The Chattanooga news. [volume] (Chattanooga, Tenn.) 1891-1939, 1920-10-21
(BV MRS. GEORGE BAss.)
chairman OF tho National Women's
Bureau Of the Democratic National
Commlttee.)

'SH"''"" w w" N"'""" "o"c"
Bureau OF the Democratic National
Commlttee.)
The one outstanding policy today
which dwarfs all others aud which viii
decide tho presidential election Of 1920
no matter what efforts are made 10
crowd IL from tho center of the stage.
IA the peaCe OF the world supported by
n covenant between The civiiizod M.
tlons. That covenant has been made
and under Il thirty seven uatIons arc
now trying 10 settle the disturbing Dues
tons relative 10 boundaries aud busi-
ness, 10 racial differences and economic
necessitles Outside this covenant SIN
stands The United SUITES I'm unhappy
isolation, with Mexico. Turkey and boil
shcvist Russia,
Just what docs the league OF nations
broadly speaking, IL means the begin
ming OF the definite organization Of the
society Of nations, which took nebulous
form with the development of civilized
governments when treaties began to
bo made between nations, international
law governing tho relations between
peoples was dimly and imporfectly fore
seen and since curly In tho seventeenth
century there have been attempts to
codify this law. During all these cen
turtles there has existed II society OF
nations, held by slight and shifting ties
as wars succeeded wars and treaties
followed treaties and boundaries moved
back aud forth over tho maps OF tho
world. 1t has always been recognized
that the weakness Of international law
was that there was no tribunal to en-
force it,
Even The Hague council founded
amid high hopes, lacked all power of
enforcement And now VIC are at the
end of the most terrible OF all wars,
into which our country went with the
vision held before our eyes of "A pence
at it's end which should crystalize into
form all organization OF nations di-
rected toward preventing future wars
an organization based on the principles
OF justice and good VIII and fair play
between nations but with a definite
charter or covenant containing provis-
ions for enforcement OF it's decroes
---
Briefly, this is a league to try TO stop
war, the first cooperative attempt. One
attending the sessions OF the United
States senate during tho last year and
more would have thought the league
covenant was designed to plunge this
country into immediate and constantly
repeated wars; that the president had
forgotten the Monroe doctrine and that
the league would destroy It, Yet tho
fact is that the principle OF the Mon
roe doctrine was Incorporated and ex-
tended In the league covenant. One
would have thought from the senate de-
to entangllng aliiaaces meant any and
all agreements. The senatorial oppo-
ncnts of the league altogether forgot
that the 100 years since Washington's
death has changed every manner, GUS
tom and tradition Of our lives and that
we cannot, If we would, live as q Sc
Guided and selfish nation, deaf to the
agonized world appeal for peace and
business, for the stimulation of produc-
lion, for the restoration OF the processes
Of trode and INDUSTRY. and abova All
30 far as women are concerned, for the
lives OF from 10000, 900 to 20, 600 600
starving In Europe today, according to
Mr. Hoover.
But the league covenant Is not a per-
fect instrument. They say IL may make
some trouble for the United states, Tho
need OF tho world today cannot wait
upon perfection. The compelling fact
is that we are staying out of the one
and only effort to make a constructive
peace guaranteed by the civilized ma
lions
In seeking solutions for all the press
ing problems of life and government
destiny is trying out the souls OF men
and women sitting out the mean of
soul and tho selfish, those who have no
vision, and the little Americans, who
Gun see but with provincial and paro-
Chial ewes; who cannot hoar the call of
distressed and starving continent: who
deny thnt Americas honor Is bound up
in the welfare of the world But Amer
lean womanhood today, az In oil tho
Yesterdays of history. is responding to
every call OF the worlds need The
women OF America know that a new
framework for human society has to
be- built and they will be among the
builders
The world has burned It's bridges. In
no No turning back ON fortIIncs os n
nation are involved with those of the
world. whether we would or no" Eager.
rcadv bravo tha modorn woman 10
making her own terms With life and
answering nil it's calls. She ia fast
shedding timiditv and roluctonce CON
cnrntnc mis- In 81 nriyiIeoo ~ hars Nthe
boiot md n share i'm governmantaI
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SvIN"o " the "o'1'e o' lIe Country
c,u shiu"V'g'nS anu VIZ ci'cS H"iucs
OF hohoreu ueau' sone ioF sfh'rn'ioh
from among US wiz Welgh as hothins
as against broken PROMISES seltlSh poll
Cles ana tho ignoring OF really great IS
sues,
Ihat party, ana that party alone,
which has the courage and the truth
10 measure up to mo worlds need and
TINS CountrNs Woll-being can count on
the support OF the new and ms yet po-
litcally unclassitled votcrs-the wom-
en- Of the United States.
(Tomorrow Former United States
Senator James Hamilton LAWS, demo-