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COVENANT OF NATIONS

AMERICAN GENEROSITY.

[TROM DR. K. J. DILLON.]

Paxis, February 14th.

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 80TH, 1919

DUCTOR DISCOVERS NEW ANESTHETIC.

EFFICACIOUS DRUG 40 TIMES LESS TOXIC THAN COCAINE

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As a result of the remarch work of Dr.

To-day, at last, the Covenant of the David L. Macht, of the pharmacological. Nations has been revealed to an expec department of the Johns Hopkins" Hoe tant world under outward sirounmancespital, a new local anesthetic has been

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of a workaday character. President discovered that is about forty times leasTJILIWONG... Wilson read to the delegates and the

toxic than cocaine, dense throng of Pressmen, many of whom were standing on tables holding on, to each other and koking like swarming bees, twenty-six clauses, which he will take home to the United States as the basis on which the world-union of the future is expected to repose: The draft constitution was the outcome of animated debates Carried on under extreme press sure. The fervid sympathies of all men

The drug itself-benzyl alcohol of phen- methylol-is not new, but its properties TJIKINI in producing local anesthesia are in the Bature of a complete discovery that has attracted much attention in the medical Drector Macht also has to his credit world and especially the surgical world. another bighly significant discovery that

Ja

of goodwill went out to the Plenipotentis has bean much commented upon, This is with the use of benzoate a substitute for aries during their short, sharp

One of the most the formidable contacles in the way, opium where spasmodic conditions of the among which were their own deep-rooted internal, viscera, exist. national interests and traditional strivimportant features of both benzyl alcohol ings

Everybody wished them success, and benzyl benzoate is that neither can

narcotic article written Doctor Macht for

by for the world is weary of war, and not be classed as a

Journal point metely anxious but determined to put an form and under whatever pretexts it may ad ant that the local

masses attempt to reassert itselfbly contributed who have hitherto invariably the crappu fodder and the Bnancial res war, are no longer minded sources lot insistently demanded that the delegates

followed, be says, by a sensation of numb acquiesce in President Wilson's

and organise theness, coolness and hardness, very much of the world in

end to the reign of force in whatsoever the official Phar anesthetic properties

of benzyl alcohol were revealed accident. ally while experimenting with benzyl benspate. He happened to taste a minute particle of the benzyl alcohol and found naesthetized. There was a slight

to continue their contribution, and have his tongue.completeSaver-and-this_W29)

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and after the benzyl alcohol bad beer. tried out successfully in case after case on dumb animals, it was tried in the clinic

be forgotten and munition work or hibited. They kept their own reform schemes in abeyance until the Conference should utter the decisive word and come

The results were thoroughly satis And forward with a concrete charter, today the idea which has been floating factory that its use was commenced at the in the air for centuries, and which the Johns Hopkins Hospital. It came at an philosopher Kant, followed by the Tsar opportune time last spring, when the Alexander I., sought to embody in politisupply of both cocaine and novocain was cal institutions, has been at last clad in short, and prices exceedingly high owing

thin Anglo-Saxon vesture which will to government. demand for war uses. abortly be subjected to tremendous wear and tear.

MODERATE APPROVA-

SECRECY IN TREATIES.

It is safe to predict that the people's Covenant will be

Sir John Macdonell lecturing recently. approval of the

For the result, hurriedly at

on secret tresties, said his subject had a moderate. tained by the delegates while an Ameri- long past, and it might be said that it had can steamer was waiting off Brest for the no future, for Article 23 of the League of President, is a compromisically opposed

between two Nations stated that no treaty would be unless it, was forthwith register- sets of conceptions to each other, between nationalism, with ed. It also provided, however, that a We all its egotisma and other cruditics, and treaty need not be divulged if publicity ocsmopolitanism, with its vagueness. Of would be dangerous to the State. all forms of human pssociation, a League might take it that secrecy would continue to exist, and that the agreement would properly of Nations on a pacific basis, organised, seems the most capable of, berot prove binding Agreements between for the Britain and her Allies as to frontiers and coming

