Evening star., 1923-03-04
ROOT DECLARESU.S.
CAN'T STOP FRANCE
I Interference in Ruhr Would
Be Like Violation of Our
Rights, He Says.
HELP ONLY IF INVITED
Former Secretary of State Tells
Hundred Committee Public's
Need of Data.
iELP ONLY IF INVITED

By tie Associated Press.
NEW YORK, March 3.-The United
$tstes has no more right to stop
France from going into the Ruhr
8han France would have in compelling
his country to naturalize the Japan
Sc, declared Elihu Root, former Sec
etary of State. in an address to the
lewly appointed executive body of
/ <he Committee of One Hundred on
Foreign Relations at its initial meet
ng today.
in the long course Of the growth
bf civilization" spoke Mr.. Root,
S+there have developed certain ways
Ma which nations can help one an
Bther-certain good officeS-medta-
Ion, conciliation, arbitration. various
zorms Of Compulsion, justified only
Fhen the nation exercising it does so
n asserting its rights, and then 1t has
&nly the right to assert its own.
No Room for Argument.
For instance. a lot of people want
d US to stop France going into the
fRuhr. We have no more right to do
HAT than France would have to come
|ver here and make us naturalizs the
Japanese.
Many people who realize that
Eahted us to mediate between Ger
nsny and France. We had no right
% 10 that unless both countries were
willing, and an inquiry was made.
to ascertain If they were.
[nd it seemed they were not. That
fnded it.
That stopped us. unless We were
Ellling to violate rights of France
nd Germany. which we could not
permit them to violate in our case.
In most cases. international and in
ividual, after the facts are correctly
md intelligently stated. there is no
#oom left for argument"
Necessary Information.
The primary purpose Of the COM
Eittee of ore hundred" Mr. Root
paid, "is to get into the heads OF the
american people series of non
controversial facts to which every one
Eould agree, but which nine-tenths
Rf the people Of the United States do
pot know-facts which form the nee
ssary basis of all sound reasoning
bpon international affairs" The
Foters need certain elementary data
Regarding national rights national
$uties and natinoal manners, he as
$erted, and the next thing was to
&ecure the means by which this in
formation could be gotten into their
binds. some way of cutting down the
economic loss in the millions, billions
Ind trillions of words precipitated
Upon the world today which is fright
#ul''
ID. G. Man Heads Committee.
The new executive committee fol-
ows: Chandler p. Anderson, Wash
ngton. D C.; Edgar A. Bancroft, Chi
&ago; Bishop Joseph +. Berry, Phila-
8elphia: Prof. Philip Marshall Brown,
Princeton University: John w. Davis,
Few York; Alexander Dunbar, Pitts
Burgh. Pa; Maj. Gen. Clarence r.
Edwards. u. S. A. Westwood, Mass;
kamuel Gompers, Washington; John
Hays Hammond, Washington: David
Wayne Hill. Washington; jeremiah
~. jerks, New York; Robert Under
Focd Johnson, New York; President
Harry Pratt Judson. former president
$f University of Chicago; Jerome B.
4andfield. New York; Samuel Mather,
'leveland Mrs. George Maynard
iinor, Waterford. Conn. Cardinal
Villiam II. OConnell. Boston; VIII
am i. Owen, Chicago; William c.
aedfield. New York; Mortimer L.
$chiff. New York; James Brown Scott,
Washington; Mrs. Thomas G. Winter,
minneapolis, MINI.