"It is a noteworthy fact, and one carrying with it peculiar significance, that without exception the people of Central and South America are eager to join the League, and we must not flatter ourselves that they will blindly follow the leadership of the United States in case our decision is adverse to the League. In fact, our failure to ratify the covenant would strengthen the suspicion which has so long prevailed in many sections of Central and South America that, notwithstanding the assurances of Presidents and Secretaries of State, there exists in the minds of self-seeking groups in the United States a plan to use the Monroe Doctrine as a means to control the destinies and influence the policies of Latin America. "In short, if the United States fails to support the idea of a League of Nations, she will thereby not only indulge in a fruitless attempt to isolate herself from Europe, but will also lose her position of leadership. The republics of Latin America show no hesitancy in joining with the countries of Europe for the maintenance of world peace. We would therefore find ourselves in the position of having entered a great world conflict of European origin and of farreaching European consequences, of having, because of our unselfish purpose, been able to lead the world toward a settlement which gave promise of a durable peace, and of refusing at the last moment to assume the responsibilities of performing the mission which that position of leadership imposed." -Dr. L. S. Rowe, Assistant Secretary of the Treasury. DINNER TO CHARLES LATHROP PACK A testimonial dinner was tendered to Mr. Charles Lathrop Pack by Officers of the World's Court League and the National War Garden Commission at the Union League Club, March 20. Mr. Emerson McMillin presided and spoke of Mr. Pack's 'promotion of War Gardens in the United States as a good second to Mr. Hoover's food work abroad. Mr. Pack gave a most interesting account of the sacrifice of forests in England and France and plans for reforestation. Mr. Percival Sheldon Ridsdale, secretary of the National War Garden Commission, paid high tribute to President Pack for his versatility and inspiration which have made the work so wonderful a success. Col. John Hays Hammond and Mr. Elbert Baldwin emphasized the character of Mr. Pack's international service. Robert Underwood Johnson gave some personal reminiscences and Professor J. W. Toumey spoke of pressing forestry problems. Col. Fred E. Farnsworth contributed some intimate Pack family history; Mr. Frank Chapin Bray offered some complimentary verses; Dr. Joseph Silverman eloquently honored Mr. Pack for his work as President of the World's Court League and his active interest in the success of the World Court, now the LEAGUE OF NATIONS MAGAZINE. Others present included: Philip W. Ayres, Alfred C. Balch, Leonard Barron, James G. Beemer, Standish Chard, Alfred N. Gitterman, William B. Guthrie, S. Heilner, J. W. Jenks, George F. Kunz, Henry G. Leach, Charles H. Levermore, Walter L. McCorkle, N. C. McLoud, Albert Shaw, Joseph Silverman, Albert A. Snowden, E. A. Sterling, Lewis B. Stillwell, Henry T. Thomas, Charles W. Young. Telegrams and letters of regret were received from many who could not be present. Among them, Charles W. Eliot, president of Harvard; Gilbert Grosvenor; F. H. Goff; Governor Edge of New Jersey; Major General H. L. Scott; Stanley Washburn, Gifford Pinchot, Theodore E. Burton, and Luther Burbank wrote: "I have a most profound admiration and respect for Mr. Charles Lathrop Peck and his noble work which will remain to enrich and improve the world for all time." LEAGUE OF NATIONS UNION At a meeting of the Board of Directors of the League of Nations Union, March 81, 1919, the LEAGUE OF NATIONS MAGAZINE was taken over from the World's Court League to be published thereafter by the Union. The same day formal action by the Board of Governors of the