The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1922-05-18
0.P. SNEAKS
into LEAGUE
BY SIDE DOOR
Arthur B. koontx, Recent Demo
cratic Nominee For Cover
nor, Finds Sentiment II
Rapidly Crystallzins
For Peace Pact
Har&ns's Minority Rapidly Dwindlins

Through the Four-powor treaty.
the Republican party Is merely sneak
ing into the League OF Nations through
4 side-door entrance, Arthur B. Koontz.
prominent Charleston attorney and re-
cent Democratic nominee for Cover
nor. intmated IN a recent interview
with a capitol city newspaper writer
on the League subject. of which he has
made study and with which he is
thoroughly conversant.
ultimate complete adoption of the
League OF Nations. as written at Yer
saines. as a world governing pact
Il predicted by Mr.. Koontz, who points
TO the rapidly dwtndltn- majority
given harding In 1900 at the close of
a campaign In which the League was
a dominant issue.
1T Is being clearly demonstrated by
events from day TO day that the
League Of Nations, as a terse expires.
sion OF International cooperation, re-
fuses to accept the mandate TO remain
buried" Mr.. Kocntz says. Adoption
OF the Four-Power treaty with Demo.
Gratis in Congress Joining Republicans !;
the Genoa Conference and the recent
public endorsement, given unequivo-
cally by James NJ Cox, the Democratic
standard bearer In the last general
election. and othe, leaders In both par
ties. all tend to prove that the League
OF Nations, which lay more or less
dormant for q year under the weight
of the 1920 landslide, Is again being
brought to the front In world Affairs
without any influence whatever ON the
part Of its principal author, Woodrow
Wilson"
Mr.. Cox was not the first political
leader TO revive discussion Of Ameri-
can entrance into the League. It came
from the other side Of the political
fence and from the other side of the
water. Recently former Governor
Frank o. Lowden, of Illinois, one of
the leading candidates for a Repub-
lican nomination In 1920. In an inter.
view from Naples, Italy. after a study
OF European conditions, declared:
Many OF our problems would be
more easily solved II we were Il mem
Der OF the League OF Nations"
Mr.. Koontz, who recently returned
to Charleston from n business trip
through the east, where he sounded
out political sentiment as to national
Issues, says that the political signifi-
canoe Is being attached to the Lowden
statement by leaders in both parties.
Republicans and Democrats alike
are convinced" Mr. Koontz says that
the League OF Nations looms as Il
real issue in the presidential campaign
OF 1924. These political observers
further agree th"t whether II will
be the paramount issue depends large
ly upon the future international policy
Of the Harding administration"
1t Is the opinion OF many, Mr..
Koontz adds, that the lines are already
being clearly drawn in the Republican
party for the 1894 campaign with Low
den, az Q pro-League candidate, run
ming In opposition to Harding.
In discussing the League. Mr..
Koontx said:
Il am truly glad that the Democrats
Joined in the adoption Of the four
power pact; It Is what the Republicans
should bean big enough TO do ON the
League Of Nations. When I say Re
publicans. mean the Jealous Republi-
can leaders In Congress at the time
tho League OF Nations was considered.
and have no reference to those real
Statesmen such as Hughes, Taft, Root
and many others who were above par
tsan politics where the welfare OF the
world was involved.
The conditions through which wa
have passed and are passisg In the
United States could have IN a large
measure been avoided by the early
settlement OF the Worlds problems.
An early settlement could have been
made by wise counsel. We are no
longer a nation by ourselves, for our
selves and disconnected from the other
nations Of the world. Our prosperity
depends largely 0 world conditions.
1T Is impossible for US to prosper
unless the nations with which We do
business are prospecting. They can
pot purchase our goods beyond a GER
tain point unless they can pay for
them. They cannot pay for them I'M
fess they have money or are producing
something which will take the place
of money.
The evils that have been done by
tho delay we are guilty of can nevr
be repaired, but we can be Of assis-
lance in the future both to the world
and In no less measure to ourselves
by Joining around the table and help
Ing to work out the problems which
confront both tho Individual nations
s2d the world at large. CaH Il what
you will-i.eague OF Nations. Interna.
honal Council, or even a Lodge" Pact
let's get in on 1t and do our duty
and get back into the prosperity list
We have had too much normalcy
aiready-may we now have LITTLE