"COLLEGE MEN SHOULD BE FOR LEAGUE" - TAFT

"I think all college men, mindful of the leadership and responsibility the United States ought to assume in raising the world from demoralization, should be for the League of Nations." This is the statement which Ex-President William Howard Taft made to a CRIMSON reporter when asked to express his personal opinion on the attitude with which college men should view the League.

"Recent developments have not changed my opinion in respect to a League of Nations," Mr. Taft continued. "But there is this to be said: It has developed that we cannot secure a League without what are called the Lodge reservations. College men should, therefore, be for the adoption of the League with these reservations, which Lord Grey's letter shows will be accepted by the European and other powers already united in the League. The President's supporters should have ratified the Treaty with the reservations as early as November last when they had the full opportunity to do so, and the President should have accepted this and submitted it to the conference. Had this been done we would now be in the League functioning and greatly helping the world. I am still hopeful that such a result may be brought about, but in the interval we have lost precious time."