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Show David Starr Jordan Says the Gift to Peace is His Greatest New York, Dec, 17. David Starr Jordan, president of the Inland Stanford, Stan-ford, Jr., university, discusses Andrew Carnegie's $10,000"o0u gift to peace today to-day in a signed telegram to the New York Times. He says: "Mr. Carnegie's gift to peace Is potentially po-tentially the most Important gift of monev ever made for any pnrpose. Specifically, thld fund should develop n code of International law; It should enlarge and complete the work of Jean De Bloch on the xyt of war, and should give us ft clear view of i how all civilized nations, save Can-' Can-' ada p.nd the United States, have now passed into the control of their creditors. credit-ors. The war debt of ?26.0O0.OnO,nnt) under which Europe now stagger did not grow up without a. history of blunder nnd crime. "It should probe to the extreme the effect of war by reversal of selection In destroying the virility of nations To this i ause almost alone Is due the ddwnfall of these nations which have lost step In human progress "To show that the moral equivalent of war Is found no higher than ln the prize fight, to show that the waste of nation In debt and ln los? of virility viril-ity Is due mainly to war, and to show the world the only way out lies In tetter returns among men. ln the spread of law and Justice, and at present In the work which culminates at The Hague, Is the noblest use of Carnegie's gift." |