eral plan, although there was an interesting diversity of opinion as to the details of the work.

To test the plan further I presented a petition personally to fifty-eight judges and attorneys who signed it. I asked each to criticize the general plan. Only one objected to the plan, although they disagreed widely in the matter of the details outlined.

When the petition was put into general circulation the entire absence of objections was noted by those presenting it.

The petition with over a thousand signatures was finally filed with the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the House of Representatives by Congressman William Kettner on the 18th of February, 1916. Since then Mr. Kettner has introduced a bill in the House covering the subject.

It gave me great pleasure when I read of the formation of The World's Court League by men of nation-wide reputation for their ability to undertake the work which The World's Court League was organized for. organized for. Later I was pleased to see that in such a short time thirty of our state governors had indorsed the idea of a world court. It sustains my conclusion that there was no noticeable opposition to the plan-that the people

did not need to be educated to the need of better international laws, a World Court and a means of enforcing international law.

Laws, when properly made and based upon justice have been found by all nations to be the most effective means that can be employed to guide the people in their actions.

I have reached the conclusion that San Diego is a fair representative of i every other city in the United States in the matter of an efficient code of international laws and a World Court as a safeguard for injustice and wars. It seems reasonable to suppose that the people of four-fifths of all other nations will be as favorable to the proposition

as we are.

The plan put into operation by The World's Court League, to form a branch league in every state, is a good one, but they should not stop organizing there, they should extend it into the United States Chamber of Com- 1 merce, and through it into their suborganizations, to the central church or ganizations and extended by them into their sub-organizations with the hoped for result that the aspirants for administrative and legislative offices will see ahead of them the solid front of the will of the people.

THE HE New York State Branch begins its active campaign among the members of the Loyal Order of Moose, Oct. 7, 8 and 9, in New York and Brooklyn. Among the speakers will be the Supreme Dictator of the lodge, Professor Albert Bushnell Hart, member of the Board of Governors of the Moose, and E. H. Theis, National Dictator. This will be an active campaign for members in the League, and will continue throughout the State. It is hoped and believed that a large membership will be secured. The effort will be a determined one.

The National Executive Committee,

in view of the identification of the Loya! Order of Moose throughout the United States with the World's Court Movement, has decided to conduct a national: campaign in the 1,600 lodges of the Moose. October 27 will be observed throughout the states among the lodges as World Court Day. This is to consist in a parade during the afternoon, and in the evening there will be an open meeting to which the public will be invited. Speakers at that time will present the World Court movement, and from that time on an active campaign will begin for membership by the loca committee appointed for that purpose.

unable to comply with the purpose of the cosmic plan. They had castes and kings. They had no sense of energy. They could not rightly think. There was no alternative for war.

The third grand world survey was made at the downfall of the medieval civilization, the Holy Roman empire. It too failed to comply with the laws of nature in the government of man. It had castes and kings. It had no sense of energy. It could not rightly think. There was no alternative for

war.

The fourth grand world survey is

The first grand world survey in the affairs of man was made at the downfall of the ancient Egyptian, Babylonian, Hindu and Chinese civilizations. They failed on account of their incapacities of mind to operate the laws of nature in the government man. They had castes and kings. They had no sense of energy. They could not rightly think. There was no alternative for war.

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The second grand world survey was made at the downfall of the Greek and Roman civilizations. They likewise were

woe,

now in the making. Europe has failed to interpret the purpose of the cosmic plan. The principle of liberty finds little place in its governments. Castes and kings control. It does not sense energy. It rightly

cannot think. Man is uncivilized SO long as he has no alternative for war.

The world now looks to America for di-. rection and proper judg ment. The fifth attempt to per

form the purpose of nature in the government of man shall be known as the American civilization. To satisfy world progress America must present the method of right thinking to interpret and operate the cosmic plan. The method of right thinking for the progress of the world to-day is contained in the philosophy of energy. Right thinking begets right acting.

America is now the vanguard of world progress. The vanguard of American progress is the progress of constructive business. The program for American progress shall be the prototype of the program of progress for the United States of the World. The program for progressive and constructive business therefore must contain the master problems which shall dominate the thoughts and the activities of all right thinking minds.

