Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1920-10-29
WHAT THE LEAGUE OF
NATIONS rs NOT.
Objections Answered for the Woman
Voter.


Objections Answered for the Woman
Voter.
ISSUED by Woman's Bureau, Demo-
cratic National Committee)
1.-The League of Nations is NOT
q scheme to provoke var. The dan
gcrous nation is the nation which
stands alone, jealous and suspicious
of its neighbors. arming itself to the
teeth. When nations agree as in the
League to talk things over, gradual
ly to reduce their armies and navies,
to make their treaties public, and to
settle their quarrels by LAW instead
of by Wharf.-The first long step is
taken toward world peace.
V. The League of Nations is not q
means of sending American boys to
fight foreign battles. Article X simp-
ly pledges the nations in the League
to respect one another's boundaries
and defend them from EXTERNAL ut
tack. If IL nation disobeys this rule,
the other nations in the League agree
| to cut off the outlaw from all trade
and intercourse. The League, by un-
animous vote may ADVISE" (only
that) stronger measures, but each
| nation in it's own way must decide
what it will do. In other words, the
United States may declare war only
by vote of Congress as our Consti-
tuEion requires, and may first veto
such proposal within the League
| itself.
3. The League is NOT u combina-
ton to stop subject people from
gaining their freedom. 1t may even
be a way Of extending friendly aid.
Article X points out that revolutions
or civil wars are nations own con-
Germ. unless the peace OF the world
is in danger, in which case the
the League may act. This would
give the United States real chance
to protect the rights of small, OPP
pressed nationalties.
4. The League of Nations is NOT
government. 1t may suggest
changes in foreign relations, bat it
own laws or Constitution.
5. The League of Nations is NOT
n chance for America to be outvot-
err or out-witted by foreign power
In the assembly 1.-THE body for dis
cussion and conference) each nation
and each self-governing colony has
one vote. But in the Council of Nine
1.-THE real governing body) where
Great Britain, United States. France,
| Italy and Japan are to be ALWAYS
represented, Great Britain with all
her colonies and about one quarter
of tho worlds population has, like
every other nation, just one ballot.
| And on all vital oinpts the voting
must be UNANIMOUS
g.. The League of Nations is NOT
Interchangeable. Its Constitution may
be readily amended and doubtless
will be as occasion demands. Any ma
ton may withdraw from the League
by giving two years notice.
Z Here are a few things accom-
plished in six short months
What the League Has Accomplished
A. Six meetings Of the Council
have been held, thirty-seven nations
have joined the League, perma-
nent secretary has been appointed,
permanent headquarters, with staff
CT experts drawn from all over the
world is in working order.
b. An international Labor Office
has been opened in Switzerland The
first International Labor difference
brought together in March under
League auspices recommended stand
ards for every country against child
labor, night work for women and
minors, woman's labor twelve weeks
before childbirth and for an eight
hour day for working women.
C. An international Health Office
is planned and measures are under
way to check the epidemic of typhus
and cholera in Central Europe.
D. Commissions have been set UP
to administer the Sarre Basin and
the Port of Danzig under League
direction.
E. The clans of Sweden and Fin
land for the Aland Islands have been
heard and are now being considered.
f. The plan for an International
Court of Permanent Justice, the first
step of League machinery, has been
formed by the most prominent ju.
rists in the world.