The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1913-04-18
ZIMMERMAN ASKED
TO APPOINT 5 men
To Act as Delegates To the
Fourth American Peace
Congress.
National News Association

ST. LOUIS, April 1S.-The mayor of
Richmond, Ind, has been invited to
appoint five delegates from that city
to the Fourth American Peace Con-
gress, which will meet at st. Louis
May /, 2 and 3 with representatives
of at least nineteen nations of the
Western Hemisphere participating.
Those nations of this hemisphere
delegates from which have been
either definitely named or promised in
official correspondence are the United
States, Canada, Mexico, Argentina,
Bolivia, Chill, Columbia, Costa RIGA,
Cuba, San Domingo, Ecuador, Gaute-
mala, Haiti, Honduras, Nicaragua,
Panama, Peru, Uruguay and Vene-
Zuela.
The American Peace Society has
complied, for presentation at the st.
Louis peace meeting, figures showing
that the world spends annually for
war and war equipment two billion
dollars-enough to more than pay for
five Panama canals-and that, the
adoption, by international agreement,
of the arbitration method of settling
international disputes would, with the
consequent reduction of ornaments.
enable many millions annually, in the
United States alone, needed for mill
tary purposes under the present sys
tenn to be applied to agricultural,
waterway, industrial and other i'm
provements for the bene6t of man
kind.
President Woodrow Wilson, honor
airy 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 his indicated
his intention to attend and speak.
Andrew Carnegie, another active vice
president, who gave $11 100000 to es-
tablish an endowment fund for inter-
national peace, has accepted an invita-
ton to attend and deliver an address
and will be accompanied by Mrs. Car
negie, in whose honor a reception is
being planned by the Reception Com
mittee of Women, of which Mrs. w. E.
Fischel of st. Louis is 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 100000 struc-
ture commemor Grating the Louisiana
Purchase, the worlds greatest peace
able acquisition of territory. The for
ma opening, the next day, of the
peace congress will be enlivened with
the western group oratorical contest
of the intercollegiate Peace Society
for a prize of 500, the winners OF
state contests in Illinois, Iowa, Mis-
souri,. Nebraska, South Dakota and
Texas competing.
Members Of the American anG
Canadian committees of arrangements
for the celebration in 1914-15 of one
hundred years of peace between
Englisb-speaking people have accepted
invitations to attend the congress ant
discuss the approaching Anglo-Ameri
can Centenary and explain the pur
poses that lie behind it.
At the night session of May 4, The
peace congress will take up the pres
ent international problems of the
United States, including the Panama
canal, and it's tolls and fortification
the Philippines and Mexico. The
presence of an official delegation from
the Mexican Government is expected
to render the discussion of the Mex
lean situation especially interesting.
The principal social event of tn
peace congress will be an elaborate
garden party the afternoon of May
at the Missouri Botanical Gardel
(popIlarly called "Shaw's Garden
the most complete botanical park il
American and one of the largest sue
parks in the world. There will b
music, refreshments and other fea
lures. The garden party will be pre-
ceded by an automobile tour of I'll
city for the out-of-town delegates an