Show I EASTERNER URGES I II I ur UTAH AH TO RETURN I. I SENATOR S SMOOT OOT I Comments on Commanding Position Position Held I by Him Hinl in 0 I National Affairs 1 People ot Utah of Utah little appreciate In Senator Reed need Smoot I what hl high h esteem is held In Washington and what a disaster disaster dis dis- 1 aster It would be for fol Utah to fail fall to to return him to the United States Slates Senate te this fall CaH was one of ot man many remarks romark I concerning Utah's senior senator made I Iby by John allan Callan Washington Washing Washing- I Iton ton Post correspondent who was a Salt Lake Lalee visitor yesterday of Utah must One timing thing the time people o take taie into consideration when yot voting Ing for fol om a Un United Hed States senator next fall s said ald Mr 11 Is that Senator Smoot Is senior member of or the tho finance committee of o the Senate and that com corn IH have chargo of all financial I and tax matters in the tho way of or legislation legis legis- e d lation allon In case that body boy Is Republican I which everyone In the cast east believes It ItI will be 1 I A now new senator could not carr carry the prestige prestis-e which Senator Smoot has hns accumulated In his his' twelve his twelve years ears of service In TU fact if it Utah Uli fails to lo return Senator Smoot to the Senate this fall faH it will hurt itself a great deal more than It can possibly hurt Senator Smoot On the tho other hand If It It it returns him It will ben benefit lt from the position he ho has attained from ripened ability and from Crom the ho will exert not only on 01 legislation but on the administration if it It- It should be Republican Republican Republican Re Re- publican as Indications are arc Getting Lay of Land Mr Ir Is making a n flying tour of or the middle west to feel out people of various states on political questions Referring to the tho position of f Senator Smoot on the league of nations Mr 11 said Raid the tho U Utah ah senator was wai I really reay the only member of tho the Senate I who saw the danger dang In the league as originally planned for he made an exhaustive ex ox- study of oC the tile treaty while others were reading headlines As a result he concluded the the- th league ue without without without with with- out reservations was dangerous to the rights and Interests of t the the- Un United ted States Later events In Europe have demonstrated d the justice of ot his con con- I returned from Crom Europe six months o-I o ag- ag ago ag and while there theme had ample op opportunity opportunity 1 to make a thorough examination examination nation of or the European attitude to toward toward to- to ward vard the treaty treat Mr continued con con- They cared nothing nothing- about aboul the I treat treaty so long long- longas as It enabled them to to acquire the tho territory with which they were concerned I International Affairs Affair I UI cannot imagine Ine that the people of ot Utah will be willing to send their boys Into another European war merely to safeguard British or French rights In western Asia What the Senate has done and what Senator Smoot helped to do was to adopt reservations which would avert such danger danSer for tor the United United Unit Unit- ed States and nd prevent the approval by bythe bythe bythe the United States of a n treaty the tho people would not carr carry out but which the they would treat as a scrap of or paper Either we sho should J 1 make mako an engagement engage engage- ment mont of that kind with the tho idea of carrying carrying car car- it out or we should l not enter Into It It The people of the United States cannot afford aCCord to be hypocritical In their international dealings dealing's and bo looked upon b by the world as a wel welcher ch er Referring ReferrIng- to the political complexion of the east Mr said only Republicans were shown showing Interest In Inthe Inthe Inthe the coming election in that section of or orthe the country countr and commented on time the fact that few and In some instances practically practically no Democrats were turning turning- out outto outto outto to primaries |