Evening star., 1923-05-03

| OF International Justice. the opinions
of Will Wood. Borah. Johnson. La
Toilette and Brandegee notwithstand-
ing. While. the Presidents position
position" the Flint Journal Gnde-
pendent) is convinced there are
+. many Americans who believe we
should enter the world court. Every
country is looking TO the United
States with the hope and expectation
| for the moral and financial support
necessary to the recovery from the
| dependency and misery which has
! resulted from the conflicts of the last
| nine years" To which the Chicago
Tribune republican progressive) re-
spends that the farmer and the farm
er's wife are no more willing to in
crease the chances that their boy will
! be called TO Europe to save Europe
J from itself than they were in 1920
And thorough discussion of the
court issue will only intensity that
/ determination In addition. as the
st. Louis Post-Dispatch tindependent1
I points out, 'one need not be a cvnic
TO affirm that party platforms are too
often dictated by expediency Never
theless. when a party in five consecu-
! tive national conventions declares its
! fidelity to definite course OF action,
! how may II escape the charge of bad
! faith IL it refuses to keep it's pledge
when opportunity for doing so at last
I presents itself?"
The administration has kept its
pledge to the irreconcilables, so far as
the league is concerned" says the
LynchburG Advance (democratic).
| but what of the pledge that Hughes
, and Hoover and the rest of the
thirty-two best minds" made to the
people? Tho President has, on the
one hand, scoffed at the pleadings of
one faction Of his party not to COM
init his administration to entrance in
the world court and has repudiated
his pro-league supporters on the other
hand" To which the Buffalo News
! (republican) replies that 1.-The Presi-
| dents proposal is the natural step to
follow the Washington conference on
the limitation Of armaments
BY our adherence to the court it may
very well become the central figure in
the league OF nations. Already il has
done good work. 1t has gone forward,
not dramatically, but steadily. To all in
tents 1t is an American creation. Our
off1shness is the less excusable since
Ideals. In view of the clarity of his
| utterances the Duluth Herald (independ-
enO asserts, 'the President need have
no fear of the consequences. He has
the people at his back. and those who
would have stayed his hand will find
when they count their followers that
they are leading as small band as ever
made a big noise in American public
uioSdSSioiiS- HiS dlSO Is very WuCn
the viewpoint of the Chicago Daily News
independently. which feels common
sense" and practical wisdom of the
President effectively expose the sophis-
tries of the motley array of world court
opponents"
Already the Presidents words have
thrown beams of encouraging light
across the sea" asserts the Albany
News independent republican,, and
'his position and his words give rea-
son for greater pride in being an Ameri-
can" That is all right, so far as the
court is concerned, the Utica Observer
Dispatch independently says, but 1t
feels the league problem must be faced,
and no presidential fiat can make It
otherwise" The immediate effect Of the
entire developments cannot as yet be
determined, as the Minneapolis Tribune
independently sees the situation, but 1t
believes I'VE will have some further
plain speaking from MIR. Harding when
he makes his coming western tour"
The Green Bay Press-Gazette Gnde-
pendenD holds "the President is right"
while the Lansing State Journal feels
this much we can and should do at