Evening Star Newspaper, December 5, 1921, Page 14

- THE EVENING s SO . : AN URGENT MESSAGE FROM THE GOVERNORS OF 41 STATES - - To Twenty Million School Children OF AMERICA THOMAS E. KILBY, dovemor of Alabama. School and college students everywhere- should study the procéedings of the pending Conference for the Limitation of Armaments. I can conceive of no way by which those who are to be our future citizens can be trained more effectively for the political and economic development of our country and of the world. THOMAS E. CAMPBELL, Governor of Arizona. Regardless of its outcome, the Armament Conference is of such tremendous importance to the future welfare of the young people of America that they should take advantage of every possible opportunity to follow the procecdings in detail. THOMAS C. McRAE, Governor of Arkansas. Every school child and college student in the United States should be required to study closely the proceedings of this great Conference. They should know the significance of it all. Teachers and school and coilege officials will co-operate to this end, lieve. 3 WILLIAM D. STEPHENS, Governor of Califorina. fore in the history of the world has a limited group of men been given eary world of the awful burdens of destructive sible to relieve the mothers, the children and es, the heartbreaks, the want and misery and slighted education. the almost unbearable taxes and other ecouomic sacrifices brought on by war. May we not pray that God will guide aright all those who participate in the proceedings of the great Disarmament Congress now in session in Wasbington. In my judgment, it will be good for the future of the republic if all school children give earnest study to the proceedings. OLIVER H. SHOUP, Governor of Colorado. We can conceive no better way to train the citizens of tomorrow for the dis- charge of their most important duties than by encouraging thelr study of the pro- ceedings in Washington at the great Conference. EVERETT J. LAKE, Governor of Connecticut. 1 it can be jmprecsed upon all our school children to watch intently and to study by all means at hand the proceedings now taking place at the Armament Conference at Washington, I feel sure that in the years to come, their influence will be molded into a public’ opinion which will insist upon an amicable adjustment without fore arms of ‘all differences, and that this public opinion will also make such amicable adjustment effective to prevent further wars amoug cisilized natlons. CARY A. HARDEE, Governor of Florida. Tt is well that the twenty million school children of proceedings of the Washington Conference. It is per tie political and economic history of modern world. THOMAS W. HARDWICK, Governor of Georgia. 1 believe that a study of this question by the college students and school children of the country is most important. study_the peak in D. W. DAVIS, Governor of Idaho. There is an astonishing lack of sound information amonz our citizens of the itical and economic history of the world. Should the true situation be spread the bors and girls today there would dawn a better tomorrow, because the dominating characteristic of the average citizen is his desire for betterment. LEN SMALL, Governor of Illinois. Warring between natons must cease. Humanity demands it; economics demand it. 1 can <ee no better way to bring about this ultimate end. should we mot im- mediately succeed, than fo educate the tweaty million American school children to the horrors of war and the necessities of peace through close study of the pro- ceedings of the present Disarmament Conference. WARREN T. McCRAY, Governor of Indiana. There has never been a time in the world’s history when the deliberations and decrees of a selected group of international representatives meant more to the future of civilization than the decis resulting from the Armament Con ference Dow in session at Washington. Every suggestion or movement of the Con- ference shonld be closely studied by the public school children of our land, thus inculeating in thelp minds the idea that the apostles of peace are no less deserving of the eternal gratitude of a liberty-loving nation thau are the heroes of war. N. E. KENDALL, Governor of lowa. I_unreservedly approve the campaign to induce the school children of the v. Nothiug, in my opinion. will peace as the inculcation in the hiearts of the young of a profound abhorrence of war. HENRY J. ALLEN, Governor of Kansas. T know of nothing more timely than the study in the schools of the present proceedings of the Arms Conference. Its fundamental educational value alone would Justify it. It marks an important epoch in history. and will have a tremendous effect upon the thought and feeling of the present and the future. EDWIN P. MORROW, Governor of Kentucky. The youth of America, its boys and girls, should watch with the keenest interest and the fullest understanding the ever.shifting scene of the Disarmament Con- ference, to the end that they may forever say. *I beheld the progress of the_event which took fear and distrust out of the hearts of nations and brought confidence in each otlier to nations and a newer sense of brotherliood to_the Peopies of the earth.” JOHN M. PARKER, Governor of Louisiana. The nation, and especially coming men and women, as represented by our school children, should carefully study this Conference. PERCIVAL P. BAXTER, Governor of Maine. As Governor of Maine and head of the School Department I have urged both superintendents and teachers to have their classes study and follow the pro- . 1 consider this Conference the greatest ing_generation should become conversant with the discussion that takes place A “careful daily study of the Conference proceedings will teach world history, geography, economics and politics, and will give our students a wide range of information. The importance of such a program cannot be overstated. J. A. 0. PREUS, Governor of Minnesota. The Conference on Limitation of Armaments is the most important gathering in many decades, and every student who desires a complete knowledge of history must read and watch its proceedings. 