The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-05-07
| Cover the World
BY WILLIAM PHILIP sIMMs.

VXTASHINGTON. May Lest Americans be
w led into the fools paradise of believing
they can stay out Of another major war merely
BY asserting their neutrality. Senator James P
Pope ID Idaho, today planned to introduce a
resolution calling for working arrangement be-
tween this country and the League Of Nations.
L do not intend to press for immediate pass
age of this resolution" the Idahoan told this
writer But to have it referred to the Commit
tee on Foreign Relations where it can be con-
sidered along with other proposed legislation de-
signed to keep us out of var"
There are many plans afoot to head of an
other world conflict, he pointed out; also wide
variety of proposals to keep us out of war If
another comes. But eventually he said, the
people must realize that the only sure way Of
staying out Of war is not to let war break out
in the first place.
And that, said the Senator. can only be done
by means Of a collective peace system, world
arrangement Of law and order in which the
principal nations cooperate
Neutrality laws" he continued will not
keep us out of conflict no matter how drastic
We make them. internationally speaking, we
are about where our early settlers were out
West, before law and order came to that part
of the country.
Suppose somebody had said TO those settlers
that trouble was likely to break out any time,
but that if it did they were to round up their
cattle, throw away their weapons and retire to
their corrals and storm cellars with their cow
boys, wives and families.
| TN the first place they would have done Moth
ing of the kind. They would have insisted
on protecting what they believed to be their
rights. In the second place it wouldn't have
helped if they had taken the advice. The
marauders would have attacked them and theirs
anyhow.
In practice, what happened was that these
early settlers defended themselves until law and
order were established in the community bring
| ing them security. Then they disarmed"
The road to world peace-and by the same
token, to the peace of the United Statistics
in the same direction, he observed. Like in
dividuals. nations will fight rather than be un-
justly and unduly imposed upon
If there is another major war of long dura-
ton, we will almost certainly be dragged in, he
asserted We may pull back within our national
shell to a degree hitherto unheard Of and still
be in danger. Great nations fighting for their
lives would take up the slack as fast as we
played it out and press for more. And there is
limit beyond which the American people will
not yield without resistance
The one practicable solution Senator Pope
| concluded, is for the worlds community of ma
lions to cooperate to bring law and order to
| the community. Individual nations can not
work out security for themselves. That is what
most OF them are seeking when they futilely
pile up ornaments. Security is a collective
matter in which all the nations must partici-
pate.
Accordingly, the Senator urges that the
United States carefully weigh the matter then
evolve plan whereby it can cooperate effec-
lively with the League
incidentally Senator Pope is from the same
state as Senator William E. Borah bitterest of
the bitter-enderS against the League the World
Court and all such forms of international CO.
operation.