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'PAGE src MEDFQRB MATTJ TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREGON', MONBAY, JAKUAKV t, 1924 HIRAM JOHNSON TO PFACE PLAN IS FIGHT BOK PLAN AWARDED BOK'S (nnnnnn ddi7c iDiuu.uuu rmu (Continued From Page One) NEW YORK. Jan. 7 The campaign organization of Hiram Johnson will be thrown Into the balance In an effort to prevent acceptance by the.. repub lican party of either the world court or the Uok peace plan, George Henry Payne, eastern manager of the Califor nia senator's campaign for the presi dency, announced today. Mr. Payne declared that In his opin ion, the Bok peace plan was in reality a move by President Coollilge's League of Nation's friends to rush the coun try In a crazy and long discredited pro ject. ' ':- - j Decisions of U. S. Supreme Court WASHINGTON, Jan. 7. The appeal of the Ku Klux Klan In Its suit to re strain publication of certain papers al leged to have been stolen from Klan headquarters In Atlanta was denied today by the supreme court. WASHINGTON, Jan. 7. The su prenie court today granted the motion of the government to advance for hear tng February 2fi the case or lioinnd R. Potbler to determine whether the fed eral government had jurisdiction over Camp Lewis, Washington, in October, 1918, when Major Alexander P. Cronk kite was killed there ' by gunshot wounds. Although Indicted for mur der In the federal court for Western Washington, Pothlor was released by the circuit court which held that Camp Lewis was not exclusively within fed eral Jurisdiction. WASHINGTON, Jan. 7. The reenp ture of excess earnings clause of the transportation act was declared valid and constitutional today by the su preme court. The decision was hnnd- ed down In a case brought by tlio Dayton-Goose Creek Railroad company of Texas, and In which a number of Im portant railways joined, pleading that the provision would result In confisca tion. .' i WASHINGTON, Jan. 7.1 A wholesaler acting tndopendontly. has the right to withhold his business from a manufac turer who Bells to retailers in his ter ritory and refuses to pay him the regu lar wholesale discount, without bfllng guilty of unfair competition, the su preme court held-today In the appeal at the fedorul trade commission In n cane It had brought against Raymond Ilrotuers-Claik company , of Omaha, Neb. t PERMIT ROSEBURG TO BUILD CROSSING ' SALEM, Ore., Jan. 7. .The public service commission bus granted an application of the city of Rospburg for tho construction of an overhead crossing over the Southern Pacific rullroad In (but city. Two-thlrda the cost will bo paid by tho city nnd one-third by tho railroad company. CHARGED WITH nt'KKAU iRAFT - (Continued From Page One) was merely a pro forma actor In muk tng the award, Is indicated particular ly by the telegrams that passed bo tween him while he was on the west crust and General Cramer (Charles F. Cramer, the late general counsel of the bureau) and Acting Director Rog ers In Washington." : As an example of what he charac terised as "these corrupt transac tions," O'Ryan made reference to tho . purchase of the hospital sldo at Liver- more, Cat. '"The land was purchased," O'Ryan continued "for 117,000 by Luclon B Johnson, who after adding some minor Improvements, Bold the property to the government on the day ho acquired ti tle for Jl 06.000. - Reference to tho tcs tlmony of Johnson shows conclusively . that fraud was committed. His in come tax on Its face Is fraudulent. His Bworn testimony as to dlsiiosal of the profits was brjuen In Its obvious lnsln cerlty. The purchase of this site was approved by Director Forbos upon the personal solicitation of General Conn sel Cramer and against the advice of experts. . ''In the employment of O'Brien, tho architect, to whom $100,000 In fees for plans that were worthless, will be found an extraordinary example of the misuse of government funds In tho an thorlty of office." COLDS Break a Cold Right Up with . "Rape's Cold Compound" - ,: Take two tablets every three hours until three dose are taken. The first duM aJwayf gives relief. The second and third dose completely break up the cold. Pleasant and safe to take. Con taint no quinine or opiates. Millions use "Pane's CoM Ompound." Price, airtjr-flv cent. Pruggilt guarantee it. That, If war is honestly to bo pre vented, there must be a rlitht-ahout- face on the part of the nations in their attitude toward it: and that by some progressive agreement the manufac ture and purchase of the munitions of war must be limited or stopped. That while no political mechanism alone will insure cooperation among the 'nations, there must be some ma chinery of cooperation if the will to cooperate is to be made effective; that mutual counsel among the nations is the real hope for bringing about the disavowui of war by the open avowal of its reul causes and open discussion or them. Finally, that there must be some means of defining, recording-, in terpreting and developing the law of nations. The Jury of award unanimously selected the plan given below as the one which most closely reflected sev eral of theso currents. Th purpose of the Amorlcnn Peace Award Is thus fulfilled: To reflect in -a practicable plan the dominating na tional sentiment as expressed by the large cross-section of the American public taking purt in the Award. - therefore commend the winning plan as unanimously selected by the jury of