Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1924-04-04
FRIENDS or THE LEAGUE OF
NATIONS
How American Citizens Can Support
the League and World Court as they
Are Actually at Work To-day.
BY DR.sR. c. MITCHELL.

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| The fourth birthday of the Leagu,
of Nations occurred January 10th. Tit
argument has been ended by achieve
|mens. The League is doing bene
Ificent work in public health, in agri
culture, in the suppression of the
opium and white slave traffic, as wei
as in promoting good will among al
countries. It has established the In
ternational Labor Office, for which il
is erecting a solid structure at Geneva
Above all, the League has brought into
existence World Court, of which
John Basset Moore, trained at the
University of Virginia, is member.
In word, the Court is modifying the
| moral opinion of mankind in behalf oil
cooperation and peace among nations.
This is a signal record, even if the
League has not accomplished all that
some had anticipated.
BUDGET CUT s4O0, 900.
1t costs four and half million dol
lars year to maintain the League, in
Guiding the World Court-about the
cost of a modern torpedo boat. The
sum America is spending this year on
its army and navy would run the
League and Court for hundred and
fifty years. National defence is essen
tial, but if we can get it through con-
ference and cooperation, is it not COM
mon sense to do so I? Owing, no noubt,
to America S absence from the League,
the budget was reduced last September
by 100000 Salvador, which is about
the size of Maryland, pays for the sup
port of the League annually $4,S12. 80.
America, the sichest country on earth,
with nearly half of the worlds gold
supply in her vaults, does not pay a
penny, though the Federal feature and
the Supreme Court of the United
States were rough patterns in building
the League.
PRIVATE SUBSCRIPTIONS TO THE LEAGUE
So FESTIVE have many American citi-
zens become under the continued
alootuess, of our Government that they
crave chance TO share by personal
subscription in the support of the
League and World Court, to the ex-
tent of 100000, the amount cut out of
the League budget. Our faith de-
mandeds action. We do not care to
argue the case of the League any
longer We stand on its record of
achievement for the four years of its
existence. We see fifty-five nations
sitting at its table in council and CO.
operation. We know that it rests on
consent and not coercion. 1t is a
growing organism and not merely
parchment about which politicians
have quibbled, We accepted the cove
nant and we are convinced by the CON-
pacing experience of the Leagues
work in the past four years. We realize
that just as the Federal forces in our
Republic were cemented by the COM
mon life and aspiration of the original
thirteen States into our present strong
bonds of union, so times and the spirit
of cooperation are essential to the
working out of the principles embodied
in the League and Court.
WHY HALT YE BETWEEN TWO OPINIONS?
The hour has struck. Chose you
this day whom you will serve war OIL
law. We have no quarrel with those
who differ with us. We simply wish
to give expression to our faith in the
League and World Court by paying
something to support them. The men
and women who give dollar to this
cause now will make up list that will
be long remembered by those who
come after US. The servant of Namaan
ventured to remain the Syrianscaptain,
stricken with leprosy, that if the
prophet had hidden him do some great
thing he would have done it. Why,
therefore, not do the little things? The
spirit of obedience brought health. A
contribution by an American citizen tc
the League will bring back the health,
/ full glow of moral idealism which we
| felt in the heroic days of the Armistice
EFFECTS OF YOUR GIFT
Your dollar to this cause viii strengthen
1.-THE League and World Court for larger
work and encourage the fifty-five
nations that compose it in their effort
/ to quicken international good will
Your dollar will set free the mora
energies of the American people, and
Igive expression to their pent-up faith
| 1t win be an eloquent protest against
| the aloofness of the American govern
ment. It will make the politicians take
notice that the people are sound a
heart in this matter and are determined
Ito execute the moral purposes in en-
ding war which animated zour soldier
lin the recent catastrophe.
| WHERE TO SEND YOUR DOLLAR
| All Checks and moneys should b.
Isent to Thomas Branch McAdams
Treasurer Friends Of the League o
Nations, Mutual Building, Richmond
IVA" Let only those give who hav'
faith in the League and courage to act
Ifor your gift will count, not accordini
Ito size, but according to the conviction
(which it reveals.
| University of Richmond. Virginia,
| tFRoM THE PRESBYTERIAN OF THE SOUTH
/ RICHMOND, VA