Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1919-04-17

some 20 in number, are concentrated
Here / met one of my Pomona stu
dents. From here we will be sent ou1
to our schools; I don't know where
will go, but am trying for Oxford. Oh
course Cambridge, London university
and Edinburgh are all high-grade uni
versities 1t may be week or more
before we're sent out.
We will be on the ground with
about four weeks of the long British
spring vacation on our hands, before
courses go on. In the meantime
they tell us, libraries and laboratories
will be open for our use, which | shall
indeed appreciate. We have a good
deal of freedom now to go to Liver
pool, where there is a large library
which I am going to find very handy
SO far I have made only one trip to
the city
| cannot go into detail now, but you
may be sure so vast an opportunity
is not passing without some notice
on my part 1t is going to be great
BIT of education, not SO much from
books as from experience.
AS yet / have no address here, but
am using the old one in France. AS
soon as | get settled, I'll send one out.
: With best wishes,
ARTHUR.
Second Letter
Liverpool England.
We'd Mar 10 1910
Dear Aunt Emma:
We have not yet been assigned, but
l think we will be in few days now.
1t will be very good to get settled
again, and get in touch with personal
affairs again through my mail.
Today is wretched out. After a
steady rain all yesterday afternoon
and evening it turned to snow about
10 o'clock, and when we got up this
morning, there were three inches Of
slushy snow on top Of lot Of mud,
and it was raining once more. But
this is real English March weather.
l trust the spring months will be fine,
if we may take the word of the poets.
Last evening l spent at the Central
Liverpool library down town, which
is a splendid place for reference work
and study. Any spare time l have |
can spend there very protitably, |
am really busy here reading papers,
writing letters, etc, fill all little unoc-
cupied clrinks Of time.
Some of the big propositions that
the peace conference is considering
are of the h CHEST Importance for the
decent organization of society, it
seems to me. Two especially stand
out as highly desirable-the League
Of Nations proposed by Mr.. Wilson,
and the abolition Of militarism and
compulsory military service, proposed
by Mr. Lloyd George. The bg COM
mon interests of the people Of all ma
tons are so nearly alike, that league
for the protection and settlement OF
those interests is very necessary, and
it takes some strong impartial power
like the United States to start the
European nations off trusting one an
other. With the help Of the United
States this can be done. Indeed, with
out the league. the chief aims of the
war would be lost, Only selfish men
could oppose it, and the peoples Of
Europe hope the United States will
not disappoint them in bringing about
the means Of real peace. Hundreds
and thousands of men who went
through the frightfulness of this war
have said, "If | thought this thing
would happen again | would go and
strange my children in their beds to
spare them this" The argument that
the United States should not interfere
in European affairs is particularly silly,
it seems to me, since we DID inter-
fere in them most emphatically on
April 6, 1917. Anyway, Europe is too
close to us to be out of our immediate
interest. War in Europe would be
bound to involve us again. and as Mr..
Wilson said about two years ago, here
after in any great war, no great ma
ton can ever be neutral again, prin-
cipally because the fundamental in
terests of each nation at once affect
those of all nations-and we need have
no more fears about a league of ma
tons than people had about league
of states when the United States was
formed All the nations of the world
will have to keep on living and deal
ing together some way, and the league
~plan seems to- be one of the most sem
sible plans by which to handle inter
national questions, which will have to
be handled some way.
| don't know exactly what the feel
ing there is on this, but those senators
who are fighting the league are plac-
ing the United States in a very selfish
light.
This is my position on the League
of Nations. Others may, no doubt do,
differ. But I'm not sure but that even
the immediate safety of the world, by
checking Bolshevism, depends on its
adoption. If it is not, there is danger
of people turning on their govern
ments in more instances than are now
on record. and causing an infinite deal
of trouble. To all these things [ think