award, and Mr. Root's state ment of the first object to be at tained by the counsel and cooperation provided in the plan, to the interest. and widest possible vote of tho Amer ican people. EDWARD W. HOK. January, 1924. - . Ktuuin-nt or Jury Awu.nl The Jury of award realizes that there is no one approach to world peace, and that it is necessary to recognize not merely political but also psychological and economic factors. The only possible gateway to international agreement with refer ence to these complicated nnd diffi cult factors Is through mutual coun sel and cooperation which the plan selected contemplates. It Is therefore the unanimous opinion of tho Jury that of the 22.160 plans submitted. Plan Number 1401) Is "the best prac ticable plan by which the United Htates.may cooperate with other na tions to achieve and preserve the peace, of the world." It is tho unanimous hope of the jury that tho first fruit of the mutual counsel and cooperation among the nations which will result from the adoption of tho plan selected will be a generul prohibition of the manufac ture and sale of all materials of war. ' Ellhu Root, Chairman. James Guthrie llarbord Edward M. House. Ellen Fltz Pendleton. Roseoo Pound. v '.William Allen White, llrand Whltlock, Full Text of Plan. The. complete manuscript of Plan No. UGH11 providing for co-operation between the United States nnd other nations "to achieve and preserve the peace of the world." Is given below including the author's reasoning:- Not Room lor Mora Thau One Orgnnl'Aatloii. Five-sixths of all nations, Including about four-firiha of mankind, have already created a world-organlzutton, the purpose of which Is "to promote International co-opcratloh and to ncbievo International peace and security." Those nntlons cannot nnd will not nhandnn this system, which has now- been actively operating for three and a liulf years. If leading membora of the United 8tates government over had serious hopes that another asso ciation of nntlons could be formed such hopes were disponed during the Washington conference by plain inti mations from other powers that there is not room for more than one or ganization llko the League of Nations. The states outside the- organised world arc not of such a character that tho t'nlted States could' hopefully co-operate with them - for the pur pose named. : , - , Therefore the only possible path to co-operation in which the United states can take nit increasing- share Is that which leads toward some form of agreement with the world as now organized, called the League of Na lions. Ity sheer force of social Interna ttonal Kravltatlon such co-operation becomes inevitable. Tlio I'nltol Ktatos Rna Already Gono Far. Tho United States government theoretically maintaining a policy of isolation, has actually gone far, since .March 4, 1921, toward "co-operation with other nations to achieve and preserve the peace of tho world." The most familiar part of the story Is the work of tho Washington con ference, wherein President Harding's administration made a beginning of naval disarmament, opened to China u prospect of rehabilitation and Join ed with OiTnt Hritnin, Japan and France to make tho Pacific ocean worthy of Its numo. Later came tho recommendation that the United States should adhere to tho permanent court of International- Justice. . Not long nfter thnt action President Harding wrote to Hishop Gallor: "I do not believe any man can con front the responsibility of a president of tho United Stutes and yet adhere to the Idea thst it is possible for our country to maintain an attitude of isolation und aloofness in the world." Hut since the proposed adhesion to the permanent court would bring this country Into close contact nt one time and paint with the Lenguo of Na tion", nnd since such action Is strenu. ously opposed for exactly that rea son, it is pertinent to inquire not only how much co-operation with the league and its organs has been pro posed during the llfo of the present administration, but also how much has been actually begun. Officially or Unofficially V. S. Is Ht'lM-OM'lltCll. Tho United States government has us members "in all unofficial and con Nultlni; caput-lty" upon four of tl most Important social welfare com missions of the league, viz: Health Opium, Traffic in Women and Chil dren and Anthrax (industrial hy one). Our government Is a full member of the. International Hydrographic bureau, an organ of the league. Our government was represented by an "unofficial observer" in the Brussels conference (finance- and economic commission) in 1920. It sent Hon Stephen U. Porter and Dishop Brent to represent It at the meeting of the opium commission last May. Our public health service has taken part In the serological congress of tho epidemics commission and has helped in tho experimental work for the standardization of serums -'Our - government collaborates with the league health organization thru the International office of public health- at Paris, and with the agri culture -committee of the league labor organization through the International institute of agriculture at Rome. In - February, 192S, Secretary Hughes and President Harding, for mally recommended that the senate approve our adhesion to the perma nent court under four conditions or reservations, one of which was that the United States shout I officially participate In the election of judges by the assembly and council of