Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-04-15
SONGS ARE SUNG
FOR WORLD PEACE
Music the Feature of the Initial Meet.
ing of the National Arbitration
Congress in New York.

nave nlleo torpedo and porJectfle with eX-
plosives Of terrible potentialities Of havoc.
"Armors are pierced with great ease as
though they were glued together of paper.
But while shipyards are teeming with
thousand Of toilers intent on forging the
steel ramparts Of the treacherous deep,
from the quiet laboratory Of an expert
menter emanates the fuse that reduces tur-
rts and steel cuirass to impotent make
shifts. Mercenaries used to be the sons Of
war. Later only a small percentage of the
people under command of professional SOL
diers were drafted into the service. Now
war calls to arms the whole nation. And
this very fact puts powerful brakes on the
car of Juggernaut. Prepare war If thou
desire peace
Plow Rather Than Gun.
"The Latin's wisdom is discredited. The
very futility Of all preparations the grue-
some certainty that the breech leaders Of
today will be useless tomorrow is one Of
the many curses which go with armed
peace What folly of dissipation, what
waste Of toll and treasure. Shall human
sweat not be deemed too precious TO de-
wise and to fashion implements meant for
defense, and thus believed to prevent at
tack from without, which, ere they are
finished on the anvil or formed in the fur
mace, are outclassed by others in this mad
rage and race for more thorough prepared
ness for war in the interest of peace?
Our hope is founded in the advent of
the pillow. By very costly and circuit
Gus route the sword has been turned into
a plowshare even as it is now. Gun metal
had to be returned to industry, for in many
cases and in an experience ever repeated,
-lay,
scarcely nodded, detected to be insufficient,
for rival across the frontier had discov-
cred a more powerful engine, which the
day after again had to be abandoned be-
cause another had hit upon a still quicker
process.
I'VE would come to the plow by more
direct and less wasteful road Yea the
pillow has arrived. If it is true that every
war was in the last analysis inspired by
fear of hunger and not by dynastic ambi-
ton or national antipathies then the larger
the number of plows the less the need for
war. Intensity the productive methods
which coax from the earth the blessings
stored therein and hunger's dominion CORE
spondingly shrinks. None to starve If all
work together to prevent famine's capri
cious and Ubiquitous instruson.'
Bishop Potter said that all attending the
congress should reflect that they were not
present for pleasure, but to signify that
they were on the side of peace. He said
he had recently heard of a machine of
war that If perfected would destroy $50
coo men in fifteen minutes. He was not
sure that the perfecting of such engines of
slaughter would hasten peace among the
nations.
Soldiers Nonproducers.
Every soldier" he said, represents a
nonproducer. He must be fed and clothed
and cared for out Of the nations pockets,
and is not this fact alone sufficient to make
US feel the uselessness and the unfairness
or war; He gave statistics showing the
enormous cost to the world of maintaining
Its armies and nayes and said that while
he had brothers in the war Of the rebellion
ana could realize what the military spirit
meant, yet, II the questions which for $50
years had caused men to fly at one an
others threats could be settled by arbitra-
ton all should strive for that end
Archbishop John NJ Farley was on the
program for an address on Universal
Peace" but had been detained at a meet
Ing of archbishops in Washington. and his
address, In part, was as follows:
War Is so great an evil that one of the
worlds greatest generals described It with
laconic eloquence as the most perfect state
no horror, moral or material.
Its benefits, If any, are indirect and I'M
certain; Its evils are immediate, inevitable
and characterization of human charac-
ter. waste Of life and gain, arrest of human
progress, in justice to the helpless and in
nocent, popular and permanent legacies of
hate, and all the fiercest and most ruinous
passions of the human breast. Its genuine
symbol is the storm that bots out in
brief space the harvest, the home, even life
itself leaving behind it desolation, despair
and death.
so true is this that at all times men have
imagined perfect happiness to be some state
of universal peace, golden age long past
or to dawn. Peace on earth to men, the
compliment of Glory to God on high was
the GREETING which heaven sent to earth
in the most solemn hour Of the worlds
history. Could we abolish war in the TWEEN
tieth century we should hand down to pos
terity an earth made perfect as dwelling
place for man.
I'VE owe a debt of gratitude, therefore,
to all who devote themselves to this
Christlike purpose. 1t is the duty of every
peal, and to contribute what is in him to
the accomplishment of their aim. 1t is
an aim that uplifts and ennobles all hu-
man nature, and tends to reveal in man
spiritual heights and depths that get OBJ
secured in those brutal conflicts from which
he energies always more shattered in his
spiritual than in his physical life.
Education and Religion.
Il am not prepared to say that we shall
ever entirely remove that dread scourge
from society but l believe it can be no.
tably diminished in frequency and mitigated
in its conduct. If this mitigation of the
brutalties of war is to continue and is
one day to cease among men, 1t will be
through the influence of two great moral
forces. education and religion
Afternoon and evening sessions will be
held today in Carnegie Hail. At the morn
ing session Mr.. Carnegie will preside, and
an address of welcome will be delivered by
Mayor Mcclellan. A letter from President
Roosevelt will be read, and addresses will
be made by Gov. Hughes, Secretary of State
Elihu Root and Mr.. Carnegie.
In the evening there will be addresses
by Baron dEstournelles de Constant head
of the international Cancellation committed
Prof, Hugo Munsterberg of Harvard Uni
versiay; Oscar Stratus, Secretary of Com
merce and Labor; w. T. Stead editor of the
London Review of Reviews; Col Sir Robert
Cranston, former lord provost OF Edinburgh
and Sir Robert 8. Ball, professor of as
tronomy, Cambridge University.
NO PEACE FOR DIX.
Disperse Armies, He Says, and You
Will Have Worse War In Hisforv