World's Court League approved this transfer. The League of Nations Union accepted the application of the National Board of the American Section of the International Committee of Women for Permanent Peace for membership in the Union. Messrs. George Blumenthal, Arthur Lehman, Adolph Lewisohn and Walter L. McCorkle were elected members of the Executive Committee. A minute in honor of the late Samuel T. Dutton was adopted by the Directors. SAMUEL TRAIN On March 28, 1919, Dr. Samuel T. Dutton, who had been General Secretary of the World's Court League since 1916, died suddenly at Atlantic City in his seventieth year. Funeral services were held in St. Paul's Chapel, Columbia University, on Monday, March 81, conducted by his classmate at Yale, Rev. Dr. John P. Peters, rector of Saint Michael's Church; Chaplain Raymond C. Knox of the University, and Rev. George H. Smyth, pastor of his home church at Hartsdale, N. Y. The honorary pall bearers were: President Nicholas Murray Butler, John Bates Clark, Dean James E. Russell, Henry Carr Pearson, Talcott Williams, Charles H. Levermore, Clarence Bowen, George W. Kirchwey, E. S. Sanford. Public memorial exercises at Horace Mann auditorium are announced for April 24, Dr. John Bates Clark, presiding. Speakers include: President Hadley of Yale, Dr. Henry A. Stimson, Professor William Henry Carpenter, Mr. Hamilton Holt, Professor E. S. Sanford, Dean J. E. Russell, Mr. George A. Plimpton, Dr. Charles H. Levermore, Dr. J. P. Peters, Dr. George W. Kirchwey, Dr. Henry Goddard Leach, Bishop Edwin S. Lines, Rev. George H. Smyth. Before coming to Columbia University Dr. Dutton had been superintendent of Schools at New Haven, Connecticut, and Brookline, Massachusetts. He was superintendent of the Horace Mann School, professor of School Administration at Teachers College and an active member of the Philosophical Faculty of the University until 1914. In 1918 he was a member of the International Commission on the Balkan War. Dr. Dutton was the first secretary and organizer of the New York Peace Society DUTTON and inaugurated the 1907 National Peace Congress in New York. He was a director or member of various important organizations in this field; he fathered the movement for uniting the educational efforts of societies in the League of Nations Union. At the time of his lamented death he was treasurer of the Constantinople College for Women, a trustee of Canton Christian College in China, and Chairman of the Executive Committee for Relief in the Near East (Armenian and Syrian Relief). At a meeting on March 81, Directors of the League of Nations Union adopted the following tribute: "The Directors of the League of Nations Union hereby record the unfeigned sorrow and sense of bereavement with which they have learned that their colleague and friend, Dr. Samuel Train Dutton, has left this mortal life. The organization of this Union was one of the last objects of his anxious care. He was a founder and officer of each of the two societies which are constituent members of this Union. To the promotion of peace on earth among men of good will he gave eager allegiance and unflagging support. With every important organization laboring to that end he identified himself, and achieved an international reputation as a thoughtful student of racial relations, a wise adviser, a lover of justice and of peace that is based on it, and a loyal American. "All his associates recognized in him a man of firm will and courage, of singularly genial spirit and hopeful outlook, a citizen devoted to the best ideals of public service, and a Christian whose life was guided by an unshaken faith in the Eternal Goodness. "Resolved: That this expression of our affection and esteem for Dr. Dutton, and of our grief because we shall see him no more on earth, be inscribed upon the minutes of the Union, and that a copy thereof be transmitted to his family." MAGAZINE Vol. V, No. 5. Published monthly, $2 a year, by League of Nations Union, Educational Entered as second-class matter, March 5, 1919, at the post office at New York, N. Y., under TABLE OF CONTENTS, MAY, 1919 COVENANT OF THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS . 