Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1922-10-06
LEAGUE ADVOCATES
IN NEW CAMPAIGN
BELIEVE THE COVENANT WILL
BE CHANGED AND UNITED
STATES WILL JOIN.
VIGOROUS WORK IS PLANNED
Present Status Of the League of Ma
lions and What 1t Has Accomplished
Already Are Set Forth for Public
information.
Ry JAMES ?. HoRNApAY

BY JAMES P. HORNADAY
Washington.-The attitude Of the
United States toward the League Of
Nations is by no means a dead issue.
Supporters Of the league In this coun-
try are preparing to inaugurate a new
and vigorous campaign in favor Of the
United States going in. The pre-
leaguers believe the attitude of public
sentiment toward the league has I'M
dergone a great change within the
last year. They would like to see an
other test of sentiment at the earliest
time possible.
Even the most ardent supporters of
the league do not loo,1 for the United
States to join the organization until
important changes shall have been
made in the covenant structure. The
campaign Of education that is about
to be started will assume that, before
going in, the United States will in
dicate the changes she would like to
see made. and that they will be made.
AS a foundation for the campaign
work that. is to be undertaken the
supporters Of the league in the United
States have restated the present status
of the league and It's activities. A
general outline Of this presentation Is
SIS follows:
When the league came into being it
was composed of but IL former allied
powers. Since then all the allied pow
ers, except America, have joined; the
Is former neutral powers invited to
adhere have done so: and two OF the
four ex-enemy states and half dozen
new states born in the war have been
admitted. Today the league numbers
81 nations, the largest collection of
states ever brought together.
Nations Learn TO Confer.
In those two years there has been
built up a flexible association of CO.
operating nations able to focus atten-
ton on any international problem from
a purely humanitarian project to the
most serious diplomatic issue. The
outline of a general international
structure has been drawn, to be filled
in as time and experience seem to
justify. In certain major matters Of
common interest most of the worlds
nations, whether Of Europe, the Amer
icas, Asia or Africa, have learned to
confer about common table.
There are now functioning an an
nual assembly of 81 nations; council
of the eight larger nations; a perma-
nent court of justice; a permanent
secretariat; technical organizations on
international health, finance, econom-
les and freedom of communications
and transit; an international labor Of
fee; permanent committees on arma-
ments and mandates; special bodies on
the suppression of the International
opium and white-slave traffics, repatri-
alton of prisoners, the relief of typhus
In Poland, the protection of minorities,
and the administration of the Saar
Basin and the free city of Danzig.
The leagues first task, Of course, is
to prevent war Already five disputes
threatening world peace have been
brought before it. Three have been
settled finally and two are in negotia-
ton. Procedure wholly new in diplom-
acy has been used on several occa-
sions, but force never.