Evening journal., 1915-05-18
Peace advocate
Shows WAR HORROR
Bloody Strife Between Ma
tionS Is Indicted Before
High School Pupils
PEACE LEAGUE
Z is SUGGESTED

With four special recitations on
peace" and an address on the same !
subject by j. Augustus Cadwallader. !
executive secretary of the Pennsyl !
vania Arbitration and Peace Society. |
peace Day" was appropriately OBJ
served at the Wilmington High School |
this morning. In honor of the occa- /
sion, the stage of the auditorium was
attractively decorated with American !
flags and spring blossoms.
The exercises opened with the sing /
ing of Holy, Holy. Holy" by the
school following which the first five
verses of the fifth chapter of Micah
were recited in unison by the stu
dents. who remained standing while
they chanted the Lords Prayer. Those
who rocited this morning were Miss
Mildred McCardell, who recited a
poem entitled THE Reign of Peace
by Elizabeth Lloyd Miss Mildred
Garter, who recited "One Hundred
Years Of Peace" from an address OF
the Honorable w. d. B. Ainey, mem
ber OF Congress from Pennsylvania;
Henry Tatnall, who recited Let Us
Have Peace" and James Morford,
who spoke an excerpt from THE
Ghent Treaty Of Peace"
At the conclusion of the recitations
Professor A. H. Berlin introduced Mr.
Cadwallader as The speaker of the
morning. He expressed pleasure at
being present to address the students
OF the Wilmington High School on
this. the fifteenth anniversary of the
first Hague Conference. While Mr..
Cadwalladers address covered wide
ly the subject of Peace he said
there were three indictments of war
fare to which he would like 10 call
attention. The first, he said was a
moral indictment upon which it is
scarcely necessary to mention that
basic principle of Christianity. "Thou
shalt not kill" The second, he took
from an economic standpoint which
deals with the destruction of wealth
and the loss of productive energies
Of men engaged in warfare which can
never be computed; while the third is
the wanton butchery of the flower Of
the worlds manhood
ANY one of these three indict-
ments." said Mr.. Cadwallader, lis suf-
fcient, with a proper understanding
by. the people of the world to end
forever this savagery that has been
so tenaciously held to, even in a time
when men pride themselves on their
culture. The murder of millions of
men through organized government
can no more be justified from a point
of morality than the assassination Of
one man by his fellow. Then, too,
think of the vast losses, millions of
men slain in battle. their productive
energies forever gone. bankrupt ma
tions, which will emerge from the
conflict with new burdens of taxation
TO place upon the backs of the already
dOwn-trOdden people. What are gains
that can possibly come from such en-
ormOus losses. AS has been so aptly
expressed by one man: The nation
which is defeated loses everything.
while the nation that wins loses al
most everything
Continuing, Mr. Cadwallader declar ID
that increased armaments were the re-
suit Of selfshness and the willingness Of
man 10 coin the blood of their fellows
into dollars for their own qualification
Tho possibility of a world organization
was then presented and it was suggested
that il a number of the larger nations
Of the world. anxious to see peace estab'
lished should form themselves into q
league of peace, agreeing to arbitrate all
their differences and TO place the protec
tion Of each into the hands of an inter
national force, the benefits to he derived
from such world organization would
he so apparent that all the small nations
would be willing to come under the pro
tccting influence.
The formation Of world organiza-
tion to be called the League of
Pace" said Mr. Cadwallader. in con-
clusion. "is undoubtedly one of the
ways that peace could be preserved
and as the cost of maintaining such
an international force would reduce
for each nation the burden of tax
alton, the citizens of the governments
at first refusing to enter into the
league would soon realize the advan-
tage to be gained by a fuller CO.
operation with others nations and
force their governments to accept
compulsory arbitration. With the
addition of every nation into this
League of Peace, chances of the world
war would be reduced until all ma.
tions uniting would form a stronf
world federation of peace.
Following his address at the Higi
School. Mr. Cadwallader went L
Friends and Howard Schools, WHERE
he also spoke.
All the music sung by the students
this morning was apropos the occa
sion. they singing. under the direction
OF Miss Nell c. Krumme, "Tho New
American Hymn" "The Dawn o
Peace" and "The White Bordere,
Flag" Under the direction of Johl
y. Taylor tho orchestra played 9TH
Wayside Chapel" by Wilson.
On Thursday evening. May 20. mem
bers of the B senior class will go or
a moonlight excursion to Philadelphia
The members will leave Wilmington
on the o'clock boat.
During the closing week of school. q
interesting language exhibit by member
of the Latin classes of the High Scho,
will he held. The exhibit il TO be hel
primarily to show the relation of IN
various languages to present day Ems
lish, and will consist of number Z
charts ON which are pasted pictures ,
advertisements showing how Latil
Greek and other words are still used.
No man or woman who is out in tn
big. hustling world of business today
with the idea that he or she il goinI
TO win success, is able to get alonl
without the aid of the Want Ad micro