World Affairs Institute

Editorial NotesSource: The Advocate of Peace (1894-1920), Vol. 75, No. 2 (FEBRUARY, 1913), pp. 28-29Published by: World Affairs InstituteStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/20666623 .

Accessed: 13/05/2014 23:06

Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of the Terms & Conditions of Use, available at .http://www.jstor.org/page/info/about/policies/terms.jsp

.JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, and build upon a wide range ofcontent in a trusted digital archive. We use information technology and tools to increase productivity and facilitate new formsof scholarship. For more information about JSTOR, please contact support@jstor.org.

.

World Affairs Institute and Heldref Publications are collaborating with JSTOR to digitize, preserve and extendaccess to The Advocate of Peace (1894-1920).

http://www.jstor.org

This content downloaded from 193.104.110.26 on Tue, 13 May 2014 23:06:30 PMAll use subject to JSTOR Terms and Conditions

28 THE ADVOCATE OF PEACE. February,

Clubs forms one of the constituent national groups of the "Federation Internationale des f?tudiants 'Corda Fratres/" In fact, the eighth international congress of that federation is to be held under the auspices of the Cornell Cosmopolitan Club, August 29 to Septem ber 13 of this year, and is to be the largest world con

gress of students ever held. An evidence of the interest which this congress is commanding is to be found in the fact that the following men have agreed to serve on the honorary committee of the congress: President elect Woodrow Wilson; Governor-elect William Sulzer, of New York; U. S. Commissioner of Education P. P.

Claxton; Dr. Andrew D. White; Director-General John Barrett, of the Pan-American Union; Dr. Benj. P.

Trueblood, secretary of the American Peace Society; Director Edwin D. Mead, of the World Peace Founda tion; Mayor Wm. J. Gaynor, of New York; Prof. Sam uel T. Dutton, of Columbia University; Editor Hamil ton Holt, of the Independent, and the presidents of

practically all the universities at which there is a cos

mopolitan club. Features of the Philadelphia convention were a

scholarly address on 'Human Brotherhood," by Dr. W. E. B. DuBois, the noted negro educator; an interest

ing exposition of the international scope of the work of the World's Christian Student Federation by Charles D. Hurrey, one of John B. Mott's chief aides, and a warm-hearted welcome in behalf of the University of

Pennsylvania by the genial provost, Dr. Edgar F. Smith. At the annual banquet some of the noblest sentiments of brotherly love imaginable were given utterance by a Chinese, a Japanese, a Hindu, a Bohe mian, and an American?the foreign students bearing testimony to their appreciation of what American col

lege life is doing for them; the American emphasizing the inestimable good that the native student can gain by touching elbows with the man of different color, creed, and politics. On Sunday, December 29, promi nent citizens in the City of Brotherly Love opened their homes to the visiting delegates and entertained them at dinner.

For the coming year the presidency will be located at the University of Iowa, the Iowa Cosmopolitan hav ing been requested to elect the chief executive and the treasurer from its midst. Louis P. Lochner, of the

University of Wisconsin, for three years general secre

tary and editor of the Cosmopolitan Student, was re elected editor, but because of his heavy other duties was not a candidate for re-election to the secretaryship. Manual A. Gonzalez, president of the Cornell Cosmo

politan Club, was chosen general secretary. The clubs at the universities of Pennsylvania, Syracuse, Ohio State, and Illinois, at Iowa State College, and at the University of Washington, were commissioned to elect district vice-presidents from their midst. The next convention is to take place at Iowa City, Iowa.

Editorial Notes.

Senator Boot, on January 14, intro

Tollf BiIlR?0t S

duCed E b?1 Providing for ft* rePeal of the clause of the Panama Canal Act

which exempts our coastwise ships from paying tolls for

the use of the canal. On the 21st he spoke in support

of the bill, showing conclusively that the exemption clause ought to be repealed, as the legislation adopted last summer was, in his j udgment, in clear violation of the express terms of the Hay-Pauncefote treaty. This view is taken by a very large number of prominent jurists, public men, and leading newspapers of the

country. We have no doubt, from the information that has come to us, that the prevailing sentiment of the nation strongly demands that either this tolls action should be repealed or that the question of the interpre tation of the Hay-Pauncefote treaty should be promptly submitted to arbitration. Secretary Knox's reply to the British note of protest, though presenting the case for our Government in as strong a light as possible under the circumstances, is not likely to change the attitude of the British foreign office, which has given long and careful study to the subject. If this attitude remains

unchanged, then there is no honorable course open to us, as we have already said in previous issues, except either to repeal the exemption clause of the canal legislation or to send the controversy without delay to The Hague Court, or to some other form of tribunal which the two

governments may agree to set up. There is every rea

son why the Senate and House should act quickly and

not let the present Congress close without the question

being rightly disposed of.

Tolls Question ^ mass meeting> organized by the

to New York Peace Society and the Arbitration. Brooklyn Institute, was held in the

Brooklyn Academy of Music on Sunday afternoon, Jan

uary 12, to urge upon the Government to refer the Panama Canal tolls controversy to arbitration if an

agreement cannot be reached by diplomatic means. The

meeting, which was attended by 2,000 people, was pre sided over by Seth Low. The principal address was

made by Hon. James L. Slayden, Member of Congress from Texas. The other speakers were Dr. S. Parkes

Cadman, Eabbi Stephen S. Wise, and Dr. Talcott Wil

liams. The following resolutions, introduced by A. A.

