Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1921-11-05

: a human unity put before peoples
minds in the form of a world state
and not in the form of a League of
Nations" He wants world law"
he wants world unity and lone
world rule" He says, 1.-The task be-
| fore mankind is to substitute the one
idea of an overriding world common
veal for the multitudinous ideas of
little common weals that prevail
| everywhere today. The world per-
ishes for the want Of a common po-
litical idea. 1t is still quite possible
/ to give the world this common politi-
! cal idea, the idea of Federal world
state. We cannot help but set about
| doing it,
Cites Spread Of Christianity
TO all DIRECTORS Mr.. Wells says this
must be done and can be done. He
instances the spread Of Christianity
in Western Europe, which in few
centuries changed the whole of West
ern Europe from the wild confusion of
warning tribes that succeeded the
breakdown of the Roman Empire into
the unity of Christendom, into a COM
munity with such an idea of unity
that it could be reused from end to
end by the common idea Of the CRU
sades.'
| That is what Mr.. Wells not only
pleads for, but expects. He anticipates
| it with as much confidence as in 1895
he anticipated the airplane. And it
must be remembered that Mr.. Wells.
| hv oH of &c
fundamentally man of science His
anticipation of the airplane is but one
Of many prophecies which give him
not merely literary standing. but solid
scientific backing as a man of vision
in the physical as we'll as in the spir-
itual world.
Mr. Wells, it Will be observed, looks
| forward to something which is a COM
t'nation Of the Crusades, the French
Revelation. and the spread OF Chris
tianity over Western Europe all rolled
into one and compressed into a few
years. Not only does Mr.. Wells an
! t,Cipate this vision of his as an ulti-
mate thing: he actually expects the
conference here in Washington during
| tnis present month OF November to so
n long way towards achieving II. In
ali interview he gave out the dav I've
al rived in America he said: III the
| conference goes on it is bound 70 de-
vCiop into some sort Of a world con-
troll, not only of international politics
tut of financial and economic Gucs-
tions that will be handled on world
| tas's.''
| Now. If Mr.. Wells is going TO sit on
tho doorstep Of tho conference room
and talk like this. imaGin what Pres
ident Harding and the rest of the
American delegation will do, They
will unite in one wild yell of the ir-
lrcconcilablc Senator's slogan. They
will say "Superstate," and order the
ianitor to bar the door and put ma
chine guns at every window. It is Just
family within the possibilities that
Nh Wells. in the language of the DAY.
may start something" There are lot
of folks in the United states who have
it in them to be powerfully moved by
the kind of things Mr.. Wells talks
about Most of US in America are po-
tcntial crusaders. Mr.. Wells may start
up AGAIN that flaming emotion which
! enlisted fully seven eiGhts of America
! behind the League Of Nations when
the idea of that institution first burst
upon the world. and before Mr. Wilson
made his mistakes. and before tho ir
| reConcilabIe Senators got out their
tomahawks and went on the warpath.
Narrow Official Scoops CT Conference
f., OF course. the things which Presi-
| dent Harding and Mr.. Hughes and all
the others expect to do ut the coming
| conference have practically nothing
in common with the vision that Mr..
| Wells paints. What Mr.. Harding ard
Mr.. Hughes expect to do is at this
moment specifically and ConcrctclN
| written down on a sheet Of paper 1t.
! is called the "Agenda," and it in
| CludeS just two main thinGS-namc-
ly. reduction of ornaments and an
| agreement about certain Far Eastern
| questions. The public doesn't realize
/ how practically unchangeably limited
the official purpose Of the coming
| conference is.
What l have said in this article is
! not merely a contrast between tho
! point of view of Mr.. Wells and that
| of Mr.. Harding and Mr.. Hughes and
| the other statesmen who compose the
| conference. 1t is a contrast between
| two schools of thought. The school
| of Mr.. Harding and Mr.. Hughes
| wants to make just one short and ex-
tremely careful step toward the mil
lennium-namcly, the limitation OF
ornaments. The school of Mr.. Wells
and his followers wants to take a
quick run and a long jump and land
right in the middle of the millennium.
At the present moment, it is a nine to
one probability that Mr.. Harding and
Mr.. fiushes will be able to keep the
conference right where they want it
kept. The conference is framed up to
be strictly hard boiled" and to con-
cider al solutely nothing except what