New-York tribune., 1919-08-08
kilograms Sent 20 Twenty
Persons Asking Them to
Give SIS, 900 Each to Run
Campaign of Education
Says 1t Must Reach People
Cannot Go Ahead with Work
Unless Friends Rally 10
Call for Financial Aid

In order to speed up the programme
for the approval of the peace treaty
and the consummstion of the league
of nations. George w. Wickersham,
former Attorney General; Cleveland H.
Dodge, Alton B. Parker and Jacob H.
Schiff yesterday sent telegraphic appeals
10 several hundred men and women for
immediate cash contributions for the
educational work of the League to En-
force Peace. Twenty of the kilograms
resd:
american people must be. reached
Immediately with true significance
league of nations and its necessity in
present very grave world crisis. Great
educa ational campaign necessary. Will
you be one of twenty to give each
$4,000 to League Enforce Peace? Will
lam Howard Taft, president Bush Ter
minal Building, New York"
Following up the foregoing, Secre-
tary W H. Short, Of the league. yester-
day sent this supplemental message:
'The war just closed called $4,000 900
men to arms and cost $4,000, 900 casual
ties. 100000 men killed and S22l,-
0O0,000,00 in treasure.
What Peoples Were Told
Throughout the four and one-half
years of horror the peoples we're told
and believed that they were lighting
war to end war-that with peace would
come league of nations to guard the
world against the repetition of such
catastrophe.
Shall they now be denied the fruits
of that victory?
"The league of nations. as the Presi-
dent has so we'll said, has come about
by no plan of our conceiving. but by
the hand of God. who led us into this
way. We cannot turn back The al
tentative to a league is crushing race
for armament, another war more de-
structive than al former wars, and the
suicide of civilization
IF you believe these things. help,
The campaign of education must go on
until the Senate vote on ratification is
taken. All this will require funds. i'm
mediate and adequate. We can go ahead
with our work only if those who un-
derstand why our country fought this
war will rally to the call"
Says It's Not Unusual
When a Tribune reporter asked Mr..
Short about the telegraphic appeal for
funds he said that there was nothing
unusual about the appeal except the
method-that hitherto the league has
been accustomed to finance itself by
subscrl ptions made at national conven-
tlons, but, in view of the fact that no
convention is being held this summer.
appeals for contributions are being
made direct to friends of the league by
letter and wire.
The leagues statement on the point
OF reservations in part is as follows:
AT meeting If the Emer.eacy
Campaign Committee of the League to
Enforce Peace at which nearby mem
bers of the executive committee were
also present, the question of amend
ments and reservations came up for
discussion. and it was the unanimous
opinion that the league should not sug-
gest any reservations or amendments
whatsoever The league understands
that Mr. Taft shares this opinion. but
that he, having in view a declaration
that would not affect the validity of
the ratification, made certain sugges-
tions on the subject for possible future
use by the friends of the league of ma
tons and in the interest of ratification
OF the covenant. The League to En-
force Peace is now and always has
been unaterably opposed to any reser-
vatlons that would impair or jeopardize
in the slightest degree the complete
RATIFICATION of the treaty by the Sen
ate"