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On ths part OF the great nations,
The strongest mcn In the United
States are cooperating and It is fitting
that the Initiative should como from
the United States because 1t is i,so,,
the greatest league Of peace in the
world.
"This plan would call for the cre..
ton in our country of a strong army
and navy. for we would be assuming an
obligation. Although, as explained, We
believe the league as such would never
be called upon 10 go to war. It's united
strength would be an important e,e-
ment in preventing war.
"It IL manifest that disarmament.
cannot be brought about by agreement,
Armaments will decline gradually
when II 10 found that they no lonrc-
are needed. and that happy day can
como about only through international
organization for Justice.
II believe something Of this sort 4
possible. I believed II before i..
the States and I believe II even more
firmly now that I have had so won.
| derful an opportunity to witness Eu.
rope In her great agony.
THE movement for stronger arma-
ment in the United States already has
begun. The example Of Germany's int.
tial successes owing to superior pre-.
p~aredness will bring an accentuated
pace in armaments upon every nation
In Europe. Unless all this Is supple.
mented by a really eflcient plan for
international arbitration where will Il
lead us7
Personally I have no fear Of any
invasion Of U country by any sInsl.
enemy or likely combination OF enc.
niles. We are practically unconquer-
able. Our centre Of power Is In the
| middle West. We could destroy an In.
vading army by organizing new armies
In distant parts Of our vast domain.
But We need a strong navy to protec,
our seaboard cities, where incalculahlo
] damage might otherwise be done. AMI
above all We need effective armament
80 that We can do our duty to the
world when q crisis like the present
, one arises.
I'm England also there is a strong
belief among leading men that The
time has come to inject nm element OF
force in international affairs. Several
groups are studying the problem. TIL
most notable is that headed By Lord
Bryce.
But n public propaganda is posi-
bic either in England or in France or
Italy. The public have shown them
selves too apt to interpret It as a stop
tho war movement and they feel tina,
tho war must not be stopped till prus-
sian militarism II overthrow. A
change Of spirit involving a change o.
government In Germany cannot De i'm
posed from outside. II can come abou.
only from inside the country. and
there 10 little hope Of revolution unit!
Germany Is beaten.
when this change does come upon
Germany II will be q country one car
live with and work with. one OF Che
most helpful and wonderful countrle
Of the world. Most Engiishmen I know
hsvc NJ wish 20 destroy Germany. ba'
all are quite determined 10 throw dow
that ruthless spirit Of aggression whicl
has animated her.
Unless Germany Is beaten our hope
for better international organ!za..oa
must fail. The only hope for Europy
In fact. IL q chastcned Germany wA.c'
shall throw OF the deiusion induce,
by the successes and remarkable ace:
results Of the Franco-Prussian war"
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MASCOT OF THE FLAGSHIP

maybe we'll be able 70 plug a target
or two says Jimmy. It's time We
did. II We treat him right We may be
able to hoist a gunncry pcnnant one
OF these days or win n boat race
so We all gathered round and In
spected the new mascot. lie was n
savage lookin' ant eater and no mis-
take, He was about 4 feet long and
10 inch beam and heavy armor amid
ships. The real goods. he a too. for
a battleship. We fixed him up Il nice
berth in the paint locker and the very
next day W begin to plug targets
right n left-30 hits out OF 80 times
at bat. That's goin' some. en-, after
we'd been away down In the $3.50
class. you might say.
1--WE took especial good care OF that
prize iGuana, you better believe. We
fed him up on n special brand OF
cracker hash and the Chief Jimmy
legs took him out for n walk on deck
every morning. One of the carpenters
gave him n fine coat OF spar varnish SO
he'd shine like a /: inch shell.
We'll. sir. our gunnery kept gettin'
better and better. an the day We beat
the Delaware's record u old man was
80 glad he says: Well. it's all over,
boys. No use the other fellers tryin'.
We've got the red pennant cinched and
It'll be II wo:!ler If we don't all get
medals for this
Il guess we would've won that gun
merry flag all right il 1t hadn't been for
the BARRIERS canary. Yes, sir, tina. was
what spilled tho beans--a pesky, CHR
rupin' little canary; leastwise, this bar
Der said II was a canary, and that II
could tell fortunes like o them
love birds from Fayal.
This here barber was n German.
