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Show SAVE YOUR STAMPS. At this time churches, clubs and other organizations are being bombarded bom-barded by central lobbies of one sort and another interested in promoting the World Court, with requests that resolutions be passed or letters written writ-ten urging Congress to immediately ratify the Root protocol and get the United States into the Court. The origin and methods of such ( drives are so well understood by sen-j sen-j ators that they exercise little or no j influence. When the League of Na-' Na-' tions was before the Senate for consideration con-sideration the capitol was buried with petitions, letters and telegrams, all professing to represent the will of the people. That this "uprising" had been artificially stimulated was apparent. ap-parent. And despite the fact that, like the three tailors of Tooley Street, the engineers of this "spontanious" demand claimed to represent public sentiment in the United States, the people buried the League of Nations ' at the polls. Through their supposed official spokesmen, the church people of the country were committed to the League of Nations, but when they came to vote their sentiments, they proved that they khad been misrepresented. misrep-resented. The League of Nations and the League Court have been so generally discussed during the last few years that most senators have a fair familiarity fam-iliarity with the real state of public opinion on this issue. They know that between elections the international-j international-j ists make most of the noise, but when i elections roll around it is always dis- closed that the noise they make is no index to their real number, j Most of the people believe that , Uncle Sam has at this time enough of a job at home without faring forth for more world adventure. He has returned re-turned from former expeditions of ! this kind laden with wounds rather ! than trophies. We do not wish to break the heart of the world, nor do we wish to break ourselves trying to avoid it. |