Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-11-04
Washington Letter
BY VICTOR ELLIOTT.

| WASHINGTON, Nov. Awhile the
majority of the people of the world
are today engaged in the greatest war
i that history has known, the advocates
of world peace for all time are contin-
uing their labors industriously. OF
all the so-called peace societies in
/ this country and abroad none has
such great financial resources behind
it as the Carnegie Endowment for IN
| ternational Peace, and probably none
has greater influence. The year book
Of the Carnegie endowment, showing
the activities of the institution during
the last fiscal year and the plans of
the endowment for the coming year,
has recently come from the presses.
The very issue of this book at this
time has caused a smile of derision
in some quarters, which believe that
world peace can never be maintained
except through the power of big guns.
But the Carnegie endowment makes
it clear that it is not attempting to
attain its ends, world peace, through
sentimental means, but by a scientific
! handling of the question. The scope
Of the work and plan adopted by the
| Carnegie endowment Is shown in the
! year book In the first place this in
stitution has an income of the $780,
0OO, 900 donated by Andrew Carnegie
to the cause of peace to carry on its
work with.
| The appropriations made by the
! trustees for the fiscal year ending
| June 80, 1915, for carrying on the
4 xtr;d IF Tho ant
amount TO total of S573,975. Appro-
! priations for the previous fiscal year
were $529, $50 This money is to be
expended as follows: Administration,
| S43, 1896; library and year book, $12,-
| 020; division of intercourse and edu-
cation, $221 500; division of economics
and history, s134000; division of in
ternational law, sll2,560; emergency
appropriations, $4,000.
The names connected with the en-
dowment are those of men foremost
in American life. Senator Elihu
Root, of New York, is the president
of the board of trustees. Joseph III.
Choate is the ce-president; James
Brown Scott secretary, and former
Ambassador to Germany Charlemgne
Tower, treasurer. Other members of
the board include Robert Bacon,
Nicholas Murray Butler, Charles W.
Eliot, George w. Perkins, Oscar S.
Straus, Andrew F. White, Senator
John Sharp Williams, of Mississippi,
and Representative James l.. Stay
den, of Texas.
The work of the endowment, as
shown by the appropriations, is be-
ing carried on by three divisions or
bureaus, the division of intercourse
and education, headed by Nicholas
Murray Butler; the division of eco
Monies and history, headed by John
Bates Clark, and the division of in
ternational law, headed by James
Brown Scott. 1t is now but little
over three years since the endow-
ment was organized. The report of
Nicholas Murray Butler for the last
fiscal year shows what strides have
been made by the division over which
he presides. 1t has established Of
fees of its own in New York and in
Paris; it has caused the visits of In
1uential Americans to foreign coun-
tries and of important foreigners to
the United States to help spread the
doctrine of the institution.
mo student of contemporary opin-
ion can doubt that until the leading
nations of the world are embued |
with the belief that peace leads to
righteousness more surely than does
war and that it more certainly pro-
notes individual comfort and national
well-being, will the amazing expendi-
ture upon land and naval ornaments
be checked or a feeling of national
rivalry and antagonism disappear be-
fore one of confidence and trust"
wrote Nicholas Murray Butler in his
report to the trustees. This was
penned before the war in Europe
broke out, and there are thousands
of men who will bear out today the
statement made by the president of
Columbus University 1.-THE work of
the division of intercourse and edu-
cation" he continued, sis organized
and conducted from this point of
view. 1t is not especially concerned
with the passing of declaratory reso-
lutions in favor of peace, however
excellent, or with denunciations of
war and of ornaments, however
sincere. 1t looks behind and beneath
these ephemeral manifestations of
sentiment to the upbuilding by a
process of moral and intellectual edu-
cation of a sound international opin-
ion that will rest upon permanent
conviction"
The division of intercourse and edu-
cation believes that the best way to
carry on its propaganda is through
the development of a friendly under
oldIiuibS ditAOliS liio peOpltS OIL tnc
earth and 1t works toward that end
1t has an advisory council in Europe
composed of eminent representatives
of Russia, France, Austria, Great
Britain. Germany and other countries.
The Baron Paul d'Estournelles de
Constant is the French member of
the council. Jean Emeroff represents
Russia, the Right Hon. Baron Wear
dale, Great Britain; Philip Zorn,
Germany, etc. The division also has
a large number of correspondents
abroad.
An interesting suggestion made bv
Mr.. Butler in his report to the trus-
tees is that moving pictures be made
an agent for the spread of the peace
propaganda.
1T is estimated that the average
weekly attendance in the United
States at entertainments where NOV
ing pictures are shown is consider
ably over S0000,000 and that in
E''~ona the number is equally large .
said Mr.. Butler Here lies at hand
well organized and most effective
agency for reaching the masses of
the people in way that holds the
attention 1t would not be diff1cult
to plan and manufacture several se-
ries of films for use in moving pic
lures that would be effective arg,1-
ments against international war ami
in demonstration of the national and
economic blessings that follow in the
| train of peace"