The Washington times., 1915-05-19
1--WE Gave Up the Tribe and
We Can Give Up the Ma
tion," Says Amelia Sears,
Chicago Director of Pub
lie Welfare.
Finer Ideals of Happiness For
the Race Emphasized in
Great Gathering -; For
Peace, She Asserts at
Charities Conference.
BY. FLORENCE E. YODER.

I'VE gave UP the tribe and We
can give up the nation!"
This statement was made by Miss
Amelia Sears. director OF the bureau
Of public welfare OF Chicago, now
attending the Conference on Chari-
ties and Corrections at Baltimore.
1t is not as bad as II sounds. how
ever, and not the slightest insinua-
tion that all Of US are going to re-
nounce. the Union by 6 o'clock to-
night.
In fact, It Is merely an answer to
the expressed wish that Miss Sears,
who laid leself liable through the
fact that she wore conspicuously
displayed on the front Of her waist
neat button bearing the word
Peace" explain her idea OF the
word "world-citizen."
The first time / heard the express
sion world-citizen was from the lips
of Jane Adams. then again from al
most every prominent member OF
the Woman's Peace party, but had
never been fully enlightened as to
the meaning from the peace point OF
view.
Miss Sears seemed 30 kindly dis
posed that / felt sure that she could
set me straight.
I'VE gave up the tribe and we can
1t seemed big idea, and II true al
most impossible that I should actu-
ally be living in the time when such
r. marlevous psychological change
was taking place in all civilized
countries.
Miss Sears saw my thought.
- Revolution Of Ideas.
= ut means a complete revolution
of all of our ideas" she said" The
thought that kinship. cooperation.
kindness. humanity. and a common
effort 10 reach even higher goals. be
shared between nations Is indeed too
big for the individual to grasp-just
yet. The world-citiZen. the citizen,
not of one land. one tongue. and one
separate kind OF loyalty. but Of the
world, is alive in every land. He and
his cause are at last born, and 1t re-
mains only for time to teach ana
spread the creed.
"This war which is tearing Europe
is the Var of man against nature.
There need be none. 1t Is futile.
TT is a war to prevent the spread
Of the idea Of the amalgamation OF
nations, just as the tribes fought
stanchly to preserve their integrity.
1t Is the war of the ideals OF dem
ocracy as opposed to the ideas or
the few who think impeSially. Tho
war of the would-be citizens OF the
world pItted against one another by
Imperialism.
consciously, II you wish, are moving
together. They are ready to, become
world citizens now, II they were al
TRANSPORTATION, education. advancing
science, socialism. organization OF
trade unions, world expositions and
conferences, everything tends 10
unite them in thought. There Is no
higher bond. indeed. than that.
The World Citizen.
Even the religions Of the civilized
world are largely the same. Tho
people themselves tire no longer
strangers. To leave ones country
and go to another In order to work
at some certain work pushes people
hither and thither across the globe.
The Englishman. the German. the
American, the Chinaman. all out or
their own homes. is a chronic con-
dition. They own the world. they
wish to see 1t, to work in IT, end;
regardless of those ties which would
have formerly bound them TO one
place and to one set of ideals they
set out to gain from that which is
their own. no matter under what
different name of ownership it may
be held.
And II conditions are unfavorable.
they go. too. they move without any
conscious thought of the great move
ment of which they are part. and
silently coming and going, gradually
become less and less moved by the
thought for or against any one ma
ton.
"They are anti-nothing. because
they do what is best for themselves
best for their advancement, and have
not the time to waste In the idle
ness Of hghting. The world citizen