Evening star., 1919-12-31
LEAGUE OF NATIONS TOPIC
AT MEETING OF SCIENTISTS
Treaty of Versailles as Ultimate Solution
of Worlds Permanent Peace Dis
cussed by the Speakers

| lutte men and women to apply that
l excellent variety of wisdom cOllO-
quially known as horse sense" to the
problems of nationalism and inter-
nationalism. Nations are made, de-
| Tended and preserved, not by the illu-
| sionists, but by the men and women
who practice the homely virtues IN
time of peace and who in time OF
| righteous war are ready to die. or to
send those they love best to die. for
| a shining ideal
f.. IL. DingIey Discusses Labor Phase
In addressing the association on
Can International Rules in Regard
to Labor Be Made Applicable Through.
out the Jurisdiction of the League OF
Nations?" Edward H. Dingley OF New
York said that the aims of the inter-
Rational labor conference were 10
raise the labor standards of all other
countries to the level of the American
standard He added: "In the struggle
the tendency will be not to raise the
low standard countries, but to lower
the high standard countries. NO IN
ternational labor conference can De
sufficiently strong to embrace in lts
protecting scope the workmen anu
workwomen of the world III me
workmen and workwomen IN the
high-grade countries think they Will
improve their condition under inter-
national rather than national protec-
ton they have a serious disappolht-
ment in store for them"
Mr.. Dingley said that the Unlteo
States would have four votes out Oh
12S in the conference.
Executive Councils Action.
The executive council of the asso-
citation adopted resolutions which were
in substance as follows:
Suggesting the appointment OF a
committee to meet with the national
research body of the association 10
formulate a universal language LOT
commercial rather than popular use.
endorsing national system OF
physical training in public schoois'
This program does not lnVoiVe OF III
clude military training.
endorsing the Smith bill for ma
tionaI experiment stations in engi-
neering.
asking the English. French and
Italian governments TO seho repr
meeting in Chicago to consider the
Carnegie endowment for the promo
tion of peace and indorsing the prin-
cipIe of this fund.
II. A. Wise Wood Speaks.
In discussing the league of nations
according to the American 1dea'
Henry A Wise Wood of New YORK
said:
Some people believe that warfare
Is DfeVenldDle, Uul thCSS hANS
nit that never in the history OF the
world have men been able TO achleVe
more than an armed truce.
"If our statutes are powerless to
prevent broken faith and violence
among men how then are the less
definite provisions of a covenant of
peace to prevent broken faith and
violence among nations? The law
can punish: it cannot prevent-but
international punishment is war, and
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it is war that We wish to be rid OF.
What folly, therefore. to erect any
international structure upon the
hypothesis that a complete overthrow
of the combative nature of man can
be brought about by a company OF
| men. however wise, and warfare De by
them brought to an end for all time.
The idealists with their eyes firm
ly fixed upon that which they be-
lieved to be the practical accom-
plishment of The Hague. as devoutly
believed in 1913 in the impossibility
of such war as the same ideal
| of another great war il the nations
can but be got to underwrite new
| panacea.
The idealist forgets that the most
| enduring covenant of peace practi-
| cable at the time has followed every
war of history; and that has followed
every such covenant OF peace.
Il Funxu. Diseases Diseased.
| Eighty per cent of the country's sweet
potato crops are destroyed annually
| by fungus diseases, delegates today
| told the convention of the Ameri-
can Association for the Advancement
| of Science. in session here. The Ma
| tional Research Council is trying to
| eradicate these diseases.
DR.. w. J. Humphreys Of the govern
ment weather bureau, Washington, d.
c., in an address before the meteor
| logical section, asserted that air pushed
! north blows east, because Of the de-
Elective effect of the earth's rotation.
and that rain dries the atmosphere be-