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British Peace SocietySource: The Advocate of Peace (1894-1920), Vol. 73, No. 6 (JUNE, 1911), pp. 140-141Published by: World Affairs InstituteStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/20666222 .

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140 THE ADVOCATE OF PEACE. June,

These clubs will, among other things, work for a more

enlightened treatment of the immigrants who flock to our shores in thousands.

A further fruit of cosmopolitanism at our universi ties is the recent collection undertaken in fourteen large institutions of learning under the auspices of our Asso ciation to help relieve the starving Chinese. Over two thousand dollars have already been turned over to the

secretary of the Eed Cross, and the collection has not

yet been quite completed. A Hindu student at the

University of Washington, who had himself witnessed famine in its direst form in his native country, was touched by the accounts of the Chinese famine stricken, and at once asked our Board of Directors to issue a

general appeal to the universities and colleges at which we have chapters to start all-university movements for the collection of funds. In most institutions that re

sponded mass meetings of the student bodies were held, and all-university committees organized to take up a

general collection. The zeal with which especially the

Japanese students took up the relief work is highly com

mendable, in view of the strained relations that yellow journals try to make out to exist between Chinese and J ap ese.

At the present writing many of our clubs are making elaborate preparations for the reception of the visiting baseball teams of Waseda and Keio Universities, Japan, who are touring the country as contestants for baseball honors. Our clubs feel that the visiting foreigners be

long peculiarly to them, and they want to leave noth

ing undone to make the stay of their world brothers

pleasant. Baron D'Estournelles de Constant, during his recent

lecture tour, was the guest of a number of the chapters. At the University of Wisconsin he spoke feelingly of the profound impression the cosmopolitan movement

made upon him as an agency for world peace. "Minia ture Hague conferences" he termed our local groups.

As in other years, Peace Day, May 18, was again ob served by a number of the chapters.

Four official delegates are to represent our Associa tion at the Seventh International Congress of Students to be held at Rome during the first week of September :

George W. Nasmyth, Cornell; M. C. Otto, A. H. Ochs ner, and Louis P. Lochner, Wisconsin. In addition, a number of visiting delegates are to attend. At this meeting of the students of the world the final details of an affiliation of the Association of Cosmopolitan Clubs with the Corda Fratres of Europe and South America, under whose auspices the Congress is called, are to be discussed and, let us hope, brought to a satisfactory end.

Church League for Peace.

Rev. C. R. Skinner, of Mt. Vernon, . Y., sends us

the following account of a meeting held in that city on

April 21, with a view to initiating an organization of all the religious forces of the countrty into a church league of peace :

On Friday afternoon, April 21, a conference was held in New York by representativees of six denominations

who took initial steps toward the organization of all the

religious forces of the country into a church league for peace. This league has been for a long time in the

minds of three men under whose auspices the meeting was held: Rev. Clarence R. Skinner, Universalist; Mr.

Henry Haviland and Mr. Hollingsworth Wood, Friends. Rev. Mr. Skinner acted as chairman and stated the

purpose of the conference briefly as follows :

"Although the Church-has always exerted its influ ence for peace, its action has been too spasmodic, dis concerted and vague to be of the highest effectiveness. There are over thirty million members of Christian churches in America, besides other millions of adherents and sympathizers. This splendid army needs only a closer union in the interests of peace to become a tre mendous power in the propaganda of education and in the influence which it could exert upon legislation. And such a union would entail but slight, if any, additional

machinery. "Each denomination could appoint some of its promi

nent social workers to constitute a peace commission.

Many churches already have paid secretaries for social work who could serve in this capacity. Such a commis sion could appoint one person, minister or layman, in each individual church in its denomination, who would be ready to distribute literature, obtain petitions and memorials and in every way promote the cause of peace. When all the churches of the land have become thus or

ganized they could be marshaled at short notice into concerted action for specific causes, at a word from the Central Committee.

"The churches ought to do this in hearty co-operation with all existent peace societies, but they should under take this great task because they of necessity stand for peace, and they should undertake it from their own initiative."

As a result of the conference, each denomination rep resented is to be petitioned to take this matter up for action, and another and larger conference will soon be held.

British Peace Society. At the ninety-fifth annual meeting of the British

Peace Society held in the Guildhall, London, on the 18th of May, under the presidency of the Lord Mayor of London, the following resolutions were adopted :

1. This annual meeting of the Peace Society ex presses its hearty satisfaction at the progress which has been made during the existence of the Peace Society, extending over nearly a century, towards the judicial organization of the world, particularly the adoption of the principle of international arbitration, and also on account of the gratifying and hopeful outlook at the present time.

It welcomes especially the proposals to form a perma nent agreement between the English-speaking peoples to refer all possible differences that may arise to the pro cess of pacific settlement, thus withdrawing the rela tions which may subsist between them from the arena of possible conflict.

And it earnestly expresses the hope that their example may be speedily followed by the whole civilized world, and thus a new era of universal peace and prosperity may be initiated."

2. This meeting presents its cordial acknowledgment

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1911. THE ADVOCATE OF PEACE. 141

to the Lord Mayor and the corporation of the city of London for permission to use this historic building, and

especially to the former for his courtesy in presiding over this gathering.

It recognizes the fitness of the arrangement which admits of this meeting in the greatest commercial cen ter of the world, inasmuch as the connection between

peace and commerce is no longer a doubtful or debatable

matter, but is universally recognized. And it confidently anticipates that before long, as the

result of a better mutual understanding, and of the safe

guards furnished by international amity and agreement, it may be possible to divert those pecuniary expenditures which at present form such a crushing burden upon the industries and resources of nations, to the further devel

opment of commerce, and the amelioration of social and material conditions which are continually becoming more imperative and clamant.

