Putnam patriot., 1922-10-06
HAMILTON HOLT IS
 BACK FROM ABROAD
Attends Great Church Confer ence at Copenhagen and
 League of Nations Meeting
Europe to Go Lower Yet Befere Change Will Come For Better

After having taken an active and leading part in the work Of four lead ing world organizations. Hamilton Holt of Woodstock returned on Mon day from spending the summer in Europe. Mir Holt went abroad late in July. going first 10 Copenhagen, Denmark, to attend the convention of the World Alliance for the Promo tion of Friendship Through the Churches As president of the Wood row Wilson Foundation he later went to Christiania and Stockholm in order | that he might confer with the officials | in charge of the Nobel Prize Awards. Mir. Holt is also president of the Amer i iean Scandinavian Foundation, in whose interests he handled much work | in all the Scandinavian countries. From Scandinavia he travelled across Germany to Czechoz Slovakia. spend ing several days at Prague. where he was received by President Mazaryk, and then going on to Geneva for the meeting of the Council of the League of Nations.
 The meeting of the Church Alliance Mr. Holt foun3 most interesting and inspiring Churehmen from all over the world attended this conference of the organization which was founded to provide a meeting ground for churehmen, not with an idea of uniii- cation of dogma, but to 50 unite that the churches may work together on all humane movements. It will be re- membered that 1t was to this Alliance Andrew Carnegie gave fund of $2.- o00.000 During his stay in Sean dinavia. Mir. Holt had two audiences each with the Kings of Norway and Sweden. He was accompanied through out his trip by Miss Constance Holt, his sister.
 League Growing and Working
 Windham County people know that the League of Nations has had no more ardent supporter than Mir. Holt, who has worked and fought in its interests unhaggingly during the past three years As a result of his visit to the meeting of the League at Cen eva this summer MT. Holt declared to a Patriot reporter this morning that he returned even more enthusias- tie for the League than he had ever been. and that from every expression Of the delegates of the European na- tions in attendance, there was con viction that the League was perma- nent. living. not dead, active and so far full of successful. if modest, ac- camplishment.
 Europe Win Go Lower Still
 Unlike most returning travellers from Europe, MT. Holt has remedy to offer for betterment of European conditions He rates the European countries with Russia at the lowest ebb Austria in the next most desperate straits and Germany third. From his various interviews with statesmen and economists, he feels that things must 70 to an even more deplorable state before there can be a change Tor the better. European life. in those eoun- tries where conditions are at their worst. has become a matter Of ind ing sufficient food to keep alive. intel- leetual life Is disappearing in the battle for subsistence. Educational, religious and intellectual occupations are sinking lower and lower each day.
 One high European official, in talk ing with Mr. Holt, viewed the situa- tion without much nope but with two suggestions for a betterment. One of these was that the United States government should cali together con. ference on the same lines as the Dis armament Conference with similar definite program for economic action to be presented at the opening sess- lon.
 Secondly. the granting of i've year moratorium for all countries. without any cancellation of debts might serve to turn the tide of de-
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