Evening journal., 1913-04-30
DUPONTS In
THEANTI-WAR
ASSOCIATION
Ordnance Expert Maxim Also
in Society to Promote
World Peace
BIG NAVY IS
ONE OF THE PLANS

NEW YORK. April 3O-General 7.
Coleman dupont powder-maker and
Hudson Maxim. ordnance expert, are
to be among the new honorary vice
presidents of the international Peace
Forum With r Coleman DUPONT
Francis ! dupont, VINO is the director
OF the company, also joins the Forum q
new recruits as an honorary vice.
president Their advent into peace
promotion circles carries the promise
OF something new in the direction OF
ahclishing war This promise IS
strengthened by the plan advocated
By Mr. Maxim OF forming an alliance
with the Navy League, OF which he IS
also member for the purpose OF
building aud maintaining strong
navy as the best insurance against
war But the proposed alignment OF
powder manufacturers and navy
leaguers presages anything but peace
for the International Peace Society
and Andrew Carnegie its patron. For
MIR Maxim presumably speaking for
the new allies. asserts that the ten
million dollars which Mr. Carnegie
gave to the Peace Foundation Is the
worst thing with which the country
could be afflicted as the efforts It sus-
tains in reality make for war; instead
OF toward insurance against war
which a large navy represents.
Big Navy is Real Need.
One of the directors of the lnterna-
tional Peace Forum is Max Pam for
merly a director of the Bethlehem
Steel Company, manufacturers oil
armor and now general counsel and
LIT. Iff al r.
Company and the American Steel
fOundfies.
When Mr.. Maxim was asked about
the conditions which arc alleged To
exist in Germany as a result of too
Jealous efforts exercised from Essen
BY the manufacturers of war supplies
to stimulate their sale he expressed
considerable disbelief.
Asked if similar conditions existed
In this country, he said:
"This talk about there having been
a movement in this country or an or
ganization to stimulate the purchase
of warships and army equipment is
false: if there was any, ! should be
the man TO know about it. As a mat
ter of fact there ought to be some
such organization ] wish there was
which exists in this country with re-
gard to the navy. which is the besI
instrument for preserving world
peace
Apparently, one wing of the peace
movement is going to be enlisted IN
an attempt to accomplish what the
NAVY League has been working for. {
y stronger navy. And the largest manu-
facturers of gunpowder in the Unite'
states are to give their aid. Mr. Max
i'm admitted that he had made th'
first move in this direction
To Interest the Public.
What this campaign would aim t'
bring home tC every patriotic Ameri
can citizen, according to its author
is the utility of modern war equip
ment and armament and their effec
tiveness in preventing war. The pub
lie is to be initiated into the mysteries
of the labOr-saving machinery and th'
modern devices which have so great,
altered modern warfare. It is to bl
shown how with the most up-to-dat
paraphernalia of war fewer men arr
called into the field and fewer live
lost.
obviously the permanent peace 0
the world can be secured only through
the gradual concentration of the pre-
ponderant military strength into tn
hands of the most pacific communi
ties" say the Navy League. adding
Power is essential for the noble tasl
Of peacemaker, armament may be tn
instrument to force the adversary L
arbitrate"
Among the vice-presidents of tn
Peace Forum organization in 1911 ar
Charles w. Fairbanks former Vice
President; Jacob NJ. Dickinson, for
mer Secretary Of War; Hiram W
Johnson, Governor of California
David Starr jordan, president of lie
land Stanford niversity.