International Arbitration and Peace Lecture Bureau, 31 Beacon Street, Boston.

The following persons may be secured to give ad dresses before public meetings, churches, schools, and other organizations, on international arbitration and peace. Those wishing their services should communi cate drectly with them as to dates and terms : Mrs. Fannie Fern Andrews, 405 Marlboro St., Boston. Rev. A. Eugene Bartlett, 2024 Washington Boulevard, Chi

cago. Rev. Charles E. Beals, 30 North La Salle St., Chicago. Franklin S. Blair, Guilford College, N. C. Raymond L. Bridgman, State House, Boston. E. Howard Brown, New Sharon, Iowa. Arthur Deerin Call, Hartford, Conn. W. C. Dennis, State Department, Washington. Rev. Charles F. Dole, Jamaica Plain, Mass. Miss Anna B. Eckstein, 29A Beacon St., Bostont Rev. Bradley Gilman, Canton Corner, Mass. Rev. J. J. Hall, D. D., Fayetteville, N. C. Prof. Benjamin H. Hibbard, Ames, Iowa. Hamilton Holt, 130 Fulton St, New York. Rev. William G. Hubbard, Goldsboro, N. C. K. S. Inui, Japanese Lecturer, 865 Second Ave., Detroit,

Mich.

NEW ENGLAND DEPARTMENT OF THE

AMERICAN PEACE SOCIETY, DEPOSITORY OF PEACE LITERATURE,

JAMES L. TRYON, Ph.D., Representative,

31 Beacon Street, Boston, Mass.

PACIFIC COAST DEPARTMENT OF THE

AMERICAN PEACE SOCIETY, DEPOSITORY OF PEACE LITERATURE,

ROBERT C. ROOT, Representative,

0. T. Johnson Building, Los Angeles, California.

CHICAGO HEADQUARTERS OF THE

AMERICAN PEACE SOCIETY, DEPOSITORY OF PEACE LITERATURE,

CHARLES E. BEALS, Field Secretary, 30 North La Salle Street.

Louis P. Lochner, 612 South Brearly St., Madison, Wis. Edwin D. Mead, 29A Beacon St., Boston. Rev. George L. Mason, 73 Church St., Water town, Mass. Lucia Ames Mead, 39 Newbury St., Boston. Dr. Ernest Richard, Columbia University, New York. Dr. William P. Rogers, Dean of the Law School, Cincinnati,

Ohio. Mrs. May Wright Sewall, 43 Summit Ave., Allston, Mass. George T. Smart, D. D., Newton Highlands, Mass. Prof. Bromley Smith, Bucknell University, Lewisburg, Pa. Dr. Homer B. Sprague, Newton, Mass. Dr. Benjamin F. Trueblood, Colorado Building, Washington,

D. C. James L. Tryon, Ph. D., 31 Beacon St., Boston.

Branches and Auxiliaries of the American Peace Society.

Branches :

The Peace Society of Southern California, 619 O. T. Johnson Building, Los Angeles, Cal.

Rev. Arthur S. Phelps, D. D., President. Robert C. Root, Secretary.

Section : The Redlands Peace Society. William C. Allen, President.

The Peace Society of Northern California, Berkeley, Cal. Hon. W. Almont Gates, President. Robert C. Root, Secretary-Treasurer.

The Utah Peace Society, Salt Lake City, Utah. Ex-Gov. John C. Cutler, President. J. M. Sjodahl, Secretary.

The New York Italian Peace Society. Hon. A. Zucca, President. Giovani Daniele, Secretary, 2039 First Ave., . Y.

The Connecticut Peace Society, Hartford, Conn. Arthur Deer in Call, President. Rev. R. W. Roundy, Secretary.

The Cleveland Peace Society, Cleveland, Ohio. Dr. Charles F. Thwing, President. Mrs. H. E. Hollingshead, Secretary.

The Buffalo Peace Society, Buffalo, . Y. John B. Olmsted, President. Frank F. Williams, Secretary.

The Peacemakers of Washington, Seattle, Wash. Charles F. Whaley, President. C. W. Scarff, Secretary.

The Chicago Peace Society, 30 North La Salle St. Leroy A. Goddard, President. Rev. Charles E. Beals, Secretary.

The Maryland Peace Society, Baltimore, Md. Theodore Marburg, President. Edward C. Wilson, Secretary.

The Massachusetts Peace Society, 31 Beacon Street, Boston, Mass.

Samuel B. Capen, LL. D., President. James L. Tryon, Ph. D., Secretary.

W. H. H. Bryant, Treasurer. The Georgia Peace Society, 312 Austell Bldg., Atlanta, Ga.

Dr. Henry C. White, President. Dr. George Brown, Secretary-Treasurer.

Auxiliaries :

The Kansas State Peace Society, Wichita, Kansas. Prof. W, P. Trueblood, President. Orman Emery, Secretary.

New York German-American Peace Society, New York, N. Y. Dr. Ernst Richard, President, 12 West 103d St. Heinrich Abeles, Secretary, 221 East 53d St. Henry Feldman, Treasurer, 380 East 149th St.

The Arbitration and Pea e Society of Cincinnati, 583 Considine Ave., Cincinnati, Ohio.

Dean William P. Rogers, President. G. W. Dubois, Secretary.

The Intercollegiate Peace Association. Dr. Charles F. Thwing, President, Cleveland, Ohio. Prof. Stephen F. Weston, Secretary, Yellow Springs,

Ohio. The Association of Cosmopolitan Clubs.

C. C. Wang, President, 1012 West Oregon St., Urbana, 111.

Louis P. Lochner, General Secretary, 414 North Henry St., Madison, Wis.

P. F. Mehary, Treasurer, 1012 Oregon St., Urbana, 111.

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