South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1916-05-18
WORLD UNION IS
WAR 6 SOLUTION
Mai. George H. Putnam Says
II Would Increase Human
Well Being.
rnternational News Service

International News Service:
MOHONK LAKE. y. Y. May 49,
II the nations Of the world can be
federated as the states OF the United
States are. the result will be a vast
increase in human we'll being. Maj.
Haven Putnam of New York, told
the conference on international ar
bitration here.
A vast amount Of energy now de-
voted TO war and preparation for
war will be released for use in the
struggle against disease. ignorance
and poverty. he said. when the world
has one supreme tribunal. whose
international decisions are backed
up by an international force
He said.
I'VE may fairly look forward 20
the time when in like manner, (to
the United StatesJ. nations. after
having worked together with peace
enforced by central authority, viii
have come, as generations have
grown up under such conditions Of
enforced peace. TO accept peacea bic
relations as the normal and ordinary
condition OF national life and of in
ternatjonal life. jast as today we ac-
Cept peaceable relations as the OTdi-
nary condition OF life within the
community OF a city or state, or a
nation.
such acceptance Of peaceable in
ternationaI relations as the normal
condition for states as for individ-
uals. will set free "a vast amount Of
human energy and vitality
1t will make available for peace
ful development for the comfort
and happiness of mankind a vast
amount of human energy. OF vital
its. and of resources that have been
accumulated by human INDUSTRY
energies and resources which. un-
der existing conditions. have been so
frightfuIly dissipated in war and in
preparation for war.
Minimizing Evils.
Under a worlds federation. these
resources and energies can be util-
lied for the minimizing OF evils
which now bcset society, and for the
development Of the productive pos
sibfities. of the earth's surface. in
such manner that there should come
90 be If not wealth. at least comfort
for all.
1T should prove possible, when
human thought is free TO be concen-
trated upon the things of humanity,
To stamp out disease and through
such control of physical condition,
TO bring 20 an end. or az least ma
terially TO lesson. those phases Of
wickedness which results from dis
ease.
'Pauperism will be controlled. 50
that only those who are lazy with
out remedy need be at risk of not
securing the things of life.
Il should agree with Plato that
the man who will not do his share
OF work in the community should be
spared. by some comfortable pro-
cess. from the fatiguee of life
The great federated state Of the
future. organized with the necessary
provisions for the enforcement of
Righteousness against wilfulness and
aggression, will bring the relations
of mankind into accord with faith.
hope and charity"
Business Boycott.
Herbert s. Houston. an officer OF
the league 10 enforce peace, said he
believed the nations of the world
acting together could hy a simple
business boycott force any rebellious
nation TO obey the mandates of a
world tribunal
Business today is really the great
organized life OF the world" said
AIR. Houston. '"fhe agencies through
whic. IL As carried forward have
created such maze of interrelations
that each nation must depend on all
the others. a great Chicago banker
John J. Arnold. vice president of the
First National bank OF that city. said
TO me few weeks ago that so close
ly drawn and interviewer had be-
come the economic net in which the
world was eumeshed that il the
great war could have been post
puned four OF five years il would
never have swept down upon mer
ike "a thunderbolt Of destruction.
wow economic progress is not q
thing in the world IL has been used
before by one nation against another