The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-03-21
4 Long Vpy To Co
By pls. FnA4K CnANE

The air is full of change. A thousand and one isms, parties and individual re- formers shout their proposals.
 We are all at work upon the millennium, trying to bring abouta perfect condition of things. sxs Y {.
 Most of the proposed reforms we admit to be only temporary makeshifts. 1t may help us, therefore, to look ahead and see what we will have to do eventually. We have long way to go. Let us cast a glance, as nearly as we can. to the end. First, we have to establish finally s'the parliament of man, the federation of the world" Some time we must abolish the last national lines and bring in universal democracy.
 < E We have to abolish war The enormous waste, folly and cruelty of huge armies and nayies must be replaced by simple policing force The most powerful agent now at work to bring this about is worldwide commerce.
 As to government we have to solve the problem of finding some form that will en-. able the people quickly to express their will, and that will protect the feeblest in his rights.
 We have to get rid of all persons and classes who exercise power without attendant responsibility, including all hereditary rnon- archs and private inheritance.
 We have to remake the entire system of education, so as to give every child an equal opportunity for training, and to equip chil-
 
 intelligence, and hence to outgrow present day medievalism in education.
 In business we have so to adjust matters that every man shall have a living wage, the laborer will be projected from the whim of the boss, and the boss will be protected from the whim of the. laborer, and both will have freedom and justice.~
 In criminology, we, have to outgrow the .spunishment'' delusion and cure diseased 1.Ea ad hn school must swallow up the prison. : In law we must keep working at our courts until justice between man and man shall be swift and certain. 4
 In medicine we must devise some means by which any bodily defect or ailment may be atoonce relieved by the highest skill and in- telligence attainable, without money and without price, Health must not be in the market. .z We have yet to develop immense tracts of the earths surface and render them habit able The great American Northwest, Africa and South and Central America are yet to be filled with millions of people.
 In science and invention the task before us is almost endless.y Among other things aerial and submarine navigation are to be perfected, and electricity, sunshine and tidal force are to be harnessed to innumerable new uses. <
 In religion we have to get the religious feeling scientifically established upon psychol- ogy and exact economies, to outgrow the pres- ent medievalism of propaganda by sects and to use the religious emotion as an intelligent aid to morals and the enrichment of life. So, you see, our house far from finished; scaffolding and confusion are everywhere: the premises are full of litter. We have much to do .sG
 Or do we? Is not nature, or evolution, or the will of God doing it after all And is not all we have to do to see what truth we can, and to live and die for it, and to find our days work and do it, with courage to do the right as God gives us to see the right, with charity to all and malice toward none?"
 Let us be up and doing, but let us not for. get to be patient, for we have a long way