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In the plan for the abolition of war, you observed how coordination of effort between three of the great organized powers of the world-the schools, the churches, and the press-might serve to force universal peace.

Never before in the history of the world had so much power been concentrated in one group of men as that which was created through the organized if.fort of the allied armies. One of the most outstanding and significant facts to be found in the analysis of these armies is that they were made up of the most cosmopolitan group of soldiers ever assembled. Every race and religion was represented.

If they had any differences on account of race or creed, they laid them aside and subordinated them to the cause for which they were fighting. Under the stress of war, that great mass of humanity was reduced to a common level where they fought shoulder to shoulder, side by side, without asking any questions as to one another's racial or religious beliefs.

If they could lay aside intolerance long enough to fight for their lives over there, why can we not do the same while we fight for a higher standard of ethics in business and finance and industry over here? Is it only when civilized people are fighting for their lives that they have the foresight to put aside intolerance and cooperate in the furtherance of a common end?

If it were advantageous to the allied armies to think and act as one thoroughly coordinated body, would it be less advantageous for the people of a city or a community or an industry to do so?

If all the churches, schools, newspapers, clubs, and civic organizations of your city allied themselves for the furtherance of a common cause, do you not see how such an alliance would create sufficient power to ensure the success of that cause?

Bring the idea still nearer your own interests by imagining in your own city an alliance between all the employers and all the employees for the purpose of reducing friction and misunderstandings, thereby enabling them to render better service at a lower cost to the public and greater profit to themselves.

We learned from the world war that we cannot destroy a part without weakening the whole; that when one nation or group of people is reduced to poverty and want, the rest of the world suffers as well. As we also learned, Cooperation and Tolerance are the very foundation of enduring success.

Surely the more thoughtful and observant among us will not fail to profit, as individuals, by these great lessons.

I HAVE SEEN GROSS INTOLERANCE SHOWN IN SUPPORT OF TOLERANCE. 
-Samuel Taylor Coleridge

IF WE COULD READ THE SECRET HISTORY OF OUR ENEMIES, WE SHOULD FIND IN EACH MAN'S LIFE SORROW AND SUFFERING ENOUGH TO DISARM ALL HOSTILITY.
-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 

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