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Among the Peace OrganizationsSource: The Advocate of Peace (1894-1920), Vol. 77, No. 2 (FEBRUARY, 1915), pp. 29-30Published by: World Affairs InstituteStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/20667130 .

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1915 THE ADVOCATE OF PEACE. 29

University, and was its treasurer and one of its trustees. The Board of Trustees of the American College for

Girls, in Constantinople, had her for its president. Her

instrumentality in founding the National Consumers'

League and the State Charities Aid Association is also

widely acknowledged. She first became actively con nected with the international peace movement at the time of the First National Peace Congress, in New York

City, in 1907. Since that time she had been a warm friend of the work of the American Peace Society, send

ing each year to the secretary a liberal contribution.

American The Socialist Party is launching a Socialists nation-wide propaganda in the interests and Peace.

of disarmament and world peace. A

strong peace program has been adopted by the National Executive Committee and a proposed manifesto issued. The first draft of this appeared in The American So cialist of December 26. The manifesto and program will be submitted to the International Committee as

well, and it is hoped that united action may be secured on constructive measures to bring about permanent in ternational peace. The Socialist Party is interesting itself especially in the economic causes of war and the economic phases of the problem. Their program in cludes the following six main points, with subtopics:

1. Terms of peace at the close of the war. 2. Interna tional federation. 3. National disarmament. 4. Extension of democracy. 5. Radical social changes in all countries to eliminate the economic causes of war. 6. Immediate action.

Among the Peace Organizations. On Wednesday, January 6, at 10 a. m., an extraor

dinary session of the International Peace Bureau was held at Berne. This meeting was called at the request of the required number of members, and the urgency of the occasion seemed to demand the attempt to hold the

meeting. A report will be given in due time of the discussions and the results of the session.

The American Association for International Concili ation in its report for the quarter ending December, 1914, states that there is, since the outbreak of the war, an increasing demand for its publications. Thirty-two additional colleges and schools and several Y. M. C. A/s have requested documents to use in class-work. The Association has published the official war documents, as far as it has been able to secure these, from both sides in the conflict. It has published also a collection of war cartoons and a collection of war poems, besides articles on the "Lessons of the War," by Nicholas M. Butler, and on "Disarmament," by Hamilton Holt. At tention is called to the existence of International Polity Clubs at five of the great universities and to the fact that the Association is now devoting part of its resources to the organization of similar clubs in other colleges and universities in America.

Dr. Leo S. Bowe, professor of political science at the University of Pennsylvania and one of the representative directors of the American Peace Society, has recently

completed his lectures at the National University of La Plata, in Argentina. He gave two courses of lectures to the university students?one on international law and one on municipal problems?besides a series of public addresses. Dr. Rowe has the honorary degree of LL. D. from La Plata University. Since concluding his lec tures he has been making an extensive tour of Chile and Peru, encouraging more intimate friendship and under

standing between our country and Latin America.

A series of four Sunday afternoon lectures on "The War and the New World Order" will be given by Prof.

Jay William Hudson under the auspices of the Educa tion Committee of the Massachusetts Peace Society in Tremont. Temple, Boston, in February. These meetings, which will be held at 3 p. m., are free to all interested in the positive and constructive ideas underlying the peace movement as it exists today.

The subjects are as follows: February 7, "The Eise of a New World Order;" chairman, Eev. Edward A. Horton; February 14, "How the War Affects the Aver age Man;" chairman, Hon. Albert E. Pillsbury; Febru ary 21, "America's Message to Europe;" chairman, Presi dent L. H. Murlin, Boston University; February 28, "After the War?What?" chairman, Dr. Frederick W. Hamilton.

The Dutch Anti-War Council is continuing its active

propaganda throughout Holland and is endeavoring to secure wide-spread co-operation in other countries. On December 15 large mass-meetings were held simulta

neously in the chief towns of Holland, the common aim of the meetings being to create a strong public opinion in the neutral States in favor of securing a lasting and durable peace at the close of the war. Eesolutions were carried at these meetings providing for (1) co-operation between States, (2) limitation of armament by interna tional agreement, (3) a share by the representatives of the people in the peace negotiations, (4) no transference of territory against the will of the people, and (5) new

steps toward obligatory arbitration and inquiry into in ternational disputes. The meetings were of a strictly neutral character, and great stress was laid on the ne

cessity for a mutual spirit of appreciation and co-opera tion to take the place of animosity and antagonism between the nations.

Under date of January 8, the Secretary of the New York Peace Society writes that a group of young men jonnected with the New York Peace Society have formed themselves into a "World Federation Society" for the discussion of international subjects. They hold their meetings at 8 p. m., on the first and" third Satur days of each month, in the Annex Club Eoom at the 23d Street Y. M. C. A. All young men interested in such discussions are invited to attend the meetings, and read ers of the Advocate of Peace who cannot be present are invited to express their views by letter on subjects under consideration. Eecent subjects discussed include the following: "Tha.t any citizen of one nation, accused of committing criminal acts against either the person or

property of citizens or the government of any other nation, shall, with the exception of cases satisfactorily dealt with in the municipal courts, be tried before an international criminal court"; and "That no country or province be transferred from one government to another without the consent, by plebiscite, of the population of such country or province."

