The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-01-09

i series of governmental buildings
which will extend along the avenue
Of the nations, and each one OF which
will be erected and maintained by.
one of the leading nations of the
world. These buildings will consist
of exhibition halls, in which each
nation and its citizens can make
known to the world at large the
latest developments Ia art. science
agriculture, mining, manufacturing,
transport, trade and commerce. 1t is
commended that the exhibits shall be
changed frequently and kept up to
date, furnishing the best opportunity
for comparative study and constant
incentive for progress both in indi-
lyiduals and nations.
| Not all persons, Of course, can visit
1 the world administrative center, any
more than all can attend a worlds
fair. 1t lis proposed, however, that as
a part of its general educational
work, the world center will serve as
ia distributing agency for travelling
exhibits Of art, industry and educa-
| ton.
| The travelling exhibits Of agricul-
| tural colleges, of the forestry and
/ fisheries service, of the leading Amer
lean railroads. all of which are de-
signed to improve conditions in the
iextractive Industries of the United
States, have met with general en-
thusfasm among the public and have
done much to improve conditions in
! the industries thus represented. But
the perfection of the worlds enter
prise is a world problem, and should
be undertaken on an international
1 n cic AN nf
permanent international organization
as the world administrative center.
There can be no doubt that the
dissemination Of knowledge thus &C.
quired would lead to the quick adop-
ton of all improvements worth while.
to the standardization OF products
and processes of production. and
through these to the standardization
of prices which, in their final analy-
sis, are dependent upon costs of pro-
duction. Through the process of
elimination, which would follow such
a condition, the inefficient. those
having high costs Of production. those
slow to learn, would drop by the way
side; turning their attention and
their energies to the production of
things for which they were better
adapted, leaving the most efficient to
produce for the worlds markets
those things which they can prepare
at the lowest cost.
The service of the world admins
tratiye city need not be confined to
, exhibits Information could and
Should be collected and made acces-
sible to all interested. This would
mean the investment of capital In
the most productive enterprises, an
opportunity for labor to find employ
ment and invest its savings to the
greatest possible advantage.
A world center of administration
would equitably regulate, expand and
extend the interests of the working
men of all nations. regulating the
question of emigration and the stand
ard of wages in just way.
Rural credit is one of the great
agricultural problems confronting the
world. Each country has attempted
70 work out it's own problem in its
own way If rapid and permanent
progress is to be made the expert
ence of all nations must be recorded;
good parts adopted and weak and
dangerous parts rejected. This can
best be done by means of central
agency like the world administrative
center for the league OF nations.
What is needed is some central
agency where the experience OF all
the nations of the world can be
brought together, compared and test
ed with a view to the introduction OF
the adaptable features in other coun-
tries.
A practical country like the United
States has well nigh paid its debt
TO Europe with the labor saving DC
vices which its citizens have invent
ed. Europe has sent TO the United
States S25, 600, 900 emigrants In the
last seyenty-fiye years, but there were
in 1907 enough American harvesters
in the fields of Europe to do the work
of 1900 900 men.
World expositions give the good
article its due and make the. best
and cheapest prevail throughout the
world Our axes, spades, scythes,
locomotives. steamships, are better
today than they were years ago IN
large part because OF competition
and comparisons at expositions. With
out expositions, old pre1udlces coula
not SO quickly be conquered by new
goods -
Among the many features of the
scheme proposed is the creation and
maintenance of an international
bureau of trade and transport which
would be equipped with the facilities
for studying conditions of trade and
commerce over the entire world and
for furnishing the information thus
gathered to all persons interested.
One International panic prevented
or one period of general depression
shortened would more than compen-
safe for the total cost OF erecting
the world administrative center for
the league of nations. The oppor-
tunity offered to perform this pos
sible service should lead all business
mon all producers and all consumers