Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-12-14
PHiLANTHRoPIsT TENDERS So.
100000 TO BE USED IN CAUSE
OF HUMANITY.
CREATES BOARD OF TRUSTEES
TO HANDLE INCOME
Revenues Of . Half Million Per Year
TO es Devoted to Promoting World.
Wide Psaee-Totai Of esnefaetions
About o.ooo-ssnator Root Heads
Trustees.

tees which he has named $4,000, 900 Of
S per cent first mortgage bonds, of
present value Of $11.500,O 900, the revenue
Of which will be used to Hasten the
abolition Of international war" and es-
tablish lasting world peace.
These trustees organized by choosing
as president Senator Root. permanent
representative of the United States at
The Hague tribunal. President Taft
has consented to be honorary president
OF the foundation.
The method by which the income Of
a half million dollars will be expended
Is left entirely in the hands Of the trus-
tees. The foundation is to be perpes-
ual, and when the establishment Of uni
versal peace is attained the donor pro-
vides the revenue shall be devoted to
the banishment Of the next most de-
grading evil Of evils" the suppression
of which would most advance the pro-
gress, elevation and happiness Of men,"
List Of Trustees.
The trustees are:
Senator Root.
versity.
President Pritchett. Of the Carnegie
foundation for the Advancement Of
teaching.
Joseph H. Choate, ex-ambassador to
Great Britain.
Albert K. Smiley. Of Lake Mohonk.
educator and humanitarian.
DR.. Elliot, president emeritus Of Har-
ward University.
James Brown Scott, solicitor Of the
state department.
John w. Foster. ex-secretary Of state
Andrew ]. Montague, ex-governor Of
Virginia.
william NJ. Howard. congressman,
Lexington Ga.
: Judge Thomas Burke, Seattle, Wasn.
James L. Slayden. congressman, San
Antonio, Tex.
Andrew D. White, exam bassado- to
Germany.
Robert s. Brookinss, lawyer. st.
Louis.
Samuel Mather. steel manufacturer.
Cleveland, o.
]. G. Schmidlapp, railroad man, Gin
cinnati. o.
Arthur William Foster, regent Of the
University Of California, San Fran
cisco.
r. A. Franks, banker. Hoboken. n. ].
Charlemagne Tower, ex-ambassador
to Germany and Russia
Oscar Straus, ambassador to Tur-
key.
Austen G. Fox, lawyer, New York.
John L. Cadwalader, lawyer. New
York.
John Sharp Williams, senator-elect
from Mississippi
c. L. Taylor, Pittsburg. chairman Of
the Carnegie hero fund commission.
George w. Perkins, New York. a
nancier and philanthropist.
Robert S. Woodward, Of Washington.
and Cleveland HI. Dodge, Of New York.
president and secretary respectively Of
the Carnegie Institution Of Washington.
Trustees in Full Control.
The income Of this $4,000. 900, which
will amount to at least $500, 900 a year
under the terms Of the gift will be de-
voted to the furtherance Of peace pro-
jects the world over The board Of
trustees. 1t is understood. will be en-
dowed with wide discretion by the DON
or and will be at liberty to use the
funds in the furtherance Of any move
ment they may deem advisable and in
WIFI Iue general purpose Ol
the gift.
The Carnegie gift. according to the
plans Of the donor. will open a way for
a scientific study Of the causes Of war
and for an examination in a way :hat
never has been undertaken before Of
other questions that may tend to pro-
mote peace.
Nay Support Knox Plan.
The trustees Of the fund will be able,
II they so desire. to assist Secretary
Knox in the promulgation OF his plan
for an arbitral court Of Justice. tho ac-
ceptance Of which by all the powers
will give tho world an international ju-
dicial body to Judge in cases arising in
peace as well as controversies incident
to war. Mr.. Carnegie has been much
interested in this movement and II the
trustees Of the fund follow his wishes
they will take It up a. one OF the frst
things to which they may lend their as
sistance. Several Of tho powers have
already sent encouraging replies to
Secretary Knox on this proposition.
Another pending proposition is the
commission authorized at tho last ses-
sion Of congress- to consider the aues-
ton Of limiting tho a1maments Of tho
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