New Britain herald., 1921-10-21
APARTMENTS LIMIT ECONOMIC WELFARE
No Definite Step Towards Peace
 Says College Professor

Honolulu, T. H., Oct. 21.-The limi- tation of armaments is not a definite step toward peace, according to Dr. Roberto Grenes Mesen, of Syracuse university and former Costa Rican minister to Washington who addressed the Press Congress of the World here today.
 Tt is a step towards the economic welfare of the nations, upon whose capacities of production and thriving direct and indirect taxes of every de- scription weigh enormously, aggre- vated by the need of maintaining permanent armies, and the incessant renovation of the armaments,' Dr Mesen added.
 But war is not the outcome of any accumulation of weapons, he said "but the misunderstanding of the interna- tional interests of nations, territorial interests-boundary or colonial-in- dustrial, racial or institutional inter ests. Paucity of arnInments does not determine peace. It is state of con- sciousness of the nations which en- genders wars, which insinuates the convenience of taking up arms, which inf1ates the budgets of the state. Wars, as all other events produced by man, IaR0 DIILn III ILc deplllS Ol hio Iaouo"s and his consciousness.
 "The enlightened thought of man and the illumined heart of woman will determine the permanent peace, as their obscureness has generated num- berless wars which have instilled doubt concerning the moral health of nations
 Therefore, institutions which edu- cate the consciousness of individuals those that inform the thought of the people and those that rule their des- tinies, are directly and indirectly re- sponsible for the state of mind of na- tions which fling themselves into war or which propose peace.
 'Is there any institution which ed ucates the thought of man more exten- sively or more powerfully than the one represented by this Press Congress of the World?
 If we truthfully aspire to eliminate war among mon, let us recognize with dandor that the Press Congress of the World is able to attain this high pur- pose.
 "A memorable performance of this Press Congress of the World should be the sketching of the cardinal lines of the great human interests upon which an agreement is possible with out reviving the extant wide divergen- cies of nationality, race or religion.
 And not less memorable should be the work of organizing Sub-Con- gresses which have in charge the set ting forth. from 8 new tnternatona viewpoint, of all those problems af- fecting different groups of nations. The agreements arrived at in these Sub-Congresses should serve as a base to the subsequent debates of the Press Congress of the World.
 "The Spanish American section of this Sub-Congress should take In charge this most important function: to emphasize the spiritual unity of all peoples speaking one and the same Pen insular language, creating in solid and definite way the sentiment and the conviction that in the realm of Art and Science and all the spiritual forms of civilization all those nations are, separately, mere provinces of a vast ensemble which we must take in sight when the artistic work is created, or the scientific research Is brought about, or the philosophic doctrine :s expounded.
 '.such a section of the sub- Congress should take in charge the foundation and direction of a great newspaper destined to form and educate that / Continental conscious mind, to unveil this spiritual unity of the peoples o1 the continent, to represent in an in. tegral and comprehensive manner, the grandeur and transcendence of the whole ensemble.
 Such a newspaper ought to be founded and edited in New York where it is not possible to live for any length of time. with a open mind without losing the provincial pre- judices, though living always the higl interests and ideals of the mothe country.
 ''New York will have in relation with the spiritual union of Spanisl American nations the same destin, that Alexandria had in relation witt the intellectual unity of decling Greco, or the destiny of Florence in relation with the awakening of arts and letter at the dawn of the Renaissance"