South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1920-02-24
HOOVER WOULD
ACCEPT PACT
RESERVATIONS
Calls Upon Senate Faction to
Ratify Peace Treaty :
At Once.

~ United Press
BALTIMORE. Nd Feb. "a
Warning against the judgment OF
police court minds" Herbert
Hoover. speaking at Johns Hopkins
university today called upon SEN
ate factions 70 ratify the peace
treaty on the basis OF mild reserva-
ZIONIST proposals.
1t appears 20 many OF u.s."
Hoover said. that the most practi-
cal hope OF immediate ratification
lies in the lesser reservationists ac-
cepting the proposals OF the mild
reservationists-' For my part. II the
league cannot prove its value under
the latest proposals OF the mild res
ervationists' II will never prove them
under the proposals of the lesser
reservatio1ists.t
In addition 10 speaking for treaty
ratifcation. Hoover called attention
10 the necessity for an Immediate
raise in the salaries Of teachers and
professors.
Against Campaign Policy.
AARNhfA AFNAtAa IA oFrfAAAAnh AAlI tN AAllIr
The treaty into the coming cam
paign and pointed out that our
policy under the league. If It is fin
ally accepted. must stlll DC worked
out, There are many he said. who
believe this country should stay out
Of purely European affairs.
The treaty as distinguished from
the covenant COT the League of Ma
tiOns) was born in fire and suffering
a sense OF wrong, the passions OF
revenge and fear that grow from
them. Already many OF it's signator-
ies are acknowledges II must be
revised"
Hoover said that If the new Eu-
ropean states would survive they
must reintegrate much Of their for
.rrer economic relationships and free
themselves from burdening arma-
ments.
Not only the economic questions
but the problem OF getting the maxi
mum reparations depend on the
coming Of real peace" Hoover said.
and added.
cit will be delayed as long as we
hang the treaty in the afr, for we
are part Of II.
Conccdc Revision.
IT do not believe the adherence Of
the American people OF the league
requires any demonstration. I be
lieve that the majority Of our PEOPLE
are convinced OF the necessity of
reservations with the league. Both
parties 10 the conflict appear to con-
cede this. The conflicting groups
over the character OF the reserva-
tions have gradually abandoned
their extreme ground and have
come closer TO a common mind. It
would appear to an outsider that
both sides were I'm agreement on
all the great major ideas OF the
league and the major ideas Of res
ervations. but that they are in dis
q agreement mostly over secondary
questions in the reservations. In the
meantime the world is held in sus-
pense. Infinite misery goes on ac-
cumulating Already the distrust
and undermining OF confidence and
credit In the world has crippled our
export market. Our farmers are the
first 10 suffer The prices OF our
farm products are rapidly falling
below the cost of production. If we
are TO have economic stability at
home, = can be maintained only
through stability in our agricultural
population"
Hoover then launched into an at
tack on the injection of the treaty
into the coming elections.
Hoover then outlined his Sugges-
tions as TO what he believes is the
only immediate solution Of ratihca-
tion.