But for a few communities in the world that individual club has become a national armory, with human energies perfecting the most destructive machinery of warfare, that aggression may be carried on against neighbors, and territory expanded for purposes of national government and the increment of national wealth.
The twentieth century has been distinguished by a call to the humanities; a summons to a larger brotherhood.

This has been the meaning of the clashes of the classes within all growing nations--Germany, Russia, the United States.

All that outcry of humanity against mere commercialism, against the mere financial exploitation of man and his labor, in this age takes on a larger meaning.
In great wars material things go back; but the man goes to the front; and the victorious survivors make a newer and broader human creation--a new world with a new spirit.
The world has been seeking a solution of many social problems.

They instantly disappear as dissolved in the hot cauldron of war.

In the settlement of peace following, they are found precipitated in the fired solution, refined, clarified,--"settled." To-day all social problems are merged in the greater problem of national existence.