OPPOSING FACTIONS AIR VIEWS ON BOK PLAN; VOTING BRISK

The ballot on the Bok Peace Plan will be heavy enough to be truly representative of the sentiment of the University, if the interest shown in the first day's voting is maintained throughout the week. The supply of ballots at the Widener Library had to be replenished before night, and the voting was brisk in the seven other polling places.

Significant in the day's development was the announcement of statements from two radically opposite factions in the University, the Harvard Branch of the League of Nations Non-Partisan Association and the Hiram W. Johnson Club. The executive council of the former organization unanimously approved the Bok Plan as a step toward international cooperation. The Johnson adherents, on the other hand, were emphatic in their opposition to it.

The executive council of the League of Nations Non-Partisan Association made public the following statement.

Believe Plan Will Destroy Alloofness

"We believe that every person who is interested in having the United States cooperate in preserving the peace of the world, should vote 'yes' on the ballot now being held by the CRIMSON. This plan may not be all that some would have it, but it will serve, if adopted, to break down the walls of aloofness now existing between the United States and Europe.

"We believe, further, that this gives to the students of the country a chance to show their interest in affairs of the nation, by taking part in a referendum which will have a very vital significance in determining the policies adopted by the leaders in national affairs. If this plan is endorsed by a large majority, it will show that public opinion is behind international cooperation, and the politicians will have to mould their attitudes accordingly."

Johnson Club Opposes Plan

The Johnson for President Club expressed its views on the Bok plan as follows:

"Everyone abhors war and desires permanent world peace. But the Bok Peace Plan, if adopted, would not meet our desire.

"Peace would not be made more certain by our joining, in whatever form, an alliance, to which half of Europe does not belong. No such alliance in all history has ever prevented war. And, besides our taking part in European quarrels would naturally tend to invite controversies at home for we are a heterogeneous people. We would be morally bound, however, by League settlements and be made a party to their enforcement. The reservations proposed amount to little.

"Entrance by us into the World Court, however made, is in the final analysis entrance into the League. The two are inseparably bound together.

"The United States in the future can better promote world peace by remaining as independent politically as it was throughout the period of its national growth."

Voting on the Peace Plan will be continued today at all eight polling places. Members of the University may, however, vote on the ballot printed in this paper and mail their vote to the CRIMSON, if they prefer to do so.