Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1924-01-18
THE PEACE PLAN
(From the Washington POST


QOrom the Washington POST
Public curiosity regarding the American Peace
Award increased to fever heat by the publication
plan No 1869" for inducing the United States to join the
league of nations. The parties who nan-
cling this propaganda have aroused intense interest their
identity doubtless inquiry will be set
certain details regarding this to educate
the American people and show them how mistaken they
when they voted to keep out of European politics
The plan which is declared to have the Box prize
of $5OOOO-or is $1OOOOO?is reported to have
% plans submitted to the jury of award The
scripts submitted to November Is, when the
petition closed The agency of the American Peace
Award" tells the public that the jury of award
amned 22165 manuscripts extracted No 1859
tanning the plan which should be adopted by the United
States in promoting the peace of the world.
This feat by the jury of award is the most astounding
exhibition of intellectual endurance concentration and
rapidity operation recorded the history
kind. It raises mankind to new emnence of achieve
ment which the gods themselves might envy The editors
the universe shamed by this amazing reading of
22165 manuscripts and the unerring selection from the
of the precious offering that is to redeem the world
1t appears that there is Joker" in the matter of
paying the 100000 prize But the author of this
plan to the world afford to look with contempt
upon lucre nasmuch his will resOund to the
remotes ages as Cadmus Peace the Noah world
salvation His plan takes its place with the Bible
the Koran the BaghavadGha, the zendavesta the Tai
mud and the Arabian Nights The American Peace Award
discovered the jury of award and the jury of award has
discovered the author of human peace His nameshush
shush!-his is known to but one mortal and must
breathed until next month Then with pomp and
circumstance that will astonh the stars the will be
bazOned the face of the universe Until then the
earth guards within its womb the darling of Immortality
Like all achievements, the peace plan of the
immortal is supremacy simple to the point
of fooshness. 1t is based the assumption that the
United States not originate anything in thought act
whit n
launched in Europe Many nations having made the mis-
take accepting scheme that denies their equality,
and which seeks to perpeuae the control of the world by
few strong it is proposed that the United
States shall join in the scheme AS Offset to of
the entanglements that would follow is proposed that
the United States should exclude the league nations
from this hemisphere, refuse to accept the principle of
force embodied in the league covenant and ask the league
begin revise and develop international It should
also have been proposed perhaps that the league should
study international aw-but the Unknown could think
of everything
The author prize plan with that fnality which
with supreme wisdom states that "the only pos
ble path to cooperation in which the United States
take increasing share is that which leads to the league
of nations And yet in the next paragraph he Heavens
Maybe it is shell cites the accomplishment of the Wash
ngOn Conference example of cooperation in be-
half world peace be that that exalted
phere where the unknown author of human felicity dwes
there report the Washington Conference
If the expectant recipient the 100000 Cor $5OOO0
prize to be paid by Mr. Box personally in behalf of the
bloc of phanthrOpist who conceal their charity under the
name of the american Peace Award-we say if this
pectan recipient had taken notes. he she would have
seen that the United States government scrupulOusy
avoided the league of nations and all its work when it
brought forth the Washington Conference This Confer
which really achieved solid progress toward unver
sal permanent peace, based upon the principle which
The league of nations spurns and deniesthe equality of
nations.
The mountaineering plan fails to state whether the
United States in joining the league should be of the
ring of great that to dictate to the small
whether this nation should take its place
equal of other nations The authors nshers of
he referendum about to be taken should have included
hat question in their list If the achievements of the
Washington Conference to be repeated the principle
which made possible should not be overlooked
There many aspects of this enhancing subject o
which make brevity nuisance to the delighted
ator But the details must wait 1t is sufficient to know
present that parties unknown with prodga iberaty
re permitting the American people to seize opportun
y to cast off their clannish Amercanism and join the
ew nternationasm that Europe such Garden
Eden.