He used to think the world O. this
warbler. and that was the cause Of all
the trouble. 1t come about this way.
ut was in the early morning. and
hero m Schmidt out with the ca
nary to let the poor bird have a little
air before we all begin to boil. He set
the cage down in the shade alongside
"A turret and then went below for a
minute. And while he was gone who
should Come along but the iguany.
And what does this hard shelled gila
monster do but eat up the BARRIERS
canary,
And Schmidt--well, schmidt was a
ravin' maniac when he see what had
happened TO his pet canary. lie sworC
VIC set the igu N the cage O. purpose
and he'd get square with everybody
who had n hand In II. He'd have re.
venge, he said, no matter what Il cost
| We thought he might poison the poor
mascot's soup or something Just 10 get
square. But we never figured on what
he did do and the ~treacherous revenge
he took and all that.
"On this day that I'm going to tell
you about We were haN!,, torpedo prac-
ticc. There was only a week Of gun
practice left. and tho Captain says,
Go TO 1t. boys. Keep up the good
work and We'll fly that pcnnant from
the masthead mex Monday morning.
well. 1t was mortal hot this morn
ing. Never forget that day II live to
be a thousand. Not II breath OF wind
the bay like glass and down below
there. firin' the torpedoes. II was Jus,
like bein' under the boilers. All Of a
sudden In comes a mar dressed like
a chief gunner's mate. lie come,
rushin' In fairly staggerin' under the
weight n a long cylindrical looking
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which compelled them to take all their
disputes before q tribunal for a hear
ing II there was to be a judgment
which was enforceable.
THE present pan. therefore. stops
with the demand that before any ma
ton IL allowed to make war upon an
other the dispute must be submitted to
some sort OF tribunal for a hearing.
The league binds itself to make imme-
date war upon any member which vio-
ate. this provision.
Having ono conformed TO this de-
mand. the nation which has a griev-
ance Is free to go to war as under
present conditions. It IL 80 reasonable
a demand that no nation, however
powerful. Is likely to refuse It in face
Of the painful alternative, SO that the
league itself Is o likely ever to be
called upon to go to war. In other
words. its potential strength. IL great
enough. need never translate itself into
fact.
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Of ellycution. stationed at Staten ISL
and. will keep up a witherin' fire OF
Wilsonite upon the incmy works at
Concy. They will be supported by wan
million quick firing victhrolas project
In a continyus storm Of ultymatums.
wIdout compromise. and at any cost.
Fifty thousand Sunday school
childer armed with white flags vii, be
modified at Prospect Park. where they
will maintain n continyus chorus Of II
Didn't Raise My Boy to BE u Soldier"
1.-The feet will proceed to Hamp.
ton Roads Tor target practice. IL go be
there's any powder. II there's 40 pow
der they'll confine themselves to ma
neuvres. All ports not already block
AIDED is hereby declared closed. that We
may not provoke needless aggression
by a wanton exercise Of our rights.
1.-The Invintions Board will meet at
Washin'ton wan year from date for a
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If the league had been in existence
when the present war threatened Ger
many would have been obliged to have
n hearing Of the dispute. which is all
that Sir Edward Grey demanded. other
wise she would have faced the GER
tainty Of having the league united in
war against her. Many men believe
that she would not have begun this
war II II had been certain that she
would have Great Britain as an enemy.
Certainly she would not have bsgun II
II she had known that not only Great
Britain but Italy and the United States,
not to mention lesser Powers. would be
arrayed against her.
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a distance Of twenty-three miles. A
prominent oficer calculated tho cost.
including the wear and tear Of the
enormously expensive gun which could
do that. at $1,000. or $4,000. The net
result was n dog killed.
On another occasion 1900 shells
were thrown by the Germans into the
British trenches and not one man in.
jured." said Mr.. Marburg. when the
result Ia nil one IL fighting ininity and
tho cost Of the present war must prove
a g~rievous burden to the laboring
classes Of Europe for many years to
come"
,mong Mr.. Marburg's other expert
ences was a visit to the most striking
figure Of the war. King Albert. and
his courageous Queen, Elizabeth, at
their home at La Panne, q little fishing
village in the corne of Belgium still
held against the Germans. While he
was with them the English feet. which
vas close inshore. started to lombard
Ostend and was promptly attacked by
. German hydroaeroplane.
