The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-01-14
Butler Calls On .. s. To Join Wo rid M z. Ending Economic War
Claims We Face Gravest Crisis in tistOry-Nation's
 Duty to Become InternatiOnaized

ton to American labor and Amer ican industry which sends from ten to twelve millions of unemployed to walk tho streets, which shuts down factories and leaves our wheat and our cotton to rot in the fields.
 Third, wo should bring to an end the lnconscquent and supremely stupid discussion which has been going on In part at Washington and in part in n portion of our daily and periodical press relating to the so.ealled nterRovernmenta war debts. Hero tho question has noth- Ing whatever to do with the origin and character of those debts or even with the capacity of the dob tots themselves to pay. lt has wholly to do with our capacityto to receive payment under tho only terms of international transfer which arc open, without innictng upon ourselves new and devastntlng capital losses as well as additional losses of income, of markets and of opportunity for omployment We should give immediate favorab c response to tho request of tho deb' tor nations to reconsider the world wlde problems which have arisen from the existence of these debts and try quickly to solve those prob- loms In tho spirit of the agreement signed nt Lausanne on July 9 last
 between Germany and tho former allied powers. Such an action
 would be like blood transfusion to
 a weakened human being, New
 strength, new hope, new confidence
 would follow almost instantly,
 Every voice that is raised at Wash
 ington against thls action Is a voice
 in favor of prolonging and incroaf-
 Ing the losses. the suffering and tbe
 unemployment of tho American
 people.
 Then we should insist that the senate of the United States leave off It's long continued misrepresen- tatlon Of American public opinion and quickly consent to the ratlica- ton on behalf of our government of the Protocol of Accession of the United States to the Permanent Court of International Justice. which our government signed on December Q, 1929, Such action would be in strlet accordance with American traditional policy and in, conformity with long standing American leadership. It has been in substance recommended by every president since Mckinley and by every secretary of state since John the land is, and long has been, overwhelmingly in support of this action. but small group, of op- posing senators, taking advantage of the rules of the senate, has pre- vented that public opinion from finding It's long desired expression,
 And. finally, we should continue and multiply our contacts and our cooperation with the leaguue of na- tions itself. We are not members of that body, but the work which 1t Is doing Is work which vitally affects our interests and which accords with our ideals. In so new and so difficult field, success can not be achieved in q day nor per- lection reached fin a twelvemonth. Steps toward our goal must often times be slow. unsteady and even wandering, but the high and fine goal Is there, the appeal to us each and all Is inslstent, continuous and unansWerable.
 Let us then on this tenth ami versary day give to our whole American people q call to action which will stir them not to idle talk but to earnest and insistent demand that the things upon which their hearts are set and upon which their peace and prosperity rest be done, and done at once, by their government, regardless of those who are concerned merely with manoeuvering for political advant- age or with avoiding definite action in order not to elienate some un- reasonable and contentious group. Such is the job of tomorrow.
 My fellow Americans. this is our job. We may not wait for presi- dent or congress or for governors or state legislatures. Each and every one of these is servant Of public opinion. It Is your business and mine quickly to mold and to express public opinion so that our official representatives in govern ment will act. and act in the only ways that are open to us. if we really and earnestly desire moro firmly to establish and to protect the peace of the world and more speedily to lift our own people out of the depths of depression into which they have been plunged. Then and only then will the farm CT and the manufacturer find mar kets for their products; then and only then will railways have ade- quate freight to carry: then and only then will unemployment be relieved: then and only then will and confidence begin 10 displace our nationwide distress and fear.