m' H i^^. JX 1952 S66f i^WEUNlVERS/A 0FrAllF0,9,(., ^^l\ •^mwrn"^ i\ -? # --' ""fmj ■^// ^y- ^>t >\T KlOS %; '^i( ^: in > l'V!VFPV/A_ % '^ .4^ ^^^ 'i^ '^ ,nMLI:RARY6>/-^ ^nMUBRARYO^ -^oF-rAiiFnp^. .^oF-r- X'rtEUNIV ^ c 'J:?liM-SO\^^ \\\F(iVlVFR.^,/ C:: Ce- cil ''^11 Vf the Straits, Custodian of thf; "Ijf.'muf of X.'itioTiH". ('iiiisit:i iif Imiiili' fJfTiii.il (•'■,ni'm\' nf llie 217979 FEDERATION OF NATIONS Moslem World and Protector of Europe from the return of the Turk. While all this might have been gratifying to misdirected national pride, and satisfactory to our (peace-loving) Christian Churches and Missionary Societies, it would come high, on the balance of us who are not so aggressively peace-loving nor so militaristically "Christian". The fighting men and wealth it cost us for (as it now seems) the futile enterprise of destroying Ger- many, would be insignificant com- pared to the endless price we would have to pay for that gratification of vanity, in a never-ending, catch-as- catch-can bout with the Moham- medan World. Into what further Laocoon tragic entanglement that League of Na- tions job would have landed the United States, only the gods can say, and they are as dumb as the speechless Sphinx. Truly, we have cause for fervent thanksgiving. Not Handicapped. Our freedom of action — as we opponents of the League foresaw and pointed out — has not handicapped our Christian endeavors nor cur- tailed our Christian charity nor pre- vented our free-handed service to Europe. Indeed, we have rendered more voluntary and effective physical and moral aid than all the members of the League of Nations combined have contributed — outside of their own political boundaries. And, be- ing outside the "League" this help- fulness has engendered neither jealousies nor imputations of selfish ulterior motives. U. S. Xot a World Shirk. The refusal of the United States to be herded into the League of Nations does not, in the smallest measure, imply that as a World Nation we selfishly shirk bearing our legitimate World burdens, but merely that we object to other hands than our own, putting these burdens on our Nation's back. The refusal of the United States does not mean that as a Nation we are opposed to the principle of inter- national co-operation, international friendship, international Law and Order. It merely means that we suspected treacherous and traitorous self-interest at home, and the self- interest of desperately urgent need abroad, as the ulterior motives of the League proponents. ■ The refusal of the United States means, in essence, that we are not convinced of the selfiess patriotism of our Internationalist Bankers. Foreign Traders, and Public Officials ; nor are we satisfied that the nations of Europe are themselves as selflessly interested in each others' prosperity aj we are in the welfare of Hu- manity. Strang'e Oversight. Probably the most remarkable and unaccountable "diplomatic" over- sight of all time was the failure of the Peace Conference to realize the lack of need for an experimental League of Nations, the failure of President Wilson to recognize that there already exists a great and effective League of Sovereign Na- tions, a working Union of Sovereign States, a Federation of forty-eight self-determining Governments, com- prising one-fifth of the entire White Race, one-third of the World's wealth, and one-half of the effective power of the World; a League of Nations that has already learned and for over a century has practiced the Governmental Art of peaceful Fed- eration — the United States of America. Here we have a great Continental Union of Nations — of peoples as diverse in racial heritage, of States as diverse in geographical problems, in group and industrial interests, as the diversified warring nations of FEDERATION OF NATIONS Europe; a League of Nations in suc- cessful operation. But this eminently pertinent fact is calmly ignored by our World diplomats — "the Big Four" who out of the world-fashioning wisdom of their inner consciousness evolve a mythical, paper League of Nations in which this ocean-to-ocean Asso- ciation of Sovereignties is put on a par with postage-stamp "Kingdoms", made-to-order "Nations" and farcical "Republics"! Here we have on the one hand a real League of real nations, every one of which stands in the World's front rank in education, in culture, in productivity — Effective Civiliza- tion — and all working together in peaceful friendly rivalry under the freest and noblest Constitution of all time; on the other hand is' a heterogenous aggregation of nations, would-be nations and embryo na- tions in continual flux of warring groups, supposedly united by myth- ical ties of a paper "League" having "neither prestige nor authority". And yet — incredible as it seems — the "diplomacy" of Europe, combined with the wisdom, 'r