The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-05-21
ARBITRATION KEYNOTE OF
 CONFERENCE
Especial from United Press.)

Especial from United Press.) Lake Mohonk, May 21.-College edu l cators gave their views on the peace situation at the Lake Hohonk Peace Conference to-day when professors from all over the country were pres ent- Professor White, former presi dent of Cornell University, in the prin- cipal address, outlined the work whicf is being done to spread the peace pro: paganda among the students of the various colleges.
 pr. Whites address was submitted to the committee and agreeably re- ceived. Among the other educators who spoke to-day were: Dr. Harry Pratt Judsoh, president of Chica gc dent of New York City College; pr. w. H. P. Faunce, president of Brown University; Dr. s. P. Brooks, presi- dent of Taylor University, Texas. and Dr. L. L. Hobbs, president of Guilford College. The presentation of the Hugh ley prize of $50 for the best essay on peace from college students was made by Professor Dewitt Hughley, who donated.
 H. L. Bobbitt, sophomore at Johns Hopkins University who won the prize. responded briefly. A similar prize of $10O will be offered for the next aca- denic year.
 The following is an abstract of the platform which was unanimously adopted to-day by the Conferences:
 we urge upon our government which has been so conspicuously and so honorab1y identified with the pro- gressive policies of The Hague. prompt action toward perfecting the important measure there inaugurated and the complete development of the system of arbitration. We especially urge it's the International Court of Arbitral Justice.
 we further urge the negotiation of general treaty of arbitration between all nations and look forward with in creasing hope to the day when a court of arbitration shall provide for refer ence to The Hague all differences not settled by regular diplomatic negotia- tions.
 1.-The clear logic of The Hague con- vention prescribee the limitation and gradual reduction of the machinery Of war by the nations, partisan to those lopment of instrumentalities of law and justice for the settlement of inter national differences. The armaments of nations whose intolerable burdens prompted the call to the first Hague conference, have during the decade in creased so portentiously as to have now become as recently declared by British foreign secretary. "a satire up- on civilization They fill the world with, apprehension and alarm; they create an atmosphere unfavorable to the system of arbitration and they drain on the resources of the people so exhaustingly as to menace all na- tional treasuries and disastrously check the social reform and advances which the interests of humanity demand. It is the opinion of this conference that the time has arrived for carrying into effect the strongly expressed desire for peace conferences at The Hague; that the governments examine the possi- bility of an agreement as to the lfm- itation of armed forces by land and sea, and of war budgets and address themselves to the serious study of re- form. fEs&
 Accordingly. we. ask our govern ment tcr consider whether the peculiar position which 1t occupies among the nations does not afford it ample op- portunity to lead the way toward making the weighty declarations basis of public and concerted action"