Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1920-01-23
news review OF
CURRENT EVENTS
League of Nations Is Born but
United States and Other
Nations Are Absent.
BLOODY RIOTS IN BERLIN
Communists Attempt to Start Revo-
Iution-Poland Needs Help to Re-
pei Bolshevists-settIement of
Adriatic TroubIe-Consti-
tutionaI Prohibition
in Effect
BY EDWARD w. PIckARp.

The League of Nations came into
being last Friday, the first meeting
of its council being held in Paris pur-
Wilson. At present it is admittedly
somewhat of a weakling, since the
United States is not a member and
Russia, Germany and some other pow
erS have not been admitted. But
America doubtless will adhere to the
covenant before long, and the league
will then proceed to fulfill, or not full
fill. the rosy predictions of its crea-
tors. Most of the world wishes it
I well and hopes 1t will prove to be the
beneficent institution that its ardent
supporters believe it will be.
The nations participating in the
opening meeting of the league council
and their representatives were:
France-Leon Bourgeois, former
premier.
Great Britain = Earl Curzon of
Kedlestone, foreign secretary.
Italy-Signor Scialoia, foreign min
lister.
Belgium-Paul Hymans, foreign
minister.
Spain-Count Quinones De Leon,
ambassador to France.
Greece -Eliptherios Venizelos, pre-
mier.
Japan-Viscount Chfnda, ambassa-
dor to Great Britain.
Brazil-Dr. Gastoa Da Cunha, am
bassador to France.
The people of the United States, es-
pecially, perhaps, the business men,
do not at all relish the fact that this
| country alone is now technically at
war with Germany. They are letting
the senate know how they feel, and
thus the pressure on that august body
| to reach q compromise on the treaty
has been increasing daily. The people
do not wish the matter put up to
them as a political issue in the presi-
Dental campaign, for they do not
claim to be experts at treaty-making
and feel that the senate should attend
to its own business. All last week
the compromisers were busy trying to
reach a common base, assuming that
President Wilson would not reject
moderate reservations despite his re-
peated assertions to the contrary.
But article 10 was, as ever, the stick
ing point, and at this writing a settle
ment was not in sight. Meanwhile.
Immediately following the promulga-
| af +ho fu hn no
tions are sending their representatives
to Germany and pushing their cam
paignS to secure trade.
Plans are being laid for great edu-
cational, financial and Industrial con-
ference for the purpose of restoring
normal conditions throughout the
world. Support for the scheme has
been asked of the governments of
the entente and neutral nations of Eu-
rope and the Chamber Of Commerce
of the United States by large num-
Der of leading men of this country
and Europe. The original call does
not include Germany and Austria, but
It is stated that these countries as
well as Japan and the Latin-Americar
republics will be asked to send dele
gates.
The communists of Germany, whC
take advantage of every excuse tt
start trouble, staged a great demon
stration in Berlin against the govern
ments measure putting the work
mems councils on a legal basis. Thou
sands of them undertook to force theil