The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-01-08

established which will prove to the
world that order and security TOT all
the rights of all nations can be main
tanned without armed strife, people
will be no longer willing to bear the
heavy burdens for the support OF
vast military establishments, and re-
duced ornaments will follow as
natural result.
For generations men have been ac-
customed to think in terms OF ma
tional sovereignty. They have found
in national life the ultimate end OF
human endeayor. Before the eigh-
teenth century world unity was
poetic dream to be INDUCED in by
few impractical and somewhat IN
popular philosophers. Cosmopolitan
ism. as the creed of a man without
a country, was despised The OLD
cosmopolitans, noble minded as they
were. lacked true constructive force
because they were not tolerant OF
conditions as they found them.
President Wilson has made world
unity real and league OF nations
must work together in the future.
There is a growing consciousness OF
this fact. in the minds of public spirit
cd men. Our economic structure Is
being centralized. Worlds markets
for money and produce have been
established. The press and the
theatre are producing psychological
unity. The great inventions IN the
field of transport and communication
actually have girdled us into physi-
cal unity.
With part of the field covered by
private. unofficial associations, other
parts. by sporadic, official congresses,
the need for permanent world ad-
ministrative center, officially recog-
nized. is plain The erection OF such
a central institution will enable these
numerous associations and con-
crosses to aid each other to support
and coordinate their efforts and to
gain better fulfllment of their tasks
than is possible today when their
Headquarters are scattered through
out the world.
In the world administrative center
for the league of nations universal
library can be established, larger and
better than any now in existence.
Coptes of all official and private pub
LEGATIONS can be deposited there and
made available for all students. A
single building would house and
single staff, selected from among the
worlds best librarians, would man
single library
A world administrative center 1or
a league of nations with its con-
stantly changing and ever up-to-date
international expositions, its vast
libraries, museums, galleries, univer-
sites. reception halls, auditorlums
and places Of amusement will afford
an ideal meeting place for these Or
ganizations and will secure oet'ef
and more interested attendance.
The world administrative center.
once located and erected, will become
the natural destination of tourists
and the common meeting ground for
all the peoples of the world. me
world administrative center thus
would make it easier for one to &C
ouire that knowledge of international
and affairs so essential to
the development OF broader sympa-
thies and a wider outlook.
Thus. through bringing together
the Headquarters of the societies and
organizations now established or
later to be established, the world
administrative center will come to be
the recognized source for all statisti-
cal information lying within the
scope of the activities of such socie-