Show 4 6 REfERENDUM fiaLi Ow ON PEACE PLAN TO BE aThe HELD HEl The competition for the American Ameri Amen can cun Peace Award created by Edward Edward Edward Ed Ed- ward W. W Bok Dok and offering for the best practicable plan b by which the United States may oc- oc operate with th other nations to achieve and preserve the pence pe-nce of the time world closed on November No 15 at plans were re The Time Jur Jury of Award consisting of Elihu Root Hoot chairman General James Guthrie fe Harbored Colonel Edward M. M House Ellen F. F Pendleton Pendleton Pendleton Pendle- Pendle ton Roscoe Pound William Villiam Allen White an Brand Drand has been at work on the plans since the middle of October and is expected to have made its choice by January 1st The policy committee which has been administering the time Award now announces that during Janu January any ary ly it will present the time winning plan to the tho American people for their consideration and This This' ref referendum r e wi will l e econ conducted conducted con con- ducted 1 Th Through ough the dail daily and weekly press 2 Through the Cooperating Council of the American Peace Award A- A ward 3 3 Through Mayors Mayor's committees in man many communities i. i Through un universities and 11 li libraries of the countr country 5 Through local ocal organizations of all kinds Organizations whose combined membership total many millions have already alread agreed to submit a copy of the winning plan and a ballot to their members The Time press of ot the country covering covering covering cover cover- ing both the time dailies and weeklies I is generally cooperating with this attempt to secure from the time American Ameri Ameri- can people a wide expression of opinion on this vastly important subject Ian l Many papers which have havea a consistent policy of not carrying ballots o ot of an any kind have made the first exception in their history inthis In Inthis inthis this instance With so many agencies of such sucha a wide cooperating the time committee feels that the referendum referendum referendum dum should be he most effective However it emphasizes the need of securing not a great volume of ballots ballots ballots bal bal- lots representing the hasty unconsidered unconsidered unconsidered action of the time voters but the real opinion of or th the voters after they have carefully read the time plan or a luminous digest o of it This paper is cooperating with the time committee of the time A Award w rd in this matter and 13 will carr carry a COP copy of the time winning plan and a ballot upon which our readers may state whether t er or not they approve the time win winning ing plan In substance We Ve commend to our readers leaders this opportunity o perhaps the time first that has been offered to the time public to register their direct opinion opinion opinion ion upon what the time relation of the time United States should be he to any international In International international in- in action looking to toward ard the time prevention of war |