THE HIGH POINT EOTRFRI2, FRIDAY, JANUARY 3,1919.
Shrill Yc Go Dad: cr Go Forward?
By NORMAN HATGOOD
President League of Free ations Association.
Senators Knox, Reed and Lodge
are taking as heavy a responsibility
as any set of men could take when
they endeayor to preTent the forma
tion of a , league of nations at the
only time when there is any real
probability of its being possible to
form It. Long ago the prime min
ister of England aid that at the end
of the war there would come a crit
ical moment when the mind of man
kind would Jbe fluid; whence should
be accustomed to doing great things,
unprecedented things; when' we
could, if we wished, take such steps
upward that the terrible cost of the
war would be Justified. But, Mr.
Lloyd George went on to argue, once
let that moment pass and we shall
sink back Into our customary ruts
and our customary fears, and there
will be nothing to compensate for
all the lives and all the destruction
of prosperity.
In endeavoring to prevent the suc
cessful beginning of a league of na
tions. Secretary Reed com out
bluntly with opposition to the whole
idea, and a few of the less intelli
gent senators back him up. Clever
er ones, among those who wish to
defeat the league, follow the policy
of Senators Lodge and Knox, and
are fighting for delay, the usual de
vice of experienced politicians when
they are trying to defeat a measure
in" which all elevated and distinter
ested considerations are against
them.
President Wilson's Purpose.
The American people ought to un
derstand that the President's activ
ities abroad at the present moment
are due to no sudden impulse. They
are the following out of tlw faith
that he has had from the beginning.
He has been compelled to change
bis course in detail frequently, as
any good helmsman tacks according
to wind and tide and the accidents
of a rocky coast. But he has always
aimed at a peace bas 1 on mutual
understanding, mutun! confidence
and mutual welfare a'umns the na
tions. He has read history; and he
knows how at the end of so many
of the great wars the victorious al
liance bis planned to preserve peace
by the exercise of Its own force, and
SOUTHERN IlAtLWAY SYSTEM.
Schedule in effect June 9, 1918.
Arrival of trains at High Point
N. C:
Southbound.
No. 29, -1:35 a. m., daily. Bir
mingham Special for Atlanta and
Birmingham. Coaches and sleeping
cars to Birmingham, Dining cat
service. - ' ; -
No. 31 4:50 a. m., daily. Spe
cial for Columbia, Aiken and Au
gusta. Sleeping cars for Columbia
nd Augusta, Dining car service.
Day coaches.
No. 13?--7.t7 a. m. Washington
to Atlanta. Day roaches and parlor
cars. Daily. "
No. 11 7.82 a. m., dally. Local
for Charlotte. Parlor car to Ashe
vllle. Connections for Cincinnati.
No. 45 1.00 p. m.. daily. Local
for Charlotte.
No. 36 5.S5 p. m., daily. United
States Fast Mail, for Atlanta. Bir
mingham, and New Orleans. Sleep
ing cars to New Orleans and Bir
mingham. Day coa'hes, Washington
to New Orleans. Dining car service.
No. 43. 7.58 p. m., daily, for
Atlanta. Sleeping car, Charlotte to
Atlanta. Day coaches.
hv'-i Aorthbeuod. -
No 30 8:0 a. m., daily. Bir
mingham special for Washington
Dining car service.
No. 44 7:00 a. m., local ft
Washington.
No. 18 1:40 p. m. Unit
States Past Mail for Washlngtci
Sleeping cars to Washington con
necting to New York. Connection!
for Raleigh and Richmond.
No. 455.55 p. m., daily. Local
for GreenBboro and Danville.
No. 129:30 p. m., daily. local
for Danville and Richmond. Sleeping
car to Richmond.
., No. 329:54 p. m., daily. Au
gusta special for Washington. Sleep
ing cars and day coaches to Washing
ton. Dining car service.
No. 138 11:28 p. m., daily, for
Washington. Day coaches and sleep
Ing cars.
Asheboro Branch.
No. 1418:15 a. m. Mixed. Dal
ly except Sunday.
No. 1071:55 p. m. Mixed. Daily.
. No. 141 8 p. m. Mixed. Dally
except Sunday.
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how completely illusory every such
attempt has been. He is not trying
to force upon the governments of
Europe today the details of any plan.
He is. however, trying to bring to
the few men who happen to be the
governments of England, France and
Italy at the moment a realisation
that they will be building on the
sand if they do not use this oppor
tunity to make amore disinterested
and spiritual settlement than has
been made after other wara, and in
combination with it some interna
tional arrangement that will help us
to get rid of the old fears and the
old antagonisms.
Messrs, Lodge and Knox are bril-
jllant men, but they represent the
old story, the distrust of the people,
the distrust of ideas, the distrust of
idealism. They call themselves prac
tical, and yet they stand for the
thing that has always failed end
the thing that brought this war upon
us. They stand fo rthe Holy Alli
ance applied to the condition? of
1919. They practically say to man
kind, "You cannot do anything bet
ter that you have done so don't try,"
whereas the President is saying to
the governments, "You must rise
above the limits of the politician and
bureaucrat or civilization Itself may
die." '
Let us look at one or two of Mr.
