The Basis of a Durable Peace

level of such border towns as Geneva or Hague. Nor that the present war is a good illustration of how preparedness adds fuel to passions and makes conflict inevitable. Neither do I believe with Professor Patten that economics can be trusted to uphold universal peace and give it a better basis than martial ideals unless it be accompanied with a change in political organization. Neither do I agree with Professor Patten as to disastrous effects of some form of universal military training. On contrary, as an educator and as a believer in democracy, I am inclined to believe that a mild form of military training, which would be no more burdensome than Swiss system, would not only make for preservation of peace within our borders, but would make for democracy by uniting all Americans in at least one common interest, and would supply a certain obvious defect in moral training now furnished by our public school system. On other side, I am ready to go farther than Professor Patten probably would be willing to go, in favoring a revision of doctrine of sovereignty and yielding of right to make war to an international tribunal or a league to enforce

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