, 1923-07-07

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The 100000 was deposited re-
Gently with the Girard Trust Com
pany of Philadelphia. That proves
the good faith of the plan. The
Award Committee means business.
It now remains to see what the re-
suit will be.
In a recent interview the noted
editor said that he thought the peo-
pie of the United States could do
what the legislators at Washington
had failed to do. He said among
other things:
81 believe firmly in the creative
adaptability of the American people.
They have n natural gift for the
creative. But you must provide
them an avenue for expression. This
is all l am doing. The people have
never had a direct chance to accept
this problem of a foreign policy of
their OWE. They have never been
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have distinct ideas on this subject.
Theodore Roosevelt once said to
me: "It's 4 big job to awaken the
American public, but when 1t
swakes you want to get from under
This matter has reached this point.
1t has taken three years . But the
people have, / am sure, now reached
certain conclusions on what should
be done by their government to
help Europe. This award offers
them a chance to express those con-
clusions."
"But the offer Is not SO remark
able as some think. 1t has novelty
about it, of course, and It Is a gen.
erous amount. But men Of means
have thought little of giving $780,
600 to hospitals. Why shouldn't I
offer 100000 to try and help a
sick world? Besides, I do not look
upon this money as giving 1t Or
spending it. I consider it as a
patriotic investment to try and solve
a question that has been hanging
all too long in the air and which
involves the integrity of the people
Of the United States"
ut is distinctly up to the people
to do u part to prevent another
war. We don't want another exper-
ience such as the last one, and we
have said, through President Hard
ing, that such a thing shall not hap
pen again. But we have done moth
ing in a concrete sense to make
our word good. This award is the
search for an idea to show that we
mean what we say. Naturally. we
do not want to get mixed up in
the political questions of Europe.
they r different from ours, and
we have no business in or with
them. Nor de we want to be COM
PEELED to sed our boys across the
Atlantic every time a war cloud ap-
pears IN the European horizon.
Those ideas are rcpellent to all of
US. and they were not in my mind
when I offered the award. Ny
idea, singly and solely is to search
the American mind for an idea
whereby the American people can
do their part with the other nations
to avert another war: an idea born
not Of politics or of p~artisanship,
but of the straight-thinking, ideal
and fair minded Americans.
The idea may be something entirely
new, or it may take the form of
notifications of the covenant Of the
League Of Nations. We have got
live in a friendly world, and we
are too important a nation and too
a part of the world to insist
upon our former policy Of SPLEEN
did isolation We can no longer
stand aloof while the rest Of the
is suffering from present
problems or in danger Of future
wars. We must decidedly do our
share. That duty we cannot shirk.
And l believe, in my heart, that
some one, somewhere in America,
has that idea and will point the
way. That idea will be cheap at
ANN nm