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Show 296 297 ously from books written in a language not his own what he might with less difliculty learn from texts or translations in his mother tongue. lie is here to give as well as to receive; to con- tribnte his own knowledge as well as to absorb ours. llis migratiou to a ft.»reign soil sprangr front a desire to become a citizen of the \\Ul‘l(l. llis patriotism led him to disregard family ties and the associations of his youth and to go abroad amongY strange peoples and strange nations so that he might return a better citi- zen and a more useful member of society. The presence of the foreigner is thus a source of inspiration to the American. His example is well worth emulating: One cannot but be impressed by his lofty ideals, his steadfastness of purpose, his broad-minded conception of his mission It is incredible to think that we have men with such diversities of life, creed and customs in our midst ill \|\\lt\\i\\ i without taking advantage of the oppm‘tunity to learn somethingr about them, to form a tirs‘idiand opinion. and to broaden our minds and views. liut the Cosmopolitan Club movement has a deeper signifi~ cance. in the words of the well-known secretary of the American Peace Society, Dr. Benjamin F. Trueblood, "As an agency for promotingr the final establishment of permanent peace amont,r the nations there is nothing in the educational sphere likely to bear richer fruit." Close personal Contact between peoples of different race is a necessity in order that they may understand each other. It is a fundamental prerequisite to any movement for world peace. i\‘ational antipathics or prejudices in a large part rest on mutual ignorance. in the Cosmopolitan Clubs young men from SixtV countries are brought in contact with each other. They learn to understand each other; they learn to respect each other: thev learn to admire each other; they learn to love each other. 1 They cannot help but carry home with them the message of "peace on earth, {mod-will toward men," The foreign students are for the most part representatives of the flower of their nation, men com111g from the very best of families. Many are sent by their governments. They will occupy positions of trust and honor in their respective connnunities. They will become the leaders Of public opinion and even of the political spirit and policies of their nation. In proportion as they are brought in contact with their fellow students of different nationality, in proportion as they learn to understand each other, in proportion as they realize that they are, after all, members of one large human family, and that war and hostility are. thoughts unworthy of the rising generation, will the hopes for the realization of world peace be increased. Thus the Association of Cosmopolitan Clubs will join in rearingr upon foundations already laid the superstructure of a world state in which the intelligence and civic virtue of every race shall be associated for the common weal of men, it will swell and strengthen the every increasing ranks of those who, not content with idle contemplation, are seeking liy conscious endeavor to bringl into 1' ‘ality the millenninin ot Tennyson, when- "The war drum throhs no lr‘une‘er. And the battledlag‘s are furl‘d In the parliament of man, The federation of the. world." PROFFSSOR \"iNcEN'r: From the five contestants, two are to be chosen, the first honor involvingr an honorarium of seventy-live dollars and the second honor involvingr an honorarium of fifty dollars. The decision of the committee will be announced by l'resident Jordan. PRESIDENT JORDAN: LADIES AND GENTLEMEN: The members of the committee have felt very tnuch gratified at their opportunity to hear these orations, and they are very firmly convinced. after hearingr them all, in their opposition to war. I have to say that the decision is not quite unanimous, but it stands as follows: For the second prize, Mr. Ilarrold l". Flint, of Illinois. For the first prize, Mr. Levi T. Penningttm, of Indiana. After the awardingr of the prizes, the audience was dismissed. Tit/WI MOC Chi \‘l‘g‘J |