Evening star., 1929-12-18

While comment indicates numerical
strength for those favoring American
membership in the World Court, its
opponents make up in vigor what they
lack in volume, and there is premise Of
a spectacular struggle when the Hoover
administration eventually puts the mat
ter before the Senate.
AT one extreme is the statement Of
the San Antonio Express that IT is
gratifying that the United States soon
will be represented of1cially on the
Permanent Court of International JUS
uce-American In conception and con-
stitution." At the other extreme Is the
expressed belief of the Cleveland News:
Although the protocol is to be sub
mitted to the Senate only when it is
convenient to do so,' when that time
comes the people will expect the Senate
to prevent adherence to the court. Such
a supercourt, empowered to enforce its
mandates on this country, would be
contrary both to American tradition and
good sense"
Hope for the court is seen by the st.
Louis Times, which believes that every
hour from this time forward is likely to
mark growing disintegration of Senate
opposition, en- bloc, to the administra-
ton policies" The Asheville Times ex-
poets the "irreconcilables" to stage a
last-ditch fight against the court agree
ment," but sees strong confidence that
it will be losing fight" The Brooklyn
Daily Eagle, the Madison (Wis). State
Journal, the Richmond News-Leader
and the youngstown Vindicator testify
to the probability that the Senate will
ratify. The Syracuse Herald declares:
mo intelligent observer can doubt that
the movement just eliminated in the
Presidents official declaration has ac-
quired force SO irresistible that more
than the necessary two-thirdS majority
of the Senate will yield to it without
unnecessary delay"
York Sun maintains that "the Root
formula is an adroitly worded surrender
of the rights demanded by the Senate
in reservation S.; that fortunately the
signature at Geneva does not put Amer
lea in the court" and that 1.-The Senate
still must act" The Chicago Daily
Tribune argues: 1.-THE American people
have not said they wanted to submit to
q world federation which would make a
world state. Time and again they have
said they did not want to. They do
not want place In such a superstate.
They do not want this or any restric-
tion upon their nationality. If the
World Court is only the Supreme Court
of the United States transferred to q
world jurisdiction. then the League Of
Nations is only a sovereign body, the
members OF which are merely constitu
ent states. The United States, then.
will take the first step into the world
state when it submits itself to the
worlds supreme court"
- y X
The Chicago Daily News, on the
other hand, is as strongly favorable to
the World Court. THE anti-World
Court patriots" says the News. tell us
that to join the court would be to enter
the League of Nations through back
door. The court, it is charged, is not
judicial body. but group of poll
ticians and diplomats welded to bad,
Old World traditions and certain to en-
snare and entangle poor, innocent Amer
lea. Coolidge and Kellogg, Hoover and
Stimson, Root and Hughes and many
more are made to appear as weak credu-
lous tools of designing foreign supermen.
The so-called Root formula relating to
advisory opinions is described by them
as a tricky device, contrived with dia-
boltcal cleverneSS to entice trusting
Americans into braving terrible risks of
nobody knows what. In raising goose
flesh by the acre on the timorous it Is
charitable to assume these protagoniSts
of piffle hold to the belief that they are
serving a holy cause. That the