El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1911-05-04
holding them to a strict respect for

holding them to a strict respect for
the obligations of international law
The recent noisy and unjustified de-
mand for intervention, by our govern
ment in the internal affairs Of Mexico
is a case in point. The government OF
Mexico is not the government that Wa
would like But it is the sort of govern
ment that the Mexicans have set up for
themselves and its forms and facts are
not our concern so long as interna-
tional obligations are discharged
Thwing Compares Cost.
Charles F. ThWing, president of the
Western Reserve university, in address,
ing the Third National Peace congress
here last night, compared the cost of
building and maintaining the battle
ships of the nation with the cost OF
building and maintaining the institu-
tons of higher learning of the nation
The title of his address was The peace
movement and the American college and
university"
Perhaps the greatest service which
the American college or university can
render to the cause of peace" he said,
IN pu ss90o1d 3IesoId sQl U! sell.
rmphant 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 ST.
lent among arms. The college man who
thinks sees truth deeply. war makes
its primary appeal to the superficial
love of glory, of pomp and of circum-
stance. the college man who thinks
sees truth in long ranges and in far off
horizons: war is emotional and the war
rior filings the years into hours.
1.-The total cost of the battleship New
Hampshire was more than $1,000. 000
The total value of the grounds and
buildings of all the colleges in New
Hampshire is less than S2,500,000. ard
the total amount of productive funds
SO, 0O0, 600. The cost of the battleship
Indiana was more than $5,000.00O. The
total value of grounds and buildings of
colleges and universities in Indiana is
slightly more than $1,000. geo. The cost
of the balleship Iowa was more than
| $4,000, 900 ard the productive funds Of
all it's colleges and universities is also
SIS, 600, 600.
.'The battleship Alabama cost more
than $4,000. 600 and the entire property,
real and personal of all universities and
| colleges in that state is less than
81, 900, 600, The battleship Kansas cost
more than $1,000, 600. The value of the
! grounds and buildings of the colleges
and universities of Kansas is less than
| $4,000 600. The cost of the battleship
Wisconsin was more tnan S4,UVV,OVO.
The whole value of all grounds and
buildings of Wisconsin is slightly more
/ than $6,000.000.
| Mrs. Elmer Black.
| Mrs. Elmer Black, of the American
Peace and Arbitration league, New
York, and one of the vice presidents
| of the Third National Peace conference
here addressed the conference todaH on
the subject of The New WorId-Con-
/ sciousness.''; Mrs Black declared that
| the growing feeling of kinship among
nations was one of the most potent fac
tors working for universal peace. She
| said in part:
] I'VE thought we had made such won
| derful progress yesterday. for we had
| passed from the old state consciousness
| with which the 18th century opened. ur
| into the sense of nationality. This took
| century, and was wonderful step in
| which to reach this point where we nc
longer thought in, the small terms OF
| n state. but, putting our provincialisn
behind US. began to think in terms
| of the nation.
After only 10 years. our nationa
consciousness seems provincial, and W,