Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1920-10-29
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the countries of the world have ever
agreed to put into effect. Unless tho
United States is q member of the
League it cannot join in forging this
powerful weapon.
10. The Financial Conference.
which began its sittings at Brussels
on September oath, was the most
important international gathering
after the Conference of Versailles.
The League brought together a mass
OF information OH world economic
matters such as has never been avail
able before, covering such subjects as
international finance, credits, curr-
ency, exchange, etc. At this Con-
ference, which touched the interest
and well-being of every nation of the
world, the United States was not
officially represented.
IL. Single-handed on the eastern
frontier of Europe, with financial
support provided by it's members,
the League of Nations is fighting
the epidemic of typhus. 1t has thrown
itself into the breach to protect man.
kind everywhere from horor which
only those who know Poland and
Esthonia can appreciate Needless of
national boundary lines, typhus is
steadily approaching the borders of
Germany and already reaching out
long arms to touch Is victims in Hol-
land, Italy and even in France. Only
through cooperation between nations
can remedy be found, and the
League has assumed the responsible.
lity. The estimated cost of this work
is $15,000,000. The United States
has no part in the financing
IL. The League of Nations has un-
dertaken the repatriation of the hun
dreds of thousands of prisoners of
war, who, two years after the armis-
tice, are still detained in enemy
countries. In Russia and Siberia alone
there are 275,000 such men-Ges-
mans, Austrians, Hungarians, Poles,
Czechs and Roumanians-isolated
from their homes and families only
because facilities for transportation
are lacking. 1t is estimated that be-
fore the arrival of winter the League
will be successful in returning 10O,-
600 of these men to their own coun-
tries, having fed them and clothed
them in transit.
l.. The League has established a
bureau to fight the international ex-
ploitation of opium and other drugs.
Here again the necessity for interna-
tional cooperation becomes obvious.
The evil cannot be attacked by one
country or by a small handful of
countries. 1t can be eliminated only
as the nations of the world Join in
the undertaking. The Leagueof Ma
tions is providing the necessary ma
chinery.
Ia. The League of Nations has
established an international Health
Office. Health is not local or even
a national concern. Influenza knows
no boundaries, and the germs of in
fantile paralysis laugh at geograph-
ical frontiers. Disease is the common
enemy of mankind, and only through
joint counsel and action can it be
successfully fought.
These points represent the main
activities of the League the seven
months of its existence. 1t is going
ahead most coyrageously, rapidly or
ganizing its work, regardless of the
United States. We cannot destroy
1T, nor even can we substitute an
other league in its place. We have
only two choices: to stay outside of
a community of nations organized
for cooperation and peace and there
by lose our whole place in the world,
to say nothing or our own soul as a
nation, or to come into the League
with reservations, if we thing nee
essary) and put our shoulder to the
wheel in all those great movements
for which American foreign policy
has always stood.
published at the request of C. w.
Boyd, Richlands, Va.)