New-York tribune., 1920-02-24
Urges
League and
Reservations
Declares Factions in Sem
ate Are for Ratifca-
ton, and ''Deadlock Is
for Political Purposes
Dispatch to The Tribu,


BALTIMORE, Feb. 23-Declaring
that the majority of the American peo-
pie are convinced Of the necessity of
reservations in ratification of the
treaty of peace and "many of it's sig
natories are acknowledging it must be
revised" Herbert C. Hoover, in an ad-
dress at Johns Hopkins University here
to-day, asserted that he opposed MAX
ing the document campaign issue.
Hope of early ratification and relief
for distressed Europe lay in an agree
ment on reservations by the two i'm
portant groups of Senators, Mr.. Hoover
said. He thought that the two oppos-
ing sides were so near in substance
that the deadlock had the appearance
OF an attempt to gain advantage in
domestic politics by holding up Ameri-
cas- participation in reconstruction of
Europe.
Believes Country Has Decided Question
He said that he opposed obscuring
domestic issues by "conAict over a
question on. which the country has al
ready made up it's mind"
Mr.. Hoover's address was delivered
at the annual commemoration day ex-
erclscs of the university, at which the
degree of doctor of laws was conferred
upon him.
In opening his address Mr.. Hoover
made q plea for increased salaries for
teachers and university professors He
cited statistics showing that 100, 900
teaching positions in the United States
are vacant or filled by teachers below
standard and that probably 10000
teachers in the United States receive
less than $3.50 a year.
"This situation of heart breaking un-
der-payment," he said, sis not confined
to our common schools. There is not a
university in the United States to-day
that is not losing month by month
some of its best ability by the COM
petition Of commerce."
Discussing the treaty Mr.. Hoover
SAID in part:
".The Treaty of Versailles has been
before the country now for eight
of us the treaty divides itself into two
parts-into the treaty itself in set
tlement of the immediate war prob
lens, and into the covenant of the
league of nations.
Treaty Born of Compromise
"The treaty, as distinguished from
the covenant, was born in a fire of
suffering, a sense of wrong, the pas
sions of revenge and fear that grew
from them. To some of us many of
the features of the treaty itself were
the result of compromise with these
forces. Already many Of its sigma
tories are acknowledging it must be
revised. It's settlements did not suf-
fciently recognize the necessity of
economic solidarity between different
parts of Europe.
"There are some 400,000OO0 people
in Europe who before the war barely
managed to exc out an existence by
tNe utmost eXertion in production.
With the additional burden of over
coming the destruction and disintegra-
tion of war, all Europe must free itself
from armament. This populati is
still in a vast ferment of misery and
social agitation. 1t will go on and will
continue to infect our shores until pro-
duction can be restored.
"Thc danger does not so much lie
in revolutionary cataclysm as in steady
degeneration of the standard Of living
and the slow decay of the forces of
stability. These readjustments in
sober second thought need begin at
the earliest possible moment. If the
maximum rcparation is to be secured
by the Allies this productivity must
be. restored. Until then we shall not
have real peace. 1t will be delayed as