The King In speaking to Mr.. Mar
burg referred repeatedly to Americas
unprecedented generosity to his
stricken country. He said that but TO
chat he did not know how the Belgian
people could have been saved from
starvation. Even now, he said, con.
ditions In Belgium are u~nspeakable.
The only indsutry which u active II
coal mining. There is no raw materia'
for general industry to use and
besides the machinery from many OF
the factories has been carried or to
Germany.
La Panne was subjected to an cir
raid but has never been shelled by the
Germans. though they throw shells
over II into Dunkirk. The brave little
Queen goes about quietly. occupying
herself with the soldiers and her
creche for children. She found II
very dinicult for some months to get
the parents to surrender their children
in towns where people wer being
killed constantly, though OF late the
bitter lesson seems to have been
taken to heart and she has keen more
successful.
The children at the creche run to
meet her and cling to her gown NJ
hey might do to that of a favorite
teacher or loved companion. She Is
a graduate in medicine. and talked
with understanding Of the excellent
work being done by American doctors
In the Belgian hospital at La Panne.
From such details my conversation
with this American. who has had such
extraordinary opportunities to see this
war at FIRST hand. passed to a discus
sion Of what In his opinion properly
may be regarded as the right inter-
probation OF the war for America.
"The future interests Of O nation
Mr.. Marburg said. will generally be
found to lie In the direction Of q pres
ent duty to the society Of nations. In
the past the United States has more
than once conformed to this principle
though her statesmen may never have
formulated II. But the same canno,
be said Of her attitude In this war
With Elihu Root I believe that w
should have protested when Belgium
was ruthlessly trampled TO death. and
should have protested. step by step. al
every violation Of international Jaw
THE lesson Of the war. as II ap.
pears to many men, 10 that the world
needs international organization backed
by force sufficient TO overawe the law.
lessly inclined. The international in.
situations already in existence have
been highly useful, but they are al
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True, a nation bent on aggression
might go through the forms Of q hear
ing and proceed with it's plans after.
ward. But bringing out the facts and
the delay incident to n hearing would
al make for peace.
In tho work that VT are trying to
do We have the cooperation Of an ex-
President Of the United States. Mr..
Taft. ard We have Mr.. Wilson's pro.
nouncement Of February ! at Dies
Moines: Il pray God that II this cor.
test has no other result 1t will at least
have the result Of creating an inter-
national tribunal and producing some
sort OF a joint guarantee OF peace
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Board will i~nvintory the invintions Of
all invintors as fast 10 invinted. The
highest intcllecks Of the nation will be
mobllized to Its dehnce.
"Whin the inemy lands not a mo-
ment will be lost. .There'li Be a cam
paign Of frightfulness that will horrify
the world. The hostile feet will be
crooly swept from the sea by the La
Toilette law. Excuses for the inemy
wiz be made q Government monopoly.
~WeT mount hvs hunder thousand
Hrty3avo Sneuths. on d~isappearin'
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thing. II was half dark down TIE.
and with the sweat in your rye. 20
couldn't rightly tell who the .o..e-
was.
Captains orders says lie. vci.
brisk. and here's a new model ,orrcd
which the captain would like 20 hay.
you try tight away
with that he shoves the ~cyi.n1r.ca'
bokin' affair into the open tube. c,amr.
her shut and touches on the con-
pressed cir all In a shake. before yoH
could say Jack Robinson. whoot sAo
goes. whizzo! Ker-singo! out 8,
goes. and with that the gunner's ma
pulls OF his cap and lets on, q WI
shrek OF laughter and Joy. He waves
his ha and runs around like a wi
man. And who do you suppose =,
was? Who was 4 but Schm!d, y
barber:
Yes. sir. Il was Schmidt, and re u,
iaughin' like a maniac and ~nrr.
around an yellin'. 'Ha, b. nc chou
finally. You will camper W
schmidt's canary. gill you-you ~
your mascots! Well. where's your ma,
cot now? Gone out through tina, tA,r
torpedo tube. You poor bonehcads
and Schmidt Is revcnged! want
MIN to die q hard death after what
Old to my little Gadski. SO studs
up this way and made a spcc.d. toy
pedo OF my " to put your prcciOa,
!gu In. only mine was made II o.,c
Paper. But It served to foo. you Il
AND AII hA 49, OnAa-- al, II
ha!'
w rushed UP on deck to &c. i, ~
t~reacherous barber. but he was ~.
where to be At the rail. lcoNl,'
on to the southland. there was ono q
the chief gunners. lie wa watch!r-
some object speeding along the Slr-
race about n mile away. II was so,r +
along about thirty knots as far as ,
could Judge--at such a clip that !, So
q ripple or to each side on the smoo'
water.
