Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-07-09
PHILADELPHIA

This shRuId be a convincing ar
gument,' s3ld Mr.. Box to a cores
pondent staeding beside him, that
the Award Eommittee means BUSH
h ness. The mioney IS beyond my con-
troll, and is pow at the call of the
= Committee WPeneyer it is needed"
You fully Hxpect, then, to get a
plan for the IOO,O0O Award?" Mr..
n Box was ASKED.
81 certainly lido" was the quick
Nreply. 1.-THE American people have
INlbeen doing far pore thinking along
s4Ahe lines of ouF foreign relations
f4klan some people imagine. A re-
&lAarch which l cdnducted from New
VAprk to San Francisco before I made
th1X Award showed that where. three
vaSNArs ago, there WE'RE three in every
fenVNn favor of soma sort OF a League
of &Eations, the percentage is now
sevelNN in every ten. Public opinion
is su4Ainging completely around in
This Matter. There us, therefore. a
, wide-sWpread public opinion on the
ouestioWn of what thel United States
| Anent should do, and this is
the psyN Theological timA to crystalize
it and n it an avenue for express
SION"
DO Won u believe than the people
can do whAat the Legislators at Wash.
ington havvbe failed to dog" the COR
resnondent &asked.
Most as#Auredly." wasl the posi-.
tive answer.E Il believe firmly in the
creative ada tability of the Ameri-
can people. They have \ natural
gift for the cfAeative. But you must
provide them An avenue foA express
sion. This is a2all I am doing. The
people have n&2eVer mad az direct
chance to acceNpt this problem Of
a foreign policy Aof their own They
have never been y asked to solve it.
| believe they havTle distinct id9as on
this subject. Thi Sodore Roosevelt
once said to me: WITS a big job to
awaken tho AmerA lean public but
when it awakes you want to get from
under This matt Ter has reached
this point. 1t has men three yeRrs.
But the people have, am sure, NOW
reached certain conclIA lsions on what
should be done by theilr Government
to help Europe. This tAward offeAs
them a chance to expretss those conf
clusions." |
And a fortune?" intRrjected thel
correspondent.
We'll, yes" replied Mr.N Box smil-
ingly. But the offer is Mot SO re-
markable as some think. 1t has
novelty about it, of course, Vand it is
a generous amount. But Nmen of
means have thought little OF giving
500, 900 to hospitals. Whey &should-
MT l offer 100000 to try AND help
a sick world? Besides, l do n3t look
upon this money as giving Vt or
spending it: l consider it as "a pa
triotic investment to try and soVve a
question that has been hanginN all
too long in the air and whichA in
wolves the integrity of the peopleR of
the United States"
"You believe, then, that it is ] a
question of integrity" Mr.. Box w9Ps
asked.
"Emphatically." was the answerk
1T is distinctly III to us as a peo-A
pie to do our part to prevent an
other war. We don't want another
experience such as the last one, and
we have said, through President
Harding, hat such a thing shall not
happen again. But we, have done
nothing 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 po-
litical questions of Europe: they are
different from ours, and we have no
business in or with them. Nor do we
want to be compelled to send u
boys across the Atlantic every time
a war cloud appears on the Euro
pean horizon. Those ideas are re-
pellent to all of US, and they were
| not in my mind when | offered the
Award. My idea, singly and solely,
is to search the American mind for
an idea whereby the American peo-
| pie can do their part with the other
nations to avert another war: an idea
born not of politics or of partisan
ship, but of the straight-thinking,
i~deal-loving and fair minded Ameri-
can. The idea may be something en-
tirely new, or it may take the form
of notifications of the covenant of
the League of Nations. We have got
to live in a friendly world, and we
+ too important a nation and too
direct a part of the world to insist
upon our former policy of splendid
isolation We can nc longer stand
aloof while the rest of the world is
suffering from present problems Or
in danger of future wars. We must
decidedly do our share. That duty
we cannot shirk. And I believe, in
my heart. that some one, some
where in America, has that idea and
will point the way. That idea will
be cheap at 500, 600"
The The One Hundred Thousand
Dollar Award is to be known as the
American Peace Award. 1t is to be
administered by a Policy Committee,
consisting of the following members:
DAVIS, JOHN w, former Ambassa-
dor to Great Britain, now Presi-
dent of the American Bar Asso-
citation.
HAND, LEARNED, Judge of the
United States Court for the South
r District of New York since
1909.
JOHNSTON, WILLIAM H., Presi-
dent of the International Asso-
citation of Machinists and execu-
tive officer of the Conference for
Progressive Political Action.
LAPE, ESTHER EVERETT, Mem
Der in Charge, writer.
MILLER, NATHAN L., Former Gov
ernor of New York State, State
Controller and Judge of the Court
of Appeals, now practicing law in
New York City.
PINCHOT, MRS. CLIFFORD, wife of
the Governor of Pennsylvania, ac-
tive in political life and many So