The Farmville herald. [volume] (Farmville, Va.) 1890-1934, 1910-12-23
CARNEGIE BIG
FUND FOR PEACE
Gives SIO,OOO,OOO For Per-
petuaI Trust
ROOT At HEAD OF BOARD

Income to Be Used to Hasten the
Abolition Of War''-After That the
Next Most Degrading Evil" to Be
Attacked.
Andrew Carnegie has announced MS
gift Of S10.000,OOO for the promotion OF
international peace.
The announcement was made at
meeting in Washington Of twenty-five
of the twenty-seven trustees who have
been selected to handle the fund. The
scope OF the gilt is wide. The trustees
are left practically unhampered to de-
vote the income, which viii amount 10
100000 a year, in the interest OIL
worldwide peace.
Lines of future action says Mt
Carnegie. cannot be wisely laid down.
Many may have to be tried, and. nav.
ing full confidence in my trustees /
leave to them the widest discretion as
to the measures and policy they sha'l
from time to time adopt, only promis-
ing that the one end they shall Keep
increasingly in mind until it is attain
ed is the speedy abolition OF interna-
tional war between so-called civilized
nations"
Mr. Carnegie's ten million gift is de-
signed as much for the continuance
of The peace movement after he Is
gone as it is for its promotion now
He says:
"When civilized nations enter into
such treaties as named and war Is dls
carded as disgraceful TO civilized men
as personal war Cduelling) and mar
selling and buying (sIavery) have beer
discarded within the wide boundaries
Of our English speaking race, the trus
fees will please then consider what II
the next most degrading reman'nl
evil or evils whose banishment-o
what new elevating element or eie
mcnts If introduced or fosteled OF BOT
combined-would most advance th
progress. elevation and happiness o
man. and so on from century 10 eel
tury without end. my trustees OF eac
ace shall determine how they can be.
aid man in his upward march to higne
and HIGHER stages Of development M
ceasinglv. for now we know that ma
was created. not with an instinct 10
J his own degradation but imbuel wit
the desire and power for improve
ment to which. perchance, there ma
be no limit short Of perfection eve
here in this life on earth.
let my trustees therefore as
themselves from time to time, fro
age to age how they can best he
2 man in his glorious ascent onward al
/ inward and to this end devote tn
2 fund"
The trustees Of the fund are: I'm
D ed states Senator Elihu Root, .
Nicholas Murray Butler, president
2 Columbia university; DR.. Henry
Pritchett. president Of the Carneg
Foundation for the Advancement
& Teaching: Joseph H. Choate. form
. ambassador to Great Britain; Abe
K Smiley. Lake Mohonk educator al
q humanitarian: Dr. Charles w El'
& president emeritus Of Harvard unive
b sity: James Brown Scott, solicitor
the state department; John w Fost'
former secretary OF state. Andrew
7 Montague. former governor OF v
I ginia; william NJ Howard, congre'
| nan. of Georgia; Judge Thorn
] Burke. Seattle, Wash; James J.. Sla
! den. congressman, Of Texas. Anir,
( d White. former ambassador to G'
( many; Robert 5. Brookiugs, lawy'
J St. Louis. Samuel Mather bank
! steel manufacturer. Cleveland J.
| Schmidlapp. railroad man, Cincinnai
| Arthur William Foster. regent Univ
] sity of California; r. A. Franks, ban
! er. Hobohen, y. j. Car emag
( Tower former ambassador 10 Germa
I and Russia; Oscar Suaus ambass d
10 Turkey; Austen G Fox. New Yor
! John u Calwalader New York Jo
I Sharp Williams. senatorelect frl
I Mississippi, C. l.. Taylor, chairman
! the Carnegie Hero COmmissio
! George w. Perkins Of New Yor
I Cleveland H. Dodge and Robert
1 Woodward