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This paper reports a portion of results of a nationwide mail survey on university extracurricular English speech programs in Japan. The major purpose of the survey was the general background of out of class speech programs, the type of contests conducted and some problems related to speech programs. For a long time most teachers of English in Japan have been concerned primarily about the traditional reading and translation curriculum. Their concern has centered around the common feeling that speech courses and out of class or extracurricular speech activities in particular are not important compared to other curricular courses in the framework of literature and language programs.

This section presents the paper titled Article Eight of the League of Nations Covenant and the Washington Conference presented by C. B. Ames at the Third Annual Meeting of the Southwestern Political Science Association at Norman, Oklahoma on March 23, 1922. It took the World War to make the world want peace. It destroyed half the wealth of Europe. It left many nations groveling on the ground. When it was over the thoughts of men turned to peace. For the first time in history there seemed to be a universal desire for permanent peace and greater progress has been made since the war toward achieving this desire than in all the ages of the past. Three stages of this progress stand out as paramount. The first and by far the most important is the League of Nations. The second great step toward permanent peace is the establishment of the Permanent Court of International Justice. The third great step towards peace is the series of treaties which have been proposed by the Washington Conference. The U.S. and Japan negotiated a separate treaty relative to the island of Yap by which our rights in that island are made substantially equal to those of Japan under its mandate and by which Japan agrees to send to the U.S. annually a copy of the report of its mandate which it is required to file with the League of Nations. Japan and China negotiated a separate treaty relative to the province of Shantung which Japan had wrested from Germany and which was left in the possession of Japan by the Treaty of Versailles.