The State Department now has a splendid as well as indignant reply to those who charge it with coldness toward the League of Nations. It has just agreed to co-operate with the League in trying to prevent the spread of anthrax. Previously it had announced its willingness to join in ending the smuggling of opium. Also, in the matter of the international white-slave traffic, our, Government is ready to help out the League. Of course, this benevolent attitude has to be carefully guarded. The State Department severely points out that its share in the good work is purely "unofficial." The League must not be allowed to think that we endorse it. We do not approve of it, but in a pinch we are willing to try to lift some of its burdens with the tips of our fingers.

This magnificent list of achievements must have been in the President's mind when he wrote to Representative Mondell that "the last thing in our thoughts is aloofness from the rest of the world." To us our great strength "for the general welfare of mankind is out sincere purpose." We can't for reasons best known to the Senate, do anything in connection with the League of Nations, to make an end of war, but we can exert ourselves against narcotics. We can't lift a hand to prevent Armenians and Greeks from being massacred, but we can throw ourselves into the struggle to save cattle. When the churches and philanthropists find fault with the Administration, its answer is ready and complete. Only see what we are doing--anthrax and opium! The New York Times.