Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1922-09-01
LEAGUE OF NATIONS ACTIVITIES s.

An interesting summary of the status and ac-
tivities Of the League of Nations after two years is
gwen in a paper recently prepared by Raymond 3.
EFosdick, and issued as a pamphlet by the League Of
Nations News Bureau. In passing it is interesting
to. note that while the United States is not a mem
Der OF the League, several Americans occupy
places OF great responsibility in its organization.
The librarian is an American woman the business
manager, Howard Huston, comes from North La
kota the associate head of the information section
comes from Massachusetts,; the assistant head Of
the administrative commissions comes from New
York; and other Americans are attached to the sec.
~retariat in minor capacities.
One of the Leagues conspicuous activities is
its campaign against disease.
There is almost no limit to the field of interna.
tional cooperation. More and more the League
OF Nations is developing into a repository for &C.
tlvlties related to the well-being of mankind which
cannot successfully be prosecuted by individual ma.
lions. @ "a:
The campaign against disease is a case in point.
Disease Knows no boundaries and respects no flags.
1t is a common enemy of mankind which can be
conquered only by united action. AS modern meth
DDS of travel bring the world into increasingly
closer. relationships such action becomes impera-
tive. To meet this need, therefore, the League of
Nations has established an international health or
ganization which has brought together the brains
and resources of the entire world in a common fight
on disease. .
The activities of this organization are mani
fold. Operating through an epidemics commits
sion which built up a sanitary Gordon along the
entire frontier, it successfully checked the spread
of typhus from Russia into Eastern Europe in
1920. In March of this year. it promoted a great
international epidemics conference in Warsaw at
tended by twenty-seven nations, including Soviet
Russia and Soviet Ukraine, which laid down a
series of sanitary conventions and prepared a de-
tailed plan for a united campaign against typhus.
Another international conference was held under it's
auspices in London to determine some method of
standardizing the measurement of the strength of
a%nti-toxic sera used in diseases like pneumonia,
diphtheria, syphilis and the like. This conference
elaborated a program of inquiry to be carried out
by. the great public health laboratories of the world,
and centralized in the Copenhagen Institute, which
will act as a clearing house for all the work.
The health section of the League has organ
lied, too, an archaeological intelligence service,
in order to inform all national health authorities
rapidly and effectively of the incidence of epidemic
diseases. Information is sent out at least twice
every three weeks, and a regular monthly bulletin
is also issued, containing statistics and charts on
the incidence all over the world of Asiatic cholera,
typhus,' %relapsing fever, dysentery, smallpox, an
thrax, scurvy, and other diseases. a..
In other words. a common campaign, backed
by the financial resources and moral support of
%ffty-one nations, is being scientifically organized
and conducted against an ancient and well-intrench-
ed enemy. of the race.