The Sentinel=record., 1911-05-04
COLLEGES AND
 RPEACE MOVEMENT
PRESIDENT OF WESTERN RE. SERVE UNIVERSITY SAYS TO
 MAKE MEN OF PEACE.
Education the Ultimate Solution o' Universal Peace-Peace Win Aid
 American Colleges.

BdltlInOfe, Hay D. OhdiASS : !. Thwing, president of the Western ke- serve Universisty, in addressing the Third National Peace Congress here tonight, compared sthe cost of build ing and maintaining the battleships of the nation with the cost of building and maintaining institutions of higher learning of the nation. The title of his address was The Peace. Movement and the American College and Uni yersity."
 Perhaps the greatest service which the American college or university can render to the cause of peaee,' he said 'lies in the prosaic process and triumphant result of making the thinker. For the man who thinks is the man who, by nature and instinct, is opposed to war. It is as true that the doors of academic halls are closed in time of war as it is true that the laws are silent among arms. The college man who thinks sees truth deeply; war makes it's primary appeal to the superficial love of glory, of pomp and of circumstance. The col lege man who thinks sees truth in long range and in far off horizons; war is emotional and the warrior filings the years into hours.
 The cause of peace can do much for the college and the university. The triumph of the cause would put gold into the academic chest and gold is the silent symbol of what the college stands for. To build bat tleship costs the endowment of a uni- versity and its annual maintance is larger than a university budget.
 The total cost of the battleship New Hampshire is less than two and half million dollars and the total amount of productive funds three millions. The cost of the battleship | Indiana was more than five millions | The total value of grounds and build ings of colleges and universities in Indiana is slightly more than seven million dollars The cost of the bat tleship Iowa was more than five mil lion dollars and the productive funds of all it's colleges and universities is also five millions
 The battleship Alabama cost more than four millions and the entire prop erty, real and personal of all univer- sities and colleges in that state is less than four millions. The battle ship Kansas cost more than seven millions. The value of the grounds and buildings of the colleges and uni versties of Kansas is less than six millions. The cost of the batt.eship Wisconsin was more than four mill lions. The whole value of all grounds and buildings of Wisconsin is slightly more than six millions
 Mir. Thwing showed that the an nual cost of maintaining a battleship ran from $74O,0O0 to s96O,O0O.
 ht HuHlbCA VI uHlN2ISilltS, ne said, whose annual budget exceeds these sums can be numbered on your fingers. When one takes into view the depreciation of am armored cruiser or battleship, it is safe to say that it cost more to maintain bat tleship for year than to maintain Yale College for al year and several times what 1t costs to maintain a col lege like Amherst or Williams" President Thwing said that the value of the grounds of 500 colleges and universities in this country was estimated at $670O0000. of the build. ings $2190O0,000 and the productive funds $260,0O0,000. The cost of 3S battleships which he named, was, he said, s236.551,43S. The cost of main. taining these during 1910 he said was in excess of $24,OO0,OOO. The entire income of all the colleges in the United States during 1909, was, he said, about s25.O00.O0O
 Tn other words" said he. when one takes into view the deprecation Of the battleship or armored cruiser the entire cost of the 3S batt,eships for single year is greater than the administration of the entire American system of higher education.
 The money which is thus wasted on naval armament would put the cause of the higher education of America upon a most efficient basis. ?
 NOTED BORSEMAN nEA0