The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-04-23
STONE SEES BIG
LEAGUE CHANCE IN
BETTER WIRE PLAN
Associated Press Leader Back
From Europe Discusses
World Affairs and Scouts
Idea of Break in Ranks.

NEW YORK, April 23.-Development
OF INSTRUMENTATION promises a
chance that the league OF ma
tons may accomplish It's object Of
insuring world peace, Melville e. Stone.
general manager Of the Associated
Press, recently returned from the peace
conference, told the members of the
news association at their annual meet
Ing and luncheon here.
Mr.. Stone doubted If anybody knew
whether the league project would sue
coed, but said the representatives Of
the associated powers had addressed
themselves to the formation Of Al Dr.
ganization, intended II possible, to pre-
vent a recurrence of war, which, he
said, had reached a point, through the
advance OF science, where a future con-
tlict would well-nigh mean human an
Inhalation. By the modern processes Of
lntercommunication, however, the IA
lions were inevitably brought closer to-
gether, he said, extending mems Wis
ion and giving a little promise" that
the failure OF the congress of Vienna
100 years ago might be followed by
something like success"
II was a mistake, Mr.. Stone said, to
Imagine that there had been an un-
pleasant or angry situation between tho
peace ENJOYS OF the associated powers,
who had brought to their task q sim
cere desire to solve a@great problem.
Despite the German hopes Of differ
ences among the ~conquerors, he added,
they had agreed as to principle.
Urges Plan
Describing a visit to the devastated
regions OF France, Mr.. Stone declared
/ n had hhAn tttDFn hU tina Vnnuf FnaIint,
and outrageous savagery the world had
ever known" To bring about Its re-
habilitatiOn, he asserted, extension Of
long-time credits ky American manu-
f~acturers was essentially a scheme
which he said could be carried out
serve system to fall bRck upon In case
Of emergency.
In keeping with the pan-American
spirit of the meeting, inspired by the
recent addition Of 25 South American
newspapers to the Associated Press
membership, Mr.. Stone stated that this
extension OF the service gave assurance
Of the atnity Of the Western hemi-
sphere. In like manner In earlier dayk,
he said, the organization had been a
material factor in Cementink the rela-
tons Of the northern and southern sec.
tons Of the United States, a union
which made possible the national spirit
tNluCIlteu III ilc pIhhiSI- AMERICAN war
and rt%-emphaslzed in the world con-
flict,
Frank b. Noyes, president Of the as
ISOLATION, who acted as toastmaster. ex-
pressed the belief that when the peace
terms were made public 1t would DO
found that despite all the clashes Of
national interests, America will have
made good her word
with nations, as with individuals"
he said, ut seems both unfortunate
and Inevitable that succeeding a period
of moral eXaltation comes a reaction
In which our less admirable traits come,
~faonentarlly at least, to the surface
and appear to dominate.
80, after the spirit OF heroic deter
nination that freedom should not perish
from the earth, and that spirit had won
an unexampled victory, followed q
period of fretful criticism, not at all
confined TO the limits Of this country.
Whatever was, was wrong. Whatever
might be done was surely going to be
wrong.
III we must believe our own misgiv-
ings,. the winning of the war was In
Itself II calamity,