Evening journal., 1915-04-24
URGES Peace FOR
MUTUAL Defense
DR.. Hamilton Holt Outlines
World Federation Plan
TO End Wars
DEPLORES HYSTERIA
FOR MORE ARMAMENT

At a meeting of the Delaware Asso-
ciation OF College Women yesterday al
ternoon in the parlors of the New Cen
tury Club, an interesting address on
"World Federation" was made by DIR.
Hamilton Holt, lecturer Tor tho Carnegie
Peace Foundation and editor of the
New York Independent.
At a preliminary brsiness meeting
Miss Mary II. Askew Ahthcr announced
that friend had Promised to give
81 600 as the basis OF az endowment for
the Noman's College scholarship fund
provided the members if the associated
raised an equal amount IL WAS moved
that this offer be accepted with appre-
ciatiou Mrs. Horace lhayer presided
and introduced Mir Hdt.
The parlors were criwdcd with repre-
senntives of leading organizations, in
cluding delegates from the Congressional
Union, ". G.. 4. L. u Sunshine Society,
y. W. c. A., Colonia Danes, Daughters
of the American Rgolution and New
Century Club. Wilmington Equal Sut-
frage Association. ana many others.
Dr. Holt outlmedn league of peace for
mutual defense formed by four or tive
of the eight chief powers and of half a
dozen of the secondary powers, with the
privilege of membership freely open to
all and the gradial enlargement Of the
league by admission of new nations
until it becomes literally a world fed
Grafton.
Peace is tie outcome of Justice,
Justice of lawlnd law of political or
ganization," sid MIR Holt. Political
organization. therefore. is the first
step towardspeace and it now seems
as though ihe United States was
destined to pay the leading role after
the great wa Is over in bringing this
world political organization about AS
the United itates is itself the greatest
league of ieace known 10 history a
study of it formation first by a con-
federation and then in our present
federation furnishes the clue as to
how the nations are most likely 10
bring abut world unity"
"The mob hysteria' for increased
armamet within the United States
Mr.. Hot deplored in the strongest
terms THE argument that the en-
ginery Il war is becoming so terrible
that it will stop war through very
horror and its corollary that wal
can b stopped by making people
afraid of It. are great fallacies." he
said Courage We all share in com
mon With the brutes. and so long as
men are not afraid to die armaments
will 3erve Ia beget counter armamentS
andto provoke war However mucf
proection they afford TO nation
WIN war is in progress, they ar,
noe the less instrumental in brinl
tht war about
"A great increase of armaments TO
th United States would. for three rea
sns, be particularly unwise at thh
fme. In the first place the great ma
ions Of the world. Japan alone eX
eepted. will be completely exhausted
at the end of the war Even if thel
were not well disposed toward us the,
would, except Japan. be in no cOndi
tion TO attack. And Japan is Leaving
no stone unturned to retain ou
friendship haye learned that il
Jap myself said the speaker
In the second place armaments
even If necessary, would be useles
expense until the military lessons o
tie war are better learned Shall w
biild more battleships? There is som
oidence that the battleship is a thin
o the past. Japan has Just announce
sic will huild no dreadnoughte thi
var Shall we build forts? Forts n
linger protect men. Men have to pro
tct forts, as witness. Verdun. Shal
We build aircraft and submarines
lossibly. But no wise man would ad
Use plunging in this respect until TN
essOns of the war are better under
stood.
Lastly and most important. tn
United States would he increasin
her ornaments forfeit the position G
leadership held by her throughout th
history Of the peace movement. and b
present circumstances. made one {
the peculiar opportunity. We cannC
both foster militarism and advocat
peace. at that supreme moment whe
we are called in to mediate at tn
wars end"
Mr.. Holt concluded by arguing ths
ii seemed to be the destiny of th
United States to lead in the polite;
organization of the word. Ever
president of the United" said he. "ha
advocated peace through Justice. A
from the first great Virginian TO III
last great Virgnian. have abhorre
what Thomas Jefferson has calle
the greatest scourge of mankind
why might not Woodrow Wilso
therefore, do for the world after tn
great war something similar to VIII;
George Washington did for a contineI
after the Revolutionary War? If /
does this he will have added to Il
Declaration of independence a Decli
ration of lntordependence.'