the league, sitting as electoral colleges for that purpose. Unofficial co-operation from - the United States with Ihe work of the leaguci Includes membership in five of the social welfare- commissions or committees of the league. In one oh economic reconstruction, and in one (Aulund islands) which averted i war. American women serve as ex port assessors upon the opium and traffic In women commissions. Two philanthropic agencies in the United States have between them pledged more than $400,000 to sup port either the work of the epidemics commission or the league Inquiry into conditions of tho truffle In women and children. .. Increasing Co-opcrallon. The United States being already so far committed to united counsels with league agencies for the common so cial welfare, nil of which have some bearing upon the preservation of world peace, the question before us may take this form: How can Increasing co-operation between the United States and the organized world for the promotion of peuce and security be assured, in forms acceptable to the people of the United States and hopefully practicable? Co-opurutlon. Without any change in ita present policy, utready described, the United States government could, first, show Its willingness to co-operato similarly with other humane and reconstruc tive agencies of tlio leuguo. To four of these agenciea that government had already sent delegates with ad visory powers. It could ns properly accept, Invitations to accredit mem bers with llko powers to each one of the other welfare commissions. It has already received invitations from two of the latter. It Is,- secondly, immediately practi cable to extend the same kind of co operation, whenevor asked to do It, so as to include participation In the work of the commissions and techni cal committees of tho labor organi zation. The record shows that such co-operation is ulready begun Tim alnrtA n,tmin,,n nf..naa nt II 11,1 4 1 these cmiiiiilttens la il, ,-.lii.rii.,n ...j ! organization Study of information, on which may assembly un attempt to adopt un In terpretation if that article In essen tial agreement with the senatorial res ervation on the same subject in 1920 was blocked only by a small group of weak states like Persia and Pan ama, which, evidently attributed to Article X a protective power that it possesses only on paper. Such states. In possible fear of unfriendly neigh bors, must decide whether the pres ervation of a form of words in the covenant la more vital to their peac and security, and to tho peace and security of the world, than the pres ence of the United States at the coun ell table of the family of nations. As to Article XVI ( the council of the league created a blockade com mission which worked for two years to determine how the "economic weapon" of the league could be ef ficiently used and uniformly applied The commission failed to discover any obligatory x procedure that weaker powers would dare to accept. It was finally agreed that each state must decide for Itself whether a breach of the covenant has been committed. The second assembly adopted radically amended form of Article XVI from which was removed all reference to the possibility of employ Ing military force, and in which the abandonment of uniform obligation was directly, provided for. Tho Brl !sh government has since proposed to weaken the form of requirement still turtner. Articles X and XVI In their origi nal forms, have therefore been prac tically condemned by the principal organs of the league nnd are today reduced to something like innocuous desuetude. The only kind of compul sion which nations can -freely engage In apply to each other in the name- of peace is that which arises from , con ference, from moral judgment, from full publicity, and from the power of public opinion. , ; ' . V. 8. Leadership. Another significant development In the constitutional practice of the league la the unwillingness of the league council to intervene In any American controversy, even though all states In the New World except three are members of the league. Thla refusal became evident in the Panama-Costa Rica dispute in 1921 and In the quarrel between Chile, Peru and Bolivia, a quarrel which impelled the last two states to absent themselves from the third assembly, wherein a Chilean was chosen to pre side. L Obviously the league Intends to recognize the leadership of the Unit ed State in the New World pre cisely ns the United States claims it. TJils Is nothing less than the observ ance pf an unwritten law limiting the powers and dutles of tho league coun cil, defined In Article XI. of the cove nant, to questions that seem to threaton the pedce of the Old World. When the United states Is willing to bring the two halves of the world together for friendly consideration of common dangers- dullest and needs. It will be possible tb secure, If It is de sired, closer cooperation between the league organizations and the Pan- Amerlcnn unlon;l nlreudy a potential regional league. , It is conceivable that he family of nations 'may eventually clearly- define certain powers and du lse or relatively local significance. which 'may be developed upon local associations or unions. But the world of business und'' finance Is already unified. The worlds of scientific knowledge and s humane effort1 are nearly so. Isolation of any kind is Impossible,, and world already centralized, is no more likely to return to dlscon bo bused subsequent recommendations "ec'cd ,c,t,ort ,han ,he United States for national legislation . All conventions, nnd resolutions, recommended by the first three con gresses of the International labor or ganization, have already been laid la likely to revert to the Calhoun theory of states rights and secession. Hopes of Tho Hague. Tho Operation of the league has therefore evolved a council widely before tho'senato of tho United States1 1'ff"r'n,t from "?e body Imagined by and, without objection, referred to tho makers of the covenant. It can tho appropriate committee; , No dlf-ie,mploy " force' '.hut that of n"raun feront procedure would have been fol-'"10" .nnl mor" Influence. .