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TPage Two THE HEPPNEK HERALD, HEPPNER. OREGON Tuesday, January 8, 1924 THE HEPPNER htkALb AN INDEPENDENT NEWSrViPtK S. A. PATTISON, Editor and Publisher Entered at the Beppner, Oregon, Poetotflce as second-class Matter Terms of Subscription One Year $2.00 Six Months $1.00 Three Months $0.50 KILLING THE PROHIBITION LAW Always there is more or less agitation about the prohibi tion law. Certain of the wets tell us that it does not pro Libit: certain of the "clrys" affirm that it does prohibit- some. Pcrhas both are right partly. The fact of the matter is that the recent constitutional amendment was passed by a majority of the people of practically all of the states and to repeal a constitutional amendment is some undertaking. The "wets", therefore, seem to be up against a hard job. Since the prohibition law went into effect tho statement lias often been made that a certain type of saloon-keepers were more responsible for its passage than were all of the temperance lecturers and anti-saloon leagues. The meth ods they pursued in conducting their business were such that even their own customers became disgusted and joined with the temperance people in voting them out of business. If this view of the matter is correct it may be said that old John Barleycorn was executed by his friends. While there is no visible evidence at the present time that the Volstead act will ever be repealed, there; is reason to believo that if it, should be, the men who are employed by the state and nation to enforce prohibition will be more responsible than will all of the "wets" put together. I'eoule expect moonshiners and bootleggers to try to keep their business going because they are engaged in it to make money and they are not paid fat salaries by the government to suppress their own business. But so-called enforcement officers are another matter. These men are sworn officers of the law. They are' not only paid to sur press the traffic but they are sw.orn to do their duy'y and arc presumed to do that duty in a lawful manner. Do they always do this? Not if one-half the reports published about their operations in many of the cities are to be be lieved. When a raid is' made in Washington, D. C, and a lot of prominent officials, politicians and citizens are about to be involved what usually happens?, Either the list of witnesses and patrons is "lost" or the whole matter is smothered and fqrgotten Down in Portland the other night, a private home was raided on the sworn complaint of a state enforcement of ficial that a party was in progress there at which liquor was flowing fireely. The place was raided and it is said that one guest was found with a small flask in his pocket but the host was taken to jail. Investigation showed that state enforcement officers are in the habit of swearing out search warrants on the flimsiest pretexts, Air. Cleaver himself, having admitted, so it has been published, that he has had most of his search warrants issued on tips received in anonymous letters. If the federal courts know the, law this is evidently illegal and the enforcement officer who so proceeds seems to be treading pretty close 1 the border of perjury. Several months ago a federal officer operating in Port land is said to have lost his job because he secured evidence and made a raid on a certain roadhouse one night when among the guests present was a prominent Oregon statesman, which would indicate that if a federal agent wants to hold his job he should watch his step while mak ing raids and arrests. The Volstead act has been passed by the people and as long as it is the law it should he enforced but it will neith er bet enforced nor respected as long as the men who have heen employed to enforce it play politics or favorites or violate other laws of the land in order to, enforce it. Are the enforcement people going to follow the cue of the old time dive keepers and put themselves and the law they are paid to enforce out o loiti:i; -i.ovi-:h si:i:i oix i,.u:r.n vai.i i.V:ss ItY i '.iOV ASSOCIATION ITvhnna, III., Jan. 3. Warnin;,' Hint urt'tsii clover mvd pourim; Into country in unusually luri;o (iun titlji's, In woitlili'ss ami that the .American fanner will bo mode to puffer enorntotia ami uniiec'e;.sai'y Iouhi's, ami tho clover Prop of the na tion be greatly Injureil if stops arc not taken to pioltcl him, Is con tained In u letter written to Henry C. Wallace, secretary of agriculture, by' J. 0. riaclileini.r of the