"Looks like n spent TORPEDO 2
marked the chief gunner, watch. -
thing closely with his glass.
1T n spent mascot says J1Hn
Legs. cur old iguana. boys and q
voice was husky when he SAID =. II
took tho glasses and had a last =!
at the poor .gu speed!n' away - .'s'
Poor Fghtin' Fred. the hes; mas.
that ever walked a deck, ana do -
death by a brute OF n barrier
"And that was the way we o. -
mascot. young Teller. and los, IVY
gunnery pennant too. for the mater -
that, For Of course We cou!d"'; ~
much shooting after losing a mas.
like that. No. sir, tho very rcN. "s
u biz gun average went all { '
and we wound up by nn!sNinr &c..
tcenth, The only II We beat "7' 90
Virginia"
"But what became q Sc&na1'.
queried the boy.
'Oh, Schmidt" Well. ne f'r'r'
searching parties with TIE :d"l
shootin' him out OF a lc inch sH'
We found him. But he was no. { J,
found. 20 We decided that Il hc e.
turn up We would lash him T. 49,
anchor tho next time We were nca7'".
port"
Just then the little chaps nurse Of
governess. or whatever she was, en-.
busting around tho turret and t''
him in tow. almost before hc ~
signal thanks and farewell I" - 2
boatswain's mate.
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voluntary, and the war shows that
this Is not enough: that in other words
the cement OF force must be intro
duced. This is the idea underlying
u League to Enforce Peace and un-
DERIVING the several plans worked out
In England.
Several years ago Hamilton Holt
read q paper at Baltimore In which he
advanced the idea of a League Of Peace.
At that time the idea Of force in inter-
national relations was discountenanced.
But gradually, seeing how Germany
blocked every step OF progress at The
Hague. witnessing her reception Of
Winston C%hurchill's proposition of q
naval holiday. which Russia, France
ana Italy were willing to examine rs
a possible entering wedge against the
mad rivalry In armhments. Out at
which Germany jeered. some Of us
reached the conclusion that perhaps
tho only road TO better international
organization was over tho PROSTATE
body Of Germany, the rest Of the world
combining to effect this passage.
THAT is exactly what IL happening
now. brought on by 0ermany's own
,itlatlve; her outrageous assault upon
% peace Of Europe and her con-
ience,ess behavior from the Begin
ns of the wal have left her only one
rogressive nation as an ally. This
vent converted many men to the idea
). force in international organization.
IN september, 1914. came Holt's
rtic,e In the Independent on a League
{ Peace. This led to q plan to ex.
mine the question ut a series Of meet
ngs. frst Of purely scientific men who
hould lay bare the subject and later
of men OF wider practical experience
o tell us how much OF the desirable
Ian worked out by the earlier group
was In their opinion q realixab!e plan.
This programme was carried out.
This was the philosophy Of what
resulted from the deliberations Of the
1rst group: the moment q league u
suggested men recall The leagues Of
the past. their, shortcomings and
,buses: the Quadruple Alliance and the
Grand Alliance formed after the Ma
,olcc: &c wars to keep Europe In order:
no IlJiy Alliance. which professed to
aim at advancing the Christian re-
ligion but which was really designed to
1rotect thrones against the advancing
wave OF democracy and did in fact sup
'ress liberal aspirations in Italy. Spain
md Hungary.
The Concert Of Europe. with its few
successes and It's tragic failures. was
recalled to mind. The conferences
-ealized that 1t had done some good
hings such as smashing the Turkish
'eet at Navarino in 1897 and liberat.
'ng Greece: that 1t had prevented
nora than n Balkan war. and had
1meliorated the condition OF the Ar.
menian only to save him for his
awful fate to-day. But against Its
successes were arrayed IT. many fall
ures. eliminating in the war now In
| progress.
Accordingly our first step was to
,sk why the leagues OF the past had
JAILED. I think the answer 10 found In
m defect. namely the narrowness OF
he circle composing the group. max.
