The Mena weekly star., 1919-02-20
LEAGUE OF NATIONS.
 COVENANT READ.
President Wilson Presented Docu- ment to Peace Delegates on Eve of His Departure for U. s.
 Five Allies in League.

 was the central figure of the plenary peace conference today when in per son he read the covenant establish ing a League of Nations. There was added interest in the session as it was the last gathering of the delegates prior to the Presidents departure, as well as being the occasion of present. ing the document with which his name is identified.
 The President was received with military honors as he arrived at the foreign office and the large crowds which had congregated gave him a cordial welcome as he passed thru. The delegates already were assem- bled when the President entered the council chamber.
 When he entered the chamber, the President was greeted by Premier Clemenceau, Foreign Secretary Bal four and Viscount Milner of Great Britain and the American delegates at the head of the table. There was little formality. Premier Clemenceau, who is president of the conference, called the conference to order and President Wilson rose and addressed the meeting.
 President Wilson in offering his outline of the plan for the League of Nations bases the articles of the text on the following preamble and covenant
 "In order to promote international cooperation and to secure interna- tional peace and security by the ac- ceptance of obligations not to resort to war, by the prescription of open, just and honorable relations between nations, by the firm establishment of the understandings of international law as the actual rule of conduct among governments, and by the main- tenance of justice and scrupulous respect for all treaty obligations in the dealings of organized people with one another, the powers signatory to this covenant adopt this constitution of the League of Nations
 The executive council is limited to representatives of the five allied pow CTS, the United States, Great Britain, France, Italy and Japan, and four others, to be selected later.
 The permanent location of the League headquarters is to be decided later
 Additional admissions to the League of Nations will require con- sent of two-thirds of the present members.
 "No state shall be admitted to the League unless it is able to give effect i've guarantees of it's sincere inten- tions to observe it's international ob- legations, and unless it shall conform to such principles as may be prescrib- ed by the League in regard to it's naval and military forces and arma- ments."
 Article l3 proposes that when dis putes between nations cannot be set tied by diplomatic action, the entire matter'is to be referred to board of arbitration.
 1 The constitution of the League also points out the necessity for redue- ton of national armaments and the restriction of munitions manufactur- ing. States which break the covenant of the League are liable to severance of ''all trade and financial relations with the others, and the members also i agree they will support one another in the financial and economic meas ures which may be taken" The League is to have general su- pervision of the trade in arms and ammunition.
 Article 19 of the proposed consti- tuition provides that the League shall act in an advisory capacity for those states mot yet able to stand by them selves under the strenuous conditions <, of the modern world" Other countries are to receive administrative ad- vice"
 Labor conditions are recognized as follows:
 me nlgn contracting parties will enleavor to secure and maintain fair and humane conditions of labor for men, women and children both in their own countries and in all coun- tries to which their commercial rela- tions extend, and to that end agree to establish as part of the organiza- ton of the League a permanent bu- reau of labor"