioners have turned to it with hope of having no idea that any attempt would be made to deprive them' of this pro tection and based-their opinion-in; good' faith upon, the act of Congress. "We appeal to you to- hold up the stands of the struggling agricultural interest, There is no public demand'beinb made for any downward revision of the vegetable oil schedule.” ' "> ’ It Is unusual for southern state offi cials to Come to Washington asking for protective duties. Raleigh Elects New Set of Commissioners RALEIGH, May 7.—A new set of City commissioners will take ofllce in Ral eigh tomorrow as the result of the municipal election today when E. E. Culbreth was elected mayor and W. C. Harris Judge of city court, with out opposition, and Ed G. Birdsong de feated Carl L. Williamson for com missioner of Public safety and C. e. Page defeated John Bray for commis sioner of public workl. , . The vote was, for mayor: Eugene E. Culbreth, 6,121. For commissioner public safety; Ed G. Birdsong, 2,901; Carl' L. William son, 2,522. For commissioner public works: C. C. Page, 3,116; John B. Bray, 2,281. For Judge city court: W. C. Harris. 4.762. BOGUS CHECK PLOT HAS UPSET BROKERS IN WALL STREET HOUSES Police and Post Office Depart ment Hot on Trail of In stigators NEW YORK, May 7.—Postoffice in spectors, police and private detectives joined hands today to- run down the. authors of a widespread plot to upset the stock market hy dumping1 on it hundreds of orders to buy backed by worthless checks running into the mil lions. Wall street generall attributed the scheme to unscrupulous traders seek ing to .influence prices for their own ends, although the possibility was not lost sight of hat a fanatic or some dis gruntled person might have thrown a monkey wrench into the gears of the New York stock exchange. It was obvious, however, that the ■persons or person who worked out the plot had a wide knowledge of Wall street and its ways and although not a single one of the checks was cashed, their dumping on brokers had a marked effect on today’s market. Several brokers rushed into the exchange with what they though were bona fide buy ing orders, "at the market” for New York Central, Corn Products and Chile copper shares, with a sprinkling of other stocks, sent prices sharply up. In the meantime, however. New York correspondents for banks on which the forged checks were drawn, began to turn the worthless paper down. Al ready uneasy under the recent attacks of bear traders, and further depressed! by’ acute weakness that developed In the grain and cotton markets, the en tire list ook the toboggan and most of the shares listed by the big board made new low records for the vear before they quit sliding. The decline did not end until a fe wminutes before the closing, when a covering movement by bear traders checked the drop. The operators of the swindle, if they took full advantage of their opportuni ty, made a killing, both the rise and the fall selling short on the brief peak reaohed before the forgeries were dis olosed and then covering and buying for the rise. The scheme in which it was'sought to nryansdeiphia. Boston and Chicago, ai well as New York, was worked out with meticulous detail, although the forged names attached to the checks were crude. They appa rently had been written all by the same hand but the conspirators evidently j figured on a quick turn, before the I forgeries were discovered. i Nearly ICO of the orders, neatly typed and.accompanied in every instance by a cashier’s check, have been reported re ceived by brokers here and in other cities. ’ Stock exchange officials, how ever, expressed the belief that many others had been suppressed by brokers who disliked to admit they had been victimised. Memphis Business Men Are Helping Saunders Memphis, Tenn., May 7.—Memphis isiness men who began today a cam ilgn of personal solictatlon for the Je of Piggly Wiggly stock, met to ght and expressed satisfaction with e progress of ths drive to dispose of « 60,000 Shares and prevent Clarence .unders, president of the Pggly Wlg y Stores, .Inc., “from going broke,” it gave out ho figures on the num r Of shares disposed pf as a result the first day’s work. Two visiting business men. R. A. ilson, of St. Liouis. and Len Dinkins, New Orleans, attended the meeting id assured the local organisation that sir cities would back the stock sell g drive and "take care of their IOt*B.” The campaign will be continued to orrow and until the 50,000 shares ,ve been sold and "Piggly Wiggly has en saved for Memphis,” according to • leaders of the movement which Bowed Mr. Saunders’ appeal to the isiness men in an advertisement last FORMER MAJOR INDICTED OR FOLK, Va., May 7.—Percy B. iler, of Petersburg, Va„ former lor in command of the second batal „ 183rd infantry Virginia national ,rd and former chief clerk of the ersburg postofflee was indicted s today in federal court on three nts of robbery from the mails and counts of intercepting mail. This on followed the return of "not a s bill” by the federal grand sjury Richmond last month. WILMINGTON’S TWO GRIEAT BARGAIN FEAST DAYS TO BE OBS ERVED BY ALL MERCHANTS ‘‘Dollar Days” to be observed by practicably every merchant In Wil mington on today and tomorrow, Is ex pected to draw hundreds of purchas srs from all local sections. The event is to' open this morning under most luspiclous circumstances, and all down town stores will, no doubt, be crowded with persons In searoh of the many iplendid bargains that the storekeepers ire offering on this occasion. Local merchants have widely