Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-03-13
FOR WORLDS PEACE
Aims and Plans Of the Car
negie Endowment.
BACKED BY 100000
Propaganda of Amity to Bring About
Permanent Tribunal.
WILL BE COURT OF LAST RESORT
Police Authority Proposed to Compel
Acceptance of It's Decisions.
Secretary's Statement.
WILL BE COURT OF LAST RESORT

Announcement was made yesterday that
the Carnegie Peace Endowment, of which
Senator Root is president, will immedi-
ately authorize research based upon
scientific methods.
James Brown Scott. secretary of the
new institution, who made public the
plans prepared by Senator Root, said
the services of most eminent writer's.
thinkers and students of International law
and history would be obtained by the
peace promoters. who have a fund OF
$10.Gc0.eO at their disposal 1t is the
opinion of those fostering the movement
that the worldwide propaganda of peace
and it's arts will ultimately lead to the
establishment of a permanent tribunal.
whose decisions will be accepted by all
the nations of the world.
Suggestion by Peace Advocates.
Certain peace advocates believe that
the browning glory of the peace edif1ce
should be police authority attached to
the judicial authority that would compel
the acceptance of decisions of this tri-
bunal.
One of the first steps to be taken by
the board intrusted with the expenditure
of the ten-million dollar fund will be a
study Of the activities Of the many peace
societies in the United States and other
countries. With the knowledge thus gain
ed it will he possible to give assistance,
support and helpful guidance to the units
in the worldwide movement.
Aims and Purposes.
Mr.. Scott.s statement is in part as fol-
lows:
Our aims and purposes may be divided
into a threefold cIassitication-scien
International law and propaganda. We
shall begin modestly and shall try to
make very sure of our ground. Mistakes
of any magnitude at the beginning we
realize would be fatal, and it will be one
of our greatest cares not to plunge en-
thuSia stically or recklessly into the work.
For the present our headquarters will be
the Carnegie Research Institution. and
from there we will devote ourselves to
finding out just what work is being done
by peace societies. There is no need for
great haste, for our work is perpetual.
We have all time before us, and such
work we may be able to accomplish,
even at the outset. we shall try to make
enduring. This l know to be the attitude
OF Senator Root fnd the members of the
THE bill of incorporation introduced in
the Senate by Senator Root and in the
among the leftovers of the hurried short
session. but will be reintroduced at the
coming session, and as there is no oppo-
sition to 1t, so far as we know, il prob
ably will pass early.
Nation by Nation.
'It is interesting to take the peace
movement nation by nation and to OBJ
serve the countries that already have
large membership in the societies. In the
United States the number Of the societies
is large: the membership OF some that l
know a good deal about runs up into the
thousands. and the workers are very
active. England has several very large
and important societies. In France, too,
the peace party is very much stronger
than is generally supposed. Italy has al
ways been a great believer in arbitration,
and there the peace societies are both
numerous and strong. In Germany peace
advocates are not conspicuous, nor in
South America do we find the cause
thriving. But it is by a thorough study
of the subject that we hope to be able to
tell definitely at the outset whether the
few adherents that are to be found in
some countries is the result of national
beliigerency or apathy.
Some have thought that the study of
history is a strange way to begin a peace
movement" continued Mr. Scott But If
history is of any use in pointing out to
us the successes and failures that have
been made in the past, both by ourselves
and other nations, a study of the origin
of the great wars of all nations, includ-
ing our own, should tell us how those
wars might have been averted. A study
of the causes OF war is regarded by the
leaders Of the peace movement as essen
tial to a right line of conduct in our
work.
Essentials of Educative Work.
The same is true of international law
for it is essential that the people of the
world should know what are their rights
and what their obligations. For it is
upon the question of rights that people
most often become belligerent If these
RIGHTS are not such as are universally