The Washington herald., 1912-03-10
Famous Publisher Tells of the Establishment
of the Worlds Peace Foundation,
His Pet Project.
BY JAMES p. MORROW.

n1ty IathOmS OF water, EQWin Glnn, lnen
poor boy and now famous publisher
noted that one man was constantly pull
ing in his long line and heavy sinkers
and looking at his hook. 1t was hard
work, but the man caught more fish than
any one else in the boat
It's knack," the man briefly said. re-
ferring to his daily catch. He kept his
business to himself Hard work is too
busy TO talk, and sometimes too pru-
dent. Still, the man told the truth.
There is nothing so mysterious to fail
ure as intelligent industry and common
sense.
Near the floor of the sea were many
small fish. They nibbled away the bait.
When a big fish happened along the
hook was bare. Therein was the mans
'knack," together with enthusiasm
enough to draw in the line and find out
for himself. IF you want to catch fish,
keep your hook well baited." is the les
son the youthful CHM brought away
that summer from the Grand Banks Of
Newfoundland.
The lesson was not learned and then
disregarded as too bothersome for a per-
Eonal application. Edwin CHM is Civ
ing annually large part of his income
to advance the growing cause of peace.
He is doing other things as he goes along
better homes for the poor among the
rest. He has kept his nook well baited
In business and has carried the habit
Into philanthropy and his other activi-
des. Energy is seen in his movements
and heard in his talk.
An eager and nervous man, dressed in
clothes of gray homespun he stood up
and sat down while he answered my Ques-
tiOns and outlined his plans. On the
walls Of his large, plain Office were por-
England celebrities. Through the win
dows, high up on Beacon Hill, were pic
lures of the famous Common, of great
trees and graveled paths and people hur-
riedly going and coming.
'He Began tn Poverty"
CHM has become distinguished name
In education and the publishing bust
hess. 1t is a tradition in America that
success begins in poverty. Charley"
John D. Rockefeller once asked the white
barber in Cleveland, who shaved him
every morning at Z o'clock. do you re-
member the time when We worked in
commission houses along the river, you
for s. a week and 1 for S2?" The ques-
tIon sounded cruel, but it was merely
reminiscent. So there are requisites be-
yond patched trousers and a hickory
shirt
L spent the whole Of one autumn"
Mr.. CHM said, speaking of his child
hood, gathering beechnuts. got half
e bushel which I sold for so cents"
There are other curt and entertaining
details of life on the hillside farm in
Aaine covered mostly with rocks. We
arose in the morning AZ o'clock. At the
age OF seven I began TO build the fire in
the cook stove, milk two cows a day. and
90 lot of other work. Sometimes the
temperature was 20 degrees below zero.
when / was twelve years DID," Mr..
CHM continued, II went TO cook in a log
Eing camp, working for my father, who
vas a lumberman and shipbuilder. Next
I hired myself to the captain of a fish
Ing schooner. We were out of sight of
land for eighteen weeks. Ny wages
were 50 and that was the amount of
money ] had when my father released
his claim on me that 1 might go away
and get an education. I prepared for
college by teaching. fishing. and farm
gOrk. While at Westbrook Seminary 1t
rame to me that 1 ought to preach.
The principal, 4 wise man, advised
me to go on studying. l was seventeen
years old. and he thought 1 would better
work and wait. 1 have since believed
that his advice was an interposition of
Providence in behalf of the pews. At
Eufts College, where I boarded myself
part of the time for 81 week, my sight |
Almost failed, but / was graduated, |
nevertheless, classmates reading the les
EOns 10 me when my eyes were painful |
or particularly bad. On leaving college, |
J became an agent for the sale of school |
books. By and by l got to be a publisher |
myself"
Ten Years Work for Peace.
When asked. did you begin your
work toward peace?'
About ten years ago. I had attended |
the conferences at Lake MohonlI, where |
many ideas were exploited at great and |
earnest length. Men go there and talk
ably and sincerely. A limited audience |
hears them annually. Before the dele
gates reach their homes, however, they
are too often thinking OF something else /
These yearly meetings, in the opinion
Of the combination that is engaged in the I
business of promoting war, are harmless
being too academic and not brought
adequately TO bear, although their ser
vice has been real and great. Rejecting
on the subject, I saw that money and
effort were required to meet the money
and effort Of professional soldiers and
the manufacturers of the munitions of
war.
THE world does not realize that the
spirit of war is kept alive to a tremen-
GOuS extent IOr commercial ana personal
prospective honors and
profits are behind the armies and navies
that constantly threaten the peace of the
earth. I saw, as L. thought out the
question. that if peace were to mako
headway its champions would have to
meet organization with organization; not
with an organization of mild, theorists
and essay writer's, but of alert, able and
persistent men having money to spend.
Putting my conviction into form, have
esta blished the World Peace Foundation,
which, ] hope, will become as aggressive
and practical as the aggregation that
works to promote war
But peace" said. '' If long continued,
IS said to turn men into women, and to
make nations weak and timid?"
ION the contrary. peace makes men
and nations brave and strong. The best
men, physically, are killed in war. They
do the fighting ana the dying. II they
fail TO enlist. they are drafted. The old,
the weak, the siclSly, and the cowardly
stay at home. It was so during the
American Revolution, during our own
civil war, and during the old days of !
Pompey, Caesar, Hannibal. and NapoL
son, Can any nation breed virile and h
race from the men belonging ,
to the classes 1 have named? It seems
TO me that your question answers itself,
once it is reflected upon intehigently."
Women Didn't Fight at GettysburE.
From the Revolution to the attack on
Fort Sumter. in 1861. this country was !
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