The master problems of American. business to-day are (1) to establish the system of commercial states for industry with organic relations within the federal government. (2) To establish the absolute standard of value for finance to relate the commercial states on the market. These master problems require for their solution the sense of energy. Their operations as progressive and constructive business. shall be the American alternative for War. America will pass the fifth grand world examination of the cosmis scheme because it will rightly think in terms of energy.

War is man performing the basic processes of progress in a destructive

way.

The cause of all war is man's incapacity rightly to think on the requirements of progress in the basic processes of business. Right acting requires right thinking.

The promoters of war are militarists who as speakers and writers glorify war and sanctify it in terms of love, tradition, patriotism, religion and philosophy. They defend privileges.

The beneficiaries of war are castes and kings who desire war to maintain and secure their privileges and to limit the opportunities of the many to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. They consider business a sordid | profession. The American considers business the leading profession. Its justice is ethics, the equity of value exchange.

The opponents of war are those who interpret and formulate the requirements of progress in terms of energy or the absolute standard of value.

The American alternative for war is progressive and constructive business operating knowingly in terms of en- | ergy or the absolute standard of value.

The principle of world peace requires that man shall knowingly aid the Spirit of the world to express on the earth in terms of energy in the greatest number, variety and potency of forms constructively with efficiency. Its operation requires right thinking in a world program.

The promoters of world peace are the promoters of progressive and constructive world business operating in terms of the absolute, standard of value. All other kinds of world pacifists are the makers of trouble. They feel and will. They can not rightly think. They lack the sense of energy.

The program for world peace is the program for operating progressive and constructive business in terms of commercial states within and among the nations of the earth and relating them: on the world market in terms of they absolute standard of value.

The cure for all war is the constructive operation of energy or the absolute standard of value in the basic, affairs of mankind. The might of energy expressed destructively is wrong. It is war. The might of energy ex-| pressed constructively is right. It is business. Business therefore is the only alternative for war. It is the condition of peace.

HASTEN THE DAY

I desire to express my loyal adherence to the principles and purposes of the World's Court League. Hasten the day when justiciable questions may be decided not by the brute force of arms but before the Supreme Court of the World.-Ralph W. Thomas, Albany, N. Y.

THE ENLIGHTENED WAY

I am heartily in sympathy with your movement, and believe that the only enlightened way to settle disputes either individual or national is by the calm. judgment of a judicial tribunal.-Frank J. McEewen, New York.

The object of the League is something that meets my heartiest approval, and I shall be happy to do anything possible to further it.-Jared C. Estelow, Orford, N. Y.

DESERVING OF SUPPORT In my judgment there is nothing before the people of this country at the present time so deserving of popular support as this movement which has for its object the establishment of justice amongst nations and rational and peaceful adjustment of their disputes.-Morris L. Rosenwasser, Yonkers, N. Y.

PREPARE FOR PEACE

I favor every effort which shall be made to prepare this country for peace, and the establishment of an international court, where all questions involving the claims or rights of countries must be tried and determined in the same way an individual must try and settle his dispute with his neighbor.---F. K. Van Dyke, Harrisburg, Pa.

sane method of settling international disputes has long been acknowledged by the progressive thought of the world.Clara C. Calkins, New York.

AN ADVOCATE FOR YEARS I am most heartily in sympathy with the movement, and have been from the beginning of its announcement, and, in fact, have been in favor of a World Court long before I heard of this organization.-John W. Hansel, President, Fargo College, N. D.

EDUCATION NEEDED

That international disputes could be adjusted by a World Court is unquestionable, porvided public opinion is educated up to a standard of confidence in the Court and its representatives. Those who are interested in es

tablishing a World Court should re

member that the nations of the earth must be educated along lines of "moral obligations," one to the other, thus creating a respect for the power of the Court to settle international disputes and forever end militarism. I have great confidence in the success of the movement and hope that future generations may enjoy the comfort and peace following the successful establishment of an International Court. M. A. COOPER, Washington, Pa. VIOLENCE RETREATS AS CIVILIZATION ADVANCES

I am in sympathy with this movement, and believe that as civilization advances a resort to violence to settle differences will not be tolerated between nations any more than it is now tolerated between individuals.-R. G. Withers, Reno, Ne