WORLD PEACE

Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 119, 23 May 1925, Page 16

WORLD PEACE

TO BE OBTAINED BY WAY OF

EDUCATION.

Planetary patriotism with world knowledge is one of the striking' points emphasised by Dr. David Starr Jordan in his peace ,plan to be presented at the International Teachers' Conference at Edinburgh, Scotland, this year, and which the famous pacifist outlined recently in San Francisco before the international relations section of the Commonwealth Club.. Dr. Jordan also urges that a peace department be established with as much authority as the War Department in the United States, states the "San Francisco Chronicle." This peace department will operate to eliminate the standing menace to peace. The plan hinges on seven committee*. The first will be a standing committee, which will act as a sort of clearing house for all peace societies of all nations. The next step'would be to begin the teaching of history in the light of peaceful achievement instead of heroic war activities and the teaching of planetary patriotism. Then, he would launch n. great letter writing campaign, in which tne children of cue nation would correspond wjLh the children of several other nations. In this way they would be abie to get something of each other's viewpoints as they grew oldeo\ " Tbero aro only two countries in the world which aye not organised for war " Dr. Jordan said. " Those are Denmark and Holland. If we could bring about the organising of nations for peace it would be a great step toward peace. There is no one thing which can brine' about, peace and it cannot be attained in a year or three years, or perhaps oven a generation, but we c-in'be workinjj toward it.all of the tims." h Rafael Herman, a resident of HollyWood who fled Germany just before the World War after he had mads- a few remarks about .the Kaiser which were not complimentary, has offered £5000 for the best working pian to attain world peace offered at the International Tea-h T2rs Conference in Scotland, over which Augustus Thomas, head of tho schools of Maine will-preside, He has also-offered to back up the working of the plan with a million dollars.