Connecticut western news., 1919-09-25

- 1 lawed nation will be boycurted ny all I the other members of the Lengue amt 4 1 will find itsnlf cut off from both bust ness Cnd sJC'al communication wltW the rcSt of th" world
 1 How 1t }Jill Prevent Wars.
 It Is not clu med that the League of Nations will do away with war alto ! gether. Ever possible provision that l human inteilI sence can devise will be 1 made to settle international disputes 1 peacrahly. l It should all these meas ures fa!l ant two nations go to war, thiy is what will happen: @ If both parties to the dispute have l observed the rules Of the League, the ] other nations will stand back and let ! them fight .t out. War under such ! circumstances is difficult to imagine, however, hscause before the angry na- tions will be allowed to fight in ac- ! ccr,,Hnce with the rules of the League, so much time, must clapse that in all 1 probability their anger will cool and they w;ll reach an amicable under | standing.
 What we have to fear is that some nation will go to war in defiance of . the League, and every precaution has \ [ been taken to suppress such a nation \ | by the immediate use of the. united power of the other nations. If inter- national boycott failed to bring her to terms she would have to face a combined international army and navy. The founders of the League be- l Nlt,sf .F situal on will prevent any nation from violating its agreement. Does anyone think that Germany would have begun war five years ago If she had known that nearly all the other great powers would combine against herr
 Doing the Worlds Work
 In addition to settling international disputes peaceably the League of Nations will provide means for doing much of the worlds work more sys- tematically and effectively than can be done now when ea ,h nation Is working only for itself The people you know best and il.c hest are those who work with you on the same job. It will be the same way with the nations of the future. The more they work together, the sooner they will come to understand and like each | other.
 For example, the Lcagre will estab- l.sh an international organization for tho bettering of labor conditions in 1 different countries, for the protection of women and children and the native inhabitants of civilized and semi-civil- ized countries. One of Germany's greatest crimes has been her barba- rous treatment of the helpless people in some of her colonies. One of the chief tasks of the League will be to look after peoples that are not strong enough to protect themselves. N
 The League will appoint commis- sions to take charge of various inter- national undertakings so that they may be carried on, not for the benefit j of any one nation, but for the benefit of the whole world. Provision will be made for promotion of fair and equal trade conditions.
 These are only few of the benefits the world will derive from the League. As ttime goes on we shall find more and more tasks at which the nations can work in common and greater number of opportunities to remove causes which stir up jealousies and animosiries between races and peoples.
 Objections Answered.
 Of course we cannot hope to make the great changes such as the League ! ,hA opposition. Fortunately the war has taught us the great advantages of international cooperation. It was only by good team work that the free liberty loving nations were able to whip Germany.
 The treaty which the United States Senate is debating obligates the mem- bers of the proposed League 10 pro- tect one another against attack from enemies outside their own boundaries bent upon conquest Although this agreement Article X of the Cove nanO is vital to any arrangement which seeks to prevent war, 1t has been attacked on the ground that 1t would draw the United States into wars in various parts of the world and force us to send our boys Co fight in quarrels which did not concern us
 We should remember however, that the main purpose of Article x Is to frighten nations tempted to wars of conquest from yielding to the tempta- ton, by the certainty that they will be crushed if they begin such n war by universal boycott and n union of forces of the world against them. If big war breaks out again, the United States will be forced to take part in