The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-27
MIR. TAFT'S PEACE
 POLICY INDORSED Opposes Making of Airship Into War Machines WOULD MAKE TREATY Lake Mohonk Peace Conference De- clares Year Just Past Will Be
 Memorable Because Arbi-
 tration Agitation
WOULD MAKE TREATY

Mohonk Lake. N. Y, May B.-1n all the six years in which advocates of ln- ternational arbitration have met here
 annually to review the progress of their cause. they have never looked back with
 more satisfaction than they do upon the 1 Impressive advances of the past year.
 so signal as to make the year the most
 memora ble in the history of international progress in the United States.
 This declaration of satisfaction was made at the outset of a lengthy plat form which the Lake Mohonk confer ence on international arbitration adopted tonight.
 A feature of the session was the adop- tion of supplementary resolution ap- pealing to President Taft to use his best efforts to bring about international agree ments binding the nations Of the earth from extending their systems of arma- ments to airships.
 The conference calls upon the people for such earnest cooperation as to in sure the execution or the arbitration treaties by the United States with Great Britain and France and urges that this country offer similar treaties to all na- tions ready to conclude them with the United States.
 The conference expresses it's gratitude over congressional action in authorizing the President to create a commission to consider the limitation of armaments and expresses the belief that if this country once sets about such a plan with reso- lute initiative it would win the practical cooperation of other powers.
 The platform urges that the next Hague conference consider the limitation of armament, the immunity of ocean commerce fin time of war and the pro- hibition of loans to beIligerent nations by neutral countries.
 It urges such comprehensive plans for the coming celebration of the centennial of peace between Great Britain and the United States as will make the copmem- oration a notable landmark in progress. not only for these two nations, but for the family of nations"
 The resolution halls the recent gifts of Andrew Carnegie and Edwin Ginn ''as a new evidence of the new determination of strong men to cope at least with the evils of war
 Mohonk Lake, IN. T., May 26.-Repre- sentatives of 51 commercial organiza- tions attending the seventeenth annual meeting of the Lake Mohonk confer ence of international arbitrations to-
 day sent telegrams to President Taft
 and Senator Cullom, chairman of the
 Senate committee on foreign relations,
 saying that they heartily indorse treaties of unlimited arbitration with Great Britain, France and other coun- tries and wish speedy success with such treaties.
 Oscar S. Straus, member of The Hague court and former ambassador to Turkey, addressed the conference on Business and International Arbitra- tion."
 At tonight's session, concluding the conference, Mrs. Elmer E. Blacke of New York, chairman of the propaganda committee of the American Peace and Arbitration league, offered two prizes, one of s200 and one of s100, for the best essays on international arbitration by women students in American col leges. The Pugsley essay prize of $100 Mississippi Agricultural and Mechanical college by Chester D. Pugsley of Peek skill, the donor.