Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-04-24

ing funds for any military purpose
1t would benefit our trade and com
meiCe, and we especially hope that
1t will provide larger market for
ou" agricultural production 1t is
notorious that 70; e gn gold has been
! fOWin@ into our country in great
abundance. 1t is altogether proba-
bic that some of it can he used more
to our financial advantage in Flu
rope tlan it can be in the United
States Besides this, there is the
humanitarian requirement, which
carries such a strong appeal, and the
knowledge that out of orr ubund.
ance it is our duty to help where
help will be used for meeting Just
requirements aand the promotion of
a peaceful purpose. We have deter
mined to maintain, and can main
tain, our own political Independence,
but our economic independence Will
be strengthened and increased when
the economic stability of Europe is
re 1tored.
We hope further that such a con-
| ditiOn will be the beginning of Sc
cure and enduring peace. Certainly
| it would remove many of the present
| sources of diSa Greement and miSun-
| Outstanding among tho European ma
lions. When this adjustment is fl
nally made, and has had sufficient
time of operation to become set
| tied European policy, it would lay
the foundation for a further effort
at disarmament in accordance with
the theory OF the Washington con
ference. Although that gathering
was able to limit capital battleships,
| it had to leave the question of sub
marines, air craft, and land forces
unsolved. The main reason for this
was the unsettled and almost threat
ening condition that still existed in
Europe. A final adjustment for the
| liquidation of reparations ought to
| be the beginning of a new. era or
| peace and good will,
In the event that such condition
| develops, it becomes pertinent to eX'
anime what can be done by our own
country. in cooperation with others
f! further to rid ourselves and the
rest of the world of the menace and
| burden of competitive armameG is
and more effectively insure the settle
ment of differences between nations,
not by It recourse to arms, but by a
recourse to reason; not by action
leading to war, but by action leading
to justice. Our past experience
should warn us not to be oVerconfi-
dent in the face of 80 many failures,
but it also justifies the hope that
something may be done where al
ready there has been some success,
and at least We can demonstrate that
we have done all that we can.
AS result of American initiativ.
there is already in existence The
Hague tribunal which is equipped
to function whenever arbitration
seems desirable. and based in part
on that, and in part on the league,
there is the international court or
Justice, which is already functioninS
\ proposal was sent to the last sem
ate by President Harding for our ad
herence to the covenant establishing
this court, which | submitted to the
favorable consideration of the pres
ent senate in my annual message
Other plans for a World Court have
been preached, but up to the prcsen'
time this has seemed to me the most
practical enc But these proposals
for arbitration and courts are not put
! forward by those who are well IN
formed with the idea that they coulo
be relied upon as an adequate means
for entirely preventing war. They
are rather a method Of securing adj
iustment of claims and differences
and for the enforcement of treaties
When the usual channels of diplo-
matte negotiation fail to resolve the
difficulty
Composed Europe Paramount
Proposals nave also been made for
the codification of international law.
Undoubtedly something might be &C
complished in this direction, although
a very large body of such law con
sists in undertaking to establish
rnleS of warfare and determining the