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Focuses on the consultative pact proposed by Norman H. Davis, chairman of the U.S. Delegation at the General disarmament Conference in Geneva, Switzerland. Report that for nearly fifteen years a highly charged emotional morality has been directed toward supplying the world with what is called peace machinery, treaties and enforcing instruments designed, professedly, to prevent disturbance of the peace by collective intervention against the aggressor; Information on treaties of 1919; Report that the treaties is now promised reinforcement by the commitments of Davis in his speech; Report that to persuade certain heavily armed countries to diminish their armaments, to which they are already obligated by treaty, the United States undertakes to promise to support them in their future conflicts; Report that by threatening any challenger of the 1919 settlements with obloquy, outlawry and collective war, the results of the Treaty of Versailles and its analogues were given a professedly moral sanctification; Support to the peace structure in 1919 treaty; View that in the name of peace and righteousness, there is a whole school of thought which supports measures of force and hostility; Implications of the proposed consultative pact if adopted by the U.S. Senate; View that if the United States were ever so unwise as to abandon its general policy of neutrality in foreign, and particularly European, conflicts, it would risk its own extermination, as would any other nation that offers to abandon its privilege of minding its own business; Report that the American neutrality is the best hope for European appeasement and reconciliation; View that the Davis policy is a step in the direction of war and destruction, both for Europe and the U.S., and not a step in the direction of peace and progress.

Focuses on issues related to the outlawry of war. Report that anything interwoven as war is with tradition, national histories, politics, economics, diplomacy and education and it is obvious that it must be approached from many angles; View that the only intelligent strategy is that of coordinated division of labor, instead of mutual recrimination and attack which only strengthen and delight the forces that make the war; Reflections on an article related to outlawry of war by U.S. journalist Walter Lippmann in a previous issue; Thoughts on the Versailles Treaty and the League of Nations in context to the outlawry of war; Plan to outlaw war involves the abolition of all diplomatic methods; Civilization has invented, besides law and war, countless other methods of settling disputes; Proposition to outlaw war calls attention to the radical difference between the present status of international politics and the conduct of international politics when law is a public crime.

Focuses on a peace between China and Japan. Confusion caused by Japan's rapid moves that has kept public sentiment busily engaged with speculating about the meaning of each one separately; Impact of the Paris Pact on the war between China and Japan; Significance of the acceptance of outlawry in the Peace Pact of Paris by Japan; Discussion of the public's understanding of and belief in the Kellogg- Briand Pact; Impact of the Far Eastern embroilment on the Peace Pact.

Explains the pervasiveness of fear among the employees at J.P. Stevens & Co., a textile company based in Montgomery, Alabama. Reason for the fear of employees; Status of labor unions in the company; Public hearing held by U.S. legislators; Information that courts take a rather dim view of firms like Stevens, which has acted in contempt of court decrees not once but twice, involving over 30 individual violations.

Focuses on the peace plans of the U.S. Information on the prize peace plan offered by a social psychology student Edward Bok; Information on the six main plans designed to prevent war--covenant of the League of Nations on the international disputes, U.S. President Warren Harding's scheme of frequent international conferences, World Court idea of better codification of international law, Lord Robert Cecil's plan for continental guarantees; Proposal for disregard for the law and suggestion of a pacifist plan of refusal of cooperation in the enterprise in any way by the common people; Need for the cooperation of every element in the community, which hates war and believes a better way must be found.

The article provides information on the book "Kentucky's Famous Feuds and Tragedies," by Charles G. Mutzenberg. To the preparation of this "authentic history of the world-renowned vendettas of the Dark and Bloody Ground" the author was obviously moved by a missionary impulse. A loyal Kentuckian, convinced that the world at large had condemned his State without a fair hearing by holding it responsible for the misconduct of a single element in its population, he has essayed to relieve this judgment by looking up the actual records of a few of the most notable episodes in local outlawry, and substituting the proven or provable facts for the lurid romances with which the newspapers have too often been supplied.

Presents several letters to the editor, referencing articles and topics published in previous issues. Discussion of the outlawry of war, published in the July 09 issue; Information that the labor section of the Clayton Law, is formulated by U.S. politician John W. Davis; Features of the law to forbid abuse of injunctions in labor cases; View of reader that Davis may not have formulated the law; Comments of the U.S. Federal Trade Commission in the Pittsburgh Plus System, of protective tariff; Demand of American magazine in other countries; "The Promethean Challenge to Religion," by William Pepperell Montague, published in a previous issue.