The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-09-18
U. s. IS SUGGESTED AS PEACE TRIBUNAL

r. Lake Placid, Sept 18.-In an ad- dress at the opening session of the Efficiency Society convention at the Lake Placid Club yesterday Senator Henri La Fontaine of Belgium, last years winner of the Nobel peace prize, urged that the next peace con ference be held somewhere in the United States rather than at The Hague.
 The suggestion was based on the ground of efficiency, the speaker maintaining that the United States is in every way best equipped to promote world peace
 Hamilton Holt, editor of the Inde- pendent spoke upon the scientific basis of international peace and it's re- lation to the present war, advocating the extension of the work of the Lea que to Enforce Peace He held that the only way is for the good element in humanity the world over to com bine and preserve peace by force if necessary.
 The address of welcome was made by Melvi1 Dewey, former State Libra rian and president of Lake Placid Club, and the response was delivered by w. Herman Greul. In the general discussion Roger Babs0n of Boston was one of the speakers.
 Prof. Norris, a Briscoe head of the department of political economy, Iowa State University, spoke on suggestion as factor in efficient salesmanship. MT. Keough's Address. Frederic w. Keough, editor of American Industries. in an address on ''Some Stepping Stones to National Ineficiency," said:
 ssIt is a solemn question, this matter of national preparedness, for those that love their country. Everything possible should be done to combat the spread of doctrines which effeminate the nations youth and teach it that it is ignoble to wear the uniform of a soldier.
 s.What is the >blightAup the cour- age and initiative of the leaders of our affairs? What is the. source of the loss of accurate and harmonious functioning in our social and. econo- mic machinery? There is no doubt in 1 the mind of any newspaper reader that governmental regulation has gone be- tyond proper limits; has progressed to | a point where it is destructive. not constructive. Business needs help, not regulation.
 s.As a potential cause of national 1 disintegration in case of war we have a great foreign population that re-
 mains unassimilated. We are in the position or condition of the man who I is afflicted with a. stomach so re- l benious that he has to stand on l an organ so tyrannous in its exac- tions. He dare not say his souls his I own.
 we should take warning by Eng | land'st difficulties. Lack of harmony 1 between jcapitaI and labor means di- n1inution of industrial efficiency. The | political agitators say the causes lie | in the inequalities and injustices of industry. The countrywide inquiry of the Commission on Industrial Rela- tions is too serious to be passed over as mirth inducing demonstration of the futility of governmental effort to discover the cause of the unrest and to point out remedies. The com nnissio on bred hostility in all classes of society. It's panacea, higher wages | is entitled to scant considerations. Increased production is the sal vation of our industries. Every fac tor that fnpedes increased production ] should be condemned. When you tn1ake war on production you make war on pay rolls ano when you make war on pay rolls you make war on | the nation and it's homes.
 "In contemplating the disregard of
 our human resources let us not lose sight oS the wreck of wastage in our l schools. In no department of na- | tionaI endeavor is there such profli- gate destraction of material. The 50 per cent. dropping out of all the chil- dren of America at the eighth grade fspells inefficiency with vengeance. l And this in the face of an annual ex- penditure of $75O, O,OOO,OOOl"
 l On Sunday aftern oon the conVen-
 ton will be brought to a close with a meeting in the open air forest of Arden Theatre at which Thomas Mott Osborne, Warden of Sing Sing, will