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Editorial NotesSource: The Advocate of Peace (1894-1920), Vol. 74, No. 10 (NOVEMBER, 1912), pp. 236-237Published by: World Affairs InstituteStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/20666556 .

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236 THE ADVOCATE OF PEACE. November,

Editorial Notes.

^ j j It is a tribute to the essential great

Sympathy. ness an<? dignity of human nature that in times of sudden misfortune and

calamity the spirit of criticism and abuse is nearly

always silenced and that of sympathy and of helpful ness aroused to active exercise. How wonderful the world would be if men would only always behave them

selves as they do on these special occasions! An at

tempt was made to assassinate former President Roose

velt on the street in Milwaukee by a would-be murderer, on Monday evening, October 14. The ex-President was on his way to deliver an address. After being shot and

severely wounded, he insisted upon going on and deliver

ing the address. Afterwards he was hurried to the

local hospital, and then, on advice of the surgeons, ?taken

to the Mercy Hospital in Chicago, where his condition was pronounced serious, but not fatal. On October 21

he was carried by special train to his home at Oyster

Bay, where, at the time of this writing, he is resting and

doing well. The reports from his bedside are all favor

able to his recovery. With every citizen who believes

in law and order and detests the spirit of brutal vio

lence, we express our profound regret that the lives of our prominent men in enlightened America are still

liable to be put in jeopardy by the passions of lawless

men, and our heartfelt gratitude that in this instance

the design of the assassin failed. Mr. Roosevelt has our

sincerest sympathy.

The Committee on Armaments of

Armaments ^e ^eneva Peace Congress reported the following resolutions, which were

unanimously adopted. The whole Congress seemed to feel deeply the gravity of the present "armed peace" and the perils involved in it :

I. The 19th Universal Peace Congress, meeting at Geneva September 23 to 28, 1912, solemnly reaffirms the conviction frequently expressed by previous peace con gresses and conferences, that the time has fully come when the governments of the world should without delay enter upon the serious study of the problem of limita tion of armaments, with the view of trying to find means of arresting the present rivalry in preparations for war.

The burdens laid by these preparations on the people have increased until they are well nigh unendurable, and the resulting social dissatisfaction and unrest are grow ing more and more acute.

Nor has the danger of conflict among the armed powers decreased with the increase of the weapons of war, but it has rather grown more threatening.

It is the duty of the powers to relieve without delay their peoples from the immense burdens laid upon them

by the great and growing armaments and to save them selves from the danger of explosion and conflict which is becoming continually more threatening.

The Congress has learned with the greatest satisfac

tion that the cause of peace has made sufficient progress in the United States to bring that country to restrict its program of naval construction and to add to its navy this year but one battleship, instead of two or more, as heretofore. It recommends this attempt at spontaneous limitation of armament to the attention of all the paci fists, and confidently hopes that each of them will make an earnest effort to secure similar initial results in his

country. * The Congress respectfully urges the govern

ments to place the subject of limitation of armaments on the program of the Third Hague Conference and to

provide for careful study of the subject in advance either

by special commissions or otherwise. II. The International Peace Bureau at Berne is re

quested to invite the small powers of Europe (beginning with Belgium, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, The Nether lands, Portugal, and Switzerland) to approach collect

ively the great powers with the view of inducing them to cease to increase their armaments, and later to reduce them.

A farewell dinner was given to Dr.

?r i^o?le g?eS and Mrs. Hamilton Wright Mabie on

to Japan. ?

the evening of October 22, at the Hotel Astor, New York. It was presided over by Dr. Butler. There were about three hundred very repre sentative people present and the speaking was of a high order. Among the speakers were Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler, president of Columbia University; Dr. John H.

