The investigational method has proved of such demonstrated worth in all-American situations--whether of civic conditions or strikes--that its application to the peace movement will be watched with interest. The reference is of course to the appointment by the International Peace Endowment, through Nicholas Murray Butler, president of Columbia University, acting director of the endowment, of an international commission of inquiry into the Balkan war. The first move toward this is said to have come from Bulgarians who in consequence of attacks on them by the Greek and Servian press demanded a public inquiry into the extent and responsibility for atrocities committed during the war. The New York _Evening Post_ calls the proposed work of the commission a “diagnosis of war,” and congratulates the peace movement on the greatest opportunity that has been presented it to win the world’s serious attention to the nature and implications of war. The topics of investigation include the responsibility for the outbreak of war, the economic waste caused by it and the truth about the outrages committed by non-combatants. Of these, the last appeals most strongly to the popular imagination, but the first, the responsible cause, is, in the opinion of the _Post_, the most fundamental. The main point of attack on war by peace advocates says the _Post_ “lies in the direction of ascertaining who or what is responsible for war. Is it being fought for a worthy cause, or is it being fought because certain leaders or certain interests desire war? It makes all the difference in the world whether the mangled bodies on the hillsides in Thrace and Macedonia are the price paid for the liberation of the Balkans from Turkish misrule, or whether those dead bodies and shattered limbs are incidents in the ambitions of a king or a commander-in-chief, and a testimonial to the skill of travelling salesmen from the gun factories at Essen and Creusot.” [Illustration: _Cesare in New York Sun._ THE WORLD IS OVERCROWDED AND OVERARMED.--_London Economist._] A list of names has been suggested as members of the commission, but the final make-up will not be known until the meeting to discuss the work of the commission which is to be held soon in Paris. The proposed membership includes: Prof. John D. Prince, of Columbia University, representing the United States. Francis W. Hirst, editor of the _London Economist_, representing Great Britain. Baron d’Estournelles de Constant, senator and president of the French parliamentary group favoring international arbitration, representing France. Prof. Philipp Zorn, of Bonn University, representing Germany. Prof. Paul N. Milukoff, editor and leader of the Constitutional-Democrats in the Russian Duma, representing Russia. Prof. Heinrich Lammasch, of the University of Vienna, well known as a jurist, representing Austria-Hungary. =PEACE IN WEST VIRGINIA=