University if Illinois, Moerc.'uiy of the Intern i tlotml Crop IivvvveM.Tt a j(h la tum. According to 'r. Tiukiou-an, tic red clover seed h': In f United States does not t . I 4 5 per cm of normal tlila y?ni re.' I f :r this tea son there U a threatened Importa tion of 30,00 j. 0( P'lii't.lH of rid clover seed, euo,.i;h to plant 3,000 -COO acres, from Frriice, Italy, Ar gentina and Atri.w This seed, Mr. llnekleman said, 1ms been tostJ in all portions of the I'uiteil States. "Comparative tos'. of clover teed from various routm f.atlo and for eign, conducted by experiment i;ta 4lons in tho maj u ity of clovoi grow ing states," his Ic: r ny? "imt nr'nslvely the . wciler- m s- of im--irod I'u;op. .t,' .', r;-.:'tV'il:n!y v, iih h represents ' w.i; of the im portations." Tho letter is the result of the fourth annual moctitiK of the Inter national Crop Improvement associa tion, at which the situation was dis cussed and a resolution adopted placinj; the association on record against such Importa-ilon. Mr. Hack Ionian's letter was approved and signed by the "clover seed situation committee" of the association, which consists of 11. P. Hughes, Iowa Satc College, s. C. Salmon, Kansas Agri cultural College and J, F. Cox of the Michigan Agricultural College. HAltDM.W WINS HASKKTH.UT, CiA.MK OVKK HKl'IWER Tho basketball game between Heppner and Hardman high school teams Inst Friday evening resulted In a decided victory for the Hardman team In a score of 2 to 6. SC1IOOI, MKKTINti FIUIUY ADOPTS IH'IKiKT At the school meeting- reld last Friday to consider the budget sub mitted by the school board for thf coming) year, six voters were present ami the budget, amounting to J 2 2. tiiS.OOwas adopted by u unanimous vote. $100,000 PEACE PLAN PRIZE Advocates Entering World Court and Cooperation With Leagua' Without Full Membership at Present Suggests League Mem bership Be Opened to All Nations and Provides for Development of International Law. The American Peace Award brought forth 22,165 plans and many thousands of letters. Since many of the plans were the composite work of organizations, universities, etc., a single plan often represented the views of hundreds or thousands of individuals. The content of these plans is therefore an index of the true.feeling and judgment of hundreds of thousands of American citizens. The38 plans come from every group la American lite. Some are obviously from lifelong students of history and international law. Some are from per sons who have studied little, but who have themselves Been and felt the horror of war or who are even now living out its tragedy. But among them all are these dom inant currents: that, if war is hon estly to be prevented, there must be a face-about on the part of the nations In their attitude toward It; that by some progressive agreement the man ufacture and purchase of the muni tions of war must be limited or stop ped; that while no political mechan ism alone will insure cooperation among the nations, there must be some machinery of cooperation if the will to cooperate is to be made effec tive; that mutual counsel among the nations is the real hope for bringing about the disavowal of war by the open avowal of Its real causes and open discussion of them; and Anally that there must be some means of denning, recording, interpreting and developing the law of nations. Statement of Jury of Award . The Jury of Award realizes that there la no one approach to world peace, and that it is necessary to rec ognize not morely political but also psychological and economic factors. The only possible pathway to inter national agreement with reference to these complicated and difficult fac tors Is through mutual counsel and cooperation which the plan selected contemplates. It is therefore the unanimous opinion of the Jury that of the 22,165 plans submitted, Plan Number 1469 is "the best practicable plan by which the United States may co-operate with other nations to achieve and preserve the peace ot the world." It Is the unanimous hope of tho Jury that the first fruit of the mutual ooun sel and cooperation among the nations which will result from the adoption of the plan selected will be a general prohibition of the manufacture and sale of all materials of war. ELIHU ROOT, Chairman JAMES GUTHRIE HARBORD EDWARD M. HOUSE ELLEN FITZ PENDLETON ROSCOE POUND WILLIAM ALLEN WHITE BRAND WHITLOCK The Question to Be Voted Upon The substantial provisions which constitute the plan selected by the Jury of Award, and upon which