The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-10-24
'LOTOS CLUB CHEERS
SURRENDER NOTE
Dinner to British Educational
Commission Turns Into In
ternational Love Feast.
FOREIGN GUESTS STIRRED
Sword for Which We Have
Been Waiting" Says DR..
Nicholas Murray Butler.

Nicholas Murray Butler.
A summary OF the Presidents reply
to Germany In which he was repre-
scented as having demanded complete
surrender" without qualification reached
the Lotos Club last night while the
club was giving a dinner in honor OF the
| members of the British Educational
! Mission who have been touring the
! United States. Read aloud by the
president of the club. Frank r. Law
renee, II was greeted by a mighty shout.
At the words complete surrender
| the 500 diners sprang up as one man
cheering. and some shouting. That's
the idea :" That's what we've been
waiting for :" Good for the President J"
while Others contented themselves with
Wow" and an explosion OF hurrahs.
Three cheers for President Wilson were
| given, then Three cheers for our al
| lies!" When the noise subsidized lit
| tie. somebody yelled. Read that again,
Mr.. Lawrence; we like to hear it,
ut gives me the greatest pleasure"
beamed Mr.. Lawrence. and read the
summary again.
Prof. william Henry Schofeld OF Har-
ward, who was the next after dinner
speaker, exclaimed: what can man
say after hearing such message as
this? oh, the Joy OF being alive when
we can say to Germany Complete sur
| render" And let none Of us forget In
the presence of our guests. What should
we have done without the help of Eng
! land in this WARP
"surreneer" the Magic Word.
Nicholas Murray Butler. president Of
! Columbia University, said:
| THAT Is the word for which we have
been waiting-complete surrender. i am
| one OF those who believe that the use OF
this term will hasten the victorious end
of this war. That 10 the word the Ger
man Government and German people
thought we wero afraid to say. and now
/ that II has been said make the prophecy
| that their military and political struc-
ture will crumble with surprising speed.
! ICheers.l
! How little the Germans realized when
they started this war that it would be
the means OF unifying the whole free
world. Why, gentlemen. the league Of
nations is already here. and the allied
nations to whom the President transmits
the German note will give expression to
! the ideals OF that league, and when the
words unconditional surrender are
spoken that new world will be organ
ICED"
! The guests of the club were DR.. Ar
thur r. Shipley, vice-cha ncellor OF Cam
/ bridge University; Sir Henry Miers.
vice president OF the University OF Man
chester: the Rev. Edward Mewburn
Walker OF Queens College. oxford; Sir
Henry Jones OF the University OF Glas-
gov DR.. John Henry Jolly OF Trinity
College, Dublin: Dr. Henry van Dyke,
DR.. Butler Prof. Scho1eld and DR.. Henry
NJ. Pritchett, president Of the Carnegie
Foundation. Others there were 'Presi-
dent Hibben OF Princeton University, ex-
Ambassad Abram !. Elkus and ex-
Judge Charles F, Mclean.
! Sees International University.
In his address Mr.. Lawrence said
When peace shall at last have returned
many monuments will be erected to COM
memorate this awful war. None surely
could be more fitting than the establish
ment OF Identical universities on both
sides of the Atlantic. as ample as human
means can make them, for the free in
struction OF the youth of both nations
| in every branch of knowledge and with
! the free interchange OF both teachers and
students. No finer tie could bind our
peoples together or make 1t more sure
that the trials and sacrifices OF to-day
will be remembered during generations
to come. God speed the British educa-
tonal mission. and may its labors con-
duce TO such an end as this"
; I'VE used to think" said Sir Henry
, Miers, that America had developed
enormous material resources but was not
capable OF being stirred by great ideal.
But We have witnessed the unique spec
tacle OF America at war and have found
you to be n nation of idealists. II was
with the deepest emotion that we saw
your President walking as one citizen in
your great Liberty Loan parade. moved
by the same desire that pervades the
whole country"
Big Job Confronts Old Men.
Sir Henry Jones. welshman, who
looks rema rkably like John Burroughs,
stirred the gathering by saying: I'VE
elderly people have a great job before
us-to live up TO the level of our young
men" He told of two 'laddies' who.
hating war, desiring none of its honors
one OF them curious when he was rec
commended for the Military Medal" went
forth among Great Britain's first in the
war and were killed.
Forgive me for this personal allu
siou." the white haired father said, but
these two boys were my sons"
DR. Pritchett said that Great Britain
must send students and teachers e
America after the war ~ well as re-
ceive students and teachers from
America. We must have an exchange
of leadership both ways" he said, land
unless we work out process for UNI
Outstanding each other better in the fu.
ture we shall again find ourselves If
the same situation, which several times
In the past fifty years has brought US
dangerously close TO a misunderstood
Ing"
Prof. Schofeld said that his son wher
asked why he was going to war quoted
the lines OF Emerson that are engraved
on the gates of Soldiers Field at Har'
ward:
"Tis mans perdition TO be safe
When for the truth he ought TO die.
That" said Prof. Scholeld, sis tn,
II a.