Lodge's arguments to see how flimsy
are the weapons even a highly edu
cated man has to use when he goes
out in support of prejudice against
a new truth. He says it will be a
grave thing for a sovereign nation
to leave to mankind in general the
determination of whether a question
is vital to its independent and safety.
Yes, it was a grave thing when the
head of every household In the vil
lage had to leave in large part the
defense of his familytto the village
police force and the village courts.
No doubt the Lodges of that day
viewed this stepu with solemn alarm.
It was a grave thing when duelling
went into the discard. Nothing, In
deed, could have seemed more de
structive of honor and manhood to
the Lodges and Knoxes of only a
few decadeda ago than that a man
houi dnot settle with pistols and
seconds a whol egroup of wrongs
which nobody thinks of settling that
vay now. Any step ahead Is a
?rave step, but the trouble with Sen
ator Lodge is that he thinks it more
dangerous tl go forward than to
stand still and attempt to go back
wards. The Monroe-Doctrine.
Senator Lodge wishes to know
whether we are ready to abandon
the Monroe Dostrlne,.. This would
be an excellent question for a high
school debating society, Any trained
mind will realize we are simply ex
tending the Monroe Doctrine If yfiu
interpret that doctrine with' any re
alization of the march of history. Not
even Senator Lodge, and his prede
cessors have been able to prevent
the discovery of the power of steam,
or the invention of the telegraph
and telephone, or the bringing of
the world In closer communications
than Boston was with New York in
the days of Washington. The Mon
roe Doctrine was formulated to pro
tect small and weak nations in the
western hemisphere from exploita
tion by big and aggressive natiops
abroad.,. What the liberal spirit of
the age is endeavoring to do tomor
row at Versailles is to extend the
Monroe' Doctrine to the whole world;
to read the Monroe Doctrine in the
light of the inventions of Fulton and
Bell and Marconi, and not to troat
it as If it was a frozen thlni; Incap
able of growth. W ewr'.nt. an ar-ranfrc-rient
that will rvoUVt not only
Fraill, tilt Belgium and Serbia and
".jolic ilia nnd Jugo slavia and Po
land Dona SenaUr Lrde want the
new nsitous or the Czecho-Slovaks
and lie Jugo Sluvi to depend on
their own strength 7 Poos he want
.e new Jcwiah 'uMv, in Palestine
to defend Itself? louUl he like U
i;ve China depentut on her own!
"rength? "He fray, "Let us lie hon-i
SO. BELL 35.
ot with ourselves." Well. I echo
hat statement. Let hiJt be honest
ith himself, and toil us wh.it he
thinks of the st'aw to which his doc
trines have now brought the world.
He tries to throw a scare into us
about immigration and tariffs. . If
I were writing pages Instead of par
agraphs, nothing would amuse me
more than 'to tak up each one of his
points in ; sacceeeion and show its
hundred per cent shallowness. Nei
ther the League to Enforce peace nor
the League of Free Nations associ
ation has said, or means to say, that
immigration is a question to be de
cided by the league of nations. I
fancy that the majority of the offic
ials of both these organizations think
it to be a domestic question, y Cer
tainly I do, and I would no sooner
ask the league to settle it than I
would ask it to, settle the negro ques
tion in our southern states. The
league In fact, has comparatively lit
tle to do with the domestic questions
of advanced and self-govering na
tions. The greatest cause of wars
in modern times is the race to con
trol the great undeveloped resources
of the backward countries, so when
Mr. Lodge tries to raise a tariff
scare he overlooks the difference be
tween tariffs a free and self-govern
ing country may make for its do
mestic welfare -and tariffs which
might mean that one of the great
powers was assuming the right to
cut off from the other powers access
to the raw materials of some place
in Africa or Asia Minor over which
It assumed sovereignty.
Attack on Technicalities.
You see, thj whole trouble with
the attitude of Lodge and , Knox is
that they are doing what a certain
type of corporation lawyer tries to
do if he wants to knock out a sta
tute enacted with 'the purpose bf
helping along some aspect of cWil
progress.. He does not lend his in
tellect and experience to try to re
shape Some clause In the statute to
make it more effective. He gets his
microscope and ses what detail he
can And that may possibly admit of
a successful , attack on technical
grounds, and uses any such point to
upset the whole statute.
If minds like Lodge's and Knox's
were turned in the other direction,
and were trying to help the world
build a league of nations, now at
this critical moment, in the wisest
and most fertile manner, their as
sistance would be invaluable, As,
however, they are. simply following
the old trade of so many prosperous
and conventional reactionaries, of
looking for opportunities to throw
the machinery of progress out of
working order wherever they can
And the opportunity, they are bear
ing a responsiblity as grave as men
in high office could possibly bear.
They are dashing the hopes of man
kind. They, are endeavoring to tell
the world that the total. result of
the measureless woe of this war
shall be precisely nothing; that it
shall leave hte world exactly where
it was before its baptism of sorrow;
that any man and any group of men
who endeavor to rear from the ruins
of Europe the foundations of a bet
ter world shall haye from them
nothing but obstruction and discour
agement. .
