Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1920-02-24
URGES AGREEMENT
TO RESERVATIONS
BY TREATY FRIENDS
Food Administrator
in Johns Hopkins Speech,
Declares for Sanity in u,
S. Relations With Europe

BALTIMORE, MD, Feb. 2S.-Her-
bert c. Hoover, former food admin
istrator, declared today in an address
at Johns Hopkins university his OPP
position to making ratification Of
the treaty with Germany an issue
in the presidential campaign. He
insisted the injection of the argu-
ments for and against reservations
would obscure. our pressing DO
nestle issues by conflict over
question in which the country al
ready has made UP it's mind, anu
added lit is my impression that
there is no party credit in this posi-
| ton"
Hope for immediate ratification
of the treaty rested, he said, in the
acceptance by lesser reservations
lists" of the proposals Of the mild
reservationists." The two combined,
he said, could secure ratification.
eft also appears to u.s." he contin-
ned. "that even from the point OF
view of the lesser rcserva tiontsts,
they will have secured all of the
major functions and values of the
league. T. it be put into being and
if it proves it's living value in the
world, no one can doubt that any
necessary changes will be granted TO
il by common consent as the years
90 on. For my part, if the league
cannot prove it's value under the lat-
est PROPOSALS Of the mild reserva-'
tionists' it will never prove them
under the proposals of the lesser
reserva tionnistS.
The present danger Europe IS rae
ing, Mr.. Hoover said, is not SO
much a revolutionary cataclysm as
the STEADY degeneration of the
standard of living and the slow de-
cay Of the forces of stability" Re
stored productivity, he insisted, IS
essential if the allies are to receive
the maximum reparation.
Until then we shall not have
real peace" he said 1T will be
delayed as long as we hang the
treaty in the air, for we are pars
Of It,"
\ People want League
"I do not believe the adherence OF
the American people to the leaeHes
requires any demonstration" he cen
tinued. at has been under discus
sion for eight months. 1t has been
given able debate and consideration
in it's every complexion. 1 believe
the majority of our people are con-
WINGED of the necessity OF reserVa-
lions with the league. Both par
ties to the conflict appear to con-
cede this The conflicting groups
ever the character of the reserva-
lions have gradually abandoned their
extreme ground and have come closer
and closer to a common mind. lt
would appear to an outsider that
both sides were in agreement on all
the great major ideas of the league
and the major ideas of reservations,
but that they are in disagreement
mostly over secondary questions in
the reservations. In the meantne
the world is held in suspense. IL
finite misery goes OH accumulat:lG.
Forces are set in motion that may
yield new conflicts.
Already the distrust and Nunder-
mining of confidence and credit in
the world has crippled our export
market"
Regarding the part the United
States will take in the rehabilit1-
ton of Europe Mr.. Hoover coun-
selled moderation. 1--WE have two ex
IRENE views among our people" he
said. upon the policies we should
adopt in all these matters. One cor
tends that the ideal is isolation
leave Europe to herself; the othec
contends for at least moral DONNA
ton as mission of international
justice. Many of us want neither ex-
treme."
Assuming that the treaty would
be ratified "some day, in some
form" ne expressed hope that u
might serve to bring about reduc-
ton of armament and the develop
ment of engines Of Cancellation, OF
arbitration and codes and courts of
International justice"
1--WE hope for it's influence in the
{ destruction of the economic barriers
set up before and since the war; he
continued, (which stifle the recu
peration Of and the free entry tof
our own commerce over the world.
Some of US hope the league will not
nterpose in international differences
except in the last stage necessary to
! mitigate the growth Of conflict
Some of us have no liking for man
dates Of any European state, for we
? would thus plunge ourselves terri
torially into Europe itself with a
long train of dangers. Most Of us
have no ambitions to moral or other
; domination"
Plea For Teachers
: Except where the interests Of the
United States are vitality concerned,
Mr.. Hoover declared himself as OPP
posed to American membership on
. the various missions provided for in
the treaty for the settlement of
questions raised by the war. The
loaning Of money except to alleviate
distress was also opposed. Our best
, assistance in healing Europe's
/ wounds lies in the promotion Of the
great processes of private COM
| nerce," he said, mot in loans from
our government"
t Mr.. Hoover's references to the
, peace treaty and it's ratification was
/ preceded by the presentation Of
statistics calculated to indicate what
he called the "heart-breaking under
payment of school teachers. There
are, he said, 100000 teaching posi-
tions in the public schools that now
are vacant or filled by teachers below
standard. The number Of teachers
receiving less than $3.50 a year he
placed at 10000. Salary increases
had been granted in some cases, he
said, but these ranged from 10 to
rs per cent while the cost of living
had increased from 80 to So per
cent. There is not university in
the United States" he said, "that IS
. not losing month by month some of