Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-01-08
PRIZE WINNING PEACE PLAN PROVIDES
FOR u. S. MEMBERSHIP IN WORLD COURT
4Iso Calls for Full Co-opera-
ton With League, Though
Barring Force and Safe
guarding Monroe Doctrine

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NEW YORK, Jan. THE people
OF the United States began voting
today on the proposal to have their
govArnment adopt the program Sc
Elected by the American Peace
Award as "the best practicable plan
by which the United States may CO.
Z az. az operate with other nations to achieve
and preserve the peace of the world. >
a.. =. The program is the one selected
~. a.. BY the jury Of award from 22,165
plans submitted from % countries
81 in the contest for the 100000 of
III fered by Edward w. Box for the
], most practical means for the United
States to cooperate with other ma
tons on the preservation of peace.
e THE name of the author will not
NJ be revealed until the people have
: finished voting upon it, early in Feb
quarry. He already has received $780,
& $JdD, half of the prize. and will re-
ceive the balance if the program is
y approved. The plan was numbered
1859 and was known only by such
no designation to the jury, only one
sssss-Ilerson, a delegated member of the
,vsoa Jury, being cognizant of the winners
: .aname.
Through coupons printed in daily
~ and weekly newspapers and in mag
81 81, sazines the public will vote. Written
criticisms of the plan also will be
r-sEeviewed.
announcement Of his $1OO, 900
III prize, was made by Mr. Box on July
sst. 929. On November 49, the contest
b closed.
& AIr. Boll's award was followed by
the action last week of Edward A.
F!ilene, Boston merchant,Sin offering
rs $4,000 for a European competition
.s--sfor the best plan for restoring pros
perity to the warstricken continent.
Mr.. Filene frankly credited his ac-
tion to inspiration received from the
Box award.
: n Here is the full texl of the Box
peace plan selected by the jury of
1 saswaray. including thee authors rea-
! -soriing:
F'ive-sixths of all nations, incIud-
ing about four-fifths of mankind.
s have already created a world organi-
alton, the purpose of which is to-
promote international cooperation
and to achieve international peace
and security
@~gahandon this system which has now
M been actively operati ting for three
sr~Hafd half years. If leading mem
s.s.bhrs of the United States govern
as..s.'fffent ever had serious hopes that
...another association Of nations could
mshe formed, such hopes We're dis i
i PEELED during the washington con-
ference by plain intimations from
- other powers that there is not room
for more than one organization like
the League of Nations.
The states outside the organized
world are not of such a character
mthat the United States could hope
fully cooperate with them for the
..purpose named.
sp.s Therefore, the only possible path
to cooperation in which the United
Estates can take an increasing share
is that which leads toward some
form of agreement with the world
as now organized, called the League
Of Nations
y BY sheer force of social interna-
- tional- gravitation such cooperation
becomes inevitable. .N
The United States government,
theoretically maintaining policy of
Isolation, has actually gone far,
since March a. 1921, toward coop
GRAFTON with other nations to achieve
and preserve the peace OF the
world"
The most familiar part of the
story is the work of the Washington
conference. wherein President Har
dings administration made Il begin
ming OF naval disarmament, opened
TO China prospect of rehabilitation
and joined with Great Britain. Japan
and France to make the Pacific
ocean worthy of its name.
- Later came the recommendation
that the United States should adhere
S@3oSt1e permanent court of interna-
tional justice.
Isolation Impossible
Not long after that action Presi-
dent Harding wrote to Bishop Gailor:
do not believe any man can
-confront the responsibility of a pres
i ident of the United States and yet
adhere to the idea that it is possible
FOR our country to maintain an atti-
..tude of isolation and aloofness in
the world"
-, But since the proposed adhesion
to the permanent court would bring
this country into close contact at
one time and point with the Lei sue
~~.of Nations. and since such action
-ssts strenuously opposed for exactly
sthat reason, it is pertinent to inquire
not only how much cooperation with
* the league and its organs has been
r-proposed during the life of the pres
sent administration, but also how
sefatch has been actually begun.
The United States government has
accredited its representatives to sit
as members "in an unofficial and
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