The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-09-29


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u ,u-u In little more
than twenty min
utes, Wells told how he would run
the world if he we're dictator, for
the next twenty years. He charged
than any one who did not have an
answer for the question, What
would you want to be done with
the world?" had no right to vote,
much less take any more impor-
tant part in public affairs"
Would Abolish War
AS ruler of the world for twenty
years, Wells would abolish war by
reducing armed forces to dimensions
of a world police and pooling all
foreign offices; create world eco
nomic council, as we'll as a peace
council, and permanent disarma-
ment committee, and reorganize
production and distribution on
20-year plan; declare the world
bankrupt and write down debts;
establish a single world currency,
and insure continuation of the
fruits of his 20-year reign by re-
organization Of the worlds educa-
tional systems.
First of all, Wells said, he would
abolish war.
But just to abolish war is not
doing very much. Mr.. Kellogg abol-
shed war year or so ago without
any results"
Recent events in Manchuria, he
said, seemed just like pre- kellogg
days" To abolish war successfully.
Wells said, he would make sovereign
states relinquish so much of their
relations one to another in the
hands of a federal world authority
peace council"
Given Much More Power
80 long as they are free to make
war they will do so; in fact they
do so, they are always doing so, be-
cause it is ridiculous to pretend that
armament for war is not making
war"
Wells said his peace council"
would not be so elaborate as the
League of Nations, but would he
given much more power. 1t would
be a permanerE disarmament COM
mittee. 1T would pool the military,
naval, and air establishments of the
federated. nations into one inter-
national force, and proceed to re-
duce that force to the dimensions of
a world police"
Wells would pool not only the
foreign offices and diplomatic
services of the world, "but also the
arsenals, dockyards, war offices,
navy and air forces of the world
and cut them down." This immense
task, he said, would not be i'm
measurably greater than the scrap
ping and disbanding that followed
the World war.
Proposes 20 Year Plan
"You can not abolish war unless
you prepare to abolish the cunning
war of financial tricks and tariffs"
Wells continued. THAT war, like
the war of ornaments, goes on all
the time.
MY world economic council would
make twenty-year plan for the re-
organization of the worlds produc-
ton and distribution. It would not
squash down all the tariff walls at
once and lead to factional produc-
ton, but it would set about re-
ducing them methodically, organiz-
ing the transport of the world by
sea and air and land as one SyS-
tenn, assigning types of production
and manufacture to the most IA
vorably situated regions, possibly
shifting workers to new regions of
employment irrigating deserts, and
restoring the wasted forests of the
world.
The World Is Bankrupt
Wells said the economic council
would make new map of the world
which would pay little heed to ulti-
mate political divisions, but I'VE
might find when our map was drawn
out that many of its lines would
after all follow existing boundaries
1--WE should try to have people
speaking the same language to-
gether; that would be more con-
venient."
BY the end of his dictatorship, %
Wells said. everything would be
growing where it would be grown
/ for best production and I should
not have a single customs house
left in the world. Goods would be
moving as easily about our piers
from producer to consumer as they
now ship from one big factory to
another