Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1920-10-29


WOMAN VOTER TAKE :?
tFrom the Salem Times.Register.)
The League of Nations is the
paramount issue III the presi-
Dental campaign. Governor
Cox and the other Democratic
are are in favor of the
United States joining the Lea
que; Senator Harding and the
Republicans propose to stay out.
What position should the women
of the country take on this great
issue ?
The idea of League of Ma
tons to prevent war is not a new
one, for centuries prior to the
breaking out of the World War
statesman, lumorists and phil
authropists had thought and
dreamed about some sort of a
confederation or league of tile
nations to prevent or minimize
the horrors of war, but on &C
count of hatred, jealousy and
selfihness, little had been &C
complished in that direction.
After war was declared, in
1914. and the world became in
volved in that terrible conf1a-
grafton the idea of League of
Nations to prevent the renewal
Of such a horrible thing in the
future again becan1e paramount
thought in the minds of think
ing men and women throughout
| the civilized world. The opinion
was everywhere entertained that
If such a league had been in ex'
l1stenCe in 1914, there would have
been no war, and that the only
way to prevent its recurrence
was for the nations to enter into
covenants to have recourse tt
Iother methods than the bruta
methods of war for the purpos,
Iof settling international disputes
| During the war the form ant
Substance that such League
lshould take was thoroughly dis
tcussed in this country and else
Iwhere. The idea had the sup
Iport and approval of every lead
| ing man in both the Democrats
land Republican parties in thi
Icountry, and was everywhere &C
Icepted as the one hope of thu
Eworld peace for the future
IShocked beyond measure at til,
Iunequaled horrors of the war
land realizing as never before thu
lfact of the absolute interdepen
ldency of the nations, the peopl
tof the world demanded the crea
ltion of safeguards for the world
lpeace in the future. 1t was thi
demand and this aspiration il
1.-THE hearts of all the world tina
INSPIRED the League of Nations
Iof Versailles in the winter o
I919.
| No one claims that the consti
Etutlon of the League of Nation.
lis perfect, but it's friends d.
lclaim, and have the right t.
Iclaim, that it creates a real con
cert of nations, and realizes the
| best hopes and highest aspera.
Etlons of liberty, of distinguish &C
statesmen the world over. We
cannot here enter into a detailed
discussion of the various pro.
visions Of the League, but strip
tped of its legalistic verbiage
these are the safeguards by
which it proposes to prevent war
and secure world peace in the
years to come:
% Limitation of ornaments
and prohibition Of the manufac-
ture and sale of munitions of war
by private citizens.
(2) Abolition of secret treaties
and requiring all treaties to be
reported to the Lea que of Ma
tons and registered.
CD Complete processes of in
quiry, investigation and report
into the causes disturbing or
likely to disturb the peace of
nations.
(4) Complete process for the
settlement of disputes by arbitra-
ton and by an International
instead of by an appeal to
war, and agreement to delay hos
tilities until such means are ex.
hausted,
50 Economical boycott.
(o) Guarantees of political in.
dependence and territorial in
tegrity against external aopres-