Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-09-07
HAS HUMAN ANTIDOTE
FOR HUMAN CONFLICT
New Yorker Campaigns Against War
Through Interchange of Young
Students Among Nations.

to know about conditions in America.
Europe. Asia7 It Is quite likely that
Stephen Duggan could send you to the
right person. without lost OF time.
Colleges Kept Interested.
Stephen Duggan reaches out to all
the colleges, deity keeps them inter-
ested in this business OF international
education. sends them a monthly bull
letin. To many Of these colleges the
Carnegie Endowment, following the
institutes suggestion, has contributed
an international mind" library, con-
tanning important books on various
foreign countries or international
affairs.
When some visitor lectures on the
Chinese revolution, there are the books
TO satisfy the studenhS whetted APP
petite for knowledge. The institute
also has q series of valuable booklets
of its own-a guide book of the United
State for foreign students, for example;
handbooks about France, Great Britain,
Italy for American students; astute
discussions of Latin American cultural
relations, of American influence on
European education, of the weak spots
in Frances attitude toward research, OF
the possibilities of cooperation be-
tween American and European Sum-
mer schools, of foreign centers OF in
ternational education and what they
are doing.
In october Of this year DR.. Duggan
will extend his activities by adopting
that instrument Of universal education,
the radio. He will talk over the
iectS as what MuSsolini and the Black
Shirts are trying to do in Italy; what
are the aims and methods of Stain
and the Reds in Russia; what the
Turks mean by deliberately destroying
their ancient Moslem culture; why
Chinese culture is being shot full Of
holes, diSintegrating; what will be the
sense enough to bring 1t about. My
guess is that they will be reasoned,
clear talks, exceptionally worth listen-s
ing to. For the man has an extra
ordinary first-hand knowledge Of these
things.
He was sent to the Philippines with
q commission that made study of the
those islands. On his way home he
visited China, Siberia, Russia. Central
and Western Europe. He was the
| American representative on the Com
mission Of Intellectual Cooperation Of
| the League of Nations and thereafter
spent fve months visiting educational
omcials, university authorities. men Of
affairs and what not in France, Spain,
Italy, Austria, Hungary, Czechoslovakia,
Switzerland, Germany. Belgium and
England.
South American Attitude.
When Herbert Hoover visited South
America 1t Is not unlikely that he quite
often ran across an attitude none too
cordial to the United States. Our
South American contacts have not al
ways been Of a nature to breed cordi-
atty. The average Americans knowl-
| edge Of any South American country
could probably be packed into a wal
nut shell and still leave room for the
nut. Many thinking men realize how
vital 1t Is that our relations with Latin
America be put on different plane.
After President Hoover'S visit a begin
ming was made toward a new relation
ship when a group of Argentine scholars
was invited to visit the United States
by the Pan-American Union. They
came here for q stay of about two
months. and Stephen Duggan and his
associates acted as their hosts, organ
ICED their tour. Probably no one Is
better fitted to start cultural relations
with foreign country.
In the course of these travels he has
sat across the table from the great and
the near-great In many countries,
such diverse men as Tchicherin and
Lunacharsky Of Russia, Mazaryk Of
Czechoslovalxia, Mussolini of italy,
Horthy Of Hungary, Seipel of Germany,
Lord Robert Cecil of England. He has
sat across the table from them and in
his clear, blue eyes there was under
standing as they talked of their own
attitudes toward the major problems
that are the sore spots of the world
today.
Because Of this understanding the
State Department has more than once
found it worth while to consult him.
When 1t comes to such matters as the
Young plan, war reparations, naval
parity, tariffs, Japanese expansion, he
has something to say. Probably 1t would
not often be what the average citizen
thinks: very seldom what the average
politician thinks. and he might not al
ways be right. But his views are based
on sympathetic first-hand observation
and long habit Of thinking in inter-
national terms.
Chevalier of the Legion Of Honor of
France, Order of the Commander of
Italy. Order of Merit of Hungary,
White knight of Czschoslovakia, etc,
these honors show what foreigners
think of him. They have a grand
sound: the sensible man does not take
them too seriously. But they do prove
this: 1t Is not true today that the man
who makes better mouse trap will
find the world beating a path to his
door unless he happens to have q good
advertising agent. But 1t is true that
the world will seek him out If he has
an idea the world needs.
The world has lately seen 65,000OO
men squirming with the pain Of the
great poison. 1t needs the antidote Of
international understanding. Such men
as Stephen Duggan have it. We could
use larger doses.