something, of some of our own high-placed officials and responsible citizens, urge that this real League with the prestige of a century-and-a-half's accomplish- ment and the authority of moral worth and practically unlimited physical power shall submerge the identities of its component nations and its own unified Sovereignty in a lower-rank-mass of warring nations, a J make-believe nations, under the make-believe control of a make- believe "League of Nations". Think of the empire State of New York, the great State of Pennsyl- vania, of Illinois, of Texas, with two score others, and of our own noble California, without status or repre- sentation, and subject to the dic- tates of the made-to-order "King- dom" of Hajez, and a score of postage-stamp "Nations", and farci- cal opera-bouffe "Republics". Danger! Everyone should realize that the United States is not yet free from the danger of being roped into the European plunderbund, the so-called League of Nations. While the nations of Europe may fight each other on every conceiv- able issue, they are enthusiastically unified upon the desirability of in- ducing the United States to join with them as a generously conti'ibuting partner, the sack-holder for the League of Nations. No matter how energetically the Tories and the Liberals may con- tend for control of the British Gov- ernment, or how earnestly Premier Bonar Law and ex-Premier Lloyd. George may be at outs on national policies and principles, they agree like mental Siamese twins, that the welfare of the British Empire, the peace of Humanity, and the "salva- tion of the world" depend upon the United States joining the League of Nations. Propaganda. The organized propaganda which is already in evidence in our papers, magazines, and in the utterances of influencial officials (National, Cor- porate, and Financial), is mild com- pared to the flood of propaganda that in the near future will whelm this Country. Every sentiment to which appeal can be made, every emotion that can be stirred to effective action, every ideal that as a nation we hold sacred, all will be used and utihzed to the one end and olijoctive. Remember, that objective is the greatest prize ever set before rapa- cious greed and insatiable ambition since human society began; Remember, that glittering prize is nothing less than the financial and political control of the greatest and most productive national aggrega- FEDERATION OF NATIONS tion of human workers on earth, and hence the effective control of the World — ("the unification of world control", as Wells describes it). A United States Federation of Nations In view of our i-ecent escape — an escape by a margin much too nar- row to be thought of without a retrospective qualm of wholesome fear — it behooves us to consider with profound concern the danger that still threatens our great nation and its noble ideals. The courageous course is some- times also the safest one, and that course in the_ present danger is to boldly take the bull by the horns and substitute an American Asso- ciation of Nations for the European League. It means to forestall the danger of European entanglement by a Federation of Nations upon the gen- eral plan of our Union, and founded upon the principles of our Constitu- tion — modified to meet the con- ditions of World Federation. Declaration of Friendship. The proposition implies the pro- mulgation of a general declaration of friendship and an invitation to the nations of the world to indi- vidually associate with us upon terms conformable to our standard of Industi'ial Democracy, and re- spectively appropriate to each na- tion's cultural status. Constitution of Safeguards. For the proposed World Federa- tion, a very generalized and flexible Constitution should be formulated, with appropriate safeguards and provisions to ensure complete free- dom of independent national self- development. As our Government provides for not only fully admitted States in our Union but also for Territories like Alaska and Dependencies like the Philippines, Cuba, and Haiti, so the Constitution of the proposed Federa- tion should provide for grades of unification: — Limited Association — Full Union (as additional States) — Territorial Connection — Dependent Status. "Salvation of the World". The abolition of War, the inaugu- ration of international Law and Order, :,nd the "Salvation of the World" are obviously much more apt to be brought into the domain of realizable ideals, the region of prac- tical workaday possibility, by a world-extension of the United States Constitutional Federation than by submerging these great Sovereignties and mei-ging their Federated Sov- ereignty in warring Europe's more or less mythical, certainly experi- mental, and probably futile, so-called League of Nations. Fernwald, Berkeley, California. November 11, 1922. SALVATION OF CIVILIZATION UNIVERSAL JUSTICE END OF WAR. World Federation By William Henry Smyth WILSOJf FLATS U. S. "IRRECONCILABLES" WASHIJfGTOX, >"ov. 11.