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The Eightieth Anniversary of the American Peace SocietySource: The Advocate of Peace (1894-1920), Vol. 70, No. 6 (JUNE, 1908), pp. 123-124Published by: World Affairs InstituteStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/20665509 .

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1908. THE ADVOCATE OF PEACE. 123

It especially approves and commends the work of the second Hague Conference, which revised and perfected the various conventions of the Conference of 1899, as follows :

Restricting the use of force in the collection of con tract debts; proclaiming unanimously the principle of

obligatory arbitration ; establishing an international court of prize, and declaring in favor of the establishment of a permanent court of arbitral justice.

These measures are great and welcome advance to

wards the regulation of international relations upon the basis of justice, reason and respect for law.

The fourteenth Lake Mohonk Conference on Interna tional Arbitration notes with pleasure the existence of

fifty and more treaties of arbitration concluded within the past five years, and more especially the arbitration treaties concluded between the United States and France, Great Britain, Ttaly, Japan, Mexico, Switzerland, Holland, Norway, Sweden, Portugal and Spain. The Conference therefore expresses the hope that the peaceful and judi cial settlement of international difficulties by resort to courts of arbitration and of justice bids fair to become the rule of the future, as it has been in a measure the

enlightened practice of the immediate past. The fourteenth Lake Mohonk Conference on Interna

tional Arbitration further commends the activities of our

schools, colleges, universities, and the various professional, business and labor organizations of the country, by which and through which popular sentiment is created, trained and directed, not merely to the maintenance of peace, but also, by the elimination of the ostensible causes of war by peaceful settlement, to the prevention of war itself.

Finally, the fourteenth Lake Mohonk Conference on International Arbitration rejoices in the fact that the

representation of all the civilized nations of the world in the second Hague Conference, and the recommenda tion in its final act for a future conference, guarantee, for the future, a conference of an international and per manent character, capable of correcting the inequalities of international practice and of enacting a code of inter national law based upon justice and equity.

and Board of Directors for the coming year. The report of the committee was approved and the persons named elected to their respective positions. (The list is given in full on page 000.) Two of the Directors, Magnus W.

Alexander of Lynn and Augustine Jones of Newton

Highlands, were new, taking the place of two former members of the Board, who had declined to serve longer.

To the list of Vice-Presidents Hon. James Brown

Scott, Solicitor of the State Department, was added. The Board of Directors was authorized to place the name of Dr. J. H. DePorest, a missionary of the Ameri can Board in Japan, on the list of Vice-Presidents, pro vided he was willing to serve in this capacity. (Dr. DeForest has since expressed his pleasure to serve, and has been, by the Directors, made a Vice-President.)

The annual reports of the Treasurer and of the Auditor were then read. It was voted that the Treasurer's

report as audited be accepted and placed on file. The

report showed that the receipts for the year had been

$15,097.88, $13,717.84 of which covered the ordinary receipts, including donations, and $1,379.54 of which was in legacies ; and that the payments had been $11,015.47, showing a balance of receipts (including legacies) over

expenditures, of $4,081.91. The report showed, with the amount on hand May 1, 1907 ($3,918.79), a balance in the treasury May 1, 1908, of $8,000.70. Of the ex

penditures during the year, $1,291.39, received from

legacies, had gone into the Building and Endowment Fund. Secretary Trueblood explained that the large balance was due to recent contributions, the amount thus received constituting in part the budget for the coming summer and autumn months, when few or no contribu tions are received. The Treasurer's trial balance showed that the Building and Endowment Fund had increased, through interest and legacies set apart for this purpose, to $6,529.82.

The annual report of the Board of Directors was then

presented by Secretary Trueblood. Mr. Erving Winslow

proposed that there be added to this report an expression of the gratification of the Society at the signing of the

treaty between five European powers guaranteeing the

integrity of Norway. Mr. Edwin D. Mead called atten tion to two other important treaties recently signed in

regard to the Baltic and North Sea territories. It was voted that the report of the Board of Directors be

adopted, and that the Secretary be authorized to add to it a section embodying the provisions of the treaties referred to by Mr. Winslow and Mr. Mead.

A minute from the Board of Directors was then read

recommending that Articles 4, 5 and 6 of the Constitu tion be changed to read as follows :

4Article 4. Every annual member of the Society shall

pay a yearly contribution of one dollar ; the payment of five

The Eightieth Anniversary of the American Peace Society.

The Eightieth Anniversary of the American Peace

Society took place on May 12. The business meeting was held at 2 o'clock in the afternoon, in the Society's rooms, 31 Beacon Street, Boston.

President Paine was in the chair.

Prayer was offered by Rev. Charles E. Beals. The reading of the records of the previous annual

meeting was omitted.

Secretary Trueblood reported that all the persons chosen to official positions at the last annual meeting had

accepted their appointments. A Nominating Committee, appointed by the Board of

Directors, consisting of Everett O. Fisk, Edwin D. Mead, Sarah Taber Coffin, Rev. S. C. Bushnell and Edward H.

