New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-05-24
HOW TO TEACH PEACE.
OPINIONS OF EDUCATORS.
School and College instruction Dis
cuSsed at Lake M0h0nk.

Lake Mohonk. n Y. May 2S-To-day's session
OF the Lake MohonE Conference on International
Arbitration devoted exclusively 10 the con-
sideration OF methods Of spreading the propaganda
Of peace by teaching pupils OF the public schools
and students OF the colleges.
Addresses this subject were delivered by Ell
i. Brown United States Commissioner Of Edu-
cation; Andrew S Draper, Commissioner Of Edu-
cation of New York State: President Charles f.
Thw1ns Of Western Reserve University; President
Rush Rhees of Rochester University; Professor
Joseph i. Beale jr.. of Harvard; Professor w.
". Wiiloughby. OF Johns Hopkins University, and
Professor Ebert Russell. Of Earlham College,
Richmond. Ind.
Commissioner Brown recommended that the date
Of opening Of the first Hague Peace Conference,
May Is, be annually COMMUNICATED IN the public
schools. Commissioner Draper, however, declared
that il was not the business of the schools TO pro-
mote special causes and that If the people Of
the state wanted anything done in the schools
they would he likely TO declare IN a law
President Thwing said the colleges promoted
bitration 10y training in self-restraint. Pres-
dent Rhees said the colleges should train their
students 10 analyze issues and TO decide them in
spirit OF justice. Professors Beale, WilOushby and
Russell also emphasized the Importance Of teach
ing college students the advantages of universal
peace
Commissioner Draper said in part:
am not prepared 10 oppose all warfare. In my
opinion, the deliberate judgment Of enlightened
alternative has failed. But l do not agree to the
forces The ednca}ive influence Of it is bad. The
surplusage Of IT is exactly opposed to the only
legitimate purpose of IL.
i would seem that any general and efficient
scnenne Ior setIlhg international controversies
90 a permanent court OF such exalted character
examinations. ana % steadily augmenting code Of
conduct.
If we teach the elements OF knowledge and ex-
fit1fiona We s1aI o 1f e Gen6Ireo II we omit con-
arbitration. * n
the schools emphasize the triumphs Of strife 1her
II does not seem so to me. The literature used by
the schools is the best in the world infinitely more
choice than before. It is the literature Of
strife so much as Of peace work and culture.
President Thwing said that seIf-restraint and
conprehensveness OF intellectual vision and under
standing characteristics of the educated man.
These. he said. the colleges taught. He believed
the study OF history tended TO promote interna-
tional arbitration He said, IN conclusion:
An example OF these two qualities Of selfrestraint
9nd OF intellectual comprehensive is found IN
impetuosty The training given him at Brown by
him oalmness, Judiciousness. The same training
Of the same men opened his eyes to largest visions
The college therefore training IN sef-resraint
and in comprehensiveness. promotes our great
cause Of international arbitration.
AS TO the attitude of Germany toward the first
and second Hague conferences. Dr. Theodore
Barth. OF Berlin said to-day:
When the first Hague conference took place Ger
many. on the whole. was very skeptical concerning
old school prophesied the unfruitfulness of such
work, which against the old diplomatic
traditions and the friends Of arbitration and
feared they might be right The result of the first
Hague conference was beyond the expectations Of
Germany, and Germans look with keen in
terest TO the second Hague conference Germany
suffers from the enormous ornaments Just other
European nations do, and because # is entirely
peaceful nation IL viii with great satisfaction
The removal Of any cause OF armament.
To-nght's session of the conference was in charge
of the representatives of the various business
mems organizations IN attendance. Joel Cook.
president of the Philadelphia Board OF Trade the
chairman. spoke of the increasing interest taken
by business mems organizations all over the coun-
try In the cause OF international arbitration.
Other speakers were Justice David ]. Brewer OF
the United States Supreme Court; Bishop Leighton
Coleman, Wilmington Del) Board OF Trade; Dex-
ter Hunter, Jacksonville (Fla.) Board Of Trade;
James A Hart, Colorado Springs Chamber OF Com
inerce and Merchants Association: David p Jones'
ex-Mayor OF Minneapolis; J. c. ". Cowles, Cleve-
land Chamber Of Commerce; W. r. Castle, IT. Homo
lulu Chamber of Commerce; Elias Rogers Toronto
Board of Trade; A. w. Dickson, Scranton (Penn)
Board of Trade: S. B. Capen, Boston Chamber Of
Commerce, and Marcus n Marks New York
Chamber Of Commerce.