New-York tribune., 1920-01-12
Educators Ask
u. S. to Accept
Treaty at Once
Labor Leaders and Public
Officials Join ii, Plea
to Congress for Immc-
diate League Action
Symposium Is Given Out
Danger of Catastrophe Is
Increasing With Every
Days Delay, Says Russell

Immediate ratification by the United
States Of the covenant of the league O.
nations and Of the peace treaty i.
demanded by thirty educators, labor
leaders, government officials and Other
public men in symp osium made public
yesterday by the Social Democrat,
League Of America. The organization
sent letters broadcast asking for opin'
ions on Americas position. rig d" -.
Every day that the treaty is delayed
increases the chances Of a. Worldwide
catastrophe, darkens hope and multi.
plies the need ess sufferings of man.
kind" says Charles Edward Russell
the president, in preface to the sym
postum $50 long as thu absurd and
illogical condition remains Europe will
stand still" ,-.
Lack of a definite stand by the
United States is driving the Socialists
Of Europe TO JOIN the Bolsheviki. Dr.
George u. Heron cabled from Geneva
III the treaty and the league are not
accepted now. Europe will be placed
'H CHdOS, he .SalQ,
Other Opinions on Subject
Other opinions are: ...,.3
DR.. Charles W. Eliot: "All the ad
vice recently given by the Republican n
senators that America should remain
isolated or should take no active part
IN putting into practice international
pollcles seems to be selfish and
cowardly and an abandonment Of the
H0ilf1NQI {o1 :,.1. -
have made America free, strong ard
stable" .-~sY} 1'1, -,
Louis r. Post, of the Department of
Labor-"A stortling fact about the
league of nations js the hostile coali
ton of Tory reactionaries. Democratic
visionaries and Socialist revolution
aries. Politics never made stranger
bedtellows. A curious fact is the con-
tention that President Wilson's four
teen. points are squeezed out. The
treaties secure them all"
Samuel Gompers,,.."The Paris Con-
terence sought, as did no other in his
tory, to reach down into the minds of
the people and write in definite terms
the deepest and best thought found
there. Its object was to prevent future
wars. The covenant is the written
agreement Of the civ lized world tha,
until justice is done to those who work
justice has been done only in part. The
world needs to be made safe for labor
as we'll as for democracy"
Crime to Destroy League
George I. Page-"The league of ma
tions cannot be recommitted. It must
be ratified or destroyed. To destroy it
would be the crime of all centu ies.'
Charles T. Thwing. president of
Western Reserv. University-"Th
strongest reason tor ratification is
that international patriotism is more
important than rational patriotism,
dear and commanding, as national pa
lriotism is"
Melville E. Store, general manager
of The Associated "re- s-"Now | do ne
know whether league of nations will
work or not. do~bt if ANYBODY knows
F alto. who was TIE first apostle of a
principle of the s"rt says in his book
on "The Republic that the republic
can exist only when men are superior
to themselves. You know, it is book
OF que tlon and answer, and he is asked
che question, What do you mean by
superior to themselves? and he said
In every mans makeup there is su
perior side and an inferior .sida and
unless he can rise above the level Of
these two conditions it is u-eless TO
try any hing of this Sort"
Others Quoted in Statement
Others quoted are Oscar S. Straus
Dr.. Frank Crane, Moorield Storey, G.
A: Duniway, president of Colorado Col
lege; e. M; Hopkins pres ident of Dart
mouth mo College; Irving Fisher. Mary E.
Wooley, president of Mount Holyokc
College; DR.. Charles R. Brown. dean Of
the Yale School of Religion; William =.
Cochran, Frank Morrison, Darwin P.
Kingsley, James Duncan Dr.. George G..
Whipple, Alice Carpenter, Lawrence F.
Abbott, Ernest Poole, Hamilton Holt.
Lee X. Frankel. M. L. Burton, president
OF the University Of Minneso ota; Cyrus
Il. Mccormick, Judge Ben B. Lindsey,
Samuel r anti. president of Lawrence
University, and Mary E. Mcdowell.