Evening star., 1921-12-07
Parliaments of Man.

The savannah news (Oemocrdtlc)
expresses the conclusion at which
most American papers have arrived
when it says that Everything that Is
done and said at the Washington con-
ference points to the necessity for
continuing body to seek to ameliorate
friction among nations. And the
Kansas City Journal (republican) adds
that the international gathering us
starting a good work that must be
perpetuated." Because of this conVlc-
ton the feeling is strong that Presi-
dent Harding took the step that those
who have hoped for great results from
the conference have been longing for
above all else, the only thing that
really matters" as the Charleston
News and Observer (democratic) puts
it. when he proposed "a continuing
series of international conferences
whose fruition may be an association
of nations"
If friends of the league of nations
still hold that the vision on which 1t
was based was the main thing and
that methods and persons are quite
subord;nate," the Buffalo Express
independent republican, contends
that "they should be heartily applaud
ing the efforts of the present con-
ference and the suggestion of more
conferences as a positive advance OF
the world toward the end which they
feyk' feW newspaper S ems friends of the
league" are inclined to answer it. If
Mr.. Harding can "enlist the great
powers and most Of the little ones.
and if he can, in addition. bring in
Germany" the New York Globe dn-
doing about what Mr.. Wilson set out
to do, and will be entitled to the sup
port Of all the proponents of the Will
son league" And he will receive 1T.
the New York Times independent
democratic) declares.
'They will not stand aloof in mar
row criticism. They will rather well
come every evidence. however slow,
toward the objects which they have
been cherishing. They have stood for
principles, not forms. They have
cared more for things than for
names"
IF MIR. Harding "knows a better ole"
than the rejected league 'Iet him go
to it," counsels the Richmond" News
Leader Independent democratic); che
has only to disclose 1t to elicit the
sympathy of democrats" But there
are. nevertheless. few democratic
voices distinctly unsympathetic to the
PROPOSALS SO lar ucScioPou' 4uo Lay .
ton News (democraticl finds the sus-:
eestions 'intangible,'' and backed
largely by a spirit Of anything but
the league" an effort "to scrap an
institution that holds within it's power
the opportunities to render conspicu-
Gus service to humanity and to sub.
stitute for it "a dream association, a
will the -wisp that has neither form
nor substance" quite a lady-like
affair." indeed, the Chattanooga News
1democratic) calls it; simply an as
sembiage of nations 'once year to
consider the state Of the union, SO
70 sneak" at which 1T would proba-
hIv he in order for those without sin
to shake their forefingers at those
who had not been observing the rules
of the game and to tell them
Been" h 70 the Milwaukee journal
1independent) the plan sounds un-
comfortably like the Hague confer.
ence. whore nations met, discussed
problems and passed resolutions
whose utter futility was to be at
tested by the most terrible war IN
history" But to this the Sioux City
Tribune >Qndependent) replies that
precisely because Of that terrible
! the peoples of the world" will briHe
to the new association of. nations Q
strength of conviction and earnest
ness Of purpose that The Hague meet
| fngs never had.
President Harding suggests "a pool:
| ing of. intelligence. interest and
| friendly mutual understanding, ~
] phrases it, "a simple plan of volun'
tary cooperation Of equal sover.
| eirns." 10 which the Washington Pos
] (indaDeudent) thinks the vosld III