Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-08-27
TAXES AND WAR-By Frederic j. Haskn

divided between the Atlantic and Pacific.
No limitations will be placed upon coast
defenses, which by their character cannot
be used extensively. The standing army
will be reduced to between $4,000 and
$4,000 men. The other nations Of the world
will agree to reductions in the same pro-
portion. There will be a strong and defi-
mite limitation of the numbers OF aircraft
each nation may construct. The use OF
deadly gases and submarines and their pro-
ducton will be rigidly prescribed
It is the belief of the statesmen behind
the move for limiting world ornaments
that the greatest security against future
wars lies in holding down professional
armies and navies to the point where no
sudden and tremendous offensive be
launched in the future, such as Germany
launched into Belgium in 1914. The time
required for preparations for war after
break between nations will be counted upon
to large extent to allow the injured feelings
of both to be smoothed down.
Many Efforts at Peace
The earliest effort at preserving peace
recorded in history was made by the Am
phictyonies more than five hundred years
before Christ. In 1923 one Emeric Cruce,
or de Lacroix, wrote the 'NOuveau Cynee,
proposing that the European world agree to
the formation of permanent corps or am
bassadors which would make Venice its
headquarters. The votes of these plenipo-
putes and this plan formed the basis of
many brought forward in the intervening
years down to the present time. hugh
Grotius, the first great writer on 1nterna-
tional law, published a work in 1925 recon-
mending the organization of courts of ar
filtration designed to constrain the national
parties to quarrel to agree to settlement.
The Duke of Sully, in 1884. gave to the
world the program for long time at
tributed to King Henry Nv of France, under
the title of 'The Great Design" 1t was
proposed that all of Europe be divided into
fifteen states making up one great Christian
republic War was to be prevented by
conclave of forty delegates meeting annual
ly in the most centrally located cities of the
fifteen states in rotation.
The philosopher Kant proposed a plan
for perpetual peace in 1895, by the terms
OF which every nation would become repub-
lican in form, with a pooling of their mil
itary forces for the preservation of peace
William Jennings Bryan, while secretary OF
state, had a plan to divert military and
naval appropriations in the United States to
the construction Of highways, with the idea
that the United States, If invaded, would be
defended by citizens armed with shotguns
speeding over these roads in automobiles to
the point of attack.
Ernest Landgrave, William Penn, John
Boilers, Rosseau, Puffendorf and others
worked for world peace without success.
The Hague tribunals accomplished little.
Germany in 1914 showed the futility of
treaty agreements between nations, unless
there is some great compelling economic
force in the situation to make observance
of the treaty expedient. National selfish
ness OVERRIDE every other consideration in
the past. National poverty seems likely to
bring about the accomplishment vainly
striven for throughout the ages Kings,
philosophers, diplomats and demagogues all
have failed to stop war, but when the COM
mon man says nay to the tax collector,
then war will stop, for while at least.