The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-05-24
PEACE PROPAGANDA
SHOULD BE TAUGHT IN SCHOOLS
AND COLLEGES.


Lake Mohonk, N. Y. May 23.--Today's
session of the Lake Mohonk conference
on international arbitration was de-
voted exclusively to consideration Of
methods of spreading the propaganda
of peace by teaching pupils of the pub
lie schools and students of the colleges.
Addresses on this subject were deliv-
cred by Elmer e. Brown, United States
Commissioner of Education; Andrew 8.
Draper, Commissioner of Education of
New York State; President Charles #.
Thwing, of the Western Reserve Uni
versity; President Rush Rhees, of Ro-
chester University; Professor Joseph
H. Beale, Jr., of Harvard; Prof. w.
w. Willoughby. of Johns Hopkins Uni
yersity and Prof. Ebert Russell of
Earlham Collage. Richmond.
Commissioner Brown recommended
that the date OF the opening of the
first Hague Peace Conference, May Is.
be annually commemorated In the pub
lie schools. Commissioner Draper,
however. declared that it is not the
business of the schools to promote spe-
cial causes and that II the people of
the State want anything done in the
schools they will be likely to SO de-
clare in a law.
President Thwing said the colleges
promote arbitration by training men
IL
t., colleges should train their students
to anaIyze issues and to decide them
In d spirit of Justice. Professor Beale,
Professor Willoughby and Professor
Russell also emphasized the import
ancs Of teaching college students the
advantage of universal peace.
| President L. Clark Seelye reported.
on behalf of the special committee on
wo- k among colleges and universities,
~ fv inqtitnti0nS have
h. ID sr ecial meetings to promote in
ternational arbitration; two have
brought the subject forward In pub
lie and nine have established prizes.
all but one of them permanent, Tor
the best essays or debates on the sub
ject. One has established a special
course of lectures one chair OF
peace and public service two nave
formed intercollegiate peace associa-
lions and seven.y-five others have ia
ken action not included in any of the
above classes. -
AS to the attitude of Germany to-
wards the first and second Hague con-
ferences, DR.. Theo Barth, of Berlin,
gave his opinion to the Associated
Press today. He said; -
when the first Hague conference
took place, Germany on the whole wa
yery skeptical concerning the posi-
bility of success. The diplomats of the
old school prophesied the unfruitful
cases of such work. which was sc
against the old diplomatic traditions
and the friends of arbitration and
peace feared they might be right. The
result of the first Hague conference
was beyond the expectations of Ger
many and now Germans look with keen
interest to the second conference. II
| this second Hague conference would
solve only one important question OF
| international law. for instance the
question of inviolability of private
property at sea. then the prestige OF
| The Hague conference will increase
| particularly among the business lead
| ers, the influential men in commerce
| and industry and so the way will be
free for further progress in the d.
rection of arbitration and even of dis
armament l mean disarmament which
| is not forced as a compulsory move
ment but voluntarily. Germany sui.
| fers from the enormous ornaments just
as other European nations do. because
| 1t is an entirely peaceful nation. il
will see with great satisfaction the
| removal of any cause OF armament