[Illustration: Sept. 1915 10 Cents The WORLD COURT Vol. 1 No. 2 The
World Court Movement by Hon. Theodore Marburg]
_The_
PENALTY OF
LEADERSHIP
In every field of human endeavor, he that is first must perpetually live
in the white light of publicity. ¶Whether the leadership be vested in a
man or in a manufactured product, emulation and envy are ever at work.
¶In art, in literature, in music, in industry, the reward and the
punishment are always the same. ¶The reward is widespread recognition;
the punishment, fierce denial and detraction. ¶When a man’s work becomes
a standard for the whole world, it also becomes a target for the shafts
of the envious few. ¶If his work be merely mediocre, he will be left
severely alone—if he achieve a masterpiece, it will set a million
tongues a wagging. ¶Jealousy does not protrude its forked tongue at the
artist who produces a commonplace painting. ¶Whatsoever you write, or
paint, or play, or sing, or build, no one will strive to surpass or to
slander you, unless your work be stamped with the seal of genius. ¶Long,
long, after a great work, or a good work has been done, those who are
disappointed or envious, continue to cry out that it can not be done.
¶Spiteful little voices in the domain of art were raised against our own
Whistler as a mountebank, long after the big world had acclaimed him its
greatest artistic genius. ¶Multitudes flocked to Bayreuth to worship at
the musical shrine of Wagner, while the little group of those whom he
had dethroned and displaced, argued angrily that he was no musician at
all. ¶The little world continued to protest that Fulton could never
build a steamboat, while the big world flocked to the river banks to see
his boat steam by. ¶The leader is assailed because he is a leader, and
the effort to equal him is merely added proof of that leadership.
¶Failing to equal or to excel, the follower seeks to depreciate and to
destroy—but only confirms once more the superiority of that which he
strives to supplant. ¶There is nothing new in this. ¶It is as old as the
world and as old as the human passions—envy, fear, greed, ambition, and
the desire to surpass. ¶And it all avails nothing. ¶If the leader truly
leads, he remains—the leader. ¶Master-poet, master-painter,
master-workman, each in his turn is assailed, and each holds his laurels
through the ages. ¶That which is good or great makes itself known, no
matter how loud the clamor of denial. ¶That which deserves to
live—lives.
_Copyright 1914, Cadillac Motor Car Co._
The World Court
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TABLE OF CONTENTS, SEPTEMBER, 1915
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WORLD COMMENT 59
THE UNITED STATES NOT A “TENDERFOOT”
MUTUAL OBLIGATION
GERMANY’S MATERIAL ADVANTAGE
A SLANDER OF BRAVE MEN
THOMAS A. EDISON DRAFTED
DR. DILLON ON THE FIRST PHASE OF THE WAR
A KINDLY VOICE FROM GERMANY
WAR—BUT NOT FAMINE
STRIKES IN WAR TIMES
AN INTERESTING FORECAST
PRESIDENT WILSON’S LAST GERMAN NOTE
“PEACE BY COMPULSION”
THE RED SEA, BY FRANCIS BOWLER PRATT
EDITORIALS 67
THE LAW OF NATIONS
THE WAR PATH OR THE WORLD STATE
CHINA AND JAPAN
ACTION VERSUS WORDS
ENGLAND AND THE DISINHERITED
THE UNCERTAINTY OF FUTURE EVENTS
THE DUTY OF THE HOUR
THE ARISTOCRACY OF LABOR
THE WORLD COURT MOVEMENT _By Hon. Theodore Marburg_ 73
THE WAR’S POSSIBLE DURATION _By George K. Shaw_ 79
THE COMPOSITION OF THE WORLD COURT _By Emerson McMillin_ 81
THE MINIMUM NUMBER _By Harry A. Garfield_ 83
THE BREAKDOWN OF “CULTURE” AS A
REDEMPTIVE FORCE 86
THE CHURCH AS A FACTOR IN RACIAL _By Rev. Sidney L. Gulick_
RELATIONS 88
POSSIBILITIES AND LIMITATIONS OF A WORLD _By William Dudley Foulke_
COURT 90
THE BUSINESS MAN IN POLITICS _By John Hays Hammond_ 94
PEACE BY COMPULSION _By James Brown Scott_ 97
THE MILITARIST _By John Edward Oster_ 98
A PEACE SUGGESTION 100
THE INFORMATION DESK 103