Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-10-28

This very dangerous world must be
adjusted TO o new economic and social
order.
Today,s election In Great Britain may
be a symbolic incident in the readtust-
ment. with its mandate from the people
10 take 3 critically sick economic sys-
TEN out Of the hands OF politicians OF
all parties and "call In the doctors"
Such are the opinions Of H @. Wells,
noted British author and sociologist,
now In Washington.
But. Mr.. Wells insists. the whole
world must be turned over TO the doc
tors" the specialists In economies.
sociology and the biological and phySi-
cal sciences. fer treatment. The out
come Of the present British situation,
he holds, depends on whether the Ma
tional party with It's backbone OF Con-
servatiyes actually does call in the spe-
cialists and follow their prescriptions.
Victory for Treatment Of Ills.
While apparently a victory for the
Conservatives. Mr.. Wells said, 1t is not
intended as q victory for conservatism"
or for the doctrines Of any political
party whatsoever, but for objective
treatment of the ills Of England in ac-
cordance with the great body of sound
cCO1lOLilC SClCtiCC kAfOW1G0kC Oh WHICH
largely is confined to the specialists
themselves There has come into ex-
iStence body of objective social science,
he said, which has no relation TO politi-
cal subjectivism and within which there
Is no more possibility Of an emotional
difference OF opinion than in physics or
biology.
But If the country is not turned
over to the doctors" Mr.. Wells sees the
return of Labor-not the comparatively
conservative Labor party now going out
OF ONCE but q strongly socialistic and
even Communistic party.
The whole world must come to it. he
said, for it now stands at parting of
the ways.
World State Is Step.
Out of the inevitable readjustment,
Mr.. Wells said, he hopes that much of
the present social and economic system
can be preserved "for 1t has given us
an abundance and fullness of life as well
as the great inequalities OF wealth
which must 60 in the new system. I
hope that the readjustment can be
brought about without destruction, by
adaptation rather than revolution"
A step in the reimbursement, Mr.. Wells
holds, Is the world state 1.-THE modern
state or nation must be subordinated to
federated world control of health, eco
nomic life and finance which is the
medium of economic life. The world
today might be compared with an auto
mobile going up hill with the motor be-
ginning to go wrong It is time to
get out and look under the hood"
Mr.. Wells does not point to Russia
as model, although he holds that
matters Of tremendous importance are
n l.
going some phases of the readiustment
through which the world must pass.
It is q mistake, he said, ito consider
the present Russian system as COM
munistic. AS q matter of fact there
have been three distinct revolutions In
Russia since the so-called Communist
party came into control, only the world
has lost sight of them because the same
group Of men has remained at the head
Of the government. First was COM
muntsm. Then came the new economic
policy" Then came the system which
they have today, state capitalism. But
the interesting thing about Russia is
that 1t Is planning. That is what the
Of things in Russia tremendously right"
Working on Social study.
Mr.. Wells is now at work on a
compendium Of the worlds knowledge
Of the social sciences, to be q COM
panion volume to his outlines of history
and biology, the object Is TO show
people how to live together in a world
where distances are continually growing
smaller His objective has been, = he
said, to provide q sort of education
which cannot be had in the schools or
colleges.
THE colleges" he said '.have al
ways tended to lag. The object of
schools in the past has been to pre-