The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-08-26
NUT YET \ MEMBER R
 AWE RICA ID TAKE PART IN SESSION
First Official Participation In WilSonian Body Will
 Come In September
MANY REPRESENTATIVES ARE NOW ON TRIBUNALS
State Department Shows Its. Interest In Drug Regula-
 tionS Being Proposed

GENEVA, August 25.-America's first participation in League of Ma tions activities, will take place dur ing the September league assembly.
 The American state department has notified the league secretariat, that 1t accepts the leagues invitation to send a consultative delegation to the assembly when Americas drug pro- gram will be discussed.
 The American program calls for world restriction of production of opium, cocaine and other habtt-form- ing drugs to actual medical needs. It has received preliminary approval of the league.
 The American delegation probably will be composed of Representativ Porter, Bishop Brent and Rupert Blue.
 Power In League.
 The September meeting calls at tention to the fact that, although not a member of the league, America has built herself an ever increasing place in league activities Analysis of the various activities of the league in which Americans are now con cerned brings the startling conclu sion that the United States, through it's citizens, participating to a degree barely exceeded by the leaguers themselves.
 John Bassett Moore, as one of the Il judges of the court of interna- tional justice at The Hague, unques- tionably carries off the biggest plum. With only II judgeships for the 52 members of the league, there are some 42 other member states that would have been glad to get this post of honor and influence that went to a non-Ieaguer.
 Bliss Abbot's Authority.
 A ( -..a.- bureau of the United States labor de- partment, yields authority and pres- tige on the leagues commission for the suppression of the white slave traffic, not only because she has the authority of the United States back of her, but because of the fact that she can always count on American philanthropic institutions which are interested in the league to put up any sum of money necessary to carry out any measure which she may deem necessary.
 As a result of her securing appro priations of S75,000 from American sources for an immediate investiga- tion into the actual status of the In- ternational white slave traffic, the league has entrusted the entire in- vestigation to Abraham Flexner, of the Rock efeller institute. In other words, the leagues investigation of the white slave traffic will be purely an American one, backed by Ameri- can money, American minds, Ameri- can methods, and the American standard of morals.
 A large delegation from the Amer ican Chamber of Commerce will par ticipate in the leagues international customs conference, which will con vene at Geneva on October Is, for the purpose of breaking down pres ent customs obstacles to a complete resumption of trade and commerce.
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 Rockefeller Aiding.
 The Rockefeller foundation is now appropriating to the league S60,000 & year for d period Of three years for the purpose of an interchange of public health officials of all coun- tries in order that each country may bring it's public health service up to the highest standard that has been developed to date.
 It is also appropriating to the league $33,000 a year for a period of five years for the organization ana perfection of an epidemiological tn- telligence service that will enable the league in the future to render the greatest possible service In pre- venting or wiping out great epi- denies.
 Dr. Hugh S. Cumming. as official representative of the United States,
  Liberation for the participation by the latter in the leagues interna- tional health department and espe- cially in the leagre's campaign epidemics.
 The Emitted States has also main- tained+ unofficial and consultative observers on the anthrax and emil grafton commissions of the inter- national labor bureau, which is portion of the league.
 Root Drew Up Plan.
 Elihu Root was a member of the commission of international jurists which drew up the draft protocol for the leagues international court of justice at the Hague. In fact it was MT. Roots plan for the election of the judges by the assembly ana the council of the league, that alone made the court possible.
 Robert Andrews Millikan is member of the leagues committee on international intellectual co-opera- tion.
 Dr. Josephine Baker is member of the leagues health committee.
 George Ellery Hale, president of the National Research council, is a.
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