Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press., 1927-02-17

Impetus has been given to the
growing movement for international
arbitration by the oganization of the
American Arbitration Crusade, with
headquarters in New York and an
impressive list of endorsers from all
over the country.
The purpose of the movement is to
induce the American government to
outlaw war by negotiating treateies
providing for obligatory arbitration
of all international disputes. Obli-
gatory is the word that marks the
difference from the Bryan treaties,
which allowed rejection of the arbi-
traitors decision, and from the Root
treaties, which excluded questions of
"vital interest and national honor"
The movement devotes itself to de-
velopment of public opinion, and the
fist of its educational plans is the es-
tablishment of competition in which
$500 is given in prizes for letters, edl-
torials, sermons, slogans, cartoons and
public demonstrations urging the pre-
vention of war through arbitration.
A prize of $1O0 will be given for
the best letter, editorial, or article
appearing before July A. and similar
prizes are offered for the best cartoon
the best slogan, the best sermon, and
the best public demonstration. Com
petitors must send proofs of their en-
tries not later than July A to the
American Arbitration Chusade, ia
East 31st Street, New York.
The committee of award will be Sc
lected from list which includes Will
liam Allen White, editor of the EN-
poria Gazette; Bishop Mcconnell of
the Methodist Episcopal church; Geo.
W. Coleman, president of the Babson
Institute; President Nelson of Smith
College; President Pendleton of We'll
lesley; Zona Gale and Will Irwin,
writer's; Emily Greene Balch, econo-
mist, and William Floyd, editor.
Washington Welcomes the Cotton
Champions
The world loves it's champions but
in our own United States there has
been no finer recognition than that
which has just been given to Cham
MON Cotton Growers and the Corn
King of America in the national cap
ital.
At the White House the president
laid aside the cares of his great Of
flee to make speech of warm con-
gratulations to the champions. AT
the Department of Agriculture Sec
retary Jardine in welcoming the
champions took advantage of the oc-
casion to make an address advising
the Southern states to grow cotton
profitably, and he told them that they
could accomplish this result if they
would duplicate the effoffrts and the
methods of the champion farmers in
their own states. At the Chilean EN-
bassy the champions were received at
an official luncheon, and the keynote
of the ambassadors statement was
one of supreme satisfaction, because,
"from the inhospitablbe bosom of the
Chilean deserts" he said, 1--WE are
able to obtain the nitrate of soda
which gives life and covers the land
with vegetation and abundant crops
which, in their turn, frequently find
their way back in the form of food
stuffs or, as in this particular case,
as cotton products" The ambassa-
dor added: "There is nothing more
wonderful than to survey the ways
Of nature"
The Presidential Suite
United States Senators and Con-
gressmen and the highest officials of
the Agricultural Department gathered
in the Presidential suite of the fa-
nous New Willard hotel and partici-
pated in the interesting ceremonies
of the champions. Mr.. Herbert c.
Brewer, director Of the Chilean Nj
trate of Soda Educational Bureau,