COPS or CORPSES ?

The question above is addressed at you .... from the cover of a very frank, easily digested book by Channing L. Bete '29, a public relations counsel from Greenfield, Mass. Will it be World Law enforced by global police or World War? He presents the case for World Government most directly and graphically in a paper bound book which was born out of a spring cold, Cord Meyer's best seller, and a good advertising head.

Last spring Mr. Bete, who started an advertising agency in 1935 and got into public relations from there, was appeasing a cold and reading Cord Meyer Jr.'s Peaceor Anarchy. He wondered if there wasn't some way to tell the gist of the need for world law in a few words. When his friends saw his straightforward sketches and notes, they urged him to see a publisher. Bete felt a 3rd World War so close he dispensed with such formalities, rushed his rough manuscript to a printer, and ordered 1,000 copies himself.

World federation as the only commonsense cure for anarchy among nations has been a deep conviction of Bete's since 1939 when he read a N. Y. Times review of Union Now by Clarence Streit. To hear the author of Cops or Corpses tell it, "I used to go around making poor speeches on the subject at local service clubs until they stopped asking me."

If his speeches didn't make a dent on the public mind, it will be the rare reader who can turn away from the argument he has presented in his yet unpublished book without some understanding of the need for outlawing war. To illustrate the price of peace, Bete's nimble pencil has outlined several workmen chipping a small piece of national sovereignty from various blocks representing the countries. The resultant pile of pieces is a sound structure labelled world government. This same verbal and pictorial conciseness is maintained throughout the book, oftentimes with a single compelling phrase highlighted on a page.

Two ardent supporters of the Bete method of getting to the core of global matters are Ann Conant, the girl he married in 1930, and "Joey," their 12-year-old son.