Pueblo chieftain., 1921-11-06
DISARMAMENT CONFERENCE IS
step TOWARD MILLENNIUM
H. G. Wells Prominent Author, Hopes Meet Is Be-
ginning Of New Era In World Politics
He Will Aid

and to show what miles and leagues
and worlds of distance there Is be-
tween what Wells expects and what
Hughes and the others expect.
Wells vision is that of unified
world. devoted to spiritual purposes,
instead of selfish purposes. He believes
In this vision with passionate earnest
ness. and writes about it with exalted
and appealing aspiration. In one of his
recent books, THE Undying Fire he
makes one of his characters describe
this future world III words as exalted
as the best spiritual writing in the
English language.
In this present world" he says,
men live To themselves; having their
lives they lose them; in the world that
we are seeking to make they Will give
themselves to the God of mankind, and
So they will live indeed. They will as
a matter of course change their in
stitutions and their methods so that
all men may be used to the best effect,
i'm the common work of mankind. They
viii take this little planet which has
been torn into shrcds of possession,
and make IL again one garden.
Tho spirit of God in man is crying
out In our hearts to save us from these
blind alleys OF selfishuess, darkness
cruelty. and pain in which our race
must die; he is crying for the high
road which is salvation, he is COM
manding the organized unity of man
kind. 10.
When u'en cease their tnternecinc
war, then and then alone can the race
sweep forward. The race viii grow
in power aud beauty swiftly. in every
generation It Will grow. All this world
VIII man make a. garden for himself.
Now, there isn't human being who
will say he doesn't wish this vision
to come about-this vision OF a world
In which man takes the enormous en-
erEy he now wastes in wars aud de-
votes it to ccnuuering the diseases the
weeds. and all the other impediments
that make the present Jobs world
for most uf the human race
But when Wells, in another of his
rccerst books, takes up the actual steps
which must compose the first progress
toward an ideal world, he marches
head on against a formidable mass of
proJudices and inherited convictions.
He says tho first thing to do is to
get rid OF all the things that make
cleavages among men. He says we
must got rid of national boundary
lines; we must throw off national pat
riotismsi We must achieve common
language single world wide cur
rency. and the Ike. Mr.. Wells atti-
tudc toward the league OF nations Is
one OF disapproYa!; but the reasons
for bis disapproval are not the same
as Hiram Johuson's, for example. Mr..
Wells disapproves of the league of
but because 1t doesn't go far enough.
He says;
Il would have this idea of a human
unity put before peoples mind in the
form of u world state and not in the
form OF league OF nations He
world unity" one world rule" he
says the task before mankind is to
substitute the one idea OF all over
riding world commonwealth for the
multttudious Ideas of little common
woalths that prevail everywhere today
The world perishes for the want of a
common political idea. II is stlll quite
possible to give the world this COM
mon political idea, the idea OF a fed
eral world state. We cannot help but
set .about doing it
To all objectors. Wells says this
must be done and can be done. He in
stances the spread of Christianity In
western Europe, which In a few ccn-
turtles changed the whole OF western
Europe from the wild confusion Of
warning tribes that succeeded the
breakdown OF the Roman Empire into
tho unity OF Christendom, into q COM
munity with such an idea OF unity
that IL could be reused from end to end
by the common idea OF the cgusades."
That Is what Wells not only pleads
for but expects. He anticipates 1t with
as much confidence as In 1898 he an
ticipated the airplane. And It must he
remembered that Wells is. by educa-
uon and bend of mind. fundamentally
a man OF science. His anticipation OF
tho airplanc is but one OF many
prophecies which give MIN not mere
~ literary standing. but solid scteu-
tific backing as "a man OF vision in the
physical as well as in the spiritual
world
Wells. it will be observed. looks for
ward to something which is "A Combi-
nation of the Crusades. the French
revolution and the spread of Chris
tionity over western Europe. all rolled
into one and compressed into n fcw
years. Not only does Wells anticipate
this vision OF his as an ultimate thing
He actually expects this coming con-
ference here in Washington during this
present month of November to go
long way toward achieving II.
In an interview he gave out the day
ho arrived in America ho said. ~
the conference goes on, 1t Is bound to
develop into some sort of world con-
troll not only Of international politics.
but OF financial aud economic uues-