Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-02-20
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\oPcSiuI W heIneDec JOurnaD
Washington, D. c., Feb. 19-Dr.
Augustus o. Thomas, Maine commits
sioner OF education and president Of
the World Federation of Education.
Associations, speaking at the annual
banquet of the national council of
state superintendent of schools and
commissioners of education held this
evening at the Willard hotel, assert
ed that what the world needs today
is new set of international traffic
regulations based upon the Golden
Rule and a moral consciousness suf-
fcient to make them of service.
Each age has its spirit which
gathers into definite movement. 3"
he continued. This was true of the
revival of learning, the Feudal per-
iod and the Reformation. The spirit
OF Internationalism has been a domi-
mating influence until it has built up
distinct and strong patriotism.
Since the Armistice there has
been movement toward the inter-
national mind and the building of an
international morality such as will
make treaties and agreements more
than scraps of paper. The interna-
tlonal mind is merely an attribute
OF understanding and should help
US to discover more clearly the true
conditions and ideals of our national
nelghbors, and the international
morality should help us to live in
the spirit of goodwin, friendship ana
justice.
"The most important iss,o before
the peoples Of the world is sthe uucs-
ton of international peace. To this
end we must allay national jealousies
and racial hatreds. the moement to
conceive international amity through
the League of Nations, the Washing
ton Conference, the World Court and
the Locarno Pacts are being fostered
by the peace arm of the government
Previous treaties have been brought
about by the military arm. Locarno
should have come from the treaty. of
versailles but it could not. 1t took
seven years to allay the hatreds of
the late war sufficiently to produce it.
1t could not have happened before.
Locarno and the World Court will
furnish the machinery of interna-
tlonal justice but these must be sup
ported by the forces which can pro-
vide the skilled operators.
I "The motif of the World Fedora
ton is to help build the spirit neces-
sary to this end. We wish to back
up our belief that civilization has
advanced to a condition which will
enable US to Danish war as we have
altered barbaric tendencies and set
tied international disputes by means
| of justice through arbitration. War
,, Is too costly in blood and treasure to
retain as legal and legitimate
means Of determining values. Our
big job in doing this is to Danish
hate. While America is as militar-
istic as any country in the world we
can succeed in this undertaking. We
! have two extreme partisan groups in
! this country, the hard boiled mill
tarists and the half baked peace-at-
any-pricers. No doubt both are con-
scientious and believe they are right,
but the main body of Americans are
willing to make an effort to provide
reasonable protection, to disarm as
the nations can mutually agree and
to make an honest effort to bring
about world consciousness of q
universal brotherhood through school
and church and to apply the Golden
Rule in international relations"