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This article presents sociological concepts published in different periodicals. If the existing tendencies toward peace can be organized as fully as the tendencies toward future wars are organized, the hardest task of this generation will be accomplished, writes C. Delisle Burns in the September-October 1924 issue of the "American Review." He sees three spheres of work, governmental policy, education, and labor organization, open to efforts of those who are trying to abolish war. In thus educating the world for peace the available moral leadership of the U.S. will have to be called out. With Canada and the other white parts of the British Empire, a cooperative scheme can be worked out that shall operate under principles, says W.B. Smith in a thoughtful paper from the November issue of the "Educational Review." The presence of more than a million drug addicts in the country has shown that this evil cannot be stamped out by forbidding the importation of narcotics, but only by restricting the cultivation of plants from which they are made.