The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1917-01-31
PROPOSAL FOR LEAGUE
OF NATIONS
Will Prompt Discussion the
World Over-United States
To Lead Movement.

New York-President Wilson's
proposals for world peace received
commentator late today at the an
nual meeting of the National Civic
Federation from Hamilton Holt,
vive President of the League to En-
force Peace, who spoke on What
Part Shall This Nation Play in Any
International Program Looking To-
ward the Prevention of Future
Wars?"
Last week a great thing happen
ed" Mr.. Holt said. THE Presi-
dent actually proposed World
League for Peace as a substitute for
compensation in international af-
fairs. From today until the Peace
Congress is held at the end of the
war this will be the greatest ISSUE"
Mr.. Holt declared the Presidents
announcement will cause discussion
the world over, so that when peace
comes the people of the world will
be prepared for 1t. He said
League to Enforce Peace would
mean the political organization of
the world, which is part of the in
ternational problem in which the
United States can use its influence
beyond its own borders.
1T seems to be the destiny of the
United States to lead the move
ment," Mr.. Holt said. The United
States is the world in miniature,
and it demonstrates to the world
was kind of d Government it is chat
people can live under"
Prof. William b. Guthrie, of the
Worlds Court League, speaking on
The Widened Reach of Law" de-
scriDed the League to Enforce Peace
as "a futile attempt to conceal the
grim figure of force in the back
ground, with the tabled Goddess,
sword in one hand and scales of JUS
tice in the other, with her weather
eye open for a fight"
Prof. Guthrie asserted the plan
advocated by the League to Enforce
Peace carries with it the seeds of
its own failure, since the very
scheme itself opens the way to war"
Ralph NJ. Eeasley, Executive
Chairman of the federation, COM
pared the effectiveness of the League
to Enforce Peace with the so-called
Bryan treaties. which he said would
be repealed. The nation would treat
the Bryan treaties as scraps of pa
per-" he declared if an occasion
arose in which a vital interest or
the honor of the country was in
volved."
Whether the United States, at the
end of the world war, is Ito contin-
ue to limit it's efforts, it's policies
and its readiness to use its military
strength to securing the peace of the
western hemisphere alone or of the
world" will be discussed at ma
tional conference if approval by the
Civic Federation is carried out. The
announcement was made tonight by
Talcott Williams, Chairman of the
industrial department of the fedora
ton, who acted as POSTMASTER at
banquet which closed the annual
meeting of the federation here.
Mr.. Easley was reelected Chair
man OF the Executive Council and
the following Department Chairmen
were chosen: John Hays Ham
mond, Regulation of Industrial Cor
pOrations; Louis A. Coolidge, We'll
fare; August Belmont, Compensa-
tion and Industrial Accident; Miss
Maude Wetmore, Woman's; Talcott
Williams, Industrial Economics; e.
r. A. Seligman. Taxation; Louis b.
Schram, Industrial Accidents; A. ].
Porter, Minimum Wage; Emerson
McMillin, Regulation of Public IT'LL
tiles; George w. Perkins, Profit
Sharing; Warren S. Stone, Social In
surance; Vincent Aston. Food and
Drugs; jeremiah w. jerks, Indus
trial Mediation; William r. Wilcox,
Pensions.
The women's department adopted
resolutions today in favor of COM
pulsory physical training in all
schools for children under 16.