The Washington herald., 1911-11-06

Of the children Of this republic the fu-
lure republic will be opposed to war"
DR.. Davidson was one of seven speak
ers who delivered ten-minute addresses
before the large audience which assem-
bled to attend the initial public meeting
OF the Washington Peace Society, which
was formed last spring, to join with more
than one hundred societies in the United
States in procuring universal peace.
After the invocation by DR.. S. H
Woodrow, United States Commissioner of
Education Philander P. ClaXton was in
troduced by Assistant Secretary of Agri-
culture Hays, president of the Washing
ton Peace Society, who presided. Mr.
Claxton said in part:
THE nineteenth and twentieth centuries
ultimately will be known for four great
movements, democracy, industrialism,
universal education, and international
peace. The people of one nation would
not war upon the people of another ma
ton If 1t were not for the leaders OF
the people. Industrialism, which builds
roads, ships, and houses that man may
be fed and sheltered, is opposed to war
Universal education, which gives the
people a broader understanding of the
relations between nations, is opposed to
war.
Education teaches man there are bet
ter ways to utilize money than in war
fare. 1t shows him he can get better
and cheaper food by irrigation. 1t teach
es him to fight tuberculosis rather than
to fight his fellow-man.
WouId Divert War Funds.
with the money that the United States
is spending on the army and navy each
year we could establish a great national
university with an annual income of
$S,0O0,O0O for its maintenance; new State
universities in each State, with an in
come of $1,oO0,OOO each; 100 new public
schools in each State five normal schools
In each state, five technical schools, ten
agricultural schools, all with an income
suncient to properly meet maintenance
expenses and we would have left S1OOO.-
900 to donate to each State to devote to
that States general school fund"
Director John Barrett, of the Pan
American Union, said: There has been
much warfare between the Latin nations
in the western hemisphere, yet I have
found, after carefully reading the news
papers, magazines reviews. and other
current literature, of the most powerful
of our neighbOr nations on this continent
that the trend toward peace among them
Is greater than in Europe. The recent
trouble in Mexico was not revolU fon
as much as 1t was an evolution. When
two men know each other we'll they tare
less apt to fight. The same is true of
nations. The record of arbitratiohs
among the Latin nations on the western
hemisphere is long, and Chile and Ar
genttna even now are holding back from
war because they know popular sentl-
ment is against international conflict"
Tribute to Real Peacemakers.
Thomas Nelson Page read a paper on
war and peace, in which he briefly COM
ms Tn
paid a tribute to the army and navy OF
this country. Soldiers and sailors do
not make war he said They end it.
Politicians. cupidity, and selfshness be-
gin war. and then the rmy-and navy
is called upon to terminate the strife"
General Secretary William Knowles
Cooper, of the Y. NJ. c. A, said:
This question of peace is really
young mans question, for ii is the |
young men who must go to war who |
must fight the battles who must see the |
pain of mothers wives. sweethearts and |
daughters. But to-day We are reckoning
with a new type of young mana young
man who is the product of the best
school system known to the world, and
who, therefore. is turning his face to-
ward peace. The young man of to-day
does not look toward the army or navy
as the field of his life's work, for he has
discovered that the greatest heroism is
the herOism of peace
Chief o. P. Austin, of the Bureau of
Statistics, Department of Commerce and
Labor, spoke of the relation of commerce
to peace, and showed how commerce is
opposed to warfare. DR.. Benjamin F.
Trueblood,, . secretary of the American
Peace Society, in the closing address
reviewed the growth of the peace move
ment and told of the arbitration treaties
with Great Britain and France. which
he termed the most important of the
many questions to be considered by the
Senate at the next session of Congress.