The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1913-04-19
MAYOR SWEET To
name DELEGATES
HAS BEEN INVITED TO APPOINT.
FIVE MEN TO REPRESENT THIS
CITY AT FOURTH AMERICAN
PEACE CONGRESS TO BE HELD
IN ST. LOUIS.

The mayor of Fargo has been in
vited to appoint five delegates from
that city to the fourth American peace
congress, which will meet at st.
Louis May /, 2 and 8 with representa-
tives of at least nineteen nations Of
the western hemisphere participating.
Those nations of this hemisphere
delegates from which nave been either
definitely named or promised in Off
cial correspondence are the United
States, Canada, Mexico, Argentina,
Bolivia, Chill, Colombia, Costa RIGA,
Cuba, San Domingo, Ecuador, Guate-
mala, Haiti, Honduras, Nicaragua,
Panama, Peru, Uruguay and Venez-
uela.
The American Peace society has
compiled, for presentation at the St.
Louis peace meeting, figures showing
that the world spends annually for
war and war equipment ST. 900, 000, 900
enough to more than pay
for five Panama canals-and that
the adoption, by international agree
ment, of the arbitration method of
settling international disputes would,
with the consequent reduction of
ornaments, enable many millions an
nually, in the United States alone,
needed for military purposes under
the present system, to be applied to
agricultural, waterway, industrial and
other improvements for the benefit Of
mankind.
Pres. Woodrow Wilson, honorary
president of the Fourth American
Peace congress-, is expected to head
the official delegation from Washing
ton and deliver an address. William
Jennings Bryan, secretary of state
and one of the active viCe-presidents
of the peace congress-, has indicated
his intention to attend and speak.
Andrew Carnegie, another active vice
president, who gave $11, 900, 900 to es-
tablish an endowment found for in
teTnational peace, has accepted an in
~Vitation to attend and deliver an adj
dress and will be accompanied by
Mrs. Carnegie, in whose honor a re-
ception is being planned by the recep-
ton committee of women, of which
chairman. Charles w. Fairbanks,
former vice-president of the United
States, has accepted an invitation to
deliver an address and also to preside
at one of the sessions. Many other
notables are on the program.
The peace congress will be ushered
in with the dedication, April 80, of
the Jefferson memorial, a $500, 900
structure concentrating the Louis
lana purchase, the worlds greatest
p~eaceable acquisition of territory. The
formal opening, the next day, of the
| peace oratorical contest of the Inter
collegiate Peace society, for a prize Of
500, the winners of state contests in
Illinois, Iowa, Missouri, Nebraska,
South Dakota and Texas competing.
Members of the American and
Canadian committees of arrangements
for the celebration in 1914-15 of
| 100 years of peace between Eng
li~sh-speaking peoples have accepted
invitations to attend the congress and
! discuss the approaching Anglo-Amer-
lean centenary and explain the pur-
poses that lie behind it. lEs =.
At the night session of May /, the
peace congress will take up the press
ent international problems of the
United States, including the Panama
/ canal, and it's tolls and fertilization,
the Philippines, and Mexico. The
presence of an official delegation from
the Mexican government is expected
to render the discussion of the Mexi-
can situation especially interesting.
The principal social event of the
peace congress will be an elaborate
garden party the afternoon of May 2,
at the Missouri botanical garden
~(popularly called "Shaw's Garden'),
the most complete botanical park -, in
America and one of the largest such
parks in the world. There will be
music, refreshments n other fea-
lures. The garden party will be pre-
coded by an automobile tour of the
city for the out-of-town delegates
and their children. Hundreds of auto
mobiles are being loaned for this pro-
cession by st. Louisans interested in
the peace movement. Large commit
tees of well known men and women
have been appointed to look after the
comfort of the visitors throughout
their stay in the city.
Former president William H. Taft
and U. S.. Sen. Elihu Root are the
honorary vice-presidents of the
Fourth American Peace congress, and
| Congressman Richard Bartholdt is the
active president, while the active vice.
presidents, beside Mr.. Bryan and Mr..
Carnegie, are Theodore e. Burton,
United States senator from Ohio;
Champ Clark, speaker of the house OF
representatives; John w. Griggs, for
mer United States encouragement;
and Oscar Straus, former American
ambassador to Turkey.