Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-04-01
THE TRI-WEEKLY EDITORIAL DIGEST
Summary Leading Opinion
Hoq0 Shall Ne Make Peace Nth GermanyS

now are. Whose is the first mover" And
the POST continues:
will the president at once move to ne
gotiate separate peace with Germany? .. E.
Will congress attempt the hitherto unheard-
of and probably unconstitutional scheme of
making peace by resolution"
The latter plan appeals to many. Senator
Knox has introduced resolution to that eff
feet, and the JOHNSTO WIN DEMOCRAT
(Dem) believes 'the senate should now
lose no time in passing the Knox resolution
declaring the war with Germany at an end"
The WICHITA BEACON Qnd.) feels the
same way: There is no excuse" it says, "for
keeping up technical state Of war when
no war exists. Congress declared war in the
first place. 1t undoubtedly has the right
to declare the war at an end" and the
GRAND RAPIDS PRESS Ind.) agrees that
this is 1.-THE least that congress can do after
the months of muddling." So thinks the
STEUBENVILLE HERALD-STAR (Rep.),
and the CHICAGO TRIBUNE lind. Rep.) ad-
vocates that the Knox resolution be "broad-
ened so as to provide for a revision of the
treaty of Versailles
An attempt at revision is essential" the
TRIBUNE believes, Ito the salvation of Eu-
rope, whose civilization is worse threatened
at this moment than ever it was by Prussian
militarism."
However, the NEW YORK EVENING
POST (Ind.) calls the Knox proposal "only
a makeshift. There is no certainty" it says
that such resolution could be passed, the
president might veto it. Even if he were to
accept it, the necessity for making a treaty
of peace with Germany would remain. In
law and in fact the initiative in treaty-mak-
ing cannot be taken from the president"
And even then, notes the NORFOLK VIR-
GINIAN-PILOT (Ind. Dem.): ..
"The United States would still be an out
slider to nations working together under the
League of Nations. Such resolution would
| I,,S, hi oI not canr
with others" 49,,
Finally, the SPRINGFIELD REPUBLICAN
(Ind) concludes that sit is the presidents
prerogative to take the initiative at least in
outlining what the country should do next.
What does. he propose?"
NEW VIEWS OF CRIME
Certain new views about crime and punish
ment continue to make Roadway. DR.. Max
SchIapp, professor of homeopathy at the New
York Postgraduate hospital, declares I'M
equivocally that IAN impressive percentage
of criminals can be restored to normal and
saved to society through treatment of the
nerves and emotional impulses" "In view
of what we have learned" he says, sum-
ming up the results of the treatment of a.
600 cases. cit is as outrageous to lock up
victims of mental deficiency or of certain
forms Of emotional Impulse as it would be to
penalize a sufferer from measles or typhoid
fever. One is no more at fault than the
other, and both can be cured. In furnishing
the former class society is blind to its duty.
1t is as ridiculous as were our forefathers
in their withdrawing and similar practices
now recognized as criminally absurd"
| The correctness Of this view can be scien-
tifically proved and there is no doubt that it
will eventually lead to the sending of more
prisoners to the hospital and fewer patients
to prison. 1t is barely conceivable that the
idea of punishment may gradually disappear.
The chance seems remote only because the
passion for revenge is SO firmly planted in
human nature and that there is a chan ce
at all is due to the fact that there can be no
concentrated public opinion against the rou-
tine crimnal.-SAN FRANCISCO GALL
(Ind.) r