Perth Amboy evening news., 1920-06-22
LEAGUE rs F-uNcTIoNING.

L @AD1ODG WIN TO- 80 ~ 1900 o
League Of Nations is dead or that
the RepUbl can party is going to Kill
lit would be disillusioned by reading
IEayond d. Eosdioi6s article in the
June number of the Atlantic MONTH
lIy. Nr. Foshiok shows that all the
lcountries that were neutral during
the war have Joined the league. in
1cluding Spain. Norway, Sweden.
Denmark, and Switzerland. Also
every country in South America, OK
cept Ecuador is nova member of the
LEAGUE. Outside of Russia and the CEN
tral empires of Ehrope. Portugal
and Roumania are the only impor-
tant countries that have not yet
comic in, and their accession, Nj.
Fosdidk says, ''isinow merely a mat
ter of .weeks."
The sleague is rapidly assuming It's
duties. 1t has taken over the con-
troll Of Danzig and the Saar Valley
basin in accordance with the treaty
OF Versailles. 1t has started the or
sanitation. of the Court of Inter
y national Justice, which court Elihu
Root, a leader in Republican party
councils. is now in Europe to help
set up. The league has assumed its
responsibility toward Poland and is
advising and supporting the Inter
national Labor Office. Its finances
Mr.. Fosdick points out. are now on
a satisfactory budget basis.
The council of the league has al
ready held two sessions, one in Lon
don and one in Paris, while the as
sembly, whsrh includes representa-
tives from all the member nations
will soon convene.
lust at present it is human well
fare that is receiving the greatest
\ attention of THE league officials. First
steps are being taken TO protect vast
Y populations fnom starvation and
disease and to reestablish the econ
Dmic life of thse world. The Inter
national Health Office of the League
of Nations 1t is declared. will be n
If It's most important subdivisions.
for, as Mr.. Fosdick points out,
health is not a local or even a ma
.ional concern. We have already had
our experience with the fatal in
.luenza. Starting in Spain this fright
ful epidemic swept the whole c~iviliz-
ed world claiming more victims than
many wars have done. Disease, it is
pointed out. is the common enemy
of mankind, and only through joint
counsel and aetion can it be sue
cessfully fought II the League of
Nations served no other useful pur-
pose the meme getting together of
the greatest brains of the world to
try TO prevent the spread of such
} diseases as influenza, cholera,
/ plague, yellow fever and typhas
would be well worth the while of
any enlightened nation participating
in the d~elaoerations of the league.
"Just as the allies needed a united
command 10 insure victory" Mr..
i Fosdick says $50 the human family
\ needs leadership TO cope with world
wide sources of disease and death"
After pieturing the social and in
dustrial collapse of Europe as a re-
salt of the war, the manufacturers
in central Europe still being without
raw materials and with little or no
factories even if they did have the
raw material. it is declared that
political chaos can be averted only
by restarting the industrial machine.
The dislocation in the rates of e.
change has disorganized the markets
ard destroyed the basis of inter-
national trade. Rotterdam is declar-
ed to be choked with cotton and tho
port of London is said TO be full OF
wool for which there are no buyers
because although Europe is des-
perate for these materials, the I'M
balanced exchange makes it inn
(, POSSIBLE for her to pay for them"
In all this matter America is vital
" Interested. There is no such thing
IS isolation any more; As Mr.. Fos-
dick says. "a movement in India or
r,iand -everberates in America
md Nsw Zealand. just as under pro-
d tssson In England and France, or
financial Reorganization in Germany
and Austria. has its repercussions in
evA4r state in our union"
n - well to know. therefore. that
tAe economic section of the league
has for many months been engaged
in . ~orld-wide study of such ques-
tll.sx as coal. production, markets,
and food and, the movement Of raw
aasi@risis. at the first meeting OF
~ assembly OF the league, rspre-
senun- ~ people of TIE weird, a
fuli s-.sss ~ill be ready. we are told.
showing where the human FAMILY