The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-04-16
CLERGYMAN FEARS
. DANGERS OF PEACE:
Believes It Unwisc to Danish
Wars From Minds Of
Nations.
FoREsEEs DEGENERATION
Declares That Even Chrisa
Would Not Wish Such
Condition.
BY PHILLIP EVERETT.

Especial Cable 10 The Times-Dspatch!l
London. April 15.-In nearly ali OF
the churches OF England to-day SER
mons have touched upon the remark
able stride forward made by the move
ment for the promotion Of nterna-
tional peace and tho debt OF gratitude
which the world owes to President
TAFT. but there is. strangely enough,
among the ministers Of the Church OF
England quite a number who dread
the abolition OF war. because they fear
that the absence Of danger from with
out will tend TO dcteriorate and de-
generate the national character. Tho
leader of these militant ccriesasts is
Canon Upper Cary Of York ono OF
our most eloquent ministers.
do not know what this war-loving
servant OF the Lord has 10 say to-day
but in his last sermon TO business
men of York. he asserted with great
emphasis that peace has greater dan
gers than war, and asked his listeners
to put the frank question 10 them
selves. when discussing the question
of universal peace. how the English
nation was to preserve the manly quail
tiles that had made it powerful IL
dreadnonghts were scrarped and reg
imcnts disbanded. He himself felt con-
WINGED that even Christ who was the
Prince of Peace. never would wish the
coming of peace Which means moral
degeneration and death u a nation
The horse has suffered another de.
feat. II Viii no longer reign supreme
at the coronation.of the Kings OF E:it,-
land. for the earl marshal In charge
of the arrangements If the coronation
of Il Ia 81
peers driving to Westminster Abbey 10
witness tho grand ceremony Shall. for
the first time In history he permitted
10 use automobiles OF any pattern Or
type they prefer. SO there Il a prof.
ability that in the midst OF "a festival.
essentially medieval In its whole CHAR
actcr. We shall see peers In coronets
and cruiine robes chasing down White
hall In fog colored torpedo shaped cars
The King has not yet given his game
lion 10 this new departure. which is
sure 70 deprive the event OF some az
It's picturesque grandeur but as many
peers have entirely given up main
talninS a stable in London. there is
little doub, that he Will consent.
II the Kaiser thinks that tho future
OF Germany is on the sea. the Gear
evidently believes that Russia's futur.
is up in the air for at the London aero
exhibition the Russian government
commissioners. after buying ten Brit
ish- built biplanes. fifteen Farman hi
planes and forty-hv Blerlot mono
planes. declared that Russia intends
10 have an aerial fleet OF 500 war
aeroplancs before the end OF the sum
MGR. and Is prepared To spend nearly
s5.00o.O0O on military airships, Euro
pcan governments have In fact been
large buyers at the exhibition. and
~ 81 yafa IL H.
manager. NJ. Norbert Chercau. told mo
that his firm had received orders for
nearly 100 monoplancs from the French
government which already had thirty
Bleriot machines in actual use ana
that nearly 100 officers In the French
army have qualified as expert airmen.
The Bleriot factory Is. indeed. so
crowded with orders that IT cannot
deliver any more monoplancs for FIVE
months. France is still far ahead OF
all other nations, and would be able
TO mobilize an aerial navy OF 800 aero
planes in two days. most OF them capa-
bio OF a speed of sixty miles an hour.
while great quantity OF shells. spe-
cially made to be dropped from aero
planes. are stored in all the forti1ca-
lions along the German frontier.
One OF the problcms-a minor one.
1t is true-that Will confront the flrst
Universal Races Congress when 50
meets in London In July, will be that
of an official language. Many races.
speaking many tongues. will he repre-
scented at the gathering, and it will be
difficult. If not indeed Impossible, to
find common medium OF speech.
at e preliminary meeting at tile
Hotel Cecil. the general secretary OF
the congress said there would be four
official languages English. French.
German and Italian--but he added that
IL there were interpreters the con-
gress would be delighted to near any
language. The papers will be in two
cditions-EnSlish and French.