The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1920-10-08
"Jazz" Criticism

That it is easier to criticize and IND
fault than it is to give PLAIN facts ana
a fair, not to say intelligent, eXposl-
ton of the League Of Nations is eNem-
plifed by Republican speakers who
presume to enlighten the public on this
important and not difficult to under
stand problem of international polity.
They create confusion rather than UNI
derstanding in the minds of the I'M
thinking and mislead the ignorant, but
that is evidently their purpose unless
they themselves are confused and give
voice to preconceived partisan pre-
iudices that their reasoning faculties
are not able to overcome.
We have in mind an address recently
delivered in Pennington by a notable
woman speaker who undertook to in
struct the women and the men as well
as to the purpose and meaning OF the
League of Nations. She was long on
satire but short on reasoning, and the
impressions left on the minds of some
who do not do their own reading and
thinking were neither enlightening
nor conducive to a fair understanding
of the aims and purposes of the Lea
que.
In speaking of the representation IN
the League Council and Assembly OF
the Governments which sign the cove
nant, she waXed extremely satirleai
over the little government Of Hedjaz
having as many votes in the Assembly
as the United States would nave
dwelling strongly on the "Jal enoihg
of the name, implying that 1t IS a
semi-barbarous little tribe Of which
nobody had ever heard, unless it was
some school teacher, and that its vote
in the Assembly in some mysterious
wav was menace to the rights, llber-
ties and sovereignty of the United
States if the latter should join the
League. - -. -,
Just a word here as to Hedlaz-and
there are many small sOverelngtles IN
the world not very widely known OF
heard of and which are not able to pro-
tect themselves against the INVASION
and exploitation Of stronger nations
that are interested in world peace
movement and guarantee of protection
nv their "Big Brothers" Eighty
years ago Hedjaz, Arabia, on the
coast of the Red Sea, was depend
ency of Turkey, but as none but
sovereign State may become a mem
Der of the League, we suppose 1t ha
thrown off it's Turkish dependency, "a
it is named among the 81 signatorie
of the League. Its civilization ma!
not compare favorably to that, of GU
enlightened Christian nation, but TO
that matter neither does the civiliza
ton of some of our nearer Sout
American neighbors in our own est
nation. =,
Now as to poor, far-away, rid
culed little Hedjaz's vote in the AS
sembly, in which every signatory ha
one representative vote only: In
Assembly is founded on the sam
principle of representation as that W
on which the United States Sena'
rests. When our Revolutionary +;
theirs and statesmen undertook TN
forming of a Federated .governmel
for mutual protection there wei
thirteen independent sovereign color
les of various sizes as to territory ar
of various sizes as to territory an
number of inhabitants, each jealous
its sovereignty. Something must
done to equallze their representatle
in the Legislative body of the propose
Federal Government regardless
size, population, wealth or any 9th,
advantage or disadvantage that migl
exist, so the proposed constitution