д Beuchcent agency

other paints showed to what extent out. Another amiliarison of mankind, but it was

could be seprecy

carried wisdom to proclaim it to the segre world as the corner stone of a remodelled instance was Britain' agreement as to State system before the certitude had been Persia, which was not known to the Required that it would gain general 4 Persia Government or to our own agent at Teberan He did not know whether ceptance in spirit as well as in letter. In statecraft the business of the experts is Article 23 would be carried out in the to study the mental framework and moral spirit as well as in the letter when, the fibre of the nations in order to ascertain ereptations to keep secret engagements

Patalling were strong Secrecy did not theit

eir ripeness

for innovations before committing themselves result from sinister motives

sacrifices

Many

Often

There

a system which breaks the continuity others caused secrery, or obscurity. to of evolution, and renders war, if war be the language employed was vagle

were to-day, for instance, doubts of the not abolished, more sanguinary than ever. before, because, as there will be no nes

tral

of the treaties, of precise meaning.

all nations must take part in its of Belgium and

ard what we

we

Aea. Loremburg. phrases were often thrown into. treaties without, the writers seeing that they had any precise application. There was as yet no process by which obsoleta In the Articles: treaties were

"Lengue of...

In the present case there was no time to clear the ground, but ample time to raiso high hopes, and now the results

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regard the case of the Wilsonian Covenant without the Prejudice of party or nation, we are 24 and 25 of the Nations. there forced to admit that the plenipotentiaries was a provision for dealing with this hose breadted the worich not with any necessity. It was the only attempt ever ideala pahalal new principle of in- made to do away with what had bear done tornational relationsy but with a fresh in the past. A recent writer had said that application of ancient maxims, with

Cocrecy was not necessarily a crime, some- coalition of victorious

tipos it was a duty In his (the lectur meals against vanquished ones as I anti-era) opinion, you do not strike of the cipated from the outset. Disguise it as root of secret, diplomacy unless you admit we may, war has not been made impos- the light at an early stage. sible, and the peace of Europe in the futurs as in the past, hangs upon mili tary force

Amerentiate the

really salient

new asume dangerous forms and extend the points which arrangement from the old are, first, the already vast field of toil appointed for the. resemblance of the Wilsonian alliance to principal guardian of the world's peace a. private club, which reserves to itself beyond the Atlantic The United Sister, the power to reject candidates for admis by spontaneously assuming such far the sion without assigning motives; second, reaching responsibilities ander these de- the whole hearted

the United terrent circumstances, has given ence of

of generosity

Btates to this and the unresory-world a magnificent calls for "due a

obligand selflessness which

ed acceptance of the far-reaching tions it imposes: third, the conclusion of preciation. It is no slight service to a cummons" treaty, now termed, a twenty-two nations, who are none too amic. Covenant, much as I described a few days ably disposed towards each other to-day, If this arrangement was under prenor particularly contented with their

the furthest advance frontiers, to undertake to employ the

a con President's· Wilson's sources of the United States to uphold

possible goal, the President deserves the world's

Becured gratitude for having

its bat this ease it seems deeply to be regretted that the peoples of the world were encour aged to expect something wholly different. something which was quickly seen to be an impossibility.

A BLANK CHEQUE

the territorial status quo against wrathful in and resourceful

status quo and these aide the renful peoples who are put out rales have been established by victorious Governments without consulting some of the principal States concerned, and thes States will naturally move heaven and earth to upset the arrangement which to America will uphold at all costs. This, my

thinking, is far and away the most inc mentous contribution to the future world politics which one could have anticinated in nav re-settlement less safe than Presi dent Wilson's pristine ideal of a Leagie of Nations

If they could be brought calmly to mea sure the magnitude of the sacrifices which the people of the United States will have to make before even this alliance of ric torious Governments is achieved, they would probably moderate their emotion For the innovation which stands out in decisive importance in respect to the fatura intercourse of nations is precisely this entry of the United States into the

of

The outlines of the Covenant, which Ï cabled on Wednesday have been confirm ed by the text published to-day. As the Bradlian and other delegates proposed Alliance should be known is not the what we will have not yet progressed ferue of Nations but the League of beyond the stage of nationalism anywhere

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