— (By Universal Service.)— Woodrow Wilson, war time president, and father of the League of Nations, addressing 5000 or more of his followers at his home today, said: "I have been reflecting today that Armistice Day has a particular significance for the United States, because the United States has remained contented with the Armistice and has not moved forward to peace. "It is a very serious reflection that the United States, the great origina- tive nation, should remain contented with a negation; it is a standstill of arms; it is a cessation of fighting, and we are so bent on a cessation of fighting that we are even throAving our arms away. ..." WHERE WAS THE LEAGUE? The Greek inhabitants of Eastern Thrace have moved out of the country which for two thousand years was their hinterland and from which they have been expatriated by the Allies, as a result of the agree- ment made between France and England and Turkey. The newspapers give a sad account of this tragic exodus. . . . And this has happened in four short years after the Great War! Is there no lesson in it for America? Where is the League of IVations? The nations which have given Thrace to the Turk are all members of the League. Why did it not function to decide the fate of Thrace? Why did it not function to prevent the war between Turkey and Greece? In the light of Asia, can any one now say that America was not wise In refusing to Join In a scheme so farcical? — (Clipping, November 11.) • SEVEN STATES CONFER UPON RIVER TREATY. SANTA FE, N. M., Nov. 13.— (By Associated Press.)— Members of the Colorado River Commission expect to write a compact for the allotment of the waters of the Colorado river at the meeting under way here, it was Indicated today. The proposed docuiiieut is, In every degree, analogous to a treaty between nations. After it has been written the compact will be signed by Herbert Hoover, chairman of the commission, as representative of the President of the United States, and by each of the seven State Commis- sioners on behalf of the States within the river's l»asln — Colorado, Wyoming, New Mexico, Arizona, Nevada, Utah, and California. Pertinent Question. ;ind I'm more or less a tlieorist — When I tried out the proposal set but, had I i)roposed that the United forth in my recent article, "Federa- States should join with Great Britain tlon of Nations", upon my amiable as one of its States, or as one of its and lonp-sufTerinpr friend, the Pro- Colonies, or as a Territory, or De- fessor, he thought a while, and then pendency, would you not have remarked, "You're a practical man, laughed me to scorn?" FEDERATION OF NATIONS It is not improbable that some such thought and its pertinent ques- tion have arisen in other minds, so it will perhaps be well to repeat here the facts and reasons I gave to friend Professor in answer to his implied objection. White Race Leadership. There exists in practically all of our minds the fixed idea, that the continuance of our present civiliza- tion is dependent upon the con- tinued leadership of the White Race. This dominance cannot be main- tained if the two most powerful branches of this race are at outs, or are antagonistic, or even if they have selfishly divergent aims, any more than could the United States have attained to its present status and unified accomplishment had the South and the North remained at outs, or had sought only inde- pendent self-developinent. No one will question that the World's cultural status and social development express White Race civilization; also there will be little dissent to the idea that the present dominance of the White Race can- not continue if the White nations waste their energy and dissipate their wealth in inter-racial wars. Hence some form of organized co- operation seems necessary not only to maintain authority of Leadership to conserve White civilization, but to ensure racial preservation. Diplomatic Paper-Leag'ue. - The last four years have proved conclusively that a paper League of Nations — a League based upon a conference of diplomats, after the manner of the Peace Conference — must necessarily be futile, for it lacks that substantive power which is necessary to authority. Seemingly, there is only one other basis for a world "League", and that is, the peaceable extension of an already existing aggregation adapted to constitute a gravitational focus — a nucleus representative of the White Race, having the prestige of accomplishment and possessing the authority of inherent power. World Government. There exist several such aggrega- tions which are at least thinkable in this connection, but, whether there is even one that is practicable depends upon the average intelli- gence and