Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1911-05-25
President Butler Of Colum.
bia Tells Mohonk Confer
ence Of the Great Work
Planned by Endowment.
AID OF THE WHOLE
WORLD is ENLISTED
Endowment is Organized In.
to Three Divisions With
Leading Economists OF
Nations Represented.

the opening today of the seventeenth
ahnual meeting Of the Lake Mohonl
conference on international arbitra
tlon, PRESIDENT Nicholas Murray But
Ter OF Columbia university, presiding
ofhcer of the conference, for the firs
time made public the plans of the Car
negie endowment for international
peace.
HIS announcement, containing tho
scheme Of operation and the names oi
appointees, together with an outline
OF the work, was the first the trustee,
OF the fund had made. It was consid
cred OF international Importance.
DR.. Butler also predicted with au
thority, the establishment OF the In
ternational court of arbitral justice
before the time Of the third Hague
peace conference. DR.. Butler said:
Three Divisions Made.
1T has been determined by the trus
tees of the Carnegie endowment ia
organize the undertaking committed
to their charge as a great institution
for research and public education and
to carry on It's work in three parts
or divisions division Of interna.
tional law, division OF economies
and history and a division Of inter.
course and education. Otherwise
stated, these three divisions will repre-.
sent the juristic, the economic, and
broadly speaking, the educational al.
poets of the problem before the trus.
tees, which is to hasten the abolitior
of international war by the erection
Of an international judicial system com.
petent to hear and to determine all
questions of difference arising be-
tween nations.
The Division OF Law.
"The division OF international law
will be under the direction of Profes.
sor James Brown Scott, whose serv.
ices at the department of state, at the
second Hague conference. and In con.
nection with the American Society
and Journal OF international law are
too we'll known to need specific emu
meration.
! For this purpose the endowment
vii, associate with DR.. Scott consul
tative board composed of some OF the
| most distinguished international law.
yers in the world. The point of view
Of each great nation will be represent
ed in their councils.
nc TWO 0GVST 0IvJ8tOU8s
"The second division OF the work OF
the Carnegie endowment will be the
division of economics and history. 1t
will be under the direction Of Profes.
sor John Bates Clark of Columbia uni
versity, whose foremost place among
English-speaking economists is gladly
recognized everywhere. The division
of economics and history will aim at
the education Of public opinion and at
the formulation OF conclusions that
may serve for the guidance Of govern
mental policy. With Professor Clark
will be associated score OF the
worlds leading economists. England.
Germany, France, italy, Austria-Hun.
gary, Switzerland, Holland, Denmark.
Japan, the Argentine Republic. and
other nations will have voice and a
part In formulating the problems to
whose solution this division will ad.
solutions of those problems.
"There remains third and import.
ant division of the work OF endowment
the division OF intercourse and edu.
cation-the director for which has not
yet been announced. It will be the
function Of this division to supplement
the WORK OK the Two UlVISlOu0, WHICH
may be called. perhaps, the scientific
ones, by carrying forward vigorously.
and in cooperation with existing
agencies, the educational work OF
propaganda, Of international hospital.
ity and OF promoting international
friendship.
Forms Faculty Of Peace.
"It can hardly be doubted that the
men at the head OF these three i'm.
portant divisions of the work OF the
endowment, with their immediate as
sociates and colleagues In this and
other countries, will speedily come to
form veritable faculty OF peace, and
| that the world will look to them more
and more for instruction and for In
spiration alike. No such broad and
philosophic conception Of information
al relations has ever before been put
forward as that which the trustees OF
the endowment have formulated and
made their own. The conception itself
and the admirable plans made for its
| is.-,a,o1,oant and ann1tcaffon onan a