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Show 372 375 No more striking method of recruitingr the choicest leaders in the movement is to be seen anywhere. They are leaders for the future, to he sure, but how immediate is their day to be! The l'eace Movement grows. and far-reaching results are obtained even among tlte men who guide the atl'airs of the \xorld today, and yet they were not "built that way." \l'hat can we reasonably expect of the generation which is being schooled in international education and culture? The students of this new school as ' simple question: Why should nations not be civilized as well as individuals? Why should individuals be governed by a code of laws which define lying, stealing and murder as crimes. while the nations recognize international congresses, exchange of ollicial publications, and finally to issue :1 students international journal which will draw the members closer together, and furnish material of intense interest for local college and university journals in all conntrtc'. Is it too much to hope that we can ra ‘e up an Addison to edit a these as standard methods of international dealing? Students are not radical. They know well the cause: we simply haven't gotten around to it yet; but the keynote of their propaganda is. lend a hand. The tacit pledge of every student pacifist, if expressed, would he something like this: "Let's join the peace army. and if we fall in the fight it will he with our faces to the firing line." The organization! and work of the intercollegiate peace move- ment is but begun. There is no other tield in the world where the movement promises so much livery ideal in the educational world is diametrically opposed to brute force and violence as a substitute for enlightened justice. The students are. lillcd with this id *alistic spirit. In addition. they comprise, as a body. the choicest and most promisinU‘ intellectual talent of the country. Alert, zealous, ambitions. trained in high ideals. they need only to have impressed upon them the purpose of the peace move- ment and straightway the strongest in every college and univer- sity rise up and champion the cause. That this work can be extended to every college and university in the world there is not the slightest doubt. \'arious students" societies. embodying the peace propaganda as a cardinal feature of their work, now exist in Europe. lu America we have an important students‘ organ- ization which is closely akin to those of lCnrope, namely, the Association of Cosmopolitan Clubs. Negotiations are now pending for a working federation of these, American and liuropean students" organizations. The purpose of the proposed federation is close cooperation in the work, coming together of delegates in Spectator in the student world? If this be so, who can foretell the limits or the possibilities of the students' movement for world organization-and hence, p )ace? On behalf of the Intercollegiate Peace z‘tssociation I begr to make an appeal which, if heard, will mean the opening up of limitles possibilities for this work. This organized movement needs with all possible appeal to be extended to every institution for higher learning in the United States and developed in all the world. The association subsists on voluntary support. The small contribution of one hundred and fifty dollars to be used as prizes for peace orations will launch a series of oratorical con- tests and start the work throughout an entire state. Why should there not be a number of persons in this audience happy to seize the opportunity to start the work in new states? Rich in all other equipment, the association has been struggling in pitiful poverty. (iiven financial as ' tance. and the work will prove one of the largest and most practical philanthropies in the world. Following Mr. liulk's addres. the following resolution was presented by Mr. Robert Treat l‘aine. of lloston. and unanimously carried by a rising vote: Rcmlz'ed, That a vote of thanks be. extended to the [Execu- tive Committee of this Congre and their associate committees for their services in organizingr this great Congress; the Chicago Association of Commerce for its generous hospitality. and to that and other Chicago organizations for their liberal support of this Congress; the newspapers of Chicago for the large degree or attention they have given to the Congress, and the warm words spoken by many of them in support of its principles. CHAIRMAN MOORE: You will all be glad to hear of the movement in the interests of peace on the other side, and the Rev. J. L. Tryon of ltoston, Massachusetts, will tell us of the London l'eaec Congress of toe" |