social development of the various nations of the White World, and that, is a very, very doubtful quantity. These possible gravita- tional federative aggregations are: — Continental Europe — Great Britain — The British Empire — The United States of America. But assuming that one of these could so function, the problem of World Federation becomes simpli- fied to a question of relative appro- priateness. And the answer to this question involves the history and present condition of Europe; the history and present condition of the United States; the present world- distribution of the White Race; and, the geography of the Eastern and Western Hemispheres. Europe. During the past thousand years, Europe has been in never-ceasing conflict and in never-ending weav- ing and interweaving of racial and political boundaries, a surging tide of war, northward and southward, eastward and westward. Europe has been the battleground of national ambitions; thus there has been engendered profound racial hatreds deep in the consciousness of its component nations; hatreds that are only temporarily suppressed for immediate political ends or the satis- faction of greater hatreds, or the at- tainment of more ambitious ob- jectives. Hence these discordant European nations would not and probably could not federate even FEDERATION OF NATIONS themselves, much less offer a satis- factory gravitational focus of peace- ful World Federation. Great Britain. Considering Great Britain — as the governmental apex of the British Empire — in relation to its appi'o- priateness as the nucleus of a World Federation: Great Britain has, at least the prestige of federative ac- complishment; she has effected a more or less peaceful colonial aggre- gation that, as a whole, is prac- tically self-sustaining. But looking into the almost immediate future, the difficulties to its wider extension (though of a different nature) appear almost as great as those of Conti- nental Europe. Great Britain ig an over-populated insular group incapable of self- support, hence dependent upon the continued good-will of its widely- scattei'ed Colonies. And, under mod- ern conditions of warfare, it is much more than doubtful whether the British lijles could withstand a united onslaught of its nearest neighbors. The knowledge of this has made it the necessary, self- preservation policy of Great Britain to prevent the unification of Europe, or the development of a single domi- nating European nation. Hence, Great Britain, while it has the pi-es- tige of federative accomplishment, does not possess the authority of inherent power, necessary to the gravitational nucleus of World Fed- eration. The Brltlsli Empire. With complete control of the Sea — that is. with a navy sufficiently powerful to successfully cope with any possible combination of naval powers, and al.so to protectively police the World and suppress local outbre.aks of aggression — the Briti.sh Empire might quite conceivably he peacefully extended to World Fed- eration. But such police control has been rendered impossible by the Washing- ton conference for the limitation of naval armament, hence the British Empire, as a whole, lacks the au- thority of inherent power; and each of its widely-scattered Colonies and Dependencies is individually less capable of withstanding the aggres- sion of its neighbors than is Great Britain. • The l/nited States. This brings us to the United States of America, and in the light of the foregoing it will, I think, be realized that the hope of a peaceful World Association of Nations de- pends upon the willingness . of our Great Country to assume the role, and upon the willingness of a suffi- cient number of White Nations to accept, the United States as the gravitational nucleus of World Fed- eration. The United States does possess those necessary qualifications shown to be lacked by Continental Europe, by Great Bi'itain, and by the British Empire. Unlike Contineneal Europe, the United States has, during the past hundred years, not only shown its capability for federation, but has, in fact, progressed by leaps and bounds under federal government leadership. During the same period the com- ponent nations of the United States have lived in complete amity and peaceful co-operation. I say, in complete amity, because we may eliminate the Civil War as being only a violent purification of the body-politic — a social surgical excision of the inherently foreign institution of chattel slavery, an in- stitution antithetical to the country's social life-principle. . Unlike the world-scattered British Empire, the United States is uniquely continental with a magnitude of area, of fertility, of diversiflsd n.it- 8 FEDERATION OF NATIONS ural resources, and of man-power that, combined, render it absolutely immune from successful foreign aggression. The United States