Evening star., 1915-02-17
PEACE EFFORTS ARE NOT
D|SCRED|TED, IS CLAIM
Trustees of Carnegie Endowment
Discuss Present War and
Its Effects.

The dreadful war now raging af-
fords no just cause for discourage
ment, no discredit to past efforts and
no reason to doubt that still greater
efforts in the future may be effective
and useful" declares a statement is
sued today by the trustees of the Car
negie endowment for international
peace to ''all friends of peace"
The war itself" continues the state
ment." is teaching the gospel of peace
through lesson so shocking and so
terrible that the most Indifferent can
not fail to attend and understand it.
Not only have the destruction of
life. the devastation and the suffering
in the warning countries passed all ex-
perience, but the cessation of produc-
ton. the closing of markets. the block
of exchanges. have affected industry
and caused ruin and poverty in all the
peaceful countries of the world.
Truth Forced on All.
The universal interdependence of
nations has been demonstrated and the
truth forced upon every mind that the
peace of all nations is the vital con-
Germ of every nation.
TO cast our weak protest now
among the tremendous forces that are
urging on the great conflict would be
futile: but the end of this war will
come before long and then the great
question will stand for answer:
Shall the lesson be forgotten, the
sacrifice lost?
That question the belligerent ma
tons only will have the power to
answer; but every one in the world
VIII be entitled to be heard upon it,
Tor 1t Will be a question of civilization,
the most momentous of our era
1t seems Incredible that after this
the stricken people will SET their feet
IN the same old paths of policy and
suspicion which must lead them again
to the same result
Finding expression through a great
multitude of voices everywhere, the
general public opinion of mankind
should influence the minds of the
negotiators who settle the terms of
parture in the establishment of JUS
tce as the rule of international reIa-
tions.
May Advocate Measures,
While We must not be overconfident
of our individual qualifications to point
out the detailed methods through
which the result may be accomplished,
we may still advocate measures which
seem practicable and appropriate 10
the purpose.
We can see that definite rules of
national conduct should be agreed
upon; that a court of competent juris-
diction should be established to Judge
OF national >conforInity to those rules,
and that new sanctions should be pro-
Nided TO compel respect for the Judge
mcntS rendered.
Above all. the motive and spirit of
the new institutions should be clearly
ana fully not the promotion of ambi-
tion or the extension of power. but the
safeg uardinS of human rights and the
perfection of individual liberty.
Toward this high end the courage
and hope and conviction of the hu1nblest
citizen of the most distant land may
contribute"
Signers of Statement.
Choate, Andrew d. White, John w.
Foster. Elihu Root. Luke Z. Wright,
charlemagne Tower. Robert S. Wood
ward. Austen &. Fox, Jacob G. Schmid-
lapp. Thomas Burke. Robert s. Brook
lngs, Oscar 5. Straus. Samuel Mather,
James l. Slayden, John Sharp Will
liams. Charles L. Taylor. Henry S
Pritchett. William NJ. Howard, Cieve-
land Ii. Dodge, Robert A. Franks,
George w. Perkins. Nicholas Murray
Butler. Andrew ]. Montague, Arthur
William Foster and James Brown
Scott.