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Show Look Well to Essentials of Religion We must see to it that the few essentials 'of religion and ethics are related to all the activities of life and taught intensively to our children. Peace efforts have tailed tn far largely because they lacked this necessary foundation Power politics and force may halt aggression for e 1 time .but they cannot secure peace. Force begets force; peace must be achieved not compelled. To secure peace ust trust and respect one another, learn to hv together as good neighbors, and employ honesty in the makmg and keeping of contracts. Above all they must have , farfh m God and an active belief in the brotherhood of man and m the Golden Rule, without which they cannot hope .to over come their natural greed and intolerance and Practice of justice, charity, and forgiveness in t'elatl0nS with one another and as safeguards to life and jibe rty. All great religions include these simple es ial, in creeds, but, in spite of the good work of the urehesjtoes requirements are disregarded by a vast majority of mantond. Ml the churches and all suitable agencies of gov ernme and society should unite, therefore, to .see. Bshomd . observance of these fundamentals. In be organized into an international peace code to be meD by children and so impressed 1 upon therr the no schools, and churches that right behavior respon6 become automatic. The responsibility of the individual for the whole human life, the responsibly ot we each individual, is its distinct mark aj gl n en dividual feels himself enslaved and oppressea "lavement and oppression of his brethren he tee guilty of his brother's blood in evJSnselIss toil ; he that makes for poverty, ignorance, and vd?d8 on'the feels himself a traitor in the prosperity buQ that Prostrate bodies of citizens.a destroyer in toe iu feasts on the flesh of boys and girls, of men an |