South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1919-04-25
FOREIGN POLICY
ESTABLISHED BY
EVENTS Of WAR
CONTINUED FROM PAGE 49,

menian work will be under interna-
tional supervision. and possibly sim
liar jobs may develop for the allies
IN Russia. 10 make United States
Of Russia rise from the ruins of
bolshevism.
At least this committee on NADIA
tories, as matters stand, is a life
time job for the men VINO enter IL,
and is one Of the most important
and most practical pieces OF work
standing before the men who won
the military victory which closed the
fighting and began the new war for
the political and economic freedom
Of men in the world.
Must Write Laws FOR Air.
The Aerial Committee: It took
thousands of years to work out the
laws Of the sea and the work still
Is incomplete. The laws of the air
Will be stated during the months of
April and May By the committee
on international aerial law This
committee will start at the beginning,
with a clean slate, and work out
an air code, which will be adopted
by the league of alliance and which
(during the time when Germany is
held as the mad ward of civilization
will be imposed upon Germany. The
committee on air navig alton has di-
vided itself into three sub-commit-
tees. one on military rules, another
upon the legal, financial and COM
mercial phases of air navigation, and
f-I
The committee expects to report
TO the allies a set of rules governing
the rights of aircraft to cross
friendly states, the rights of landing
In friendly states OF (a) commercial
planes. OBJ military planes, and the
rights OF nations below TO have
restricted zones above their forts
and their rights to compel planes
crossing. to land on signal
Matters of indemnity for airplane
ccidents, matters OF common rights
Of international airplanes in air
domes, matters pertaining TO the IL
censing of pilots and observers by
international boards for internatlon-
al service and such other matters
as will occur to experts i'm air navi-
;ation will come up before this air
committee of the allies. and prOvi-
sion is to be made for permanent
commission for enforcing the rules
Of the air, and changing them from
time to time as development of air
service continues A similar commit
tee is codifyins the laws of the sea
The peace of the world will demand
such international board of air and
sea travel, and league or no league
these boards will have to be a part
of the international machinery of
the new world
Othcr Committees Probable.
Now in addition TO these nine
committees already esta blished and
already at work on present prob
lens, il seems likely that before
the peace conference adjourns it will
provide for two or three other com
mittees. These are on science. ag-
riculture and education. The CON
tinuous growth of knowledge in the
world imposes new international
duties.
If one nation for instance dis
covers a method to prevent the
spread of tuberculosis or leprosy or
cancer. to make the discovery eff
fective every nation must adopt il.
OR if some new means of transpor-
tation is evolved, its use must be in
ternational. The days work in
science is poorly done If it is ma
Iionalized rather than humanized
Hence this cooperative committee is
needed Similarly a committee on ag-
| riculture is urged.
Briefly stated its plans are these.
! To establish a central international
bureau through which the working
4 farmers of the world shall be able
to cooperate constantly in furnishing
| the world with food. in securing just
rewards for their labor. improving
their methods of farming, in orga-
nizing an active and satisfying com
munity life. and in maintaining n
/ high degree Of democratic citizen
ship. A large program, but easily
| possible of fulfllment and particu-
| larly if the farmers of the world
can meet anti discuss their common
/ problems and compare their various
I national standards of living. The
! educational committee will attempt
/ 10 set standards OF democratic ed
ucation, and by comparison of notes
make the worlds educational pro-
sress move forward universally
rather than in inlets, mere and there
Isolation is impossible.
Now these standing committees
/ which Will come out OF the peace
conference mean that among the al
| lies at least isolation is impossible
for any nation, least Of all not for
America. The league of nations Of
| course will furnish a central organ
/ through which these committees
may function; out without the CEN
trail organ they will go on doing the
worlds work in internationalism.
1t is no longer a choice between
| isolation and internationalism; here
we have committees on finance, on
world economies, on labor. on trans
pOrtation-air. water and land-on
communication and on executive
mandates. Certain committees have
/ strong legislative powers, certain
others have definite judicial powers;
certain others have police powers.
4 and we are thinSinE of adding edu-