VANDERLIP URGES LEAGUE FOR ECONOMIC REASONS

Speaking to 600 men in the Living Room of the Union last evening, Mr. Frank A. Vanderlip expressed the opinion that the trade conditions of the world are now in a most critical predicament and that if stoppage of trade and resultant starvation is to be averted strenuous measures must be taken at once to start commerce moving more freely and rapidly; he claimed that the future of this country is thus so closely related economically to the future of the rest of the world that the United States must assume a more friendly international attitude and enter some league or association of nations which will help to settle the great world problems.

As an example of the necessity for such foreign relations, he took the Japanese population question, saying that Japan proper is now so thickly populated that it has reached a point of saturation. From now on there must be some outlet, but what outlet no one knows, for every country is trying to prevent the yellow race from crossing its borders. If some solution is not evolved through the medium of a Congress of Nations, this situation is liable, he prophesied, to precipitate another World War.