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The bill was printed under the direction of the House Committee on Revision of Laws, of which the Hon. Edward C. Little, of Kansas, is Chairman. The action was taken pursuant to the resolution of December, 1919. The new code takes the place of all others now in force, as did the Revised Statutes in 1874; indeed, as 'did the codes of Justinian in the Roman Empire and of Napoleon in France. A table of contents prefaces the text and is of course invaluable, as will be the index which is to follow. A copy of the law, when passed, will be, of course, indispensable to every advanced student of the development of our Government. DISARMAMENT D ISARMAMENT is a bad name for a good policy. Weary and disgusted as the peoples of the world are with war, there are still too many deplorable signs of militarism in some groups of ruling classes, if not in some nations, to make it safe for even peace-lovers to abandon all precautions for self-protection. On another page Mr. P. W. Wilson, of the London "Daily News," brings out this fact clearly as far as it concerns Great Britain. But there is no reason why the race for national supremacy in armies and navies, with its exhausting and endurable burdens of taxation, should go on among civilized nations. un Limitation of armaments is a better and more accurate phrase than disarmament for the proposal that is being seriously considered in the United States Senate. There is decided British sentiment in favor of such limitation, and Japan, it is believed, would be glad to join an international movement in this direction. The attitude of France is more doubtful. But if the United States and Great Britain should formulate a practical plan and take definite action towards a reduction of army and navy FEBRUARY 2, 1921 estimates, France would follow their lead, although perhaps hesitatingly. For France, while. what she regards as the German menace continues to threaten, considers Europe to be still an armed camp, and therefore she has as yet A BILL TO CODIFY THE U. S. LAWS This measure may be known, from the name of its sponsor, as the Little Bill; and, like the Collector of the Port of New York, it might be known, from its size, as Big Bill. As seen by the dial it weighed 6 lbs. 13 oz. at birth little faith in the substitution of judicial procedure for the sword as a method of self-protection. It is significant of American feeling that Senator Borah, a "bitter-ender" in his opposition to the League of Nations, wants the Senate to proceed to immediate action on the reduction of naval and army estimates and takes issue with ex-Senator Root, an advocate of the League of Nations with reservations and the champion of an International Supreme Court, who advises waiting until Mr. Harding is inaugurated. In a public statement Senator Borah puts the case for armament limitation very effectively: Two years have passed [since the France has an army of nearly ... which will cost under present con- We are glad to have Senator Borah, who not long ago was apparently in favor of having the United States "go it alone" in international matters, record so strong an opinion in behalf of associated effort for international peace. But we confess that we cannot see the serious delay in waiting five weeks until the new Administration takes up the reins of government. Mr. Root, it should be added, is definitely in favor of the limitation of armaments. "I feel strongly," he says, "that steps should be taken promptly after the new Administration is established to bring about a general agreement on that question." The new Administration certainly ought to advocate, at the earliest possible moment, some agreement for limitation of armaments fairly proportioned among the nations according to their several conditions and needs. UNDISCOVERED NEWS HERE have been in the press many reports of friction between Congress and the Secretary of War. According to these reports, the Secretary has caused more men to be enlisted in the Army than Congress has made provision for. And so Congress wants the Secretary to stop recruiting until the Army shall be reduced to the measure of the money available. The interesting thing about these reports is not to be found in the quarrel of the Secretary and Congress or in the Congressional debates over limiting the size of our Army. It is to be found in the fact that the Secretary not only did, but could, procure enlistments for the Army with comparative ease. Those who were familiar with the difficulty of securing recruits in pre-war days must certainly wonder at the present state of affairs. The answer to the question is to be found in the fact that the American Regular Army to-day is not only preparing for war, but is also preparing for peace. It is offering to recruits a systematic course of vocational training. It is taking aliens who cannot read and write English and who are unfamiliar with American ideals and making of them literate and enthusiastic Americans. It is doing the same for Americans of the old stock who have been lost in some eddy of the great current of our National life. The whole purpose of army enlistment is being subjected to ideals of civic upbuilding that are of tremendous