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...detailed program to be followed for the next few months is now being drafted by a non-partisan committee of University professors and will serve when completed as the basis of an appeal for endowment. The program will call for sufficient money, not only to purchase documents illustrating the day-to-day proceedings of the Peace Conference, but to buy also important material such as pamphlets and the Paris news-papers of the time; ans to employ a worker to tabulate and catalogue this material...
Edwin F. Ladd, Senator from North Dakota, has agreed to address the conference. Senator Ladd, formerly the president of North Dakota State Agricultural College, was the only candidate elected to the Senate last fall by the non-Partisan League...
According to the literature published by the league, which modestly dscribes itself as "a non-partisan union of farmers and labor organizations and other progressive forces", this "program of economic justice will save the people on the farms, in the factories, mines, offices, trades, and transportation $6,000,000,000 a year." All this sounds very promising, but inspection of the program clearly shows an attack on private enterprise. As it has been stated: "This league's legislative drive aims at nothing short of camouflaged communism." Here is an example of the sort of radical propaganda that is going...
...Partisan feeling is at present running high, inasmuch as tomorrow is the date set for holding the plebiscite. The people living in Upper Silesia who are permitted to participate in the voting, number about 600,000, of whom 62 percent are Polish. This number would be sufficient to ensure a Polish victory were it not for the provision in the Versailles Treaty, which permits the return of all the native sons to the plebiscite who were born there before the year 1900. Germany is naturally making every effort to have all those born in Silesia return to their birthplace...
...author of the communication of March 6 has assumed that the "youth from the middle-west", who wrote the early communication, did so with the idea of criticizing the existing social order. Our non-partisan communicator thereby made the double error of jumping to hasty conclusions, and of reading into the first communication something which was not written. Having based his entire article upon a false assumption, I fail to see in it any but that questionable value of personal attack. The criticism was intended to be constructive, not destructive...