The evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1914-1922, 1915-05-20
Clark of Columbia and Carne-
gle Endowment Sees Bright
Lining to the World shad-
owing War Cloud.
POINTS TO CREATION
OF VIGOROUS PACIFIsM
Universal Peace He Says Can
Only Come by Recurring
Periods of War Which
Raise Standards of Man
kind.

Monhonk Lake. n. Y. May 20
The opponents OF armed strife who
find no encouragement to their ef-
forts In the present world wal had
as their spokesman here today Prof.
Bates Clark OF Columbia university
and the Carnegie endowment for in
ternational peace. In his address be-
fore the Lake Moh0nk conference ON
international arbitration Dr. Clark
not only asserted that the war has
converted the world to a vigorous
pacifism," but suggested that an Ell
fective peace league might develop
naturally from either the triple aIlis
ance or the entente cordiale. now ar
rayed against each other In the
worlds greatest wal.
To insure that the present Arma-
Reddonr shall he repeated, he
said. "a strong league of nations IL
Indispensable. and various plans Tor
such a league are forming" II ~
necessary, ne declared, To create a
league Of peace without reference 20
combinations that now exist. Al
though the two greatest leagues oil
Europe are now at war, this fact
does not warrant the conclusion that
such unions are by their nature war
breeders. Defensive unions are in
line with the whole trend OF political
evolution. Great nations, created by
combining smaller ones. are the or
der of the day, and SO are declarations
of a looser kind. such as those which
preceded the German empire and
our " federal state.
whenever peace shall be uniNer-
sal Il will have to come by ilrsl
establishing itself within larger and
: larger areas till Il ends by embrace
ing the world. European wars have
occurred In spite OF alliances rather
than because Of them, and the gen
eral effect even of imperfect unions
has been to lcngthen intervals Of
peacc. n is an even century since a
war akin To this one was waging IN
Europe. and II is forty-four years
since "A war between any two great
nations has taken place ON that con-
unent. The consolidating tendency
In itself makes for peace however
lmperfectiy the more Imperfect IN
ions may sometimes work, and the
extension o. the principle Of unions ~
the only means that cum ever make
peace universal. Complete unions
must come first through confedera-
lcies and leagues.
"The present leagues have several
times acted as peace preservers. Dur
ing the Moroccan trouble they avert
icd n general s%truggle. they did the
same during the two Balkan wars
and they might have don II In con-
%neotion with tie Austro-Serbian con
nict II. as unions, they had been
moro complete than they were. II u
a safe guess that Il IL had been def
l%initely know that France, Russia and
England would act as a unit in op-
poeing the invasion Of Serbia, II
would have been delayed TIL diplom-
ncy would have had time To prevent
IL altogether and thus save humanity
from The greatest disaster of modern
ltimes.
~ is possible either 10 work d.
~rec,iy for a new league OF peace or
10 utilize n Of the existing unions
as "a nucleus. Is Il possible Co give
10 either of these leagues the char
%acter that will make them. beyond
all doubt, guardians OF peace Can
the neutral countries exert decisive
influence in this direction IL takes
no especial study 10 show that a STU
alton probably will soon exist tina
will bring an eficctlNc icabue iVi ~
Guiding war within reach and otte'
Ia the neutral states an opportunity
10 do AN essential work IN secu.ins y
THE two great defensive league'
win themselves make the treaty tina
shall end the war, but the neutr"
countries may then be In a rare sra
tegic position for influencing the iu'
ture relations Of European couh'r''a
III. as we have assumed the N"'
had ended neither In "A draw nor IN =
sweeping victory for one side-h W,
Unsuccessful league has KEPT nus
OF It's territories and us ilsh'
/, strength-the situation wlh throW -,
|, enormous power into the hanas =
the neutral states. by Joining eu"
union they mish; cause II TO piyp