South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1920-02-15
HISTORY AS HEALER
TO ELIMINATE HATE
famous Briton Says Correct Teach
ing Will Be Foundation Of
World League. *
BIZ n G. WELLS

sIbls n won't be worth more than . much parch-
rnsns-untn the peoples OF the world feel themselves
= league OF natonA They don't yet And II things
ere no different IN the future our League of Ma
aions will only the old reimbursement with a new
rama ana consequences a. Of old. We suffered
from ths teaching bad history. and from neglect
Of history a. something and done withof little
- 10 value We've had English history; German
history; the history OF this nation that Cut and
dries flowers indigenous 90 this country or another
with roots meaning. Hardly ever human MS
tory The result has accumulation, trAdi-
ton Of sspsratsness hospitality, hate. That's how you
get wars We've got educated out OF that before
We oan really become a league OF nations
Just an II Il the function q the teacher to enamel
uat. the individual out OF prsocoupatior with
little self 90 Il n the duty OF the historian to teach
the nations That they have common history and a
common destiny For how can men be united except
by ideas I'm common. the feeling of kinship which
these sngenderG don't get that by laying einpha-
ale on wars or on superiority OF nation over
others 60 most histories
THE HUMAN BROTHERHOOD
But teach the whole world one common history and
you will get . point OF visw IN sOmmon.
After ALL why shouldn't me facts Of history have
he same validity for Chinaman for English
rnan7 Rtstory real fact say. mans femur.
And Chinese teacher of anatomy doesn't show the
fernur ss different shape function what my
own teacher taught OF -
The teaching science alone ts just likely to
result in the higher development OF munitions and
engines killing history that stresses should
strssA ne human brotherhood by showing the single
origin adventu which all Of US
laancAed--chtnArnar. German. Ensiishman American.
OF whatever happen to be. And not only that we,
the living have a story IN common; living
story OF the stone with the iegtons
% Caesar. the alchemiSts Of Spain and NApoleons
thrilling story
Tsaoh history with a clear idea OF the
sarxh1s probable origin earth ell live Show
the gradual cooling OF the OF incAndesoence.
process countless before the crust be-
comes cool enough TO allow trickle
its surface nTvt puddle that became the
ocssa
Give some tn6Icstton long Wait begin
ninss of IIss whns the early rocks were forming
SHOW II aowfy creeping 40 unto the hand out Of the
shallow seas
Make ehndren reaHpe mat globe three
quarters its present ago before there amphi-
bans IN swAmps and dragon flies IN the air.
90 20 show the coming OF great cycles Of climate
and reptiles making way for die birds and the
fnammslG
q THE COMING OF MAN.
Then comes Man
ore dosent elementary values life until
the story OF ancestors me sebmen becomes :
reality In our unindH The discovery of nrs-the
WeapOh@khe
the hunting fishing life the palsolithc
dsvelopins that hsrdsmsn the agricul-
turist-thernes make any writer's mouth
The march OF great .Vents-the orusades the refor-
nation revoudonraost histories treat
these though they many passages and door
They in with bang and so out with a
No heading up them leaving of any clues
what followed. Our poor heads spin read
them And led believe that it all leads up
- glory little family the
world belong. 20 the exclusion from that family
OF everybody else.
But SHOW the development OF travel and discovery
iands a common development and you will
81 ssoss OF common heritage And show how the
whole word marches with increasing speed the
result Of this that apparently local invention.
Pstna up a little century
ago larger than France could hold together
long because impossible TO transport soldiers
and arms fast enough TO guard the empire.
Think OF Napoleon nseing from Russia-the man.
the army.
with every facility possibIe-fresh the
rolling stOck-he averaged only five miles hour
Then observes the effect boiling water
a tsapot-and the history of world leaps forward
and the aspect OF everything changes. What once
days journey becomes hours Space shrinks.
Someone esl experiments with bits OF copper wire
and frtction-aad talks to the conti-
rent or picks up locomotives though they
were pins OF photographs through solid walls
is found that oil eKpiodes. engine built to
harness the expIosion-and flies in the air and
Iivss travels kills
A SERIAL STORY
We'll. Il Il though youth could be inter
all this II Il presented serial story
And youth impressed with such a story viii be less
likely to throw half brick a stranger his alley
as a hooligan does. merely because il stranger.
The hooligan the values OF the stranger
To youth properly educated by history stranger