The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1923-07-12
MUST SETTLE RUHR
RUSSIAN PROBLEMS
BORAH SAYS NATIONS LEAGUE
IMPOTENT-TELLS WOMEN OF
INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS

Portland, Ore.-(A. P.)-That the
league of nations and the world court
are impotent in the presence of the
Ruhr and the Russian problems, and
that the United States should ask for
an economic conference to deal with
the reparations situation and take af-
firmative steps looking ultimately to
recognition of the Russian govern
ment, was declared by United States
Senator William E. Borah of Idaho
in an address at the convention of the
National Federation of Business and
Professional Women.
The senator said there could be no
peace, no disarmament, no opening
of the markets of Europe to the pro-
duct of the American farm without
adjustment of the reparations prob
lem and the Russian problem.
Until these are adjusted" he de-
cIared, "we may look for economic
disorder and continued deepening of
human suffering. L agree with Sena-
tor Underwood, who has lately re-
turned from a study of these ques-
tions on the ground, that we are drift
ing down stream and can already hear
the roar of the rapids. In the pre-
sence of these problems the league
and the world court are impOtent.
They require a different and more
determined treatment and considera-
ton. They are, in fact, war problems.
They sprang from the war and are
breeders of war. We owe it to the
cause of peace, to economic health,
and we owe it to humanity to help
in the adjustment of these questions
1--WE can help without departing
in the slightest from our traditional
foreign policy or breaking away from
our long established precedent. 1t
seems to me we should ask for an
economic conference to deal with the
one. and we should start the settle
ment of the other by affirmative
steps looking ultimately to recogn1-
tion.
"If these are not the proper steps
let those who oppose such steps
specify what we should do. 1t can
not be possible that we should be
content to watch these conditions
grow worse and worse until they
swell into the deluge of war, or if not
war, then that awful state of econo-
mic stagnation and decentralization
worse than war-the slow, grinding
attrition which subtly undermines
The question which the
common people are asking is this
is the craftsmanship of the wcfld
bankrupt"
Adopt Resolutions
Portland. Ore.=(A. PA resolu-
ton proposing conferences with the
Women's trade union league
as a means for the improvement or
the condition of the women workers
was offered to the convention here OF
the National Federation of Business
and Professional Women by the legls-
ative committee.
Support for President Hard1ngs
proposal for United States partlc1pa-
lion in a permanent world court was
pledged in another resolution pre-,
sented. =
Other resolutions proposed en-
iorsed a federal department of edu-
cation the Mccormick resolution for
an amendment to the federal const1-
,ution regulating child labor; perman-
ent federal employment service; an
to the Smith-Hughes act
putting home economics on the same
basis as trade and agricultural educa-
ion; and the Kahn-John bill to make
permanent the work the government
started during the war for social hy-
giene.
All resolutions proposed by the
legislative committee, including those
.avoring conferences with the nation
al women's trade union league and
hose endorsing President Hardings
world court proposal were adopted.
The convention decided that the
Tndependent Woman, national paper,
should still be supported by budget
appropriation from the federation,
instead of by compulsory subscrip-
ion.