New-York tribune., 1904-10-14
THEIR PEACE CONFERENCE.
Over Three Thousand Scholars Attend Meet
ing at Board of Education.


Tel the children" teeCraphed Julia Ward
Howe 70 the young peoples meeting OF the thr-
tsenth International Peace Conference held yester-
day afternoon the Board Of Education. that
mine eyes have seen the gory or the coming Of the
Lord
Mrs HoWe's message struck the keynote OF one
OF the most successful meetings OF the lnterua-
tionaI conference
You are the professional chorus Of peace said
President j. r Finley OF the City College. as he
looked down on the Sra OF eager. upturaed faGes.
"aud when you come 70 your places in the choir
the congregation OF the world VIII be ready sing
with you your song You are the great InternA-
CcnaI Peace Conference IN session five DAYS II the
week for nine months OF the year"
The children came from all over the city 20 listen
10 the message Of peace and goodwill brought by
delegates from many lands Three thousand strong.
they poured into the Board of Education Bui!dl7sGA
a. O'Clock and soon filed every available spaR
IN the assembly room. Then overflow meeting
was organized ia the board room. and that. too.
was crowded 70 the doors. They received the dele
gates enthusiastically and though they grew rather
restless when some OF the women speakers failed
10 make themselves heard. they listened with most
respectful attention to the others and treated those
who succeeded IN touching responsive chords in
their hearts to ear-splitting yells Of approval
Mrs. Donald Mclean regent Of the New-York
City chapter OF the Daughters OF the American
Revolution among those who came IN for such
tribute Mrs Mclean began by saying that she
knew the power of children because she had chill
dren of her own. and when they dictated a certain
course Of action she generally had sense enough 70
follow it, The boys and girls yelled with delight.
and Mrs Mclean proceeded.
"You are al powerful. Tomorrow YOU viii be
Inousrchs and il viii be IN your power 10 that
tie day Of war has passed and the day or peace
You viii not give up the heroes Of the past,
though they were heroes OF war nor cease 10 re-
we're your flag. though it has hoated over many
fields Of battle but you can mount the hag on a
border OF pure. peaceful white and you can releIH
- ,,yl-lr for ,aara
Mrs Mclean left the platform amid q tnunderous
military gI6ry stiT lived in the youthful hearts of
the audience, and that tAeE appreciated Lie me per
mission 70 accord some admiration 10 their 0ld
heroes. Rabbi Charles Fleischer, Of Boston. called
attention 10 this circumstance. and told the chill
dren that such waves of emotion were not patriot
Patriotism" ne said lis simply tie local ex
preston of the feeling of human brotherhooa- ne
our ideal SHOULD be 10 be a nation OF lovers Then
we shall not make war because the spirit Of war
Rabbi rieiseheT vas eheered as loudly as Mrs re-,
McLean nad been ,o SINE Miss c1nhii Of
India. who gowned IN picturesque I4alan 1,
Charles r Dole author Of The American Cit-
zen" and Mrs Henry Valade daughter OF VIII
Frank L. Babbott vice-president Of the Board Of
peri1tendent u schools and IN intr2uucihg tHe & s
speaker he alluded 10 the part played by Scnooi
TT was not till ] visited Egypt and India he
said. that the feeling Of hatred toward England
which I imbibed from my school histories ana reac-
ers fully eradicated-
President Fiulav also deprecated the pat riotic
auIuosftv' instiIled by the schools.
we might have less war IN the high schoolS.
he suggested II am the pupils would be
glad TO dispense with the Trojan war and the COM
mcntaries on the Gallic war
Mr. Perris suggested the establishment or arbis
tration courts in the schools for the settlement OF
school difficulties He said he had met with much
success in q number of London schools
During the afternoon the children sang the New
YORK Citv song THE Battle Hymn of the Re-
public and THE Peace Song.
a Telegram from the Rev. Edward Everett Hale
was read and among those the platform were
NJ LYMAN Abbott Mr.. and Mrs. ". Bayard cut
ting Mrs Alfred p Coukling. DR. and Mrs. Frank
T)annrOsch DR. John Dwyer. Mrs. Horace F. Dem
i1@ M Richard Delafeld Mrs. Frederick J.
he Pevster Mr.. ard Mrs. Walter Damrosch. Mr..
and Mrs John GreenOugh Chancellor Henry ..
Nacfsraclen. Mrs. James Roosevelt. Professor and
Mrs j. r. A. Seigman Mr.. and Mrs. 1. n Phelps
stokes Miss Helen Phelps Stokes. Mr.. and Mrs.
Charles sDrague Smith J. q. Phelps Stokes. and
ATra Schuyler Van Rensselaer,.