27 APRIL 1929, Page 1

News of the Week World-Peace and Home-Peace THERE -have never

been more important tokens of .peace abroad and at home than those of the past few days. Ffrat there was Mr. Hugh Gibson's address to the Preparatory CommissiOn of the Disarmament Confer- ence, and then, on Tuesday,"in spite of a preface of gloomy predictions, there was the agreement between. the em- ployers and the General Council of the Trades Union Con- gress to inquire into methods of co-operation in industry.

We must cultivate our garden "—the garden of peace.

It is "a:garden in which every conceivable type of food and fruit- and flower may be grown. If we get peace in the world' and among ourselves the money that is waiting to fructify in trade will be saved for that purpose unem- ploYment will dwindle; -emplOkers and employed will be colleagues instead of enemies ; and we may begin at last to' feel that among nations bent on making themselves masters of their own fate, world wars and domestic wars have riot, after all, beeri fought in vain: * * *