Jasper County Democrat, Volume 23, Number 61, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 October 1920 — THE LEAGUE A GREAT MORAL ISSUE [ARTICLE]

THE LEAGUE A GREAT MORAL ISSUE

The cardinal doctrines of Christian service are set forth in a half dozen paragraphs ,of the covenant. The league will set up, or itself become, a clearing house for international justice and social service. Among the things that the nations working together will endeavor to do, all member nations agreeing, are the following: They will try to secure and maintain fair and humanp conditions of labor for men, women and children, thus lifting the standards of living everywhere. They will try to secure just treat* ment of the native inhabitants of territories under their control. They will try to secure and maintain freedom of communications and of transit and equitable treatment for the commerce of members of the league. They will labor together in the effort to control and ultimately eradicate disease. They will set up commissions for the prevention of the 'illicit traffic in , arms, in dangerous drugs and in women for immoral purposes. TheSe practices constitute the endemic centers, or breeding places, of what we may jcall the disease of civilization. The task of controlling the spread of these evils and in time cleaning up the plague spots Is too big to be accomplished by any one nation. It can only be done by international co-operatidn, and the league supplies the necessary agency.—Governor Cox.