The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-04-14
WORLD PEACE
 PLAN PROPOSED
 FROM BRUSSELS
Founder of Switzerland's Inter national Peace Bureau Arrives Here Today
Will Lay Before Trustees of Carnegie Peace Foundation
 Project For World Federation
Especial from United Press.)

Especial from United Press.)
 New York, April 13-Bringing con- structtve plan for world federation to insure international peace, which he will lay before the trustees of the Carnegie Peace Foundation, Henry LaFontaine, president of the Perma- nent International Peace Bureau, Berne. Switzerland, founder and sec retary of the Central Office of the In- ternational Institutions of Brussels, arrived today on the Cunarder Lusi- tania. He is a Belgian Senator and g. most influential peace worker.
 Most men who have tried to as- sure international peace" he said, while the steamer was tying up, "have directed their efforts against warlfke facts and acts. They explained the evils of war, showed its inconsistency with the principles of Christianity. Nobody now calls war blessing and all admit that 1t is an evil, many call ing 1t an avoidable and unnecessary evil.
 At Brussels we have been operat- ing since 1907 an institution designed to present facts which contradict the general attitude on the part of the public that war. is nice thing. We admit, with the nations so far apart as they are now in spirit, we canont always avoid conflict. But we say that the present international condi- ton is simply anarchic and a fedora tion of the world is remedy for this condition. But the world is not yet ready for a federal government such as binds the States of the United States together It is ready for one step toward that final goal and that step the foreign office is taking. The Si of f6of cfo 4n Q movement has brought me to consult with the Carnegie Endowment for Universal Peace
 1To this process of closer relations, men of science, reformers, and those engag ged in technical work of all kinds, both for governments and privately, are contributing unconsciously by organizations. What we are trying to do is to bring these men to realize that they are engaged, also, in the cause of g. world federation.
 'Internationalism Is now a great force. there being at least 250 inter national organizations in existence which bring together men engaged in and sports. There are nearly 50 in- ternational unions of the governments themselves conducting such important administrative branches as the uni versal postal system, the international telegraphic bureau, and the fnterna- tional marine regulations. These are now practically unconscious of each to bring them together in co-opera- tion. We have already made start in this respect.
 "The central office of international institutions convoled the first worlds s Congress of International Institutions
 We have established an interna- tional museum where we are gather ing exhibits on the causes and the ef forts tending toward fnternationalism. Our. central office will be more and more a home for homeless interna- tional institutions and a clearing house and aid to any persons who wish to organize internationally.
 .sIt will send delegates to all spe- cialized international congresses to the whole movement to which they are contributors and to advise them on international organization
 Continuing Senator LaFontalne said:
 'sThis central office will distribute subsidies and aid their development through assistance in printing their reports. etc. A huge library of in ternational documents would be brought together.
 "A staff of directors thoroughly ac- quainted with international organiza- ton will be grouped into an interna- tional university-if many can be se- cured for the purpose-and it's mem bers will travel everywhere, featuring and teaching in colleges and under private auspices, the local members of organizations in all cases serving as a nucleus for their audi ences
 '"The central office will try to se- cure for the individual associations the financial assistance they need to perform their work under the form of an international budget.
 '"This Is the work that we call con- l structive paciHcism and 1t has re- ceived gratifying encouragement from America already"
 LaFontaine will remain in this coun- try about month and will speak in l New York and Boston and will at | tend the 3rd national peace confer l ence at Baltimore, May 3-5 and the | Lake Moinonk Conference later in l May. c00n EDInkY HERV|GE