importance. As an example of the influence which the adoption of vocational training has had upon army enlistments, the records for the month of October, 1920, show that, out of a total of more than seventeen thousand men accepted, over nine thousand came into the Army for the purpose of training for civil life. We have told in the past of the Americanization work of the recruit educational centers, and we shall have more to say concerning the progress of vocational training work in the future. It is perhaps obvious from what we have said, however, that if the Army is to continue to develop its educational function a new consideration must enter into any discussion of the size of our Army. The Nation will be less reluctant than it has been in the past to support and extend the work of an Army which has awakened to a vital civil responsibility. LETTING THE SOVIETS ALONE E VERYBODY, including the gentleman himself, seems to have been pleased at the departure from America of the Soviet envoy, Ludwig C. A. K. Martens. This able representative of an alleged proletarian Government was not prevented by any theories of equality from traveling first class in a steamer which conveyed also some seventy-five other advocates of Sovietism who traveled by steerage. Mr. Martens had to resign himself to the comforts still provided by a capitalistic state of society. Though he left us because our Government decided that he should go, he went not unwillingly, according to all reports. He felt that he had done all he could do for the present, and he expected to return. His assistants who went with him are reported to have expressed great joy at their departure, and looked forward to some physical hardships in Russia but anticipated a resumption of "spiritual freedom." Mr. Martens was ostensibly here to encourage trade relations with Russia, but there is no doubt that he also encouraged, as far as he could, distrust (C) Harris & Ewing LUDWIG MARTENS, "SOVIET" AMBASSADOR TO THE UNITED STATES of our Government. A man who comes from another country with the ill-concealed desire to see the institutions of this country overthrown is of course an impossible person to deal with. There was nothing unfriendly to Mr. Martens personally nor to Russia in the decision to deport him. It was simply the consequence of the Administration's discovery, after a good many months, that it is impossible to deal with a foreign Government which has for one of its essential purposes the undermining of its neighbors' social structure. The very day that Mr. Martens sailed there was made public by the State De the Acting Secretary of State) to Paul Hymans, the President of the Assembly of the League of Nations. This is the latest expression of the policy of the Wilson Administration toward Russia. The President, it will be remembered, had agreed to act as intermediary between Armenia and Turkey. It now appears from this note that the President fears that he cannot act until he knows what the attitude of the Powers is to be toward Russia. The reason for this is that Armenia is dependent upon Soviet Russia, and therefore cannot be freed without the moral and diplomatic support of the principal Powers. Reiterating his conviction that the Bolsheviki constitute a violent and tyrannical minority, he expresses his belief that the trouble about Russia is due to the fact that the small nations formerly belonging to the Russian Empire are afraid to disarm because they fear oppression from the Bolsheviki, and the Bolshevik Government contends that it won't disarm because it fears new attack from outside. The President's solution is therefore to deprive the Bolsheviki of their argument by guaranteeing Soviet Russia against external aggression. Until that guaranty is made he does not feel free to assist the Armenians. Those who believe in the philosophy of Article X of the Covenant of the League of Nations will enthusiastically indorse the President's note. Others are entitled to reservations-at least mental. THE SUBSIDIZED LENINE HAT Bolshevism is a distinctly in partment a note from the President (is-digenous product of Russia, and not sued according to custom in the name of the Secretary of State or, in this case, (C) Keystone EDUARD BERNSTEIN, WHO TELLS HOW GERMANY FINANCED BOLSHEVISM the creation of any outside agency, is the contention of many among the wellinformed. Such is the statement of Baron Korff in his article in this issue. It is not necessary to dispute this in order to recognize the fact that Bolshevism would never have attained the power it now has if it had not been cultivated by the enemies alike of Russia and of the Allies in the war. It was obvious at the time, though, like other obvious things, denied by some, that Germany was making use of Lenine, the Bolshevist leader, to break down the eastern front. There was evidence that German money had been paid to Lenine in Switzerland. course such evidence was scouted as the invention of people who were hysterical enough to distrust both Germans and pacifists. of Now those who trust Germans may have evidence in confirmation of what was once obvious without their evidence. In our issue of January 5 we quoted from the statement of General Hoffmann, who had charge of the propa |