7 HE AMERICAN must be the preservers The Presidents and Cabinet SCHOOL CHILDREN ~ " MONDAY. DECEMBER 5, 192 OF TODAY of World Peace to-morrow. Members, the Senators and Congressmen, the Preachers and Editors, and all the great leaders of thought and action who will control the destinies of America and of the world are studyving at this very moment of the Nation. They are preparing — we who [ ” to-morrow” dawns in the schoolrooms when plan their studies, we who teach them are preparing them — for the great tasks we must soon turn over to them. Their minds and hearts must be filled with the great lessons from the living present. The greatest moment of their lives, for learning, is THIS MOMENT. The greatest opportunity that ever came or ever can come to them for learning the political and eco- nomic history of the world, and of their own country in its relation to the rest of the world, has come to them now in the great Washington. The Literary Digest has Conference of Nations received which is meeting in telegrams from the Governors of forty-one of the forty-eight States of the United States calling upon the teachers and school children of ings, from beginning to end, Conference, which the America to give earnest study day by day to the proceed- of the great Disarmament Governor of Florida characterizes as “the mountain peak in the political and economic history of the modern world.” These telegrams are here printed as an urgent message to the schools of the Nation. : ALBERT C. RITCHIE, Governor of Maryland. T heartily urge the scheol children of America to study the pro- ceedings of the Disarmament Conference as they devel day. No such opportuuity for learning the political and econom: history of the world, the hopes and ambitions of i peoples, has ev been presented. It is a rare privilege that is afforded us. ¢ be no greater or broader educational advantage than to study intently the proceedings of the Conference. CHANNING H. COX, Governor of Massachusetts. In the Armament Conference the political and economic history of the modern world is to be studied, 1 can conceive of no better way 1o train the citizens of tomorrow for the discharge of their most im- portant duties than by encouraging their study of the proceedings of the great Conference. ALEX. J. GROESBECK, Governor of Michigan. Our boys and girls should closely follow the proccedings at Wi jngton and_thus take advantage of a wonderful opportunity to s history in its making. ARTHUR M. HYDE, Governor of Missouri. The history of the Washington Conference should be studied from both the political and the economic side by the school children of America. There can be no better way to train citizenship than by the study of the history and the present conditions. political, economic and social. of the other nations of the world. The study of the pro- ceedings of the Conference will be of vast educational value to the school children of America and to the citizensiip of the future. TO the FATHERS and This message comes to you with the challenge of a great opportunity for your boys and girls. It presses upon you a personal responsibility to see that they do not lose the benefits of tlps wonderful opportunity to fit themselves in the broadest way for their future citizenship. Take the matter up personally with their teachers and with the' principals of their schools. Urge it through your Parents’ Associations. The Literary Digest is helping all it can, not only by printing this Message of the Governors in hundreds of the leading- dailies of the country from Maine to California, but also by publishing in its own pages every week a JOSEPH M. DIXON, Governor of Montana. The Disarmament Conference marks a mile stone in world history. The public schools and colleges of the country can perform mo greater service to the nation than that of giving courses. during the sitting of the Washington Conference, to their students regarding the great ques- tions involved. — If we can fully impress upon the minds of these young. people the tremendous danger involved and the impelling necessity for world_disarmament, the possibilities of futare war will be greatly uced. SAMUEL R. McKELVIE, Governor of Nebraska. School and college students should keep carefully informed of the work of the Disa; Conference. The facts that will be deduced out of the discussion there are of tremendous importance to our national life. A knowledge of national conditions is a prime requi- site of good citizenship, and of almost equal importance is & knowledge of international affairs. EMMIT D. BOYLE, Governor of Nevada. 1 heartily approve your suggestion that the school children studs cotemporary history in” the making at the Arms Conference. The movement is an educative one and should extend to the children, upou whose intelligence and sense of justice the future of the mation rests. MERRITT C. MECHEM, Gov. of New Mexico. 1 think it vitally important to instruet the youth of the country rela- tive to the great historical event now transpiring at the Washington Dis- armsment Conference. Our children should be helped to understand thoroughly what is being done to prevent a recurrence of the horrible world tragedy we are now emerging from, MOTHERS 1. NATHAN L. MILLER, Governer of New York. 1 strougly recommend to the teachers and the Loys and girls of New York the earnest study of the proceedings of the Disarma; Conference which alreads gives such promise of a new era. Tie rising generation should be tanght the les of {his Conference and be made’ to understand the high aims and unselfish purposes of America. EDWARD I. EDWARDS, Governor of New Jersey. of Next to the movement which resul th world powers at Washington 1o discuss the most. power men is vour ear: their elders in study] they muy be thorougils trust, through the medium of around the world and do more