The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-05-24
PLANS FOR PEACE
DR.. Nicholas Murray Butler
Makes an Announcement.
OF Work Laid Out for Carnegie
Endowment.
INTERNATIONAL COURT
To Be Established Before the
Next Hague Conference.
Organization to Operate in 3
Separate Divisions.

Mohonk Lake, N. " May 24-The
first announcement of the plan and
scope of the Carnegie endowment for
international peace with the appoint
ment of directors of two of the divisions
was made here today by DR.. Nicholas
Murray Butler in his address as pre-
siding officer of the Lake Mohonk con-
ference on international disarmament.
DR.. Butler also predicted. with auth
ortty," the establishment of the inter-
national court of arbitral justice be-
fore the time of the third Hague peace
conference. Butler said:
THE trustees Of the endowment have
taken a broad and statesmanlike view
of its aims and purposes. While they
do not overlook the value of the work
of the propaganda and intend to aid
in carrying it on, they believe that the
time has come when the resources of
modern scientific method and of modern
scholarship should be brought to bear
on the problem of international rela-
tions. They believe the leading jurists
and economists of the world should be
set at work in the service Of humanity
to ascertain just what have been and
are the legal and economic incidents
of war and just what are the legal and
economic advantages to follow on the
organization of the world into a single
group of friendly and cooperative ma
tions bound together by the tie of
judicial system resting on the moral
consciousness of mankind, from whose
findings there can be no successful ap-
peal. The plans of the trustees have
been formulated with these ends in
view.
"It has been determined by the trus-
tees of the Carnegie endowment to or
ganize the undertaking in three parts
or divisions-a division of international
law, a division OF economics and his
tory and a division of intercourse and
education.
"The division of International law
will be under the direction of Profess
will aim constantly to inculcate the
belief that intercourse between ma
tions should be based on correct and
definite idea of international Justice.
The endowment will associate with DR..
Scott a consultative board composed
of some of the most distinguished in
ternational lawyers in the world.
''The second division will be the di
vision of economics and history. 1t
will be under the direction of Profess
sor John Bates Clark of Columbia uni
versity. This division will aim at the
education of public opinion and at the
formulation of conclusions that may
serve for the guidance of governmental
policy.
"It will be- the business of this d.
vision to study the economic causes
and effects of war; the effect on the
public opinion of nations and on in
SOOQ Will, On T0IdllS1lOTys
discriminatory and preferential tariffs,
and the economic aspects of the pres
ent huge expenditures for military
purposes and the relation between
military expenditures and internation-
al well-being and the worldwide pro-
gram for social improvement and re-
form which is held in waiting through
lack of means for its execution
THE division of intercourse and
education, the director for which has
not yet been announced, will supple
ment the work of the two divisions,
bv carrying forward vigorously and in
educational work of the propaganda.
The international hospitality and pro-
motion of international friendship.
Among the tasks of this division will be
to diffuse information and to educate
public opinion regarding the causes,
nature and effects of war and the
means for its prevention and avoid
ance.'
Japan Wants to Come In.
Toxic, May 24-Japan, it was stated
in official circles today, is prepared To
participate in negotiations for a gem
eral treaty of arbitration with the
United States and is willing to submit
proposals for such an agreement If in
vited.
Government leaders are deeply inter-
ested in the tentative draft of the arbi-
tration proposal which the American
government submitted to, Great Britain
and France and it is regarded as thu
most able document on the subject OF
arbitration ever produced
The proposal meets with hearty ap-
proval here.