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Show AMERICAS' DAY HAS COME, SAYS COLLEGE HEAD The "Age of the Americas" has come, and the world's intellectual, economic and political center has at last followed Christopher Columbus Colum-bus across the Atlantic. According to President Nicholas Murray Butler But-ler of Columbia university and the Carnegie Endowment for International Interna-tional Peace, the nations of the New world are now ready to accept world leadership. In his annual address delivered at the Parrish Memorial Art museum in Southampton, Long Island, Mr. Butlor showed how the new "age" has come about and described the task which confronts the Americas as a whole, and, in particular, the United States. It has taken the 450 years since their discovery by Columbus, Colum-bus, he said, for the new lands to "htlild the foundation upon which their present day civilization civiliza-tion rests, to face the new problems prob-lems of government and of economic eco-nomic life which dominate this modern world and to prepare themselves, unexpectedly no doubt, to take the world leadership leader-ship which is now being practically prac-tically forced upon them." While the colonics which were the beginning of the United States were growing into a nation, our neighbors to the north and south were seeing a similar development. Many factors, fac-tors, such as geographical, political and cultural differences, have slowed up the coming of the "Age of the Americas," but the decline of the influence of Western Europe since the end of the Victorian period pe-riod has made its coming inevitable. inevita-ble. The Modern Age has had its day of usefulness and is ready to follow the Middle Ages into history. New World Order. When, at the close of the 19th century, it became evident that some new world order was necessary neces-sary and that Europe was in no position po-sition to take the initiative, far-sighted far-sighted thinkers in the United States realized that we must help to prevent pre-vent a continuance of international jealousy and intense competition for power lest the world be plunged into a widespread and destructive war. That war has come, and the fate of the independent nations created by the passing Modern Age rocks in the balance. Whether or not they will continue to exist as independent economic and political units is a question to be answered by the outcome out-come of the present colossal military mili-tary struggle. The ambition to control the world, Mr. Butler continued, is not a new one. But even Napoleon Bonaparte realized that something besides mere domination was necessary to unite the nations of Europe. Napoleon Napo-leon wrote, "Sooner or later this union un-ion will be brought about by the force of events. The first impetus has been given; and after the fall of my system it seems to me that the only way in which an equilibrium equilibri-um can be achieved in Europe is through a league of nations." Those who are to have the opportunity oppor-tunity and privilege of taking part in organizing the world of tomorrow, tomor-row, said Mr. Butler, should read "The Federalist," a collection of essays es-says by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison and John Jay. There they will find an expression of the underlying under-lying forces which gave vitality to the federal principle upon which our government is based. The beginning of the American Ameri-can republic, he said, and the laying of its foundations remain the "outstanding happenings in the history of the modern world." While the organization and government of nearly all other nations have grown up slowly, the government of the United States was "called into being by the stroke of a pen." Persuasive Leader. Today we need most of all the services of another person with Alexander Al-exander Hamilton's intellectual power, persuasive leadership and practical sagacity as a counselor and administrator. Without an Alexander Alexan-der Hamilton the Constitution of the United States could have been neither drafted nor adopted. The Hamilton of tomorrow need not be a man in high public office. (Disraeli (Dis-raeli said that "the most powerful men are not public men.") But he will be a personality with the power to lead. In conclusion, Mr. Butler expressed ex-pressed the opinion that the American Ameri-can nation may be justly described as "a laboratory experiment in understanding un-derstanding and in solving the world problems of tomorrow." Political relationships and under-. under-. lying principles of organization repeat re-peat themselves. The problem of the fair representation of small states like Rhode Island and Delaware Dela-ware is the problem of small nations na-tions like Switzerland and the Netherlands. |