The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-06
.|NDORSE TREATY
 ON ARBITRATION Baron De Constant Ad- dresses Peace Conference DEFINES MANS DUTY Uses "Woman's Perpetual Miracle" in Everyday Life as Example
 For the Larger Ma
 tiOnal Affairs

| the programme today at the third Ma | tienal Peace congress was the repoD or the committee on resolutions which was
 scheduled for presentation at the close | of the afternoon session. One of the reso-
 lutions indorsed the proposed Anglo
 American arbitration treaty and called | for it's ratification.
 Another asked that Congress pass such
 acts as would make the government hold
 each state responsible for any outrage
 committed upon the person or property
 of foreign subjects within the state. Still another resolution approved the proposed
 celebration of the 100 years of peace be- | tween the English speaking nations. and pledged its support to the movement | At the forenoon session pr. 1yongaga,
 a native of Japan and a professor in the l University of Chicago, spoke on Peace
 in Asia pr. Iyongaga said what vitally
 concerned Japan was the continuation of peace in Asia and secuted the idea of
 war between Japan and the United | States.
 A banquet was held tonight which l was largely attended by delegates. | Speaker Champ Clark of the National | House of Representatives was toast | master and made a brief address in
 which he said there was every reason
 
 lead in the peace movement Ad- dresses also were delivered by Baron D'Estournelles de Constant, the Rev. Frederick Lynch of New York city, Mrs. May Wright Sewell of Boston and Sen ator Henri La Fontaine, president of | the permanent international peace bu- l reau of Berlin.
 "The first duty of every international
 ist is to begin by improving his country
 and himself in his country" said Baron D'Estournelles de Constant, in speaking
 on patriotism in it's relation to tho
 peace movement at tonight's session of the Third National Peace Congress here.
 -"The services of ones country cannot
 be neglected in time of peace, different
 as this service is from what is re- | quired from us in time of war he said. 1 Our country embodies not only our in- terests but those of all other countries
 as well and this must be clearly un- | derstood. I.haye long felt ashamed at
 having to explain such self-evident
 things The high minded and the sim pie see them well enough, but stress
 has to be laid upon them for the bene fit q the half educated and the selfish. Let me then repeat once more that the
 existence of the fatherland is as neces- | sary to us as that of the family and ] the liberty of the individual. The ex- | istence of the fatherland is the basis | of every national and international or | ganization Countries must exist if, like | individuals, they are to be brought into
 association. As the progress of any as- | sociation is in proportion to the worth of it's members. so an as-
 sociation of nations will amount to | what the nations themselves are l lWorth--the. value of their activity, edu- l cation and discipline. All this is evi- dent, and, this being so, the first duty
 of every internationalist is to begin by lfr,1N Ix | his country.
 But here the conflict of ideas begins | The great word 'fatherland' which ought to have but one meaning, is in- terpreted differently by different cti-
 zens Some look upon its as the fath- erland of yesterday, with all it's tra-
 ditiens and privileges; others interpret it by the light of the present, and oth- CTS of the future. In word, we make | 1t in the image of our selfish selves. | In very few cases we make it what others would wish it to be.
 'Our duty is to love the fatherland of the past, serve the fatherland in the present and prepare the way for the | fatherland of the future, which will be the fatherland of all Americans. We | must realize that every individual eX- | istence uselessly sacrificed is source of danger, like a grain of sand or a nut | dropped into piece of machinery. we think it is of no consequence until the | accident comes.
 Everyone realizes the truth of these principles in regard to everyday affairs, but people either fail to see that they apply with equal force to the national | life or else they give 1t up as too com plicated. And yet. such is the sublime regularity of universal order that na- | ture accomplishes this masterpiece every | day. And yet even this example is not enough.
 "Woman is perpetually accomplishing a human miracle before our eyes. Daugh- | ter. sister and then, wife, she changes her home and name without changing her | heart. As mother she sacrifices every | thing and yet remains herself. Hero | we have the very image of the father | land, bound to the past, attached to the present and forgetting everything for the sake of the future. And there are peo- pie who cannot see this. ''The cultivation of peace through right should be our first and foremost form of cultivation. It IS still at its begin
 ming, but it has triumphed over age- long difficulties. We have now a legion of international organizations, ranging from the Postal Union to The Hague tribunal. People laugh at international arbitration, but 1t has shown its value. It has averted what might well have been war between Russia and England over the Doggerbank affair, between Ger many and France after Casablanca, and between the United States and England after century of disputes over the north I Atlantic Progress has now acquired such headway that 1t cannot possibly be | stopped People are now convinced that war is not a natural punishment and | are rising against it. Even governments 1 themselves are being converted | I J