is completely self-sufficing and contains a White population much greater than the whole British Empire, a population drawn from the most energetic and verile European national stocks. It also has the prestige of national federative accomplishment, and in addition it possesses the all-impor- tant inherent power necessary to authority. Co-operation or Chaos. No thoughtful observer of current happenings can fail to be impressed with the ominous conditions of European affairs. Indeed, many of the leaders of thought, over there are convinced that Europe is doomed to utter social disintegration; and that means literally going back to the most primitive condition of things with the disappearance of all forms of law and social restraint. If Europe goes, the dominance and leadership of the White Race goes. It is futile to" imagine that by any direct "help", financial or other, we can stay or reverse the disintegra- tion process that culminated in the World War, for it is the natural result of a millennium of social irrationability. The only course of safety visible (and that, I fear, is a forlorn hope), is along the lines herein pointed out: It means for us to be adamant to any and every suggestion looking towards entangling our country in the social morass of Europe's ages- old national criminality — its suicidal national hatreds — as would have been our fate had we become party to the League of Nations; It means also, however, that our Great Country shall not stand aloof, and from the cowardly van- tage of relative safety calmly watch the downfall of Europe; but, on the contrary, that we shall courageously and impartially offer the helping hand of friendship, of co-operation, of federation; It means — in all selfless honesty, impartial justice, and righteous In- tent — to invite the nations to join with us, in conformity with our standard of Industrial Democracy and in ac- cordance with the cultural status of each, in — World Federation. Fernwald, Berkeley, California. November 18, 1922. NATIONAL, HONESTY JUSTICE RIGHTEOUS INTENT CONSTITUTIONAL INDUSTRIAL DEMOCRACY WORLD FEDERATION PEACE United World Capitol By William Henry Smyth THE PANAMA ZONE. THE CAXAL ZONE is the strip of land extending- five miles on either side of the axis of the Canal. It has an area foar hundred and forty square miles, including land and water. Panama is a country of continuous summer. In the rainy season the days are much like those of June in the State of New York. In the dry season they are much like those of early September in the same section. The dry season begins about Christmas and lasts until about the middle of April, corresponding- to the severest part of winter in the United States; the rest of the year is called the rainy season. It usually rains not more than one or two hours during any one day, or roughly, about one- tAventieth of the time. . . The lowest recorded temperature is 59 degrees and the highest 97 degrees Fahrenheit. The daily range of temperature is about 8 degrees on the Atlantic and 16 degrees on the Pacific Coast. The health conditions are excellent, and are maintained by the constant effoi:ts of American sanitary forces. . . The scenery is varied and very attractive. Mountains running up to 3,000 feet in height extend in broken ranges all over the Isthmus and are covered with tropical verdure. Gatun Lake (formed by the Gatun dam, probably the largest artificial fresh- water lake in the world, having an area of 164 square miles) is rimmed about by these mountains, is studded with beautiful Islands, as is also the Bay of Panama on the Pacific side. The Pacific end of the Canal is east of the Atlantic, as the Canal runs from northwest to southeast in crossing the Istlimus. The sun may be seen rising from the Pacific and setting in the Atlantic. The 1,000-foot dry dock, with adjacent repair shops at Balboa, is an Important assistance to shipping throughout the American tropics as well as a base for repairs for vessels of the Navy. — (World Almanac and Encyclopedia.) r. S.-PANAMA TO FORM AGREEMENT. WASHINGTON, Nov. 4.— (By Public Ledger Co.)— Negotiations be- tween the United States and Panama looking to the drafting of a treaty to take the place of the so-called tentative draft which the United States will ask Panama to accept. . . COMBINED FLEETS TO MANEUVER AT PANAMA. LOS ANGELES, Nov. '_"_».