The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1910-12-14
OUTLINES Plan TO
ABOLISH WARS AND
GIVES 100000
Andrew Carnegie, in Trust Deed,
Calls Conflicts Between Nations
"Foulest Blot Upon Our
Civilization" IA
Senator Root, Joseph H. Choate and
DR.. Nicholas Murray Butler Are
Among Trustees.

WASHINGTON. Dec. 14.-Ten mil-
lion dollars in per cent bonds was
today formally turned over by An
drew Carnegie to new peace founda-
ton, the income from which Is To 60
toward the establishment OF tnternar
uonal peace.
President Taft will be the honorary
president of the foundation. while
Senator Elihu Root, permanent repre-
sentative OF the United States at Inc
Hague peace tribunal was chosen by
the trustees as the active president
The foundation is to be perpetual
and the method or disposing OF the
anticipated 100000 annual incomesls
left entirely to the trustees. Should
the purpose of the foundation ever
be achieved in full, the funds from
the foundation are to be used Tor tha
abolition OF 1.-The next most degrad-
ing evil or evils"
The distribution OF the 100000 .
year, which the $10,000,0OO will yield,
is left entirely in the hands OF the
trustees. IL was considered possible
today that the trustees would cooper
ate with Secretary of State Knox to
Although Carnegies gift was unex-
pected, 1t caused no great surprise
among the promoters OF the world
peace movement In Washington, as
in recent years he has shown an In
creasing interest in the work. II IL
known that he mas been putting aside
other activities to devote himself al
most wholly to the cause.
The complete list OF the
trustees of the fund are: Unit
ed States Senator Elihu Root, ex-sec-
rotary of state and ex-secretary OF
war; DR.. Nicholas Murray Butler,
New York, president Columbia uni
versity; DR.. Henry s. Pritchett, presi-
dent of the Carnegie Foundation for
the Advancement of Teaching; Jo-
seph II. Choate, lawyer, ex-ambassa-
dor to Great Britain; Albert X. Smil-
| ey Lake Mohonk, educator and hui
manitarian; DR.. Charles w. Eliot,
president emeritus of Harvard uni
versity; James Brown Scott, solicitor
of the state department.; John w.
Foster, lawyer, ex-secretary OF state;
Andrew j. Montague. lawyer, ex-goy-
ernor OF Virginia; William M. How
ard, lawyer, congressman. Lexington.
Ga; Judge Thomas Burke. Seattle,
Wash; James l.. Slayden, congress
man, San Antonio, Tex: Andrew ID.
White. ex-ambassador to Germany;
Robert s. Brookings, lawyer, st.
Louis: Samuel Mather, banker, steel
manufacturer Cleveland; j. q.
Schmidlapp. railroad man, Cincinnati;
Arthur William Foster regent UNI
versity of California, San Francisco:
ID Lob ~
j.; Charlemagne Tower. ex-ambassa-
dor TO Germany and Russia; Oscar
Strauss. ambassador TO Turkey; Aus
ten G.. Fox, lawyer, New York; John
l.. Cadwalader lawyer, New York:
John Sharp Williams, senator-elect
from Mississippi; G. L. Taylor, OF
Pittsburg, chairman of the Carnegie
hero fund commission. and George
W. Perkins, of New York, fnancier
and philanthropist
The informal trust deed presented
by Mr.. Carnegie TO the trustees to-
day, reads as follows:
Gentlemen have transferred
10 you as trustees of the Carnegie
peace fund, S10.000,000 OF per
cent first mortgage bonds. value
$ll 500, 900, the revenue OF which
is TO be administered by you to
hasten the abolition OF interna-
tional war, the foulest blot upon
our civilization.
Although we no longer eat our
J fellow-men nor torture prisoners,
nor sack cities. killing their in
habitants. we still xiii each other
I'm war like barbarians. Only wild
beasts are excusable for doing
that in this. the twentieth Gen.
tury OF the Christian era. for the
crime OF war is inherent, since Ii
decides not in favor OF the right,
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