Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 130, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 June 1911 — WAR LIKENED UNTO BASEBALL [ARTICLE]

WAR LIKENED UNTO BASEBALL

Baron d'Estoumelles de Constant Favors Umpires to Settle International Disputes. That disputes between nations should be settled by an umpire as dieputes between rival American baseball teams are settled, was th« keynote of an address delivered by Baron d’Bstouraelles de Constant, the French statesman, before the students of the University of Minnesota the other day. Baron de Constant spoke of tbs wastefulness and destructiveness of war. “You have your great American baseball," the baron said. "When you have troubles and disputes you do not start boxing with each other. Though sometimes they almost end in fights, self-control and discipline prevail and the matter is settled. Why not do the spine In war?”