Life — March 13, 1919 — page 21: what you’re looking at

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been searched League to find 1d more League non the ns that e lessons i on the rds their they are ne docu: s hur + Lodge demon: drait . Se: BUT, WAITER! =I DIDN’T ORDER THIS WATER! Waiter; No, BUT YOUR FRIEND ORDERED IT FOR YOU to that extent. When conditions unge and it begins to pinch us some- where, the courts ease it up by a new Mlerpretation. When we change it by umendment, and the enforcement of the amendment comes to look more troublesome and dangerous than the ailment it was devised to correct, the amendment is not enforced. The Con- stitution was made for the people, and has to keep on fitting them and to ange as they change. They respect it, but it is no Procrustean bed. It may well be the same way with the cocument that is devised to define the powers and duties of the League of Nations. It will be a working hy- pothesis for the promotion of harmony in world politics. War has come to be such an abominable mess, so costly, beastly, comprehensive and destructive, that the bedeviled world is compelled, on pain of death, to make a desperate effort to be quit of it. This rough- hewn Peace League program is the first fruit of that effort. Mr. Wilson has helped to get it. Good on his head! Good on every head that helps with this immensely important, immensely appealing job! It needs all kinds of help. It deserves all kinds of help, because it is an effort to save the world from destruction. Who can help with advocacy, let them stand and appeal. Who can help with criticism, let them bring on their bears. Who can help with money, with power, with charac- ter, with strength, let them fetch along 413 those articles and make them operative in a great, a greatest, cause. HE world of Europe is utterly changed, and is’ still changing at top speed. It has come to no settle- ment yet, and tranquillity and peaceful industry are things scen through a glass, dimly. Our own world is sub- ject to fits, and has throes ahead of it. Mr. Lodge prophesies and would cast out devils in the name of George Washington and the Farewell Address, but it seems far from certain that our ather George would accept Mr. Lodge as his valid representative and spokes st thought was He became a man. Washington's not to save his bacon rebel when rebellion was a scary enter- prise. He went to war when war pros- pects were uninviting. He was leader in devising and accepting the Consti- tution when a written constitution was an untried novelty. He was leader in starting a republic in a monarchical world, When doing, Washington never got under the hed. On the contrary, he turned up among the first with his boots on Those who tell us that, with the world in the fix that it is in now and with the strongest nation in it at his back, George Washington would give us timid counsels of aloofness, take seri- ous chances of a cold reception when they meet the Father of His Country anything important was over there in the Beyond. It may shock Mr. Lodge to think so, but, really, Mr. Wilson is cutting up very much more like what you would expect from a man of the adventurous propensities of Washington than Mr. Lodge is. We go to press without the advan- tage of having read Mr. Wilson's ad- dress in New York, but on the whole his errand here seems to have been ac- complished. What he said in Boston about the anxiety of Europe for fear the country would balk at the League has been confirmed from sources not especially friendly to him. Frank Si- monds testifies to the same effect, and so does Mr. Wickersham. But the United States will join the League. That seems sure. comicbooks.com