Towards an enduring peace : $b A symposium of peace proposals and programs 1914-1916
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Towards an enduring peace : $b A symposium of peace proposals and programs 1914-1916
Peace; World War, 1914-1918 -- Peace
The second suggestion for the production of world-wide like-mindedness is
that there be undertaken a world investigation into the natural resources
of the earth, and that a central world-conservation investigation
commission be created. At the present time the conservation movement is
organized on national rather than on world-wide lines, and the natural
result is to strengthen local rather than international sympathy. The
principle of scientific management would become much more effective if
adopted from a world standpoint. Moreover, there is no reason why the
results of a world-wide conservation investigation should not produce
recommendations that, through appeals to the peoples back of the national
governments, the governments themselves would be forced to heed. The
machinery for the conservation investigation might develop out of the
world consular service or become a part of the work of that service.
The third suggestion for the production of world-wide like-mindedness is
that there be established a central bureau of advice and information on
all “human betterment” projects. Thus far we have not advanced beyond
the point of developing national bureaus of commerce and labor, hygiene,
child welfare and other similar interests, and of holding “international
congresses.” A permanent world bureau would be far more systematic in
the dissemination of knowledge of successful experiments. It would also
tend to create world sympathy. With increasing prestige the bureau would
naturally extend its functions to those of recommendation and advice to
national and local governments.
The fourth suggestion is that there be established a permanent world
commission on international migration. At the present time problems of
migration, such, for example, as those of the Japanese and Chinese to the
United States, are settled by the nations primarily interested, without
recognition of the fact that migration is essentially a world problem
in which all humanity has an interest. The local problems of migration
that arise from time to time are but a part of an age-long movement of
population which is gradually producing an equilibrium between density of
population and natural resources in every part of the world. Movements
between two nations, however, will never be settled on reasons other than
local. A world commission would at least work toward a world-policy in
this possibly the most important of world-problems.
[Sidenote: World-publicity, and world monetary-systems.]
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