-. It. only lowed if tho Ulnted States were actual powers are to confer nnd ad ie, io create commissions, to exer cise Inquisitive, conciliative and arbi tral functions, and to help elect Judges or tho permnnent court. I In other words, the force of clr. cumstancea la gradually moving the league Into position upon the founda Hons o well laid by the world's lead in the member of the labor organization of the league. ' Adherence to the Portiument Court A third immediately practicable step Js the senate's approval of the pro posal that the United States adhere Id the permanent court of Interna- t(nn,.l l.utlA .. 1. ...,., .! " " ......... ,,.,.., .... ,cUov,,.n u.,u,onl oe,ween 1889 and 1907 uMui-i iiiv yjiiuuiuiin mi.it.-tl iiy neci e- tury 'Hughes and President Harding In February, 1923. These three suggestions for In creasing co-operation with the family of nations are In harmony with poli cies already adopted by our govern ment, and in the last enso with a pol icy so old nnd well recognized that It may now be called traditional. They do not Involve a question of grent international councils of that period. The assemblies of the league and the congresses of the Internationa) labor organizations are. successors to The Hague conferences; The permanent court has nt least begun to realize the highest hope and purpose or tho second- league confer ence. -. . The secretariat and the labor of- ri..a i. ...... , . . i . membership ,n the League o, Na-I ;1, "the .dtSnw work" lions as now constituted, but It can-of ,he orsanlzc,d worlll guen as The not ho denied thut they lead to the threshold of that question. Any fur ther step toward co-operation must confront tho problem of direct rela tions between the United States and tfie assembly and council of fifty-four nations in the league. League F.mplors No Force, Tho practical experience of the league during Its first three and a half years of life has not only wrought out, In u group of precedents, the beginnings of what might be called the constitutional law of the league, but. it has also shifted the emphasis In activities of the league and fore shadowed Important modifications In Its constitution, the covenant. At. Its birth tho covenant of tho league, bore, vaguely In Article X and more clearly In Article XVI, the Im pression of a general agreement to enforce and coorco. Both of these articles suggest the action of a world- state which never existed nnd does not now exist. How far the present league la actually removed from func tioning as such a state Is sufficiently exhibited in Its dealings with Lith uania and Poland "over Vllua nnd their common boundary, and with Greece and Italy over Corfu. Experience in the last three years has demonstrated probably insuper able difficulties in the way of fulfill ing in all parts of tho world the largo Hague conference lacked resources to create but would have rejoiced to see. The council, resolving loose and large theories Into cleaneut and mod est practise, has been gradually re conciling tho league, as an organized world, with the ideals of international interdependence, temporarily obscured since 1914 by the shadows of the Great War. No one cun deny that the organs of tho league have brought to the ser vice of the forces behind those ideals an efficiency, scope and variety of ap peal that In 1914 would have seemed incredible. It is common knowledge that pub lic' opinion and official policy in the United States have for a long time, without distinction of party, been fu vornble to international conferences for the common welfare, and to tho establishment of conciliative, arbitral and Judicial means for settling Inter national disputes. There Is no reason to believe that the Judgment and policy huve been changed. Along these same lines tho league la now plainly crystallizing, as has been shown, and at the touch of the United States the process cun be expedited. In no other way can the organized world, from which the United States cannot be economically and spiritu ally separated, belt the power of pub- promlso of Article X In respect to lie opinion to the new machinery, de- elther Ita letter or its spirit. No one now expects the league council to try to summon armies and fleets, since it Utterly fulled to obtain even an In ternational pollco force for the Vllna district. , vised for the pacific settlement of controversies between nations and standing always ready for use. The United States government should be authorized to propose co operation with the leaeue and nnrtl- Each assembly of the league has cipatlon in the work of Its assembly witnessed vigorous efforts to Interpret and council under the following con- accredlted " representatives to alt and modify Article X. 1b the fourth ditions and reservations: I. The United States accepts the' League uf Nutions as un instrument of mutual counsel, but it will assume i no obligation to interfere with politi cal questions of policy or internal ad-, ministration, of any foreign state. Maintain Uio Monroe Doctrine. I In uniting its efforts with those of' other states for tho preservation of I peace and the promotion of the com- i mon welfare, the United States 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 recom-! menddtion or decision of other I powers. -. ! - , . , j Moral Judgment and, Public Opinion Substituted, for Force. II.' The United States will assume no obligations under Article' X, In its present form In-the covenant, un less -in -any particular case congress has authorized such action.