Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-01-25
brought the meeting into being,

brought the meeting into being
Just picture what an exhibition OF
force that was! Now that public
opinion is rapidly becoming con-
scious Of its own power.
3. The conference has been a
wide" kindergarten for
Americans. Its proposals, its
agreements, its discussions, the
floods Of domestic and foreign cor
respondents talk and the activities
of various unofficial communities
have given to millions the begin
nings Of a primary education II
foreign affairs that so years Of tti
ordinary life and our fustian politi-
cal campaigns could not have fur
nished. It has killed forever in the
nished. It has killed forever in the
minds Of millions the old nurnbing
dope of cheap John politicians that
we could and must be isolated"
that Europe was nothing to u.s.
that we could and should "go it
alone" etc, etc. It has knocked
into kingdomcome that sham phrase
of 1o2o-"10o per cent American
ism" Who ever hears that now,
even in the senate?
4. It has given these awakening
American millions channels through
which their new-found power can
operate. It brought forth the coun
ell on limitation of ornaments
backed by $4,000, 900 in the fedora.
ton of churches and by the millions
in the women's clubs and by vari-
Gus other powerful bodies. That
council camped openly in Washing
ton to counteract the silent, secret
enemies of world cooperation and
seems to have made a fairly good
job Of it. It brought into being
the general committee on limitation
Of ornaments acting for the organ.
ICED wage-workers Of the nation.
It gave life to the Foreign Policy
association and many other DO lies
1t forced the formation Of the ad-
visory committee to serve as a but
fer between the aroused millions
and the American delegates to the
conference and the analysis of pub.
lie opinion given out by this COM
mittee have been astonishing revel.
atoms Of the awakening and the
movement stirring in the mass that
in 1920 was so inert in somt spots
and so misled in others.
S. It has fought the leaders OF
these huge groups Of voters thu
practically resistless forces behind
them. Will they drop the reins Of
power now? Is it conceivable that
they will abandon their cause just
as they see that they have it well
tarted? Having learned how fra.
gile the supposedly hard-boiled
senate really is, can it be possible
they will not attend to that body,
when the different treaties born of
the conference come before it?
Seeing the dissolution of that seem
ingly invincible 'bloc," the bat
talon of death, through the dis
solving power of public opinion
and the passing of those protagon-
lists, Knox ed Penrose, is it pos.
sible they will ever fear its bogeys
again7
s. Feeling their power and re-
joicing in its exercise, losing their
awe Of distracted senate, know.
ing now what Newberry and his
$263, 600 sandbag meant IN relation
to the peace of the world, rea;iz.
ing the work America must under
take if it is to live a decent life
in an ordered world looking with
opened eyes on the plain meaning
and endless entanglements of two
and three and four and five and
nine-power pacts, will not both lead
ers and followers in the vast NOV
ing mass of awakening Americans
look with opened eyes on the plan
rat is quietly doing its great work
Of disentangling the mess we left
the world to founder in-the
League Of Nations? ..
HENRY FORD'S PROJECT