adver tised “Dollar Day.” and judging from the many inquiries which have been made the event this year Is to break ill former records established In tlje past. There Is every Indication that 1tbe :ity will be crowded with visitors both today and tomorrow. Much time and thought has been st-m Spent toy the merchants in arranging their stocks for the occasion, and as a result some of the bargains that are being offered are amaslhg. In many Instances articles are being offered for one dollar that are worth twice that* amount. In all stores the bargains have been arranged in a most attractive manner, that the prospective purchaser may not have any trouble whatsoever In mak ing their selections. The windows of the stores, too, are filled with arti- i cles, "cut to the bone,” as one merchant expressed it. There is every Indication that the . people of Wilmington will also take ad vantage at the low prices which re-i. i markably high-priced articles are be ing offered on this occasion. 3 ---- —-7-■ Boy Dives Breaks * Neck; Still Lives KINSTON, l#*y T*—Arthur Rouse, 18, wio broke Us seek by diving Into a submerged log In a nrimnlig kole a lew days ago, was still alive today, silent surgeons In a local hospital declined to predict the re sult of an operation on the boy. A fractured cervical vertebra was held together with wire. The patient was conscious and had the use of parts of hts body. Hunkers of the hospital stag said the were "hope- | ful." ! IF GERMANY PAYS SO WILL FRANCE; THAT IS TENOR OF NOTE Unquestionable Authority Inti mates That Such is Status of Reparations Muddle PARIS, May 7.—The Franoo-Belgian reply to the German note, one of the spokesmen for the French government said tonight, links the question 'of rep arations with that of the inter-allied debt. This Is in the sense that France, out of the total of 130,000,009,000 gold marks fixed/ in 1921 by the allies as Germany's indebtedness, demands her share of the scheduled payments pf 50 billion gold marks, or 26 billion marks to begin with an a1 minimum, and in addition such part of her share of tbe remaining 80 billion marks as will, cor respond to the sums as asked of ber in payment of the- war debts to the United States and Great Britain. All this means that if the United States or Great Britain cancel any part of the debts owing tnem by France, the latter is ready to reduce to that extent her share of the 80 billion gold marks due from Germany in addition to the 50 billion provided for in the scheduled payments. In other words, she feels obliged to claim for Germany as much of the 80 billion mark balance as may be necessary to pay the allies. This unquestionable authority did not say that France would not pay if Germany does not, but he made it plain that if France pays so Germany must AO; the, li*aii.j ,,.He» *i»o*nmsi>hasized thp fact that Francs and Belgium can not allow their present position in the Ruhr to be compromised by allies whose In terests are far less than their own. He pointed out that participation of Great Britain 'In the reply to Gerjnany would hive implied that the question of reparations could now be discussed with Germany with all the allies, in dependent of any' action" by France and Belgium in the Ruhr. This, it is held, would' be distinct encouragement of the resistance to that occupation and in fact would, encourage Germany not to pay. The government spokesman confirm ed the report that it was the inten tion of France and Belgium to inten sify' their pressure on Germany by the seizure of other products than those already -being' 'taken from the Ruhr Industries. Governor Commutes Negro’s Sentence By BROCK BARKJUE1Y RALEIGH, May T.-;-Governor Morri son thi$ afternoon commuted- the sen tence of Graham White, condemned Mecklenburg county negro. White slew another negro, Grover Henderson, In Mecklenburg. September 17, 1910. “I do not think the life of any pris oner should be taken when the judge and solicitor entertain doubt as to es sential premeditation or the lack of it,” said Governor Morrison in issuing the communication. Judge W. F. Harding, who sentenced White, and Solicitor George W. Wilson, who prosecuted him, both wrote the governor expressing doubt as to premeditation and recom mending clemency". The negro was sen tenced- In October, 1920. He appealed to the supreme court, but did not per fect his appeal, so that the records in his case had not -been reviewed by the higher tribunal. Emperor of K. K. K. Wins in Big Suit ATLANTA, Ga., May 7.—The supreme judicial body of the Ku Klux Klan Is the imperial klooncllium which has the executive function of giving direction to the administration of the affairs of the order by a majority vote, Judge E. D. Thomas declared in a decree to day In the Pulton county superior court. The imperial wizard was de clared to be the supreme chief execu tive officer of the order subject to the veto power of a two-thirds majority of the koncllium. He also must follow all acts of the klonclllum. Judge Thomas ordered that William J. Simmons, emperor and founder of the klan shall receive $1,000 per month for life and that a like sum shall be paid monthly to his widow in the event of his death. In consideration there for, Emperor Simmons was ordered to transfer to the klan full titles to all rituals, literature, costumes and other paraphernalia of the order of which he Is directed to be author in persu anoe of his contract with the order, SENATOR SIMMONS_ « INVITED TO SPEAK By H. E. C. BRYANT WASHINGTON, May 7.