the vote of the American people Is asked, are hereby submitted by the Policy Committee as follows: I. ENTER THE PERMANENT COURT That the United States adhere to the Permanent Court of Interna tional Justice for the reasons and under the conditions stated by Secre tary Hughes and President Harding in February, 1923. II. COOPERATE WITH THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS, WITHOUT FULL MEMBERSHIP AT PRESENT That without becoming a member of the League of Nations as at present constituted, the United States Government should ertend Hs present cooperation with the League and propose participation in the work of Its Assembly and Council under the following conditions and reservations: . . Safeguarding of Monroe Doctrine 1. The United States accepts the League of Nations as an Instrument of mutual counsel, but it will assume no obligation to interfere with political questions of policy or Internal administration of any foreign Btate. In uniting its efforts with those of other States tor the preser vation of peace and the promotion of the common welfare, the United States insists upon the safeguarding of the Monroe Doc trine and does not abandon its traditional attitude concerning American independence of the Old World and does not consent to submit its long established policy concerning questions regarded by it as purely American to the recommendation or decision of other Powers. No Military or Economic Force r 2. That the only kind of compulsion which nations can freely engage to apply to each other in the name of Peace is that which arises from conference, from moral judgment, from full publicity, and from the power of public opinion. Tho United States would assume- no obligations under Article X in its present form, or. under Article XVI in its present form in the Covenant, or in its amended form as now proposed, unless in any particular ease Congress bus authorized such action. The United States proposes that Articles X and XVI ba either dropped altogether or so amended and changed as to eliminate any suggestion of a general agreement to use coercion for obtain ing conformity to the pledges of the Covenant. No Obligations Under Versailles Treaty 3. That the United States will accept no responsibilities under the Treaty of Versailles unless in any particular case Congress has authorized such action. Lrague Open to All Nations 4. The United States Government proposes that Article I of the Cove nant be construed and applied, or, if necessary, redrafted, so that admission to the League shall be assured to any self-governing State that wishes to join and that receives the favorable vote of two-thirds of the Assembly. Development of International Law 5. As a rendition of its participation in the work and counsels of the League, the United States asks that the Assembly and Council con sent or obtain authority to begin collaboration for the revision and development of international law, employing for this purpose tho aid of a commission of jurists. This Commission would be directed to formulate anew existing rules of the law of nations, to reconcile divergent opinions, to consider points hitherto inade quately provided (or but vital to the maintenance of Internationa) justice, and in general to define the social rights and duties of States. The recommendations of the Commission would be pre sented from time to time, in proper form for consideration, to the Assembly as to a recommending if not a law-making body. Author's Name Not to Be Revealed Until After Referendum In order that the vote may be taken solely upon the merits of the plan, the Policy Committee, with the ac quiescence of Mr. Bok, has decided not to disclose the authorship of the plan until after the referendum. The Identity Is unknown to the members of the Jury of Award and the Policy Committee, except one delegated member. JOHN W. DAVIS LEARNED HAND WILLIAM H. JOHNSTON ESTHER EVERETT LAPE Member In Charge NATHAN L. MILLER MRS. GIFFORD PINCHOT MRS. OGDEN RE IE) MRS. FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT HENRY L. STIMSON MELVILLE E. STONE MRS. FRANK A. VANDERL1P , CORNELIUS N. BLISS, JR. Treasurer Do you approve the winning plan in substance ! ,"' x ' ' Name (Pitas print) Address Yes No City Are you a voter?. State w Mail Promptly to THE AMERICAN PEACE AWARD 342 MADISON AVENUE, NEW YORK CITY Note: Thou IntarttteC In sxpresslno fulltr opinions r cordially urcd to snd tiom on 4 ttparato shoot. 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