Healy, president of the trustees of the Brooklyn Insti

tute, were adopted:

Whereas, a difference of opinion has developed be tween Great Britain and the United States in regard to the proper interpretation of the Hay-Pauncefote treaty, by virtue of which Great Britain waived the right, rec

ognized by an earlier treaty, to share with the United States in the construction of an interoceanic canal; and,

Whereas, this meeting is not prepared to judge as to the equity of the legislation enacted by Congress and

approved by President Taft, granting free tolls to American ships engaged in "coastwise trade" of the United States; and,

Whereas, a treaty of arbitration is in force between the United States and Great Britain, by which both governments have definitely agreed to submit to arbi

This content downloaded from 193.104.110.26 on Tue, 13 May 2014 23:06:30 PMAll use subject to JSTOR Terms and Conditions

1913 THE ADVOCATE OF PEACE. 29

tration at The Hague all differences arising under the construction of treaties; therefore, be it

Resolved, That this meeting, holding in reserve its

opinion on the merits of the question in dispute, em

phatically demands that, if the attempt to reach an

agreement by diplomatic means be unsuccessful, the set tlement of the controversy be referred, without hesita tion, to international arbitration; and,

Resolved, further, That this meeting calls upon all the churches, and on all organized bodies of men and women who favor goodwill and concord among nations, to adopt resolutions of a like tenor, to the end that the Government of the United States may know that the American people with this controversy settled honorably by mutual agreement, if possible, and, failing that, by arbitration.

mmr mra ^ Following the example set by their War Victims , ? , , r J

Relief Fund predecessors torty years ago m connec tion with the Franco-Prussian war, the

English Friends have created a War Victims' Belief Fund for the aid of the sufferers in the Balkan regions. This fund, which has now reached more than ten thou sand pounds and is continually growing through gifts of both British and American Friends, is being admin istered by a committee sent out from England, among whose membership Dr. J. Bendel Harris, Stephen Hob

house, James B. Crosfield, and Henry M. Wallis are

prominent. No discrimination is made in the distri bution of relief between the wounded and sick of the Allied armies and those of the Turkish forces. The scenes of suffering and distress with which the mem

bers of the committee have come in contact beggar de

scription. Between Tchatalja and Constantinople not a train passed up to the capital without sick soldiers on board, some of whom died on the way, and their

bodies were pitched out by the side of the track without even the train being stopped. In the Bulgarian vil

lages, where no business of any kind was doing because

the men had all gone to the front, the distress was very

great. In one town of 15,000 inhabitants no less than

4,000 were in need. Some days members of the relief committee have worked from 5 o'clock in the morning till long after midnight. Across the Bosporus, in Asia

Minor, whither more than fifty thousand Turks had

fled for refuge from the Allied armies, great suffering and want were also found among the women and chil

dren. All that this and other relief bodies, including the Bed Cross and the Bed Crescent, have been able to

do has hardly touched the fringes of the distress.

Among the Peace Organizations. The Autumnal Conference of the British Peace So

ciety was held at Dundee, Scotland, October 11-14,1912. The attendance during the four days was good. The

reception with which the proceedings opened was at tended by representatives of many Dundee societies. A

special feature of the conference was an open-air meet

ing held on Saturday evening in Albert Square, at which eloquent addresses were made by Councillor

Shanks, of Glasgow, and Councillor Scrymgeour, of Dundee. On Sunday many of the ministers of the city made peace the subject of their discourses. The speak ers at the conference were Dr. Darby, secretary of the

society, who presented "The Claim of the New Pa cifism" ; Dr. Walter Walsh, who urged that the pacifists

must not only show that war does not pay, but also that it is not right; Eev. John Beveridge, who believed that if Germany and Great Britain could be brought into harmonious relations, general disarmament would be

quickly realized; D. M. Mason, M. P.; Mr. Joseph Dobbie, Miss Husband, Mr. Churchill, and Mrs. E. A. Watson. Eesolutions were adopted deploring the strained relations between Great Britain and Germany, expressing deep regret over the breaking out of war in the Balkan peninsula, and condemning the movement

throughout the British Empire to introduce universal military service.

A peace society, with a body of strong office-bearers, was formed in the University of Aberdeen, Scotland, on the 24th of October, 1912. The society will co-oper ate with the University Sociological Society. Two weeks later Mr. Carnegie sent the following letter to the secretary:

Bear Mr. Sutherland:

Yours of October 17th received. I am greatly pleased to hear of the proposed movement for a peace society. I consider the killing of man by man the greatest crime that can be perpetrated. It is to be lookt back to in future ages as we now look back upon man eating man. I have a decided opinion that it is a much greater crime we commit in our day in killing each other than the cannibals did in eating their fellows. It is simply dis graceful that in the twentieth century we have still to deplore the ravages of "the foulest fiend ever vomited from the mouth of hell." I should like to be the first subscriber to the Aberdeen University Peace Society if I may be permitted. Please put me down for ?500 if you succeed.

Very truly yours, Andrew Carnegie.

The British National Peace Council (187 St. Ste phen's House, Westminster, London, S. W.) has just published the Peace Year Book for 1913. It contains, as the previous three volumes have done, a great variety of useful information on the peace movement and some valuable general articles. The price is one shilling.

The Buffalo Peace Society has a large amount of practical work in contemplation for the immediate fu ture, and is planning to secure an executive secretary who will be able to prosecute energetically the various activities contemplated. The annual meeting of the society on December 16 was a very interesting one. After the business was transacted, Bishop Burt, of the Methodist Episcopal Church, who has spent more than twenty-five years in Europe, gave a most instructive ad dress on "Present Conditions in Europe." The Balkan war, he believed, was entirely unavoidable, on account of the centuries of oppression and cruelty which had preceded it. The Bishop, who is enthusiastic in his support of the peace cause, declared that the movement is making great headway in Europe, especially among

This content downloaded from 193.104.110.26 on Tue, 13 May 2014 23:06:30 PMAll use subject to JSTOR Terms and Conditions