— The I'aclllc mid Atlantic tieets will sail Feb- ruary 17, 192;{, for their wiiifcr inaiifuxTs In I'anama Bay. — (News Item.) The Past Decade. jj.i^j ^ ggg^ told u.s that Ijefore this Had a modern motiier Siiipton short period expired, the greatest forptold in 1912 the marvelous hap- and most atrocious war of all time penings of the past decade ,we would would be fought between the most have laughed the prophet to utter civilized nations of Europe, helped scorn. out by two million tlghtlng men 10 FEDERATION OF NATIONS from the United States; had told us that Bolshevism (whatever this may mean) would rule the largest part of Eui-ope, rule two hundred millions of Eurasian peoples, and that the Empire of Germany and the Empire of Austria-Hungary would disappear from the map; had told us that the Turk would be driven out of Europe, and England rule the land of the Crusaders; had told us that men would safely travel through the air at twice the speed of the Civil War cannon-balls; that we would talk to each other around the World by wireless and listeji to broadcasted wot-ld-news while seated comfortably at our own firesides: I say, if ten years ago one should have seriously announced these things would hap- pen and be commonplaces of knowl- edge today, the utmost limit of in- credulous ridicule would not have satisfied our outraged common sense. New Ideas. In the light of this experience, the flux of scientific knowledge, and the world-wide revolutionary turbulence, it becomes us to be very cautious in discarding new ideas as visionary and "impractical"; indeed, it be- hooves us to be on the alert to con- sider all serious proposals for the betterment of humanity, seriously — on their merits — no matter how dis- turbing they may be to present con- ventions, or to our old-fashioned modes of thought. Calmly looked at in this manner, there is' nothing inherently shock- ing (except to the timid, on account of its magnitude) in the proposal of a World Federation based upon a world - extension of the United States constitutional ideal, along the lines indicated in my recent ar- ticles. Let us consider this proposal, then, as being in the realm of possibility, and examine in more detail some of its obvious aspects. Important Phases. The most important phases of the proposal are the geography of the Eastern and Western Hemisphere, the present and probable future distribution of the White Race, and a suitable location adapted to meet the practical requirements of a United World Capitol. While the first two factors are controlling, the third would probably provoke intense national feeling and hence be likely to prove a difficult matter to settle — lacking some na- ture-determined place of unques- tionable suitability. The Continents. The land area of the Western Hemisphere is approximately four times that of Europe and about the same relation to Australia. Its re- lation to Asia is as six is to seven, and to Africa as six is to five. These figures show that the Western Con- tinent is o- the same order of mag- nitude as the other continental di- visions of the world; but it embraces a larger area of food-producing fertile land and a greater variety of natural resources useful to indus- trial humanity than the other con- tinental land masses. Furthermore, its isolated position and its low den- sity of aboriginal population are added factors favorable to the White Race. Population. The population of the world is ap- proximately a billion and a half, of which the White Race constitute one-third. Of this 500,000,000, about one-third are in the Western Hemis- phere. And, owing to its natural wealth, and its low density of population, the ratio of increase must soon turn the numerical scales of White popu- lation in favor of this continent. Another significant matter is the fact that a past selective process has resulted in the upper continent be- FEDERATION OF NATIONS 11 ing racially north-European while the lower continent is more nearly representative of the south-Euro- pean racial stock, with a population ratio to each other of approximate- ly two to one in favor of the north- ern continent. Also, a glance at the map will show that the roughly wedge-like shape of these conti- nental land masses and their rela- tion to the equator make it prac- tically certain that the United States in the near future will be the home of a still larger relative number of the White Race. The Inevitable. From these considerations it seems clear that whether or not a rational unification is effected, the United States, within a few generations, must attain to an indisputable dom- inance of the White World. It therefore appears to be common- sense statesmanship to accept the inevitable, rather than permit this world-flow of White population to drift the European and American massed groups into an inter-racial war for World supremacy. "World Capitol. Assuming, then, that the intelli- gent course will be taken and that the nations of Europe and South America peacefully accept the inev- itable and in some form confederate with the United States, conformably to its constitutional ideal, it becomes a matter of very practical im- portance to determine the locution of a United World Capitol. To suggest for a World Capitol any United States center of popula- tion or of government