The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1923-03-15

: :, FOR TRIBUNAL
Replies to Resolution ofseMo
Assembly Indorsing PermaE
nent Representation "a
sfVFs.,.F FURTHER VIEWS.
Declares Matter Was Laid Before
the Senate Only After Mature
Observation-Disclosures Are
to 6e-.ESgsoted.

Washington, d. :f1President Hard.
ing asked the American people to sup
port him in his efforts, to seenye Amer
lean entrance 1ntb the pefsanent
court of international Justice,
In letter to Lieutenant EmsAor
Earl D, Bloom. of Ohio. in respfmse Has.
q resolution of the Ohio assehfbly,
Comm ending his stapd for American,
PaSticipat ion. i'm the court, the eSecd-+
.tSSk 4naieated that sduring the recess
,of Gongge hi inteGds to attempt to
swing asisrie ea8 :nH5lsc ,9pinion over
wheIinihglS'in fasaf 81. such step.
1T is 1hcohceivablei 'tGz1ne that the
American people, who have so long
been devoted to this ideal, should re-
fuse their adherence now to such a
program as it represented by this tri.
bunal," the President wrote. =
81: feel that .thes adhesion of our
country to the program and purposes
Of the court of international Justice
would represent long and important.
step toward the assumption of those
proper and entirely safe relationships
to international affairs which should
be; borne by a such a country as our
own.%:t.i.
The President, stated that his re-
quest OF the Senate had not been made
without "the most thorough and ma
ture deliberation." %.
Those. wlio are:at this time invest!
ed With the DIRECTION ,of the interna-
Etional Relations .Sg pdT country are
firmly convinced that this move not
only would rebresenx the wise policy
{of( our own people, hut it would be
an emphatic Testimony OF our pur-
pose to encourage every feasible pro-
ject for esta.blishing..'a rule OF law as
OPPOSED to the rule of power in this
world" he stated.
President Harding gave assurance
in his letter that there was no idea
of this Government surrendenng any
Of its CONTROL !over'its own fundament-
al rights and destinies.
."Rut we may be sure that. differ
ences will always arise among states
and peoples, precisely asH they have
always" arisen between individuals,
and. just as courts of justice in equity
have been set up to determine issues
between individually the Pfesi-'
dent SAID. 80 IL is propeE:5nd logics-
al shat provision should be made for
a like adjudication OF those differ
ences between nations, a1d> people
which may properly be committed to
such determinatioh.7;.g
"T3look upon the Establishment of
the court OF international jnstire, with
tfe' jurisdiction that has been 4YsfVen
70 it. as one Of the greatest advances
which world society has made toward
conditions in which at last Nhstrule OF
law may be substftuted'for.t tfs rule Of
force. 1t looks to; the settlement Of
issues before they become dangerous
ly acute, it ,contemplates the eIfrnina-
tion of the Causes of conflict 'asd war.
Feeling thus. cannot but believe that
our own country. should be among the
most devoted adherents. of, such a-bro.. Z
gram.
,.'In view Of these sentiments. you
will not doubt the sincerity with which
assure you how greatly I appreciate
the testimony of approval which the
6e1bte resolution has brought to me.
Nor will you, trust, omit to recog-
nize the satisfaction with which I
acknowledge the fact that the first
testimonial which has come to me
from my Legislative body in the Ma
tion comes from my own state of
,oMo"