New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-07-10
GERMAN NOTE
CHILLS adams
PEACE MEETING
Halls Resolutions to Pres
ident Regarding Europe's
Attitude on War.
BELLIGERENTS FIRING,
SAYS WOMAN ENVOY
One Chancellery Said Her Visit
Was Like Breath Of Fresh Air
Old Mans Strife, Her View.

The prospect Of an unfayorable re-
NV from Germany to the American
note regarding the destruction OF the
Lusitania and submarine warfare IN
general caused a change in the pro-
gramne Of the meeting Of welcome 20
Jane Adams at Carnegie Hall last
night
The feature was 10 be the passage
bv the audience of set OF resolutions
erbodving what Miss adams would
present to President Wilson when she
sees him her impressions Of the feel
ines in the chancelories Of the war
ring nations which she visited in re-
gard 10 proposals from the neutral ma
tons for peace. But the intimetions
in tho afternoon papers that me slt-
uation between the two countries was
still difficult and dangerous made MISS
Adams and the committee IN charge
OF the meeting decide that this was no
TN. for such action. and the resolu-
lions were not even presented.
There was huge audience but httle
{ EfIUNlHNfN.
flied the place from the front row or
seats to the topmost point in the bal
conv applauded little. There was one
burst OF clapping when Commissioners
Davis Of the Department Of Correc-
ton. who was the only representative
Of tho city government present. came
on the stage. Mrs. Charlotte Perkins
Gilman got another round. and Dr.
II a a =
another when they appeared. Then the
audience settled back to listen pa
tien;ly to p speech by Oswald Carl
son Willard.
When Miss Adams, for whom every
one was obviously waiting, was intro
6uced by Dr. Shaw six strong-lunged
vounC representatives Of the lntercol-
icgiate Anti-Militarism League, who oc-
cupied box. struck the one note OF en-
thusiasm there was in the whole even.
ing. One leaped 10 his feet and yelled
in a stentorian voice:
Three cheers for Jane Adams"
The other five led, and the cheers
were given with a will Miss Adams
said with o smile that she took II as q
tribute to peace, and that il was very
fine that peace could be as rousing
sometimes as war.
She began her speech with a brief
account of the conference at The
Hague which she went to attend, and
then described the visit of herself and
DR.. Aletta Jacobs, of Holland, 20 the
nine chancelories. The impression she
gained. she said, was that the war was
an old mans war.
I'VE heard it everywhere" she said.
that the young men who were dying
the young men who were doing the
fighting not the men who wanted
the war, not the men who believed IN
the war.
THAT somewhere in church and
state, somewhere in the places OF So
ciety, the elderly people and the mid
dle-aged people had established them
selves and had convinced themselves
that this was a righteous war and the
young men must do the fighting"
But not always, she said, are these
old men able 20 make the young men
fight She told two stories, one of a
German soldier, one of some English
university boys, which proved that
though a country can drive a soldier
to the trenches it can't make him shoot
to kill.
Wouldn't Shoot to Kill.
ave met this young German in
Switzerland, where he was being
patched up to return to the trenches.
A careful physician would have said
he had tuberculosis, but he believed
he was going back, and he was speak
ing his mind. He was a well-educated
young man. but not exceptional. And
here was what he said:
"'Never orce during my three
months and half in the trenches cid
| shoot my gun in a way that could
possibly hit a man. | can be ordered
into the trenches and be made to go