Clement, brought in a list of persons to serve as officers

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124 THE ADVOCATE OF PEACE. June,

dollars a year shall constitute one a sustaining member ; the

payment of twenty-five dollars at one time shall constitute any

person a life member.' '

u Article 5. Branch Societies shall be formed on the fol

lowing basis: The members of the Branch Societies shall be

members of the American Peace Society. The membership fee in Branch Societies shall be one dollar a year. One-half of

the membership fee in the Branch Societies shall be paid to the American Peace Society, in return for which the Advocate

of Peace shall be furnished to the members of the Branch

Societies." " Article 6. The Presidents of the State Branch Societies

shall be ex-ojficiis Vice-Presidents of the American Peace

Society."

The recommendations of the Board of Directors were

adopted one by one, and the Articles of the Constitution

changed accordingly. It was voted that the matter of the selection of the

delegates for the London Peace Congress be referred to

the Board of Directors. Mr. Mead called attention to the creation in this coun

try, in accordance with the vote of the Munich Peace

Congress, of a national committee of ten eminent persons to act with similar committees in other countries to study and make report on the subject of limitation of arma

ments ; and to a committee, created under a resolution of the New York National Peace Congress, of which

Mrs. Andrews, of our Board, was to be the secretary, to

promote peace work in the public schools.

Secretary Trueblood presented an estimated budget of

receipts and expenses for the coming year, and stated

that, so far, the receipts from general contributions, ex

clusive of a special contribution from Andrew Carnegie, had been considerably less than last year. He urged the

necessity of all members of the Society using their influ ence to secure the funds necessary to meet the demands of the greatly enlarged work of the Society.

Rev. Charles E. Beals, the new Field Secretary re

cently engaged by the Board of Directors for field work, then made a brief statement of his labors since the first of April, and of the general outlook of the Society's work as it appeared to him.

The meeting adjourned at 4.20 o'clock.

the annual dinner.

The Annual Dinner for the members of the Society and their friends took place at 6.30 o'clock, at the

Twentieth Century Club Rooms. About one hundred and ten persons were present, and the occasion was in

every way a most interesting and successful one. Hon. Robert Treat Paine, President of the Society,

presided at the after-dinner speaking. He opened the

program with a few well-chosen words, calling attention to the remarkable recent growth of the peace cause and its promise of greater success in the near future.

The speakers of the evening were Hon. James Brown

Scott, Solicitor of the State Department, who spoke on " The Second Hague Conference a Peace Conference "

; Dr. J. H. DeForest, thirty-three years a missionary in

Japan, whose topic was " The Conditions of Peace be tween the Orient and the Occident"; President Mary E. Woolley of Mt. Holyoke College, whose subject was " Peace and the Imagination

" ; and Rev. Walter Walsh

of Dundee, Scotland. The addresses of Dr. Scott, Dr. DeForest and Miss

Woolley are given in full hereafter. Mr. Walsh, in

brief, pointed and humorous remarks, called attention to the unfortunate development of armaments, especially of the navies of the world, and to the important truth that the cause of civilization is not to be promoted by the " big stick," but by justice, amity, trust, and friendly co

operation among tjie nations. After Secretary Trueblood had extended a warm invi

tation to those present who were not already members to

become such, and had urged all the members to use their

influence toward increasing the Society's constituency and its resources, Mr. Paine declared the meeting closed.

Editorial Notes.

Preparations are nearly completed for The London

the seventeentn International Peace Con Peace Congress.

gress, which will meet in London July 27 to August 1. The place of meeting will be Caxton

Hall, Westminster. The Honorary President will be Lord Courtney ; the acting President Joseph G. Alexan

der, ex-Secretary of the International Law Association. The Secretaries of the Hospitality Committee are Miss C. E. Playne and Mr. Charles Meiss, 40 Outer Temple Strand, London. The committee are preparing to fur

nish free hospitality to all foreign delegates who may desire it. Those wishing free hospitality should send their names to the committee before July 17. The fol

lowing hotels, with appended rates, are recommended by the committee: Windsor Hotel, Victoria St., S. W., 12

shillings per day ; room only, 3 shillings and upwards St. Ermin's Hotel, St. James Park, S. W., 14 shillings; room only, 5 shillings and upwards. Westminster Pal ace Hotel, Westminster, 4 guineas a week. (The above three are nearest Caxton Hall.) Hotel Cecil, Strand,

W. O, 15 shillings 6 pence per day. Hotel Metropole, W. C, 15 shillings. Imperial Hotel, Russell Sq., and

Bedford Hotel, 93 Southampton St., each 12 shillings ?

room and breakfast, 5 shillings. Kingsley Hotel, Hart

St., Thackeray Hotel, Great Russell St., Esmond Hotel,

Montague St. (all in Bloomsbury), 8 shillings 6 pence to 10 shillings 6 pence; room, 3 shillings and up. Crans ton's Hotel Kenilworth, Great Russell St., Waverly Ho

tel, Southampton Road, room and breakfast, 5 shillings. Boarding Houses : Mrs. Hunter, 15 Woburn Place, W.C.,

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