The sun., 1919-06-23
KINGSLEY WARNS OF
DISASTER IN EUROPE
New York Life Insurance
Head Says Only America
Can Avert It.
MAY NEED ANOTHERARMY
Asserts That Economic League
as Well as League Of Ma
tons Is Required.

BURLINGTON, VT, Juno 22,--The asser-
ton that this country and this coun-
try alone can bring Europe salvation"
was made by Darwin p. Kingsley. presi-
dent of the New York Life Insurance.
Company. in a memorial address at the
University Of Vermont tonight in honor
Of the men Of the university who fell In
the war. Mr.. Kingsley. who is O grad
uate of Vermont, paid tribute to the
men who answered unhesitatingly the
supreme challenge Of fate and died srnil-
ing"
"Consciously or unconsciousiy," he
continued, they all died for q great
cause That cause Is greater than de-
mocracy. greater that country.
incompetent leadership. provincialism
and selfishness promise to delay the tri-
umph OF the cause for which they died.
The collapse OF Germany has put into
the hands Of allied Powers an oppor-
tunity to achieve In q generation what
otherwise may be realised only after
centuries Of fighting. At present the in
dications are that the world will con-
tinue to travel over the broken, cruel,
bloody road 1t has SO long followed.
There ia to be no quick emergence into
new order which law shall rule be-
tween nations, under which wars shall
be made improbable IL not impossible.
Nevertheless, that new order 10 what
tho people OF the world now demand
Responsibility VIII Increase.
I'VE did not want to 20 TO Europe,
but we had to 90. We do not want TO
mix In its troubles now, but we must
The hope that we may not have to send
another army across the seq 10 false
hope unless the existing order 10
changed Responsibility to the rest OF
the world as well as our own self re-
spect took us there In 1917. That re-
sponsibility Is greater now than It ever
cannot avoid 1t II we are to maintain
our traditions and our place in the
world.
This country. and this country alone.
can bring Europe salvation. That we
must do. We must DO It not as work
Of altruism, but to save ourselves.
we must help Europe to help her
self. We must help her people to 80 to
work. Her people are not working now.
morale 10 30 shattered that they appar-
entity do not want to work
Must Enter Economic League.
Whether or not the Republican reac-
tionaries in the United States Senate de-
lay peace because they object to the 30
called League of Nations covenant, con-
tanned in the treaty, we must enter at
cnce m economic and industrial League
Of Nations or Europe perishea That
league will bs made BY commercial
necessity, power which does not act
by or with the advice and consent Of the
United States Senate.
But political as we'll as o CONNER
cial union OF peoples must come II the
relations Of nations are to be stabilised
and civilized. Az we hesitated and diliy-
daliied and tried not to BEE our duty
prior to April 9, 1877. so some of our
leaders now hesitate and shilly -shally
over the League OF Nations proposed
and a poor thing II 10 at best And so
they will hesitate and shilly-shaily over
our part In the economic and reconstruc-
ton problems which face Europe
Europe Ia hungry. It probably will
become hunerier. Before they starve
men become savages. The danger now
is that the very foundations OF European
society may crumble. He u q fool who
thinks all that can happen and leave us
safe-safe in what he IL pleased to call
our splendid isolation"