—Mayor Mc Kinnon, of Brunswick. Ga., has invited Senator Simmons to attend the annual convention of the Altamaha River Sys tem association May 13 and May 1$, HARDING DECLARE! FOR WORLD COURT II MESSAGE TO WO Letter Stressing Plan Read at Atlanta Meet of Federated Clubs SEES UNIFIED OPINION ON IDE4 Thinks That Nation Has Neve Been so Solidly Behind Any Proposal ma ATLANTA, Ga„ May 7.—"The tional heart, conscience and judgmen are alike enlisted” in the moveemnl oiiuomiu ut uio muvceinnv for American adherence to the w«rl4 court of International justice, "and against these we need never fear that ' any opposition will prevail,” President Harding declared in a letter read here tonight to the mid-biennial council of the General Federation of Women’s clubs. "Not since 1 have been president has there been, fn connection with any great question of public poiioy so im pressive a demonstration of subatan- . tially unified opinion,” the letter said. “It convinces me that as the discus sion proceeds the evidenae of this at titude will become so overwhelming that it will at least be a very serious obstacle to attaining the ends sought.” The President in the letter, which was addressed to Mrs. Thomas G. Win ter, president of the general federation, asserted that "it is plainly the consid ered jjudgment of the country that if we are to unite with other nations an epoch-making effort to establish ad- ‘ judication of international difference, we should adhere to the court, which is already in being. That court in Its constitution represents the matured thought and purpose of men who have given wine + m_. » ■ . . giVen most expert consideration to the fiiihUrtt ■ T+ <■ _vt jl._ a. _«a TUJ .. — - —r— “ IW .UlO subject. It Is difficult to believe that a more representative, more Impartial or more able tribunal could be estab lished under any other plan,” The letter follows: "I am writing to acknowledge my presentation of the Invitation to ad dress the convention of the Genei Federation of Women’s cluhs, and express my regret that it is not p Btble to. accept. The word and Into*** gent interest which this great organi sation has taken In publio affairs and its splendidly effective effort to insure that the nation shall derive the utmost advantage from, the full participation of ^womanhlld in^the responsibility of public life, entitle the federation to be ranked among the great construct ive and educating forces of. the land. "It has beon niost enheartenlng to learn of the attitude of this great or- ' ganiization, so long devoted to the con sideration of public problems and so wiell trained in that field, toward the proposal’that our country signify Its adherence to the world court of Inter national justice. You will, I am sure, be interested to know that the evi dence of nation-wide judgment upon . this issue, which' comes to me from every part of the country and the every l element of onr citizenship, are suoh as to leave no doubt that the over whelming • preponderance favors the step which has been proposed. Fur- | therroore, there are multiplied and in creasing evidences that these judg ments are being reached as the result t of earnest, deliberate and studious con sideration of the subject in all re spects. The assurances which are re ceived In Increasing number, day by day, leave no doubt as to the com munity’s miind. There Is a profound conviction that our obligation to hu man society and likewise our very ma terial > Interest, - equally demand that this nation shall *ive this sincere and effective proof of its wish to co-oper ate in eliminating the cansep of . strife among the nations and peoples; I have wanted you, and your assoelstiw: * of the federation, to know of these accumulating evidences. of a firmly cryBtallzfhg opinion. The national heart, conscience and judgment are Alike enlisted, and against these we never need fear that any opposition may prevail. jusyeumiiy i am giaa zo oe aDie la tell you that there Is evidence of a thoroughly practical attitude as re .gards our adherence to the court al ready created and functioning. It la plainly the considered judgment of the country that if we are to unite with other nations in an epoch-making ef fort to establish adjudication of inter national differences, wo should adhere to the court, which is already in be ing. The court in its constitution rep resents the matured thought and pur pose of men who have given most ex* pert consideration to the subject. If is difficult to believe that a more rep resentative, mare impartial, or mors able tribunal oould be established un der any other plan. But in my case, the present court is actually in exist ence. Its jurisdiction defined by its protocol of foundatlo nhas been ac cepted by a large number of nations. It may well be doubted whether the nations, which In good £ilth have given support this program. Would esteem it either a helpful or friendly gesture on our part, if we should Indicate our willingness to Join In a Judicial butab Ifshment, but should insist that M mast be some other than the ohe already set up. To adopt that/f-ttitude would seem unlikely to brligjrus far on tbs road to effective parsKlpatton in such a system. On the <*Tntrary, it be regarded as implying our lack ol faith in a tribunal which has the si port and confidence of a great grot of nations. In short, the opinion the country plainly Is that if we apy sincere pulBose of adbei' the procedure ef international cation, our only way to give ing evidence H this disposal accept, under such restrictions ; (Continued on Page hav Twoj
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