1909] Efforts for Peace 



words of Hodler, the Swiss worker, "this opportunist 

 pacifism was not devoted to peace and its constructive 

 possibilities; it was merely nationalism sweetened, 

 tempered, and enfeebled a thin veil drawn across 

 nationalism." 



While at the Congress at Chicago in 1909, 1 met for jane 

 the first time Miss Jane Addams, we two being judges Addams 

 in an intercollegiate oratorical contest on the subject 

 of world peace. This was the beginning of an endur- 

 ing friendship, and in all my experience I have 

 known few lives as sane and helpful as that of 

 the mistress of Hull House. Later, during my visit to 

 Boston in connection with the Foundation, I pre- 

 sided at a meeting of the School Peace League estab- 

 lished by Mrs. Fannie Fern Andrews, a tireless and Fannie 

 capable worker for conciliation both in America and ^ 



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Lurope, with whom in various ways I have been most 

 pleasantly associated. 



On January 19, 1910, my (fifty-ninth) birthday, The jor- 

 a group of Stanford naturalists formed the "Jordan danClub 

 Club" for field study in the region round about. 

 I regret not having shared more rambles with these 

 congenial spirits; but through Dr. Isabel McCracken, 

 assistant professor of Entomology, the first president 

 of the club, Mrs. Jordan and I try to keep somewhat 

 in touch with them. 



In 1910 I published my already mentioned little McNair 

 volume entitled "The Stability of Truth" made up of lectures 

 addresses given on the James Calvin McNair Foun- 

 dation before the University of North Carolina at 

 Chapel Hill during the administration of Dr. Francis 

 P. Venable. The book deserved more of a sale than 



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