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WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 20, 1919
THE LEAGUE COVENANT
President Wilson, in his conference
with the senate committee, as re
ported yesterday, said that Article X
of the covenant, around which so
much controversy has grown, “was
not of doubtful interpretation when
read in connection with the whole
covenant.” This probably will be
found to be true also with reference
to other articles which have aroused
comment. The British government
recently issued a White Book in ex
planation of the treaty and covenant,
and one of the matters dealt with is
that of amendments to the doc
ument, which is of timely interest.
It is as follows:
“The provisions of Art. XXVI facil
itate the adoption of amendments to
the covenant, seeing that all ordinary
decisions of the assembly have to be
unanimous.
“The second paragraph was insert
ed to meet the difficulties of certain
states which might fail to secure the
assent of their proper constitutional
authorities to an amendment agreed
to by the council and the majority of
the assembly. They are now given
the option of accepting the amend
ment or withdrawing from theJ
league; but there is little doubt that,
if the league becomes an institution
of real value, the choice will be made
In favor of accepting proposals that
already command such wide assent.
“It is the facility of amendment in
sured by this article, and the absence
of restrictions on the activities of the
assembly, the council and the secre
tariat, which make the constitution of
the league flexible and elastic, and go
far to compensate for the omissions
and defects from which no instrument
can be free that represents the fusion
of so many and various currents of
thought and interest.”
And here also is a pertinent excerpt
from an article on the League of Na
tions from the Saturday Evening Post
which is worthy a place in the com
ment of the day:
“It is a poor senator who could
not enormously improve the Ten
Commandments, or the Sermon on
the Mount, or the Constitution of the
United States. If the authors of the
first two utterances should appear
with the most painstaking arguments
in support of them, it is the poorest
kind of a lawyer who could not pile
up objections in detail, under hypo
thetical cases, twice as fast as the
authors could adduce reasons for ac
cepting the utterances. That is more
or less the trade of lawyers. Given
a body of men who want to raise
hypothetical objections, the first par
araph of the Declaration of Inde
pendence would have provoked so
many arguments that the document
would have been under debate to this
hour, and our half dollars would still
be adorned with the image of King
George.
“If you take any possible constitu
tion of a League of Nations as the
last word that is ever going to be
said on the subject, as fixing now and
forever the terms of international
relations, and then set yourself to
conjuring up hypothetical cases under
which it might not work well, you
would never get a League of Nations.
And that—do not forget—is exactly
what some of the senatorial objectors
want: no League of Nations, but sub
stantially the old international sys
tem, which gave the great war its
ample opportunity.
“The draft of the league’s constitu
tion affords a working basis to begin
with. As soon as the breath of life
Is breathed into it, like all living
things it will begin to change. There
will be modifications and amend
ments as experience shows the need
of them.”
The Texas National Guard has been
ordered placed in readiness for border
duty. And it is safe to say that if
they will but give the word to those
Texas lads to “go over the top” they
will make short work of the bandits.
The objectors to “intermeddling in
the affairs of Europe” have received
another shock in the report of the
senate sub-committee which has
reported that that all-embracing doc
ument, the United States constitu
ion, does not prohibit this country
from extending aid in time of stress
to our ancient ally.
There is a close relationship be
tween the Nonpartisan League of
North Dakota and those radical So
cialists whose ideas border on the
doctrines of Lenine and Trotzky. It
will be interesting to note how much
support will be extended to a candi
date of that league for the presidency.
All honor to Chairman Curry of
the house territories committee. That
gentleman, at least, seems to have
grasped the idea that someone else
than the Alaskan engineering com
mission is guilty of blunders in the
construction of the government rail
way in Alaska. To dole out appro
priations in driblets, and to keep
whole communities in doubt as to
whether more money is forthcoming,
is surely neither a wise nor an eco
nomical method of prosecuting so
pretentious and costly a work. Wis
dom should dictate that the necessary
money to complete the work and com
petent men to handle the job would
soon dispose of the difficulty.
ALASKA NOTE AND COMMENT
Many Alaskans who are desirous
of securing passage back to the terri
tory have been unable to return ow
ing to the fact that there is still no
room on the steamers. Serves them
right for going out.—Douglas News.
If you would keep down dangerous
epidemics notify the health officer
when any of your family has scarlet
fever, measles, diphtheria, typhoid
whooping cough, tuberculosis or other
preventable diseases. Only by doing
this can you hope to prevent others
from being infected.—Valdez Miner.
We hope, within a very few days,
to he able to make some definite an
nouncement with respect to develop
ment of certain units in the naval
reserve in the Matanuska coal fields.
This town’s future, to a very large
extent, depends upon the early devel
opment of the Matanuska coal areas,
and we are fast approaching the glad
day when the navy department will
begin operations.—Anchorage Times.
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The vestal resolution recently in
troduced in congress, gives James
Wickersham authority to examine
soldiers in the election contest, but
was robbed of its stinger by George
B. Griggsby, who got the part
stricken from the bill requiring the
men to tell for whom they voted.
The committee upheld Mr. Grigsby’s
contention that no man could be
forced to tell for whom he voted.—
Valdez Miner.
The attempt of the First division
to secede from the Territory of
Alaska and become a separate terri
tory, while occasioning no surprise
to the residents of the Second, Third
and Fourth divisions, is so frivolous
as to be absurd, remarks the Valdez
Miner. The claim by the residents
of that division, as enunciated by
the citizens of Ketchikan, that the
First division produces practically all
the money to maintain the territory,
and therefore the First division
should have the bulk of the moneys
appropriated, is another bit of bunk
which will tickle the risibilities of
residents of the territory who will
view the attempt of the tail to wag
the dog with much merriment. If the
citizens of the First division are at
tempting to perpetrate a joke, we are
willing to laugh with the bunch; but
if in earnest, w^e would suggest that
it take a look-see at the figures be
fore cutting off from the territorial
payroll. We knowr not wiiat meat our
Caesar has fed on to grow so great.—
Nenana Newrs.
As far as knowm the first con
viction for selling cider in Alaska
was secured recently in Douglas w^hen
one James Barras was found to be
disposing of cider w'hich showed by
chemical analysis to contain a con
siderable percentage of alcohol. The
trial was before the U. S. commis
sioner at Douglas, and the jury, after
two hours’ deliberation returned a
verdict of guilty. Barras was fined
$50 and costs, amounting to about
$100 in all.
Twm jugs of the offending drink
were seized, and upon analysis by
G. L. Swarva, a chemist of Treadwell,
one of them was found to con
tain 5.56 per cent and the other 2.23
per cent by volume. It is stated
that all cider now being shipped into
the First division is required by the
Federal attorney to be sterilized.
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