Educating Children about War 1921

TO EDUCATE THE NEXT GENERATION AGAINST WAR

GREAT WARS RECUR at intervals that suggest that they are started by new generations who have forgotten the evils of the conflicts fought by their fathers. The present generation seems fully determined that wars shall cease, but in a few decades new hands will be at the helm. Will they carry on the anti-war crusade, or will they embark on new conflicts with new inventions that will devastate humanity? To help forestall such a failure of our great peace endeavor, Governor Cox of Massachusetts makes the inspiring suggestion that all college and school students in his State follow the doings of the Armament Conference as part of their education, and to extend the benefit of this idea throughout America, we at once telegraphed the Governor of every State for his opinion of it. Replies have come from all but a very few, who may be absent from home or prevented by other reasons, and all are filled with an enthusiasm that insures the success of this far-reaching plan. Some had even forestalled the Massachusetts Governor in calling upon their schools to study the Conference. Governor Cox said in his message:

“In the Armament Conference the political and economic history of the modern world is to be studied. All of us hope that the future political and economic history of the world may be given new direction as the result of it. I can conceive of no better way to train the citizens of to-morrow for the discharge of their most important duties than by encouraging their study of the proceedings of the great Conference.”

The messages of the other Governors follow, arranged geographically:

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