277 LEAGUE OF NATIONS IN THE PEACE TREATY WITH GERMANY 287 VICE-PRESIDENT MARSHALL SPEAKS FOR THE LEAGUE . 297 By Herbert Adolphus Miller CAN TREATY-MAKING COMMIT US TO THE LEAGUE OF NA. . By David Jayne Hill and George W. Wickersham 302 TIONS? By Roger W. Babson By Alice Meynell 320 IN HONOR OF AMERICA By Edward L. Conn 321 INTERNATIONAL COUNCIL OF THE WORLD'S COURT LEAGUE Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler, President Dr. Aristides Agramonte, Habana, Cuba. Mr. George Louis Beer, 329 West 71st Street, M. Enrico Bignami, Villa Coenobium, Lugano, Switzerland. Dr. R. Brenes Mesén, Secretary of Public Instruction, San José, Costa Rica. Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler, President of Columbia University, New York. President of the Council. Dr. W. Evans Darby, "Jesmond," 59 Norfolk Road, Seven Kings, Essex, England. Dr. M. Diaz Rodriguez, El Ministro de Fomenta, Caracas, Venezuela. Professor Guglielmo Ferrero, Historian, Viale Machiavelli, No. 7, Florence, Italy. Dr. Edoardo Giretti, Deputy in Parliament, Bricherasio, Italy. Dr. Juan Silvano Godoi, Museo de Bellas Artes é Histórico y Biblioteca Americana, Asunción, Paraguay. M. Henri Golay, Secrétaire général du Bureau international de la Paix, Berne, Switzerland. Dr. Charles Noble Gregory, 1502 H Street, N. W., Washington, D. C. Dr. Alonso Reyes Guerra, San Salvador, Salvador, C. A. Mr. Carl Heath, Parliament Chambers, Great Smith Street, Westminster, London, S. W., England. Mr. F. W. Hirst, 27, Campden Hill Square, W., London, England. Mr. John A. Hobson, 3, Gayton Crescent, Hampstead, N. W., London, England. Dr. William I. Hull, Professor of History and International Relations, Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, Pa. Dr. Toyokichi Iyenaga, Managing Director The East and West News Bureau, Woolworth Building, New York City. Jhr. B. de Jong Van Beek en Donk, Prinsessegracht, 19, The Hague, Netherlands. Baron K. Kaneko, Tokio, Japan. Hon. W. L. McKenzie King, The Roxborough, Ottawa, Canada. Gen. F. D. Légitime, Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Hon. Theodore Marburg, Baltimore, Maryland. Dr. Rafael Montúfar, Villa Montúfar, Paramus Road, Ridgewood, N. J. Dr. Ernesto Nelson, Universidad Libre, Buenos Aires, Argentina. Dr. Otfried Nippold, Professor of International Law, Thun, Switzerland. Mr. Alex H. Nordvall, Stockholm, Sweden. Prof. L. Oppenheim, Whewell House, Cambridge, England. M. Paul Otlet, General Secretary of the Union of International Associations, 4, Rue Edouard VII., Paris, France. Sir George Paish, Limpsfield, Surrey, England. Sir Gilbert Parker, 20, Carlton House Terrace, London, S. W., England. Dr. Jules Prudhommeaux, General Secretary of the "Association de la Paix par le Droit," and of the European Bureau of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 8 Rue Jacques Boyceau, Versailles, France. Hon. Paul S. Reinsch, Minister, Legation of the United States, Peking, China. Dr. Charles Richet, Hospital No. 32, CôteSt. André (Isère) Paris, France. Hon. William Renwick Riddell, The Supreme Court of Ontario, Osgoode Hall, Toronto, Can. Dr. Dámaso Rivas, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pa. Dr. Theodore Ruyssen, Rué Monjardin, 10, Nimes, France. Mr. Fernando Sanchez De Fuentes, Habana, Cuba. H. E. Baron Y. Sakatani, Koishikawa, Haramachi, Tokio, Japan. Dr. Albert A. Snowden, 149 Broadway, New York City. Dr. Jokichi Takamine, Equitable Building, New York City. Judge William H. Wadhams, 126 East 80th Street, New York City. Hon. Edward Wavrinsky, Stocksund, Sweden. Rt. Hon. Lord Weardale, 3 Carlton