Show League Appears Dormant X N- intimation T comes from P Paris ris said to be he on reliable re rc reliable re- re liable authority that the lie league of nations affairs arc rc in desperate straits financially and that it has bas been obliged to borrow funds from British bankers to keep it going The leagues league's s general secretary ry Sir Eric Erie Drummond it is reported has hns been forced to resort to giving n his 1 0 U to t tide de 1 things over until tho members of the thelca league e pay up their subscriptions which it appears they lar have been slow in doing 1 France has not paid up yet ctt while Sp Spain in the first of the neutrals lIs to adhere to 0 the he hc league bas ns jas undergone one tho the discomfiture of having having- the desired appropriation of killed in its ts nati national mal assembly The IC leagues league's Impoverished impo treasury however seems s not to have e pre pre- vented it paying paving salaries whose hose size is greatly criticized in in many quarters Sir Eric Erie himself besides drawing J I 0 Us U's draws a n year Lieutenant the famous interpreter ter of the pence peace conference has hiis been over oer b by the league at a year Albert Thom Thom- n the French socialist who heads bends the labor section of the is drawing which according to the French standard is very large It Jt is also alleged d that the leagues league's labor Jabor bureau is packed with socialists of different countries all on the tho thoroll roll at good salaries and that this Ulis bid for socialist favor faor favor fa fa- fa- fa vor or is explained by the disappointment rampant among th the thO rank an and file at the final shaping shaping- of the 1 league idea It is evident from these statements that interest is waning and aud that admission of the United States into the league is to give it vitality There is ev every ery evidence that no opposing voice oice would be raised against ag any any of or the reservations proposed d by the United St States Senate if the treat treaty were to be so ratified For the league to cn endure ure long without a meeting of its assembly seems impossible yet there is an nu apparent reluctance to meet until it is known knon definitely whether or not the United States State is to be a member The lc league Ue is pass- pass passing f ring ing through h a crucial period and the pa payment of or exorbitant 7 tant salaries to attaches who may y spend but a part of oft t thc their r time lime time at t the headquarters will wiIl not brighten its prospects |