Finley, president of the College of the City of New

York; Mr. Hamilton Holt, managing editor of the

Independent; Mr. Y. Numano, Consul-General from

Japan; Dr. Henry Van Dyke, of Princeton University; Dr. Talcott Williams, director of the School of Journal ism of Columbia University, and Dr. Mabie. Dr. Mabie

goes to Japan for a lecture tour in the interest of the Division of Intercourse and Education of the Carnegie Endowment. Dr. Mabie has been associate editor of the Outlook, New York, since 1879. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, presi dent of the New York Kindergarten Association, and trustee of Williams College. As a public speaker he has made a national reputation, and as an author of books and essays on serious literary subjects he is favor

ably known to all readers of English. Dr. Mabie will

visit the principal cities and universities of Japan. The

general subject of his lectures will be, "The American

Spirit, Ideals, and Character." His purpose is to in

terpret the x\merican historically and as he is today. This lecture tour is in return for the visit to American universities made last year by Dr. Inazo Nitobe. who

rendered a great service to the American people by giv ing them an intimate view of the new Japan in lectures delivered at Brown University, Columbia University. Johns Hopkins University, the University of Virginia, the University of Illinois, the University of Minnesota, and before many commercial, scientific, and literary societies.

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1912 THE ADVOCATE OF PEACE. 237

At the Congress of the Association

Cow^SSm for International Conciliation, held at Heidelberg, October 5-7, 1912, the fol

lowing resolution in regard to the celebration of the hundred years of peace among English-speaking peoples was adopted. The resolution was introduced by Senator d'Estournelles de Constant and supported by Professor

Nippold: The Congress addresses its warmest felicitations to

the English-speaking peoples on account of the approach ing celebration of the centenary of peace which has ex

isted between them since 1815. It calls attention to the fact that this peace of a cen

tury, following long years of war and hostile feelings, has been maintained not by great armaments, but, on

THE UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA WHERE THE PEACE CONGRESS WAS HELD.

the contrary, by a treaty, the provisions of which have

been faithfully observed along a frontier of more than

five thousand kilometers, without a fort, without a can

non, without a vessel of war.

It congratulates the English-speaking peoples on hav

ing, as a result, settled by pacific agreements all the

grave disputes which have arisen between them during the century, and on having, notably, adjusted by arbitra tion the Alabama dispute, that of the Behring's Sea

fisheries, that of the Newfoundland fisheries, etc., etc. And it calls to the attention of the statesmen of the

Old World this great historic accomplishment as an ex

ample of what the relations among the European States

might be if they would renounce the whole policy of

antagonism and of violence, and give themselves to pro moting their national interests in a spirit of conciliation and international justice.

What the Peace Organizations Are

Doing. The Connecticut Peace Society held its first meeting

of the fall on October 14. Wilbur Fiske Gordy, the well known educator and historian, was elected president of the society in place of Arthur D. Call, resigned. Secre tary Rodney W. Roundy was elected Representative Director of the American Peace Society to fill the va cancy made by the resignation of Mr. Call. The workers in Connecticut are about to issue a valuable booklet covering essential facts relating to the peace movement in Connecticut, to the history of the peace movement in general, and to the aims and methods of the propaganda in that State.

The Nebraska Peace Society arranged a number of successful meetings in September in honor of the Baron

ess von Suttner, of Vi enna. The Baroness was in Lincoln two days,

where she spoke before the Commercial Club, the Social Service Club, the Woman's Club, and an audience of about 1,000 at St. Paul's Church. She gave an ad dress also in Omaha. The Wisconsin Peace Society and the Georgia Peace Society are also to enter tain the Baroness soon.

President John B. Olmsted, Vice-President J. M. Lamed, and Secre tary Frank F. Williams, of the Buffalo Peace and Arbitration Society, ad dressed the Buffalo Min isters' Association, Sep tember 30. The speak ers proposed that each church of the city become an associate member of the Buffalo society, and

that a peace committee of three be appointed from each church to meet regularly with the peace society. The matter has been referred to the social service committee, with instructions to report at the next meeting of the Association. It is probable that the committee will take favorable action.

Dr. J. J. Hall, director of our South Atlantic States

Department, has opened headquarters at 1201 Empire Building, Atlanta, Ga. He plans to organize the work of the American Peace Society in Virginia, North Caro lina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, and Alabama as

rapidly as possible. He has also been chosen the Corre

sponding Secretary of the Georgia Peace Society, with

headquarters at Atlanta.

The Pennsylvania Arbitration and Peace Society has been doing a most effective work at the Pennsylvania Chautauqua meetings during the season just closed. It is proposed to follow up this work vigorously with sec tional organizations during the coming winter.

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