Gardens, London, S. W., England. Prof. George G. Wilson, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass. Mr. H. Charles Woods, Warnford Park, Bishop's Waltham, Hampshire, England. Mr. L. S. Woolf, Hogarth House, Richmond, Surrey, England. Mr. Israel Zangwill, Far End, East Preston, Sussex, England. Dr. E. S. Zeballos, Buenos Aires, Argentina. NATIONAL ADVISORY BOARD OF THE WORLD'S COURT LEAGUE Dr. Albert Shaw, President ALABAMA-Dr. Morris Newfield, 2150 So. 16th Avenue, Birmingham. CALIFORNIA-Professor Ira W. Howerth, University of California, Berkeley. Professor Geo. M. Stratton, University of California, Berkeley. Mr. Robert C. Root, Occidental College, Los Angeles, California. Dr. David Starr Jordan, Stanford University, Palo Alto. COLORADO-Bishop Francis J. McConnell, 964 Logan Street, Denver. Mr. Clyde A. Duniway, Colorado Springs. CONNECTICUT-Professor Irving Fisher, 460 Prospect Street, New Haven. DELAWARE-President Samuel C. Mitchell, Delaware College, Newark. DIST. OF COL.-Commissioner Philander P. IOWA-President J. H. T. Main, Grinnell Dr. Edward A. Steiner, Grinnell College, Grinnell. KANSAS-Senator Arthur Capper, Topeka. MARYLAND-President John F. Goucher, Goucher College, Baltimore. Professor Elbert Russell, 725 Euclid Avenue, Roland Park, Baltimore. Mr. Jackson H. Ralston, Hyattsville. MASSACHUSETTS-Mrs. Fannie Fern Andrews, 405 Marlborough Street, Boston. Rev. Dr. James L. Barton, 14 Beacon Street, Boston. Rev. Dr. Howard A. Bridgman, 14 Beacon Street, Boston. Rev. Dr. Francis E. Clark, United Society of Christian Endeavor, Boston. Mr. James P. Munroe, 79 Summer Street, Boston. Professor Lewis J. Johnson, Harvard University, Cambridge. Mrs. Rose Malcolm Forbes, 280 Adams Street, Milton. President Mary E. Woolley, Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley. Mr. Denis A. McCarthy, 26 Sargent Street, Winthrop MICHIGAN-President Charles McKenny, Michigan State Normal College, Ypsilanti. MINNESOTA-Rev. Harry P. Dewey, Plymouth Church, Minneapolis MISSISSIPPI-Dr. Dunbar Rowland, Department of Archives and History, State of Mississippi, Jackson. MISSOURI-Professor Jay William Hudson, University of Missouri, Columbia. Professor Manley O. Hudson, University of Missouri, Columbia. NEBRASKA-Professor George Elliot How- NEW HAMPSHIRE-Principal Lewis Perry, NEW YORK-Rev. John H. Melish, 126 Rev. Dr. Nehemiah Boynton, Clinton Avenue Congregational Church, Brooklyn. Dr. Edward T. Devine, 105 East 22d Street, New York City. Dr. Stephen P. Duggan, Inst. of International Relations, 419 W. 117th St., New York. Rev. Dr. Junius B. Remensnyder, 900 Madison Avenue, New York City. Mr. Robert Underwood Johnson, 347 Madison Avenue, New York City. Rev. Dr. John Herman Randall, Mount Dr. Albert Shaw, 30 Irving Place, New Mrs. Anna Garlin Spencer, 548 Riverside Miss Lillian D. Wald, 265 Henry Street, Dr. Stephen S. Wise, 23 W. 90th Street, President Henry N. MacCracken, Vassar NORTH CAROLINA-Judge Jeter C. Pritchard, Asheville. President Emeritus L. L. Hobbs, Guilford Superintendent J. Y. Joyner, Public In- OHIO-Mr. B. F. Bourne, 905 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland. Mrs. Edward M. Williams, 601 Canal Road, Professor Philip Van Ness Myers, College President George W. Hinman, Marietta Col lege, Marietta. Mr. John H. Patterson, Dayton. PENNSYLVANIA Hon. Thomas Raeburn White, 700 West End Trust Building, Philadelphia. SOUTH CAROLINA-President D. B. Johnson, Winthrop Normal and Industrial College, Rock Hill. TENNESSEE-President Bruce R. Payne, George Peabody College for Teachers, Nashville. TEXAS-Professor C. G. Haines, University of Texas, Austin. Hon. James L. Slayden, San Antonio, Texas. VIRGINIA-Professor Charles G. Maphis, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Va. VERMONT-Professor Charles B. Wright, Middlebury College, Middlebury. WISCONSIN-Professor John R. Commons, University of Wisconsin, Madison. |