would prob- ably evoke European antagonism, and reversely, insistence upon this .qeat of world-guidance being located in J!]uropf would most likoly engen- der on this .side a similar .spirit of opposition. World (Jcnfor. It w;iH earlier noted that the southern continent of the Western Hemisphere is representative of south-Europe in population, while the northern is similarly representa- tive of north-Europe. The Western Continents are iso- lated by thousands of miles of ocean barrier from the Occidental mael- strom of war, and by more thous- ands of miles from the overwhelm- ing human hordes of the Orient. Nor is this all: unlike the Ui'asian Continent and its diverse races, these two great land masses and diverse language groups of white nations are virtual. ' separated by the Isth- mus of Panama. This geographical isolation and the midway separation have great significance, pointing as these fac- tors do (with the inevitableness of Nature-made conditions), to a ra- tional solution of the problem that otherwise might prove a serious ob- stacle to the friendly selection of a location for a World Capitol. Panama Zone. It would almost seem as though the Occult Powers guiding human destiny had arranged the geographi- cal, climatic, and racial factors in anticipation of a White World Fed- eration — had provided a uniquely appropriate location for its Capitol. The Panama Zone is now the gate- way and guardian portals for the protection of the Atlantic and Pa- cific ocean high-ways, the North, South, East and West ocean cross- roads ol" the World. The Panama Zone is midway be- tween two great white-nation lan- guage groups; and a Hve-thousand- niile-radius circle would include four-fifths, of the "White World" and practically all of its groat manu- facturing and commercial centers of jiopulation — Uondon, Liverpool, Glas- gow, Antwerp, Amsterdam, Il.im- burg, Marseilles, Bordeaux, Lisbon, Cibraltar, Montreal, Halifax, Sitka, Vancouver, Now Vnrk, San Fran- 12 FEDERATION OF NATIONS Cisco, and takes in the wliole of South America. And besides being midway of the two Americas, the Panama Zone is midway between the British Suez Canal and the British Australian Colonies. The Panama Zone, with its Ocean- uniting Canal, represents the great- est physical and scientific accom- plishment of the Human Race — a monument to, and an inspirational object-lesson for, peaceful co-oper- ative federation. The Panama Zone — with its "con- tinuous Summer," its scenic beauty, its "mountains covered with tropi- cal verdure," and "great fresh- water lake rimmed by these moun- tains and studded with beautiful islands," as the United World Cap- itol, — could conceivably be the crowning glory, the zenith of human effort in the realm of the architec- tural and esthetic arts as now it is the apex of scientific and mechanis- tic accomplishment. The Panama Zone is not only located favorably from a commer- cial viewpoint, but, due to its pecu- liar isolation, its creographic and strategic factors — as the District of the World Capitol — it would be im- pregnable. Naval Limitation. Much fervently hopeful expecta- tion of world peace was raised by the Washington conference for the limitation of naval armament — only to be extinguished by the wet blanket of subsequent woiid-hap- penings. Here, however, is a pro- posal that carries the limitation idea, of naval and military armament lim- itation to its ultimate logical end, and this too without recourse to limitation provisions. Under the Federation idea out- lined, each component Nation would furnish its proportionate quota of naval armament to the World Police Navy — with headquarters in the Carribcan Sea. This Police Navy (though at a minimum cost to the component na- tions), would be far in excess of the fighting strength of any national navy. Indeed, so preponderating as to make a national navy obviously futile, and large military forces, worse than useless — a hungry na- tional menace. Thus, as time went by, the size of the Police Navy would naturally tend to an irreducible minimum so small as to be supportable at a quite negligible cost to the component na- tions of the World Federation. "Peace on Earth." Visionary? Yes! truly, but "impractical." No. It is on the contrary the acme of cpmmonsense; it is the present crazy order of things, with nations fighting against nations to no end but universal bankruptcy and social chaos, that it is which is truly im- practical. A Federation of free nations united by the practical idealism of the American Constitution, the An- glo-Saxon ideal of fair play, the prestige and authority of the White World — that, surely is a more practical bid for peace on earth, than any "diplomacy" concocted League of Nations. Visionary? Yes! truly . . . Still ... I wonder . . . 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