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30 THE ADVOCATE OF PEACE. February,

The twenty-seventh annual report of the Peace and Arbitration Department of the National Woman's Chris tian Temperance Union has just been issued by the de

voted superintendent, Mrs. Hannah J. Bailey. Reports from the department superintendents in twenty of the

States are included. Much valuable propaganda work

has been carried on, including the distribution of litera

ture, the giving of lectures, holding public meetings, and the promotion of peace work in the schools, clubs, and churches. Mrs. Bailey urgently recommends that the utmost influence be exerted to secure the election to Congress of those who will support peace measures

and who will especially favor the limitation of arma

ments.

The American Peace Society of Japan held a meeting in Tokio on December 17, at which it decided to appoint a committee of fifteen Americans who reside in Japan to investigate and draw up a statement regarding the various questions of the relations between that country and the United States. The society especially desires to correct the reports of Japan's hostile intentions towards us.

The trustees of the Church Peace Union have issued the first of a series of papers in which the problems of

peace and war will be considered from the religious point of view, and the church's message to the world will be emphasized. Dr. Charles E. Jefferson has writ ten the first pamphlet, entitled "The Cause of the War." Others in the series will be: "The Midnight Cry," by Dr. David H. Greer; "The Way to Disarm," by Hamil ton Holt; "The Church's Mission as to War and Peace,"

by Dr. Julius Remensnyder, etc.

At a meeting in St. Paul, under the joint auspices of the Minnesota Peace Society, the Women's Clubs of the

city, and the Association of Commerce, Frau Rosika

Schwimmer, of Hungary, made a stirring appeal to her hearers to use every influence in their power to stay the

struggle in Europe and bring about a permanent peace. She warned Americans Jo check the growing demand for increased armaments in this country. A resolution em

bodying Frau Schwimmer's proposal was presented by Miss Ella Patterson, and adopted by the meeting.

The Canadian Peace Centenary Association has issued a program of Thanksgiving services, to be held in the Canadian churches on Sunday, February 14, commem

orating the hundred years of peace between the British

Empire and the United States. The pamphlet contains a brief historical statement, letters from various church leaders of Canada, suggestive programs for church and

Sunday-school services, responsive readings, and hymns.

Brief Peace Notes. . . . The British Council of Churches, which together

with the German organization was doing such excellent work before the war to foster friendly relations between the two peoples, has issued a letter, signed by the Secre

tary, W. H. Dickinson, in which it is stated that their

organ, The Peacemaker, has been discontinued for the

present. The executive committee has decided that the council will have to refrain from all corporate action at the present time. The letter continues:

"During the clash of arms the voice of friendship can

hardly be heard; but when the struggle is over the occasion

may arise when it will be possible to repair the friendship which has been so grievously shattered and perhaps to base

it on a more secure foundation. The Council's organization may then prove to be of great value, and with this view the

committee consider that every effort should be made to keep it in being.

"The committee feel sure that every member of the British

Council has witnessed with the most sincere grief the rup ture between England and Germany. But the hope of better

things must not be abandoned, and though the Associated Councils will have to wait, they may still look to a time

when their peoples shall be reconciled and the true brother hood of nations universally accepted."

... The Socialist peace conference, which was finally held at Copenhagen, Denmark, January 17-18, was very poorly attended, owing largely to the difficulties of

travel, etc. Representatives of Denmark, Norway, Swe

den, Holland, and Italy were present. Morris Hillquit, who was to have attended from the United States, was unable to go. The Danish Socialist leader, Mr. Staun

ing, presided. The aim of the conference was to devise means for ending the war and to influence the people of the neutral countries to exert themselves for a settlement which shall guarantee lasting peace. It is hoped soon to secure a general meeting of Socialists from all countries.

. . . One of our earnest and active peace workers, Mr. Isaac Mason, who has for twenty-three years been a mis

sionary in West China, has just passed through this

country on his return to his field of labor after a year's furlough in England. -He has been liberated by his Board to devote more time to literary work in connection with the Christian Literature Society of Shanghai, China, and expects to give a large share of his attention to peace literature. He has already translated into Chi nese Dr. Trueblood's "Federation of the World," and will have it published very soon. Mr. Mason hopes the time will soon be ripe for the starting of a China Peace

Society similar to the Peace Society which is doing such active work in Japan. . . . An important meeting of the Governing Board of the Pan-American Union, which is made up of the Sec

retary of State of this country and the diplomatic repre sentatives of the Latin-American countries, was held on December 8 in the Pan-American building at Washing ton, D. C, to discuss questions of the rights of neutrals and other similar problems growing out of the present situation. The Board resolved to appoint a special com

mission of nine members, with the Secretary of State as

chairn;an, to "study the problems presented by the pres ent European war," and to "submit to the Governing Board the suggestions it may deem of common interest." The Commission consists of Mr. Bryan, the ambassadors from Brazil, Chile, and Argentina, and the ministers from Uruguay, Honduras, Peru, Ecuador, and Cuba. This Commission has asked all the Latin-American gov ernments to present through their representatives any propositions they may wish to have considered, that all

may have a chance to co-operate in securing measures that will improve existing conditions.

. . . Growing out of a desire that the Society of Friends should emphasize most strongly at the present crisis their testimony against war, and also protest against the concerted movement now being carried on in favor of greater preparedness for national defense, all

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