WORLD PEACE.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 19505, 13 June 1925, Page 9

WORLD PEACE.

TO BE OBTAINED BY WAY OF EDUCATION. Planetary patriotism with world knowledge is one of tho 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 tho famous pacifist outlined recently in San Francisco before tho international relations section of the Commonwealth Club. Dr Jordan also urges that a peace department l)o established with as much authority as tho War Department in the United States, (states the San Francisco Chronicle). This peace deparmont will operate to eliminate the standing menace to peace. Tho plan hinges on seven committees. Tho first will be a standing committee, which will act ns a sort oi clearing house lor all peace societies of alt nations. The next stop would be to begin the teaching of history in tho light of peaceful achievement instead of heroic war activities and the teaching of planetary patriotism. Then ho would launch a groat letter writing campaign, in which the children of one nation would correspond with the children of several other nations. In this way they would be able lo get something of each other's viewpoints as they grew older. “There are only two countries iu the world which are not organised for war,'’ Dr Jordan said. "Those are Denmark and Holland. If ive could bring about the organising of nations for peace it would be a great step toward peace. There is no one tiling which can bring about peace and it cannot bo attained in a year or throe years, or perhaps oven a generation, but we can be working toward it all of tho time.” Rafael Herman, a resident of Hollywood, who fled Germany just before tho World War after he had made a few remarks about tho Kaiser which were not complimentary, has offered £SOOO for tho best working plan to attain world peace offered at tho International Teachers’ Conference in Scotland, over which Augustus Thomas, head of the schools of .Maine, will preside. He has also offered to back up the working of the plan with a million dollars.