Show FOREIGN AFFAIRS TO THE FRONT AGAIN the world court seems to be an american issue that will not down it has bobbed up in the past three administrations following the bitter league of nations fight in the wilson administration in the administration of president coolidge the united states senate ratified a resolution of american adherence to the world court with important amend 1 ments one of which provided that the cobit should not rule on any question in which the united states had or claimed to have an interest without the consent of the united states it was thought that this settled the matter so far as american adherence was concerned but certain other nations refused to ac capt this reservation it then eem ed cd that our entrance into the world court was a closed matter but about a year ago elihu root went tr europe and with european statesmen worked out what has since been known as the root formula this was said to have ironed out european objections to our senate reservation without modifying the reservation and provided that in case the united states and the rest of tre the nations could not agree as to whether we had an interest in a question up for dispute we could naturally and without prejudice withdraw draw for the court many authorities claim that the root proviso will be satisfactory to emoge and is not an entanglement in the european diplomacy the matter must go back to the senate however and it is said that a number of the senators are not in agreement with the root formula and will oppose it in the senate they claim that the root formula weakens the senate reservation and declare that otherwise there would be no necessity for it it is not believed at this time that the world court question will come up in the senate for some time both the administration and the senate are anxious to get the tariff and other important questions out of the way first however sooner or later the country will doubtless be treated to further debate on the question of american adherence to the world court and our foreign relations from the time of the versailles treaty will I 1 be discussed both pro and con late developments are a statement from former senator george wharton pepper opposing the root formula and the announcement that a number of prominent men who have favored closer cooperation with european diplomacy have organized to assist in creating publicity toward putting the world court resolution through the senate the time for the senatorial primaries is not far off and there are evidences that the world court question may crop up as an issue in some of these contests we do not favor the thirteen month year which has been adopted by one chicago concern it would only mean one more payment per year on the family auto and the new radio A canadian who has been around the world eight times has just been married he will soon be convinced that he know anything till now in spite of his travels with long skirts coming back within a few months feminine knees will be attracting attention again which proves how quick we are to tol forget one trouble with going to a banquet is the toast is liable to be burned and the toastmaster stewed A great many rabbits shot this year are discovered to be afflicted with tularemia and up to this time nobody has thought to blame it on to the tariff well if santa come as promptly as usual this year remember that it takes a lot more time to get around with these modern modem traffic lights with senator heflin barred from the official democratic family and threatening to run independently it becomes evident that they are going to raise something more than cotton down in alabama ne next net t fall every day or so we hear of another important bank merger but for some reason or other this seem to make money any easier to get the illinois farmers are said to be equipping their scarecrows scare crows with radio loudspeakers to frighten the birds away which indicates that crows must have musical ears if not musical voices |