The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-10-03
LEAGUE FAILURE
 MEANS OUTBREAK
 OF NEW WARFARE
Hoover Says Chaos Will Break Out in Europe If
 U. S. Quits Leaue.

of Nations Is to break down, we must at once prepare to fight" Herbert Hoover, formerly Economic Director for the Supreme War Council, told the students of Stanford University in an address he delivered here tonight
 The Peace Treaties" he said, "can not be carried out without the League. If the League falls the treaties also Ia--' IT the balance Of power is to suppIant the League Of Nations, we VIII have torn asunder the only hope that Europe will not break into fur tAer wars of races, classes and com binations that will take civilization back to the middle ages.
 T am confident that if we atternDt to revise the treaty we shall tread a road through European chaos, If we manage to keep our soldiers out of II we will not escape fearful economic losses.
 The Allies may, themselves, revise this treaty without us and hen as semble a council of nations of their own in an endeayor to solve the prob Iems of Europe. It would be 2 coun- Gil Of Europe and in the midst of these terrible times, considering the debts they owe us, the material they must have from us or starve, would rather that we be represented therein lest 1t become a league of Europe against the Western Henais- phere. A peace without us means more army and navy for us, the old treadmiu of taxes and dangers for us.
 MT. Hoover said that few people seem to realize the desperation to which Europe has been reduced
 During the coming winter some of hem will look with longing eyes to this rich, fat nation. with it's surplus of every human necessity" he said. We cannot fiddle while Rome burns. If we believe we can see our neigh hors return to another 30 years war through the breakdown of this treaty. and we still maintain our progress, 1t is the egotisn of insanity Our ex- pansiOn over seas has entangled us for good or i'll, and stand for an hon est attempt to join with Europe's bot ter spirits to prevent these entangIe- -lents from involving us in war We a-s nos dealing with perfection, we are dealing with the lesser of evils
 For us to refuse to enter into joint attempt with the weu-thinking sections of a large part of tIle world 10 establish a continuing moral con- science against war is the utmost fol- ly in our own interests.
 Pointing out the likelihood that some European nations will again be plunged into war with their neigh 'bors, MT. Hoover referred to a proba- bility of the invasion of Poland if the treaty failed
 He said, there are many elements in Europe who wish to see the treaty 7o5-r- r. 5r ' xE lions disappear During the last five months OUT Allies have been growing weaker from military point of view due to ths necessity of deInobilizing their armies, while at the same time The eactionary group in Germany has been growing in strength through the hope of yet securing 9 division of the All s- At the time I left Europe 2 month ago German rniI=tarism had already re-esta bEshed itself as q well disciplined, BeI1-oficered army of at least 400, 900 men largely congregated on the Polish frontier and even defy ing the government at BeTBn. Un- der the alarm of this danger the Poles in the midst of the greatest economic misery that q nation ever knew, have been trying to create an army e 500,- DOC men. for their protection from the Germans on the one side and the BoIshevfh1 on the other. If the treaty is ratified the German army will be reduced to 2O0,O 900 men and dispers- cd over Germany and their extra arm arnent destroyed The failure Of the -reaty means the invasion of the Po- fish state
 This is only one of the powder magazines fn Europe which cannot be destroyed until this treaty is ratf- led, and during every day of delay more explosives are poured into -hern-''
 The treaty finally agreed upon at Paris is by no means perfect" de clared MT Hoover, adding that he saw no u1ettod by whi0h it could have been made perfect under the cir cunstances-
 He pointed out that scores of in- ternationa1 wrongs which breed war existed in the world before the con- ference vas held. Of these. he said, the Peace Conference corrected some but he predicted 1t would take per haps 100 years to correct them all.
 "'It is often overlooked that this was not a conference to settle the Syrongs commit eI by Allies or neu- 4ra18 but by the enemy only said MT. Hoover. Tt was Germany's s wrongs that were on the operating table. It would have been beautiful 1o have all the international frogs on the table but this ig not d perfect world. If this had been atteTnptCi the conference would have broken up into quarrelD Of Europe. The old guard ir Germany hoped and expected fNais would result; up to date they have been disappointed.
 "So one could be more disap- pointed than the American delegation that some great wrongs that were the result of the secret treaties that had been written in times of great desperation among the original Allies were not eradioated.
 "Greatar things were accomplished by this conference than by any other in history. The military o1igarchfes of Germany, Austria and Turkey were dissolved and if peace is ratified in time they will be disarmed and thus a paramount fnsnace to us and the world will be destroyed
 Asserting that the Peace Confer ence endeavored to remove as many of the immediate causes of war as possible, Mir. Hoover said that in the