The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1922-07-06
LEAGUE Of PEACE
To Be PROPOSED
UNITED STATES WILL SUGGEST
AN INTERNATIONAL ORGAN
IZATloN IN DUE TIME.
DEVELOPING HARDING'S IDEA
Settlement of Several Great Problems
In Europe is Awaited-Adoption of
the New Name Is Credited to Lady
Aston.
BY JAMES P. HoRNADAY


Washington.-In due time-and that
time may not he very far in the flu
ture-the United States will propose
the formation of an international
league Of peace. No definite time foI
making the proposal has been fixed be
cause this government feels that ii
would be unwse to bring the subject
10 the attention of the world until
conditions are more favorable than
they are now. The treaties that were
adopted at the Washington conference
on the limitation of ornaments must
be ratified before the subject of a
league that will embrace in its mem
bership practically all the nations of
the world is preached, and the great
enterprise must await certain develop
ments in Europe,
The proposed league of peace
springs from the association of ma
lions germ about which Warren G.
Harding then a candidate for Presi-
dent, talked at Indianapolis August
/ IS, 1920, and at Des Moines Septem-
Der Z, 1920, and to which he made
frequent reference between the date
Of his election and the date Of his
Inauguration, and even after his in
| auguratiOn. The Harding administra-
ton from the outset has been COM
mitted definitely against taking the
| United States into the existing league
of nations and in favor Of the organ
ization Of an association Of nations
which would be a modification of the
league of nations and would succeed
that organization The ambitions
OF President Harding along this
hue are well known to his
friends. Undoubtedly he feels that if
daring his term in the White House
he can be instrumental in bringing the
nations of the world together in an
organization pledged to maintain the
peace of the world, he will have ac-
complished a great work Charles +.
Hughes, secretary Of state, it is need
less to say is thoroughly in sympathy
with every effort that has been made
or is likely TO be made to bring the
nations together in an endeavor to
preserve the peace of the world.
League Of Peace Its New Name.
Only recently the name league Of
peace" was substituted for the original
Harding conception association Of ma
tons" A story is being related behind
the scenes to the effect that it was
Lady Aston, the woman of Virginia
birth who is a member Of the British
parliament, who Is responsible for the
Harding administration preferring
the name league of peace" Lady
Astor, during her recent visit to the
United States, made many speeches in
favor of the formation of a league of
peace. As she has pointed out since
she returned to England, she avoided
the use Of the term League Of nations"
because that combination of words
has come to be an offense to many
persons in the United States, while
the title league of peace" has a pc
Culiarly effective appeal to the people.
Nothing else would satisfy the ad-
minstration quite so we'll as inter-
national developments Of a character
that would open the way for the sub
mission Of the league Of peace proposal
during the present summer or early
fall, There Is a political side to the
subject which Is receiving more or
less attention in n quiet way. The
Democrats in the various states will,
It is generally assumed, in making this
years platforms, indorse the league
of nations The Republicans who are
shaping the coming campaign are by
mo means certain that the Republican
party ought to take a definite position
in opposition to the United States go
ing into the present league in case the
'eague covenant should be properly
modified A happy way out Of the
situation SO far as the Republicans are
concerned It Is pointed out by some
of the politicians, would be for the
administration to make its league Of
peace proposal month or so be-
fore the November elections. The
danger of the whole enterprise, If 1t
lever takes definite form, would seem
Ito be that It viii possibly become a
political issue just as the league Of
nations became football for the
politicians
Bread a Horrible Example"
Fifty cents out of each dollar the
consumer pays for bread Is absorbed
IN the cost Of distribution, according
to a statement made by the joint con
gressionul committee of agricultural
inquiry
This statement is based on average
figures for 1913, 1916 and 1921, the
report says adding that In 1913 the
entire producing cost was Al cents and
the distribution cost 10 cents. Bread
is held up by the commission aS II
striking example of what happens 70
the farmers product in the way OF
costs and profits before It reaches the
consumer.
The farmers wheat Is the subsihl-
tlaf raw material element from Whlch
bread is made but II must be trans.
/ ported, handled through elevators.
graded. sold to the miller ana con
ta A