Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-02-06

~ iu stockholm. is known 20 The
~ scientific world us thc inventor
of dynamite Os6D and the
exclamation ~ gun-cotton through
nitro-rlyoaHnr. Ho founded smohe'cs'
powder factories iu Sweden ana Ger
many and eun- foundnos Iu sweden nnd
Italy. and died boz 1896 600 SON Reno
leaving considerable fortune
but being by nature au idealist Doc
could not Tree himscif from The Thought
that nIs Inventions Dad served ucHliuD-
tive ends Th. win hc left bears WIt-
ness to the sincerity OFF thc man. hn
directed thlt thc yearly Income OBJ nIa
forum. Doc gIvon 1s rewards to mon
rendering tne most valuable services io
mankind In che domains ot literature.
science ono international peace.
There arc five prizes boo oll -Four of
them f1r achievements Ono literature
physics chemistry. and medicine. arc
awarded hy certain Swedish academies
A. stockholm; the nfth. Tor tho promo
eion of peace. by % committee of tne
Roruegi1u parliament at fnrHt.hhIH.
Tho prizes were awarded I0r the hrst
Hmo in 1901 and have boon announced
regularly every year on tne Inth "I
December the anniversary uf ODE tHH'l.
tors death Iu 1905 each prize was
s3lliG.
IL is quite remarkable that 20 man
whose business was inyeutIuE and
manufacturing Instruments of v1r
should have established prize Tor 900.
0.orTfas of paare. But tic very m.t
tb8t Nobel was practical enough tu turn
bfe Iry.rfit. v.niua into 3. mine million
dollar proGt frees him from lhe uccu-
s,ti,u .f brIur n moro visionary UH
simplv saw a little farther than his
own fImc
Tho advent of fHe KINGDOM of peace
ON oartb is "a matter af education. Any
same man today admits fnHt war is bar.
barfsm Ha e.ae the absurdity of
-rnpv patty eluaas flr war n thr past
and according aa international urbitrH.
zion .o1ros f1 fro foreground Doe win
SEQ tbe absur1ify of future wars also.
Tho ideaUst homes FOR the abolition
of war for purely humanitarian ro1-
SONS. tno uairr.alial secs chat u must
be abandoned on economical grounds.
-
MEl'iI7 f'it AWARD.
There is some misune.ers funding lA
sidsred I'M tbo aus.d.ue on tbe peace |
prizo n does not iupIv "a contest /
M is bestowed as ga rpg1euif.au of uu- |
selfish work Tor Che cause Of peace
In 1901 th. prize was divided equally 1
befvean Henri Dunauf. founder of The |
international R.d CROSS society Of Gc. /
nova. aud Frederic passy. founder OF /
the FIRST French peace association: Boo /
1902 between Ellie Ducommm. secretary .
~ fbo International uo1ce bureau at /
Hcfuc. and Albert Cobalt. chief of tho |
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ra4oo bureau nj /
Rerne. in 1909 bestowed ON William /
ilnndnu Cremcr. secretary " tho Inter
national Arbitration League at London.
I'M 1904 rlvcu to the Institute of Inter
national Right. a scientihc association
founded in lsI3 IN Ghent BeIsiumi ln
s,,tt,., snr ,,. iitar.,.,, ,.,,. i1 an.
i,,t,,...t ia H.. ,,,,.rg,. ,..sg, ,,,,y.
r,ent .epeciaii,. fo, hen. -,puitsristic
novel ,Tav Dou-n Ar,pa.n in zoos to |
T,r.si,lo,,t I,oo,.,..Ii fo, tl,o ,,.,,t l,, took
fn b,.inofnr tbr Rus-o- Tl,au,s. Ma. to
m ord. IN 1907 divided between lar.
nesto n Nfoncta nrssidont mi tbo rom-
hardy peacc union. and T,otis Renaulf
nrofessor "a international law at m.
Irnive,-sit,y Of Paris
PARTICULAR HlGNltICANNE.
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mic, CO., 1e0s t ,,t ,,ir ., irt.r.
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s,,s,,Itn,,.ia, .,igpitjrer.. vJbarGse h,
no prsredino eevou ,aars tbe rtfzo |
went IN foreiep lands tbe parlianent
~ Norvya, mis- limo ,li,idei I'M. boD-
mrs bot,,ccr X p ArroIde,n M so.o-
dom ana rredris Raisr' of DenrnarL
NJ ME tb. ,rtrrcIo,,, ,r Is 10 t,c
dao.,, M e,andina,,i5n prftga
Tbs Itatuor nnion r,ors tb,p evs
hundred voars. AGO was the vTsrI, M
princos So was mo rpior of N,rv.8,
ana SWEDEN in tSl4 AM tbs raIiov'-
shir IN M, rae, ta, ,f,,..,,,.. .gi.t.a t,
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