PRICES ASCEND IN THE
COTTON MARKET TODAY
, . lb., ti m
But Manages to Finish 27
Points tyrt Higher.
New. York, Jan. 1 An opening
advance of 10 to 42 points met con
siderable realizing in the cotton
market "this morning, but the offer
ings were absorbed on reactions of
25 to 30 points and the undertone
was steady on talk of an increased
trade demand. After selling at 80
on the call January broke to 29.65
under scattering liquidation, which
probably, was promoted by the cir
culation of a few notices, but soon
stiffened up to 29.85, or about 27
points net higher.
Cotton futures opened steady.
January, 30.00; March, 28.85; May,
27.40; July, 26.40; October, 24.08.
SAILS TO DO OVERSEAS
WORK FOR THE Y, M. C; A.
New York, Jan. 3.-Ml8s Bessie
Roberts, daughter of Mr; and Mrs.
W. T. Roberts, of Fairburn, Ga has
just sailed for France to engage in
work with the women's overseas di
vision of the Y. H, C. A.
Miss Roberts ' Is a graduate of
Agnes Scott college, at Decatur, Ga;,
and holds a post-graduate degree
from Columbia university. For a
time she held the post of instructor
in mathematics at Agnes Scott, but
resigned to take up Red Cross home
service work.. She entered the Y.
M. C. A. work because If offered an
opportunity for overseas service and
took a course of training at Barnard
college to prepare herself tfor oer
duties In France with the women's
division. Canteen cookery, gymnas
ium work, French language and his
tory were the branches speclalid
in by Miss Roberts prior to her de
parture overseas. ' t ' ; ,
With , the other member) of the
women's division, she will remain in
FYancemntn-lhe-ArtMcan"' expedi
tionary forces have all returned to
the United States,
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United States Department of La
bor Starts Children's Bureau
for Purpose of Insuring Bet
J ter Conditions.
Washington, Jan. 3. That the
new 'national consciousness of chil
dren's needs developed by children's
year has begun to show permanent
rsulta Is indicated in the annual re
port of the children's bureau,
United Stats department of labor,
which has just been made public.
The campaign was lnauguratd with
the beginning of the second year of
the war in an effort to save babies'
lives and to raise the standards for
the health, education, and work of
older children.' The work has been
done, in cooperation with the child
welfare committee of the council of
national defense. "It Is r impossi
ble." Miss Julia ,C. Lathrop, chief
of the, children's bureaus writes, 'to
speakjwith too much appreciation of
the power of this great body of vol
unteers." Between six and, seven million
children have been 'weighed and
measured. Many local committees
have succeeded in providing . follow-up
measures to help parents in
their endeavors' to remedy defects
which the tests have revealed. Sci
entific' diets have been , prescribed ;
for many of the children '. whose
examinations Indicatd that they are
undernourishes In a number' of
places public funds have been ap
propriated for permanent work for
Children as a -result of the children's
year, and many health centers, pre
natal clinics, traveling clinics, and
like measures for the better care of
children have been established.
Through the weighing and meas
uring tests, the report points out,
general attention has for the first
time been drawn to the needs of
the child of pre-schobi ' age, long
known as the "neglecte age." The
claims of Infants and the needs of
mothers for better prenatal and
confinement care have been given
wide publicity by local committees
working for a healthier' childhood. -
The older children ,; 'have been
given special attention. In order to
affor older children 'opportunity to
gauge their physical' 'development
tests of physliiar f" efficiency were
made part , of the tecreatlon drive,
held In the summer -The drive in
cluded many other features, plann
ed with the purpose of giving boys
and girls ft chance' td develop whole
some Interests' and play under
heathy, decent conditions.
The present drive of children's
year Is the back-to-school campaign.
It Is now going forward in 36 states,
and Is an effort to get out of indus
try ana dbck to Bcnooi tne -many!
young ooys and girls who left be
cause of war conditions.
GERMANS DIDN'T. WANT TO
LET DR. EDWARDS LEAVE
Winston-Salem, Jan.' 3. Dr, A.
J. Edwards, of Bristol, Tenn., who
spent the Christmas holidays here
with relatives, was in Berlin when
the war broke out. ' He was In the
German capital engaged in medical
research work. " Dr. Edwards has
many interesting Incidents to relate.
He remained in Germany , two
months, Wht-n he went to leave he
had official passports signed by Wil
liam J. Bryan, then secretary of the
state, but the Huns doubted their
genuineness and he only received
passage upon the presentation of let
ters from his brother, George Ed
yards, of htls city.
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Now
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and enroll for 1919. ; ' . ,
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- ADMINISTRATOR'S NOTICE. '
The undersigned has this day
qualified as administrator of the
estate of W. F. Newsome, deceased,
before the clesk of the - Superior
court of Guilford county, and this Is
to notify all persons owing the said
estate to come forward and ma ke
settlement thereof, and all persons
holding claims of any; kind against
said estate are notified to present
the same to the undersigned on or
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This 21st day of November, 1918.
" ' AH. newsome';"
Administrator of ' W, F. Newsome,
Deceased.
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