'ng possible the domination Of selfish
interests. collusion and the spolhtion
n outsiders.
"~he league Of the future must be
something very different. To be sue
"essfu, Il must be Overwhelmingly
strong and must do Justice. To accom-
| plish both these aims 1t should at the
| very start be COMPOSED Of AL or nearly
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By EDWARD


THAT only German defeat can
mako possible the tranquility
Of the world is the view Of
Theodore Marburg, whose opinions are
those Of an American who Is versed IN
international events and has studied
the great war on the actual fighting
ground 10.
Two things make Mr.. Mnrburg's
views especially impressive. One is
that although he thinks II absolutely
necessary that the war should be
fought through to q finish. he is best
known IL q peace man. His present
attitudS 10 almost startling, as a matter
Of fact, to those familiar with his earlier
lines Of thought, although he Is careful
to explain that what the group with
which he wSs working was trying to do
was to change the conditions that made
war possible and that until these con-
ditions were changed 1t was folly for
any great and rich country to foil to
maintain O strong army and navy. d.
He has been q leader In TIE serious
md important American grour which
has worked consistently and steadily
toward the prevention Of war for many
years. He Is indeed the author Of THE
Peaoc Movement Practical" published
in 1910; Of the philosophy Of the Third
American Peace Congress" Of 1911 and
many lesser studies Of the general
peace problem.
And there are certain aspects OF the
European situation which he Is espe-
cially well qualified to interpret. first,
bcolule in a general way he knows
Europe very well. and. second. because
particularly he was United states Min
lister TO Belgium in 1918 and last
ispring had an audience with the mon
arch Of that unhappy nation.
y, He went to Europe in response to the
painful news that his son. who early
In the war Joined the British Flyins
Corps. had been seriously wounded.
He remained within the theatre OF war
two months.
1T was my privilege" said Mr.. Mar
burg. ito meet some of the r,en who
directly are conducting this great war
and to see some of the mammoth
operations which the great conflict en-
tails These men form a very inter-
esting group.
They deeply impressed me. Sir
Douglas Haig particularly. His mas
teriy retreat from Mons In which. he
told me. he lost only $500 men. whereas
Smith orrien's forces were badly cut
TO pieces by making what some believe
to have been an unnecessary stand. and
the promptness with which he turned
On the Germans when the time came
with his forces practically intact and
won the battle OF the Marine stamp him
M Q properly cautious as well as q
bold and r~esourceful man.
II found but n purpose among all
the British officers with whom l wa
thrown into contact, namely, a dogged
determination to go on to the end
The beauty about the British solder Il
that he stays put. There Is no bras
and no waste Of energy about him. but
an inward purpose to do his full duty
20 Before this war Is over the British
army will be one OF the finest Europe
ever has seen: In fact. 1t is proving It.
!. self such every day.
Mr.. MarburR wal greatly impressed
by the waste In the present war. Fol
example. into one place the Germans
threw . certain number OF shells from
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1eince will make the grand strategy
If Hinderburg and Won Turpy look
like a'piker.
"As soon as war II imminent the
output Of Bryanite will be Unlimited.
Divvle n fear Of our runnin' out of
high explosives. The Diplymatic Corpse
will be trained to n hair by ex-
perts from the Underwood typewriter
fact'ry. Joe Danyieh's Invintors
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their strong rock Of offince is their
spsed.
We'll be ready whin our turn
Comes, though. They're on the Job up
To Washington. They're in a fever Of
preparation. They've passed the pork
bill and the Hay bill. Straw and char
next. Woodthrow Is readin' up
the Retreat OF the Ten Thousand. the
way bell be on his toes when the time
S.Anss. HIMSELF is tNo thorough man..
SNben we're attacked our Rama "a
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b. LIND c. Y Jr.

SEEN kliatsco the day. re-
{ marked Finnegan. Hes no
militarist. He says war would
Do bad for business. He says II there
was a war he would TOY out too
quick.
""Tis his kind Is the bulwarks Of the
nation. Wild hearts Of oak like that,
faith, we need no forts nor guns. It's
poor work talkin' to them. Ye can't
make a leopard skin a skunk nor
4. knock spots from the Ethiopian. as
the Good Book says. When the pinch
INT the rabbits rum to the rear. and
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