Show THE WORLD COURT by I 1 LEONARD A BARRETT J the entire nation anxiously awaited the recent decision of congress on the entrance of the united states into the world court the issue was fought vigorously by both sides those who favored the court felt that every possible sup port should b e given the president in his endeavor to achieve intern atlon al peace praise worthy as this ob eject may have been a still larger num ber her of persons were thoroughly con vinced that though the world court was a very important factor in achlen ing the president presidents s goal it was charged with dynamite this group advocated the theory that membership in the court would place our country in dan ger of entangling alliances with tor for eign powers this was believed to be destructive of our liberty and would compel our subjection to the will of the majority of representatives in the court who would vote in favor of the european powers an appeal was made to uphold the theory of wash ington that we avoid all alliances with countries beyond our borders it Is not the purpose of this article to discuss the merits pro or con of the world court but rather to em the basic fact that internal lional peace in the final analysis Is a matter of international good will we advocate the theory that no amount of legislation can ever make a man good his goodness arises from the will to be good As an illustration the depression which Is still upon us will not be removed until confidence has been restored As long as conal dence which Is practically the spirit of good will is an absent factor in our international relations peace Is an ut ter impossibility the problem Is fundamentally a moral one and must be thought out and settled upon a moral basis the only authorized system of moral principles which have been tested by history is the christian code when we shall have accomplished the restora tion of confidence and the spirit of good will we need have no tear fear of world courts in fact we may not even need them 0 western newspaper union |