WAR IS NOT PATRIOTISM.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3327, 20 September 1911, Page 7

WAR IS NOT PATRIOTISM.

WHAT DR. JORDAN THINKS.

Declaring that the old patriotic song “Marching Through Georgia” should not 'be sung by educators and schoolteachers because o'f the fact that the glory of Yvar Yvas an incorrect attitude and a, spurious 'kind of patriotism, President David Starr Jordan of Stanford University -addressed 200 teachers at Berkley, U.S. Dr? Jordan’s topic Yvas “War: The Other Side,” and Yvas the first address of the day’s session, Yvhich was devoted to an inquiry into, the present movement for international peace- and its- relation toi historical events. “Our battles Yvere not fields of glory,” declared Dr. Jordan, “but rather the eve of calamity in, the development of the Nation. They have made great scars on the history of Europe. You will find, by a close study of the subject, that the nations of Europe are net iioyv what they sliould have been-, if the Yvars in which they indulged had not taken place. “The peace movement is rapidly gaining. You Yvill find that the armaments -of the nations ‘ will disappear wv.cn the people realise that conditions all oven the Yvorld have changed.

-•‘The aY-erag© cf nations can be raised, not by education alone, but by proper living and raising the right find of children, and securing the right- stick of young manhood and young womanhood.” He also declared that it Yvoukl he some time before another Yvar broke out between any of the European nations, because of the fact that Rothschild and other bankers had made about ail the loans they cared to make to tlie several governments, and that a nav would be discouraged by the financial interests. ~ , ~ • The United States, he 6aid. could hold a position) for the abolition cf war alone, Yvithout the assistance cf ary other nation. . He concluded his address Yvith a reference to the duty of a teacher to trend the development of the modern child in the right direction, for the future good of tlie Nation. President S. D. Mitchell, of the UniY'orsitiy of Southern California and 11. W. Edwards of Oakland were the other speakers at tlie session. . . Dr. Mitchell stated that the meet important Yvork of tin teacher Yvas the correct training of the modern child with relation to the historical importance cf the moY-ement for peace now before the world. He stated that the matter of international peace dwelt largely Yvith till© future generation) as to "its success -after permanent establislunent.