Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-05-13
PEACE congress
AT LAKE MOHONK
Canal Subject for Discussion.
Distinguished international
Authorities Debaters.

LAKE MOHoNK. n. Y, May 1ss--
College presidents, ambassadors,
members of Congress. foreign digni-
taries. editors and business men are
assembled here today for the nine
tenth annual Lake Mohonk Confer
ence of International Arbitration.
which opens its three days session
tomorrow morning. The opening re-
marks will be made by Daniel
Smiley, followed by addresses by DR..
Lyman Abbott, editor of the Out
look. who will be the presiding off,
GERS for this session. and DR.. James
Brown Scott, secretary of the Car
negie Endowment for international
Peace. The Hon. H. 5. PERKS, OF
London, a member of the English
committee, sent to this country to
participate in arranging the plans for
celebrating the hundred years OF
peace between English speaking PEG
pie, and John A. Stewart, of New
York, Will also speak.
There will be no session tomorrow
afternoon. but the conference again
meets. in the evening, when the rela-
lion of the Pan American countries
to international arbitration will be
discussed Addresses on this subject
will be given by Professor William X.
Shepherd, of Columbia, and PonuIo
s. Naon, the minister from Argentine
At this meeting will also be heard
addresses from Herr Heinreich York
Steiner, of Vienna; DIR. Alexander
Geisswein, of the Hungarian Parlia-
ment, and Henri Bourassa, of Mon
treai,
Recreation Not Forgotten.
The morning and evening sessions
on Thursday will be taken UP by
discussion of the work of the third
Hague peace conference. The after
noon will be given to recreation. Dr.
Andrew d. White, president emeritus
of Cornell University, formerly ann
bassador to Germany and q member
of the first Hague conferences; Pro-
lessor Paul +. Reinsch, of the Uni
versity OF Wisconsin and member
of the third Pam American confer
ence, William G. Dennis, of the
Washington bar and United States
agent for the Orinoco steamship ar
bitration before the Hague tribunal
and Chamizal arbitration between
the United States and Mexico, Ar
thur K Kuhn, of the New York bar,
and Jackson H. Ralston, umpire for
the Italian claims against Venezuela,
will speak at the morning session
The speakers for the evening session
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political and social ethics at Columbia
University; Dr. Amos s. Hershey,
professor of political science and in-
ternational law at Indiana State Uni
versity, and Edwin d. Mead, of Bos-
ton, director of the World Peace
Foundation.
DR.. Charles W. Eliot, president
emeritus of Harvard University, will
also give an address on How to Root
Out the Causes of War; followed by
p. p. Ciaxton, United States commits
sioner of education, who will speak
on Education and international
Peace"
To Discuss Panama Tolls.
Panama Tolls will be the subject
for the conference when 1t convenes
on Friday morning. Charlemagne
Tower, former minister to Germany,
will preside at this session. Con-
i gresham Joseph p Knowland, of
California; Professor Emory r. john
son, United States commissioner on
Panama canal traffic and tolls; Don
/ C. Seitz, business manager of the
New York World and Thomas Pae-
burn White. of Philadelphia, will give
their ideas on the subject.