New-York tribune., 1918-02-17
Suggests Plan All Might
Follow in Years After
the War
New Path for Progress
He Says in St. Louis Allies
Must Win to Prevent Two
International Factions

ST. LOUIS, Feb. 16.-Nicholas Muir.
ray Butler, president of Columbia Uni.
Versity, in an address delivered before
the Commercial Club here TODAY out
lined a programme of constructive
progress which he suggested might be
followed by the United States in the
years after the war
Dr. Butler advocated league of ma
t'ons to enforce peace, based upon
lines similar to those laid down nv
President Wilson; an international
court OF justice such as was urged by
the American delegation at the Second
hague Conference; we'll ordered sys-
tenn Of national training for national
service; measures to establish Ameri.
can families Increasingly upon Amer
ican soil and to relieve the burdens OF
the farmer; Federal control of rail
ways and vast mercantile marine
provision that the members of the
Cabinet be given seats in the Senate
and the House; national budget pre-
scnted by the President, and the cx-
tension of educational facilities among
the immigrants.
Must Be Ready for War
so long as wars are inevitable, or
even likely, the free peoples will here
after be ready and prepared for war"
SAID Dr.. Butler. "But the demands of
peace are even more insistent than
those of war. The American people
are going through tremendous up
neaVal. This upheaval reaches and af-
lects every part of their social, indus
trial and political system. The distinc-
ton between the field of government
and the field of free action, by means
OF which our whole American system
has been built up, is practically swept
away.
"Tremendous and unsettlng as this
revolution is, it's effects are bound to
be beneficial. The American people
VIII not soon again oe satisfied with
old formulas, or restrain themselves
IN patience while the SLOW forces Of
nature operate to mitigate conditions
that directly affect human life and hu-
man happiness. The people as whole
viii be more open minded than they
have been in hundred years, and the
country's business will be conducted
by new methods and upon lines Of
greater and more general satisfaction
than ever before"
Regarding the proposed league Of ma
tions, DR.. Butler said:
"Unlcss the result Of the war is not
only to defeat Germany and her allies,
but to convince them that they arc
dc feated, there will be in the world
for some time to come two great in
ternational combinations. the members
of which will manifest their SYM
pathieS in military, political and eco
nomic cooperation. Such a situation
would not be promising one from the
standpoint of those who hope that the
present may be the last of wars; but
unless the war be resolutcly pursued
to victory by the Allies at whatever
cost, such a situation is a possibility
to be seriously rccEoned with.
Scope of League of Nations
"a league Of nations that rests upon
a moral foundation and that has for
its aim the good order. the satisfac-
ton, and the advancing happiness of
the world, cannot permanently exclude
from it's membership any nation except
one openly in arms against it,"
In concluding his address the speaker
said: "These are unusual times. Men
are casting off some of their old tram
mcls and cncumbrances. The Amer
lean people are better informed and
more keenly interested in the details
OF public and economic life than they
have been since the Civil War; The
invites the American pco-
pie to enter without delay upon new
and splendid path of real progress.
Will thew accept it 2"