Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1919-03-28


reject and ignore the simple plnr;
and ruics proposed in order to con
serve The health and happiness Of
the world at large for all time to
come"
But what happened? Listen: There
sprung up over night oppositions to
The plans of the great physicians. Ia
almost every neighborhood, as we'll
as hamlet and city, criticisms and OBJ
jcetions began to pour in. There sud-
denly sprang into existence among
the people, Il knowledge of medicine,
and sanitation unknown and unhcard
of before. The world woke up to real
ize that the number Of physicians and
wise men was legion. Some said that
the rules and recommendation in
terfercd with their old customs and
habits. Others declined to permit
"any set of men to dictate" to them
as to how they should live They
were not willing to change a single
custom or habit of living for the
public good or contribute one iota to
the health and happiness Of the hui
man race.
What do you think Of the people
knowing little or nothing of the laws
of health, and absolutely nothing of a
disease such as the influcnza, who
will refuse TO even try out plans
and remedies proposed and believed
in by leading experts Of the world I?
Now, the above sketch is, OF course
purely imaginary, but there is Il pa
gallcl exactly.
Leading experts OF more than II
dozen leading nations of the world,
have formulated Il set of rules and a
course Of action, the object of which
is 20 prevent forever future wars
to put beyond the power of might to
dominate the right, to form league
and treaty to which all nntions
shall subscribe which it is claimed
will prevent for all times IL repeti-
ton of the bloody, costly and afro
cious war just ended. Behold, up
pops number of men, who say. Eve
are not i'll favor Of the league Of ma
tons. We ere unwilling to enter il
to alliances Wit, foreign nations. We
must conserve the Monroe doctrine
and the principles enunciatcd by our
fathers in the Constitution" Some
Of these objectors know ms much
about what they are talking about
and criticisinr us the DIRECTORS to the
recommendations Of the doctors knew
about Mctcria Mcdicn-notking. The
Declaration of Independence and the
Constitution of the United States are
II league and treaty, adopted by
each State as agreements by which
they are governed. Each State is
still independent. The League of ma
tons is only worldwide Contitu-
ton and declaration setting out rules
of action by which, if lived UP TO. the
world, the nations, small and great,
may live IN peace, without fc"r of
outside interference. How could the
States Of this United States live in
peace without conservative laws by
which each State is prohibited from
,rcspassing unon the rights of other
States? All the League and Treaty
of Nations proposes is. that no one
nation shall opprcss another nation,
nor permit it to be done by any other
nation. And, strange as it may APP
pear, the League of Nations is meet
ing with opposition in advance, by
men, too, in many instances, who
know nothing OF its provisions. 1t is
a well known fact that the Decla-
ration Of Independence and the Con-
stitution OF the United States met
with violent oppoaition at first. But
it lives. The DIRECTORS, honest they
were, no doubt are forgotten. So
will it be with the Treaty of Peace
and the League of Nations.