than any ofher human age suspicion with trust and confidence, thus removing the primary getting an era of good will. R. A. NESTOS, Governor of North Dakota. Every student should secure as full and accurate knowl work of “the confere will help as sei meaning to the events o i the spirit of this Conference, eace. J. B. A. ROBERTSON, Governor of Oklahoma. The Limitation of Armaments Conference through its deliberations the se of war and b ax possible of the will _accomplish eal survey of the ever be achieved ed ax a part of the in all our sehools, colieges and universities in order that the rising genera- fully educated upon the cost and folly of war. BEN W. OLCOTT, Governor of Oregon. If success Is achieved at Disarmament Conference, as it now ap history will liold no record of achievement for world good cqual to History may hold nothing more vital for the study of our youths and all c than the progressive steps of this gathering. WILLIAM C. SPROUL, Governor of Pennsyl;'ania. 1 am calling upon the fifty thousand public schiool teachers in Penn lead their students into the stody of the procecdings of the grest Washington in the belief that they will thus see in the making histor which may lead to results comparable only to the promised millennium and good will. . EMERY J. SAN SOUCI, Governor of Rhode Island. The President should receive the support assure permanent peace to the world. The sc the proceedings of the Conference so that the co: 2id in the cause of permanent peace. ROBERT A. COOPER, Governor of South Carolina. Study of the proceedings of the rmament Co enlighten the public concerning national _affy with a sense of justice, is essential for the proper solution of «u ' between nations. - Many stupid blunders and cosily wars bLave resuited beeause the general public was not informed. The proceedings of the Conference should be studied in all schools. W. H. McMASTER, Governor of South Dakota. May the school children of America study every phase. act and utterance of the Disarmament Confereuce. Every detail and circumstance of the Conference should be a vital part of the daily study and thought of the twenty million school children of America. ALFRED A. TAYLOR, Governor of Tennessee. There can be no better way to train the citizens of tomorrow for the discharge of their most fmportant duties than by encovraging them to study the proceedings of the great Conference now in session at Washinzton. That Conference will deal with the political and economic history of the whole world, and its study and & discussion of these subjects will afford a s e of enlightenment on matters of vital concern and a fund of knowledge of i of boys and girls when tiiey are at the he PAT M. NEFF, Governor of Texas. The histors that is now being made by the Disarmament Couference at Wash- ington will be frequently referred to by writers, speakers and thinkers for genera It constitutes an_epoch-making milepost that ine The students of today, who are to be the men morrow, should have as a part of their daily curriculum the d this world-wide conference, as it sceks to turn the tide of o the war-wrecked shores of the past CHARLES R. MABEY, Governor of Utah. The Disarmament Conference constitutes a landmark in luman progress the significance of which cannot vet be conceived.. Ry. all meaus. let .ux .study earnestly its deliberations that understanding among aii pesples may be tie result. ® * @ i t the youth of the nation comprehend the full meaning Vil i will best be ideas < it shall b, 1y evers American in his efforix fn children especially shonld atndy g generation may be well iteed 1o Enlighte imable value to the rising generation ed proceedings of zation away from 1t is essential to posterity 1 and purposes of the gathering. prepared to perpetuate now being proposed. LOUIS F. HART, Governor of Washington. There is much trath in the argument that human nature will have to undergo a change before war can be eliminated. * ¥ * A ning has been made—a bold, fearless step. such as an unselfish nation States might be expected to take. but after all its greatest value is educational—tie problem remains for future gemcrations. By all means let the children of the land study ciosely the Disarmament Conference. E. F. MORGAN, Governor of West Virginia. The International Conference on Limitation of Armament, with political and economic discussions concerning far east problems. gives to American students unparalleled opportunities to study and acquaint themselves with world probleds an understanding of which will be of great service to their nation in the com- ing years. JOHN J. BLAINE, Governor of Wisconsin. The study of the mews of the Armament Conference in conmection wit political and economic history of the world and the causes of war will gi enlightened future generations in aid of World Peace. ROBERT D. CAREY, Governor of Wyoming. The history of the Disarmament Conference should be impressed upon the minds of the school children of America. The United States leads in a movement that promises more for the peace of the world than any gathering since the dawn of ki Through our ational Department 1 very phase of the Conferen inception to final adjournment. inds of the stadents of the ni upon the proceedings of the Conference, the chief actors will feel a centive to make thelr conclusions conform to the dominant will of the peoples of the earth. of AMERICA careful review and explanation of the Proceedings of the Arms Conference, together with opinions regarding it from all over the world. The Governor of Montana was moved to telegraph a few days ago that “the last number of The Literary Digest was a veritable treasure-house of information regarding the scope and possibilities of this historic Interna- tional Conference.” Five hundred thousand school children already are studying The Liter- ary Digest in their classrooms, and the fullest co-operation is provided to enable all others to enjoy the same benefit. ] i § i » § 4 ] | oy