Evening star., 1947-08-08
Letters to The Star
Scholarships for World Peace

Scholarships Tor WOrld feace
TO the Editor Of The Star:
For SIX or seven years the one thing most
desired in all she world has been peace Ger
tainly all Of us are sick of war. In the recent
disagreement, every person in the world was
affected. The best and strongest Of our youth
were taught to hate. and drilled to kill. The
moral effect Of this war will roll on like the
great waves of the sea, until no one can see
the last wave. And the effect on our standard
of living was very severe.
War is not thing that any one wants. But
even with the severe effects Of the last war
still fresh In our lives, new war appears. The
Dutch and Indonesians are at 1t, and Greece
threatens to be- like Spain. another little
world war" But the most discouraging factor
of all is that 1t Is 50 difcult to get along with
the Russians-or as the Russians put 1t, so diff
ficult to get along with the Americans. 1t seems
that World War III is shaping up much more
rapidly than World War I or II did. In the last
two world wars we were fortunate in that We
were given time-time to prepare for the great
destruction
But when or II We have World War III,
there will be no time given us. We now
have planes that can fly from Washington to
Tokyo In 81 hours. We now have the atomic
bomb. It was two years ago Wednesday that
the world was astounded by the destruction
wrought on Hiroshima Scientists predict that
we soon will have perfected the rocket plane.
guided to any place on earth and back home
by remote control. Our cities could be laid in
ruins before we knew we were being attacked.
Even our seat Of government here In WASH
k~%i ~ mi
cation systems could be ruined before any one
suspected war was at hand. There won't be
any second chance to prevent war. We are
having our chance now. It rests with this
generation whether civilization is to continue
even whether the existence Of man on the face
of the earth is to continue.
In view OF these suppositions-facts, many
people call them-I raise the question: How
can we secure peace?" Instead of merely
consolidating our strength by unifyine our
Navy Department. our War Department, and
our air forces under one command. and into
one department of national security, couldn't
We also have a peace department in our Gov
ernment, which would be devoted solely to
keeping us out Of war?
Whatever we do it seems to me that II civih-
zation is to stand, II man is to survive. We must
have no more war: And II we are to avoid
war. Christian people must take the lead in
securing peace. We must have leaders whose
lifework it Is to keep peace in the world; We
must revolutionize our thinking, our acting.
o,ir praying-our whole lives. The Christian
philosophy Is the best preventive of war that
the world has been given.
My suggestion is that we have q worldwide
expansion of the Rhodes scholarship and Boxer
scholarship ideas.
Very likely the greatest factor in friendly
relations between us and the Chinese has been
the Boxer scholarships. When, in the Boxer
uprising In China in 1900 many American lives
were lost and much American property de-
stroyed. We demanded reparations Of China.
The Chinese paid our demands in full, and We
In turn appropriated the entire vast sum to
provide scholarships In American colleges for
Chinese students, and from that day to this
thousands Of the best young people Of China
have been educated In American colleges II
is rarely that any two peoples have a more
kindly feeling for each other than the Amer
leans and Chinese. You can't hate 4 people
you know: you can't fight and war with your
own schoolmates. To know and live with any
people is to love them Exchange students can
testify to that fact
Cecil Rhodes. the great British diamond mag
nate u South Africa provided In his Win for