Show v LEAGUE OF 01 NATIONS S S By I. I R. R Tuttle Good people let us ave just t word with each other othor on ou The rhe present status of ot affairs across the water Your first Impulse of course urse is what has foreign affairs to do Jo rith lith us Have we not enough trouble at home Taking up uv the second t query r allwill all allwill allwill will agree to the simple answer yes But the first question is n. n not t so I easily disposed of It seems seem to me that affairs In Europe have ha never been so bad save when the great powers were actually engaged in war The thirtieth or May 1 a nay may 11 bring France and Germany into war with Russia on Germanys Germany's side In 1920 we had an s f indorsing the league of nations nation We turned it down It would be for fur forthe forthe the best beat in the event we w were ware re so situate that we could live Independent ent eat of ot European alliances but the time has copse come when we can not do that What will wUl It mean for the combined powers of ot Germany and Russia to march their armies against France The matter is too horrible to contemplate Friend be honest with yourself Consider the influence America would now have and would have had in the international councils since the close of ot the war had she been a member of the tho league I do donot donot donot not want you OU to take this article as ay being actuated by political bias Itis it itIs itIs Is not I am In favor of ot compromise In all affairs from Individual to na na- na- na I 1 believe that the presence and influence of oC America as 35 a member mem mem- member ber her of the league of ot nations would have been felt for good DOCI and would hav liar resulted in changing the me attitude of ot Euro European affairs from what they now are Our representatives at Parts Paris were were awarded enviable audience audi audience audi audi- ence Franco France now asks that we aid aidIn aidIn aidIn In the thu conference at Genoa without obligating I ourselves to the actions of ot that body It II is not too late for us to give our aid to world compromise We have drunk drunk are are drinking deep drinking deep and bitter b bf the fruits of war war- Our discard of the league reminds ono one of the big boy hoy who quieted the children children children child child- ren and then ran home for fear tear his mother w would uld punish him for soiling I his clothes 1 t |