New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-04-13

alton of commission embracing rep
resentatives Of both races, to study
and report on the entire subject.
The proposal has real merit. | am
convinced that in mutual tolerance,
understanding, charity, recognition
of the inter dependence of the races
and the maintenance of the rights of
citizenship lies the road to righteous
adjustment.
1t is needless TO call your aften-
ton to the unfinished business in
herited from the preceding Congress.
The appropriation bills for army and
navy will have your early considera-
ton.
Neither branch of the government
can be unmindful OF the call for re-
duced expenditure for tie depart
ments of our national defense. The
government is in accord with the
wis to eliminate the burdens of
heavy armament The United States
ever will be in harmony with such
a movement toward the higher at
tainments of peace. But we shall not
entirely discard our agencies for de-
Tense until there is removed the need
to defend. We arc ready TO CO.
operate with other nations to approx
mate disarmament, but meresr pru-
dence forbids that we disarm alone.
The naval program, which had it's
beginning in what seemed the highest
assurance of peace, can carry no
threat after the latest proof of our
national unselfishness. The reason
able limitation of personnel may be
combined with economies of admin
istration to lift the burdens of ex-
cessive outlay
The War Department is reducing
the personnel of the army from the
maximum provided by law in June,
1920, to the minimum directed by
Congress in subsequent enactment.
When further reduction is compat-
40AC w I'LL ll~llolidl StEuIlLV IL MAY
we'll have the sanction of Congress,
so that system OF voluntary mill
tary training may offer to our Young
mani ood the advantages of physical
development, discipline and commit
ment to service, and constitute the
army reserve in return for the train
ing.
Nearly two and half years ago
the World War came to an end, and
yet we find ourselves to-day in the
technical state of war, though &C
tually at peace, while Europe is at
technical peace, far from tranquility
and little progressed toward the
hopedfor restoration.
u. S. VIII Have No Part in
Existing League of Nations
Little avails in reciting the causes
Of delay in Europe or our own fail
ure to agree. But there is no longer
any excuse for uncertainties respect
ing some phases of our foreign rela-
tlonship. In the existing League of
Nations, world governing with it's
super powers, this Republic will have
no part. There can be no misinter-
probation and there will be no be-
travail of the deliberate expression
of the American people in the recent
election; and, settled in our decision
for ourselves, it is only fair to say
to the world in general, and to our
associates in war in particular, that
the league covenant can have no
sanction by US.
The aim to associate nations to
prevent war, preserve peace and pro-
mote civilization our people most
cordially applauded. We yearned for
this new instrument of justice, but
we can have no part in a committal
to an agency of force in unknown
contingencies; we can recognize no
precautionary.
Manlfestly the highest purpose Of
the League Of Nations was defeated
in linking it with the treaty of peace
and making it the enforcing agency
OF the victors of the war. Interna-
tional association for permanent
peace must be conceived solely as an
fundamentally of justice, unassoci-
ated with the passions of yesterday,
and not so constituted as to attempt
the dual functions of political in
strument of the conquerors and of
an agency of peace. There can be no
prosperity for the fundamental pur-
poses sought to be achieved by any
such association so long as it is an
organ of any particular treaty, or
committed to the attainment of the
special aims Of any nation Of group
of nations
Favors Association Of
Nations Conceived in Peace
The American aspiration, indeed
the worl1 aspiration, was an assocla-