Norwich bulletin., 1920-07-23
WILLIMANTIC

I the evening session set forth eloquently the benefits which the so-called super 1 state will confer on mankind. A large audience gathered in the Willimantic T.. NJ C. A. building to hear the address, which was part of the three-day program prepared by the Connecticut Woman 1 Suffrage Association.
 l MT. Schoonmaker, who was member of the United States mission to Russia, 1 traced the sociological development of civilized nations and showed that the league was the next logical step in that development. All progress has come ! about through the formation of leagues, 1 the speaker asserted, showing that as the 1 league of man and woman in the mar riage state established the home, so the 1 homes in the next stage of development were grouped together into villages, the villages. banding together as states, and i the states as a nation. In each step he said, the same objections arose which are now being urged by opponents of the league, namely that the new rela- | tions would limit rights previously en- | joyed and force now responsibilities on the parties 10 the action.
 "The limitation of rights and the talk l ing on of new responsibilities are con ditions of human progress " MT. Schoon- maker said, In every case the forma-
 
 security for it's members and that is what the league of nations vii! bring. | Entirely too much attention has been given the political significance of the league, it was asserted. The functions which are being performed are not only political but social and economic, things which will contribute to the general wei fare of humanity and which will truly make the league 'the organized con science of the world" For instance, the ! speaker said the labor department had i already convened two great labor con 1 gresses, one at Washington and one at Genoa. At the Washington conference there was an unprecedented occurrence i when the Japanese delegates criticised | the labor policy of the Japanese govern ment, laying their case against that na- ! tion before the world conscience An other department of the league. tn, Hague peace court. to which Former Sec retary of State Elihu Root is the unoffi- 1 cial American delegate. is seeking to bring about an agreement for arbtrating disputes between nations. An interna- tional health department postal service. department of agriculture and financial i department are in process of organiza- = | ton, while the United States. powerful | nation that she is, and the real creator of the league, some hesitate to take her
 
 become members.
 MT. Schoonmaker continued: "The United States has no more chance of re- maining out of the league and having it made over to suit her than had Rhode Is land in Colonial times in waiting for the Constitution. of the United States to be made over. Reservations which the United States makes will not vitally eff feet the league constitution.
 If this league had been in existence twenty-five years ago Japan would never have seized Korea and the Shantung pen insula would never have gone to that country. The Spanish-American war need never have been fought if = the league had been in existence. for the United States would have been there to voice the demands of the oppressed Gu ban people. The Boer war would never have been fought, for the British people as a whole opposed it. but had no organ ization to which they could appeal The question is: Can we prevent further seiz- ures?
 Unless the league of nations is form ed,' said Mir. Schoonmaker. and the | thinking men and women of the world put their minds and hearts into it to make it what it should be, what the kali ser said of Europe We may say of the