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Show 'WOMAN'S CHARGE ON PACT DENIED League No Party to Traffic in Women and Girls. Supporters Sup-porters Assert Ni;v rORK, Oct. 1 Mr. Georre rtsjw. -h-"lrman of the woman's bureau ' r.f the Damocfntlc national commit -:e. in 'i statement laatied at head- ijarters here yesterday, aaerted tha' Mrn Arthur I. I.lvermote. chairman of the Republican women': state exec- luUva committee, had deliberately and . i fully penrertad the T-!nchli tan-iiapi- in hr attack ot Somervlll. N. J . upon the league of nations nnd It I provision in relation to Irafflc In women wo-men nd children. I'lK niilMil.l SHOCKED I am so profoundly shocked ,-4t the rapraaatOna attributed to .Mr. Llvrr- it that m first thought l that she I does not understand the meaning of the word "oofttlsanU" said Mrs Baa.' siatemen'. "But upon examining the ( repeated lirl. upon parAgrnph 3 of jirtnle -C. I can ha . no other conclusion conclu-sion bOt that h' has wilfully per-vsartad per-vsartad the meaninc of :he Kngllsh lan-p lan-p ian 1 would h ve jyferred thinking thai aha ntlaundi rsxood the meaning .( "hi word than to rclis. that sit hn permitted the Republican women's cumpAtgn to unk to anch a low level of degradation as to charge the leajne nil t)on with being a parly 10 trai"-flc trai"-flc In women onl chllrtren. n the rontrarv. rh league of nations na-tions ha taken cognlrance of all con-, con-, dltlon.s nffei tin? women and children 'a well n opium and other dangerous driisjs and w 111 remedy them. "To Indicate uthcrw.se Is an Ir.auh to th' ftatesmnnship and moral char-at char-at ' r of the premiers of the jjre:i-powers, jjre:i-powers, apd :lie intelligence of the women oters of the I' tilted States,' Dl Mi - IT Mil RaTBlpnd B. 1'csilii-k. former under-secretoiN under-secretoiN ganrral of thf legue of no I Hon.. In a statement list night denied that artlcl. 3 of the league covananl aras un attampt 10 "legalise th- traffic lu women and girls.'' Mr. Kosdlcl. Ud tha' for etgnt months he lind 'iiargr "of this particular activity" f the leagftie ami the work "wax imed at thi ultimate auppraaalan of lie traffic In women .-ind girls. Article 2,1 whs placed 111 the covenant, coven-ant, he declared, at the nollcitallon of the American Social llvgieno awaocin-tlon. awaocin-tlon. the International League for tha Abolition of the White Slave Traffh . ml fimlltir organization. |