PRES, LOWELL ANSWERS BORAH

Following the violent personal attack upon him made on the floor of the Senate Monday afternoon by Senator Borah, in which the Senator from Idaho denounced the attitude taken in the Lodge-Lowell debate on the League of Nations last spring, President A. Lawrence Lowell yesterday issued the following statement:

"I yield neither to Senator Borah nor any other man in admiration of the farewell address and of the great Fathers of the Republic, but I would not use them as a cover for present party politics. Never did I sneer at the farewell address; but I believe that the greatness of Washington was due to his looking the facts of his day in the face and determining his conduct thereby, instead of by utterances, however wise, of a hundred and fifty years before. I will trust the American people not to mistake short-signtednss for patriotism or narrow-mindedness for love of country."

The statement was called forth by the severe condemnation by Senator Borah of President Lowell's remarks on Washington's farewell address and on the policies of the founders of the Union. The senator failed to find a "single patriotic paragraph or a single appeal for American institutions or the American systemic of government" in all the literature distributed by the League to Enforce Peace

Senator Borah, speaking of President Lowell, said:

"It is no surprise, Mr. President, to one who has examined the books of this distinguished, educator to read his comment upon. Washington's farewell address. It is in complete harmony with the cold, indifferent and ill-concealed contempt which everything American found throughout his writings.

"Not even the guarded commendation so often found in foreigners, certainly none of the enthusiasm which may always be picked up from foreign writers concerning American achievements and American heroes, is anywhere discoverable in the writings of this native American, with his alien taste.