New-York tribune., 1915-03-28
ions of Noted Men Re.
ealed at Republican
Club Luncheon.
Willard AND GREER
BOTH URGE PEACE
nr J. J. Walsh Declares Trifles
Are Killing Interest in
Good Things.

aImeriean Ideals" were discussed
.,,.,dsv from several angles at the
y..,h,iesn Club luncheon. Bishop
c,,sr DR.. James J. Walsh, college
.r,.iaents, editors, Warden Osborne
"a Rear Admiral Pesry submitted In
..-nr,ta,ions. The European war in
,,ir,d many Of them.
pisness and realization were the
:,.sI. suggested by the diseoverer OF
he North Pole.
with bigness and realization as our
Las" said Rear Admiral Pesry. with
inperial position and prospects as our
,o..,ssions. what may we not realize
/, only We always carry with US the
,,,ehwords preparedness and seli-con-
uinednesse
I'VE cannot stand still A hundred
,,,rs from now we shall occupy the
.sar. North American world segment,
4, We shall be oblterated IS nation.
"a be oblitersted is incorceivable. The
.,b,r may be nearer than we think" "
Plead for Peace.
p,,rv followed Oswald G. Willard. of
The Evening Post" who protested
,vsjnst the present militarlstlc sglta-
Ton in this country.
sOur ancestors" said Mr.. Willard.
.,,me here to escape militarism. Ser
nee TO humanity, liberty, peace and the
s,srs 70 create rather than TO destroy
iould be our ideals The time 10 at
and when the masses should rise in
,bellon against the wholesale slavery
4 var
gisbop Greer declared that war was
.,,trsrv 10 the teaching of Christi
,sity and OF an enlightened twentieth
ystury creed The present European
,,sict he termed a war against the
T,nteth century and not war of
u,ions. organizations or races against
| n,ss
sWhst is our vision to-day, or have
., any at ell 90 he asked. "An old
Persian philosopher has said: Glory
%, in the fact that you love your
ssntry, but glory in the fact that you
eve your kind I should rather put
4 his way: Glory in your country for
he sake Of your kind.
4 THAT is the patriotic love. which
,ris to br.rg out all the best and
,oblest passions in our human nature.
/ .t6 that is, or should be, our enlight-
N ned American creed. our patriotic
reed, or patriotic vision; our power
I, The present and our hope for the
N t:vre, TO guide and 10 save US, 20
Eike Us a great and strong and united
Hople.'
SAYS Minds Are Unclean.
New Workers were compared to the
Ti1sbe;bans by DR.. Walsh. He re-
alei how amused a group OF boys
s3 been when he told of the filth in
kndon during Shakespeare time.
he amusement subsided when he add
u that more people then went 10 MS
,iTs than we're attracted IN this city
,og BE- them lie thought perhaps the
Ire Of sex problem plays was due TO
su unclean minds IN clean oodies'
I whereas the Ehzabethans had unclean
4 bodies but clean minds.
4 q know there Is something wrong
/ With our American life" DR.. Walsh
+ continued. 81 think that it can he
1 ummed up .u one Of those brief,
1 Eliminating expressions from the Old
/ testament. which runs something like
\ his The fascination Of trifies OBJ
Surts good things
Reacts from Optimism.
\ 4 wonder u the war, with all lts
srousness. will affect us enough to
gst Us away from the fascination OF
n liies tha. - seems TO me rs over
Thsming US. But then my friends
gy J am A pessimist. think that
IN only some one who has had to i've
WsrlOng with some very selt-com-
i,rsnt optimists. and in whom there
an inevitable reaction.
Dr. Walsh thought Emerson had e1-
i'sssed more fully than any other man
lnerican ideals. If this country had
rodueed nothing but Emerson and Lin
an, he went on. il would not have
Tsted in vain.
We are as yet but nation OF pI-
rters" he coulnued. "and pioneers
ne essentially neighbors. To be good
sghbors is our deal"
Others who spoke or sent letters TO
70 luncheon we're John Bassett Moore,
lsderiek Lynch. Hamilton Wright
able. Chancellor Brown of New York
siyersity. b.. Charles W. Eliot, presi-
mt emeritus Of Harvard; Presidents
i1nee Of Brown and Hadley of Yale
nd Warden Osborne. The warden said
y ideal was to take mournful wrecks
| q humanity and turn them out men:
This is my dream ne said "and
i Y dream Is coming true"