-. . ' I The United States will assume no obligations under Article XVI in its present form In the covenant or in its amended form as now proposed un less in any particular case congress has authorized such action. The United States proposes that Articles X and XVI be either dropped altogether or so amended and chang ed aB to eliminate any suggestion of a general agreement to use coercion for obtaining conformity to the pledges of the covenant. . ' No Obligations Under . Versailles - Treaty. ' III. The United States will accept no responsibility und assume no obli gation in. connection with any duties imposed: upon- the league by the peace treaties unjess in any particular case congress . has authorized such action. IV. The United States' proposes that Article I of the covenant be con strued and applied, or. if necessary, redrafted, so that admission to the league shall be assured by any self- governing state thut wishes to Join and that receives the favorable vote of two-thirds of the assembly. International Law. V. As a further condition of its participation in the work and coun sels of the league, the United States asks that the assembly and council consent or obtain authority to be- I gin collaboration for the revision and development of international law, em ploying, for this purpose, the aid of commission of Jurists This com mission w'ould be directed to formu late anew existing rules of the law of nations, to reconcile divergent opin ions, to consider points hitherto in adequately provided for but vital to the maintenance of international Jus tice,, and in general to define the so cial rights and duties of states. The recommendations of the commission would be presented from time to time in proper form for consideration, to the assembly as J.o a recommending, if not a lawmaking body. Among these conditions Numbers I and II have already been discussed. Number III is a logical consequence of the refusal of tho United States senate to ratify tho treaty of Ver sailles, and of the settled policy of the United States which Is charac terized in the first reservation. Con cerning Numbers IV and V this may be said: Anything less than a world-conference, especially rwhen great powers are excluded, must Incur, In proportion to the exclusions, the suspicion of being an alliance, rather than a fam ily of nutions. The United States can render seVvice In emphuslzing this lesson, lenrned In The Hague confer ence, and In thus helping to recon stitute the family of nations as it really Is. Such h conference or as sembly must obviously bear the chief responsibility for the development of new parts of the low of nations, de vised to fit chunged and chunglng conditions to extend the sway of Jus. lice, and to help In preserving peace and security. Fifty-seven states, Including Ger many, are members of the interna tional Inbor organization of the league. There are about sixty-five in dependent states in the world. Coast Sugar Drops Again. SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 7. The sugar refining companies here an nounced today a new base of (8.80 a hundred pounds for cane and $8.60 for beet refined sugar, a drop of 10 cents in each Instance. ' WOMEN! DYE IT NEW FOR 15c Skirts Waists Coats Kimonos Dresses Sweaters Draperies" Ginghams Stockings JXamondDyi 'es. Don't wonder whether you can dye or tint successfully, becauae perfect home lyeing is guaranteed witli "Diamond Ciyos" even if you have never dyed be fore. Druggists have all colors. Direc tions in each package. THE PLAN IN BRIEF I That the VnittA States Khali immediately emer the I'ermaiiMH Court of International J twt !', the rotiilUioiis mot.! by Sef-retary Hughe ami President Hurtling i Kebruary, 192S. . H. That without beromlnje a mem ber of the J.ejtKiie of Nation.! as ut present constituted, the United States nhalt olfer to extend tt pres ent cooperation with the League arid participate in the work of the League as a body of mutual counsel under conditions which 1. Substitute moral force and public opinion for the mllitnry and evononrlil tor'-e oriHnally Im plied in Articles X and XVI. . 2. Hal ffuard the Monroe Doctrine. -3. A wept the fact that the United States will smume no obligation under the Treuty of Versailles except by Act of Cong-eiM. 4. Propose that membertdiip fn the V LeHffue should be opened to all nationi. 5. Provide for the continuing; de velopment of international law. Medford Mail Tribune Medford, Oregon Do you approve the winning plan Yea O in substance? No O (Put an X inside the proper circle.) Name Please print. 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