The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-10-23

IT sponsihle and understanding people upon the perplexities of this worldwide opposition. If the work Of HoIsten had been spread over centuries and i'm parted to the world by imperceptibls degrees it would, nevertheless. have made it necessary for men to take counsel upon and set a plan for the future. Indeed already there had been accommodating for a hundred years be fore the crisis literature of foresight, there was a whole mass of ssmodsrn state" scheming available for the con ference to go upon. These bombs did but accentuate and dramatize an aI- ready developing problem.
 This assembly was no leap Of excaD- tonn1 minds and superin6eiigenci into the control of affairs 10 as teachabIe, its members traiIed ideas with them to the gathering, but thesc were the consequences of the snoral shock" the bombs had given humanity. and there is no reason for suoIosinz, its individual personalities were greafly above the average. It would be pos sible to cite thousand inBtanees of error and tneRciency in its procaetlagn uue to the forgetfulness, 1EEft E or fatigue of its members Tt eabarI- mented considerably ana bdatad often. Excepttng Holsten, whore ct was highly specialized. 1t is queselcn- able whether there was efng1s man of the hrst order of human cla iu the gathering. But 1t had noas-is fearsof itself and a consequsnt i1iat- ness that gave # a general sizl5rl11- There Was of course, a noble slHl- p1icity about Leblanc, but even 0G him at may be asked wAefzar he ES ECt rather good and honest u an ia the fuller sense great
 The exktng had wisdom and . ecI- eatn romantic dash, he was a man among thousands, even if he was not man among millions, but his menoItl and, indeed, his decision to Frlts memoirs, give the quality of hsnlsaIE and his associates. The book makes admirable but astonishing reading. Therein he takes the great work the council was doing for granted, as little child takes God 1t IS as IF ha had no sense Of it at all, He teilB amusing triF1alties about his cousin Wilhelm and his secretary, Flrrnin. hs pokes fun at the American president. who was indeed rtst 71ttle acct ant Of the political machine tsaan q repre- sentative Arnerlcan; and he gives long description ok how he sgas lost Cor three days in the xnouEt7ia1s in tiae com pany Of the only JaIoless Taez5er. a loss that seems to kaEe no serious interr tho s1EaE e tha council
 The Brfssago ccuesxezes hag been vzxftEen about time a ds e though 1t were a gathHrzn.g e a VeEy flower of humanity. Percaed ID Clsr8 by the freak or wisdom of I.e9le. if had certain. OlynaF1a ae1 Che natural tendency of tae ha s mind to elahORate susl1 e -5-co would have us gtEe It's n2EEhs1s co Mkenesses of gods. ZsgUlas T reasonable to compaTe 10 to cnl Qf those enforced neee7 NDul nc mountain tops tEzat must sz.zgs, ss1slzll 7n the opening paases o4 tls oa7- me streneth of the cou1c1 assy uoG e itself but In the e1ECa1zzEneas et had s1zickeneS7 ets Sa1ttsIll Ssla
 It's yaxzft5es and e1nanca q G1a tradftibnal annAJ1t10ns and It was stripped Of tlae acsrllls.lll- Of cexEtdxfas, a naEsd Nlsr all that freedom oe act11zs t1t Islz- ness affords And It's pSs11snng o set before s4t vim a plalI tia E1an out of all co1npaEgson Sa tE8 cated and peq1lSe1Z1l . a former time
 Tie world on which stlss eell.l cd did indeed present task sg 5- dcfently immense and alEogssE tsQ urgent for any 7zs1toz iEstzllsselca z1 internal dissensioa. It may be 3ulE- esting to skstch in 8 few pzlEaees tho condition of mankind at t2se e1O8s of the period of warning states, 1n the year Of crisis that followed tae Fesaaas of atomic power. It was q world eE- raordinariIy limited when one meas ures 1t by later standards, and t was now in stHte Of t4ae dlrest eonf1sion and distress.
 It must be renenkeFed thEt at lzia time men had stTl bO spread Into enor- nous areas of the land surface of ths globe. There wsre vast mountain VII dernesses. sandy deserts and fr0len lands Men still chung closely eo va Gar ana as.alaas Ad3k trs 1aamDeFRte or Eull- tropical climates, they lived abundaIt7 iy only in river valleys and all their great cities had grown upon large nay igable rivers or close to ports upon the sea. Over great areas even of this suit able land flies and mosquitoes armed with infection had so far defeated hg- | man invasion, and under their protec- ton the virgin forests remained uu- touched. Indeed, the whole world even in its most crowded districts, was l filthy with flies and sWarming with needless insect life to an extent which B now almost incredible A population map of the world in 1850 would have followed seashore and river course so closely in it's darker shading as to give an impression that homo sapieps was an amphibious animal. His roads and railways lay also along the lower con tours, only here and there to pierce some mountain barrier or reach some holiday resort did they chamber above 3,o00 feet And across the ocean his trafic passed in definite lines. There were hundreds of thousands of sauare
 miles of ocean no ship ever traveEea