Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-06-28
WOULD PUT WAR
/ Up TO CITIZENS
Peace Committee Favors Vote
by Both Sexes Before
Nations Act. IL
COURSE OF PRESIDENT
is GIVEN APPROVAL
Resolutions Adopted Urging Re-
moval of Fundamental Causes Of
War-Several Speak.

That no nation should engage in war
until it's citizens. irrespective of sex,
have so declared by a ma jority vote is
one of the declarations embodied in a
resolution adopted at a meeting in the
interest of peace held yesterday al the
First Congregational Church, at which
George II. SHIRLEY presided. Among
those who made addresses at the gath
ering were Henry D. Gordon, president
of the Washington peace committee;
Fulton r. Gordon. Mathew Z. OBrien,
Airs. Belva Lockwood, Miss Mary Caro-
line Farmer DIR. W. W. Baker, Hyman
Levine and Julian Pierce.
Approval of the course pursued by
President Wilson with regard to the
relations of this with other countries
was voiced by Fulton r. Gordon. Mrs.
Lockwood told of her trip to Europe in
1913 as member of a peace commit
tee. Since the beginning of the war
she has received many requests that
the peace committee do it's utmost for
"ar-stricken Europe, she stated. Miss
Farmer gave brief reading entitled
Three Innocent Sufferers"
Mr. Levine presented the history of
esperanto as factoI for peace Mr.
Pierce spoke from the wage-earner's
standpoint. urging that the workers of
each nation should refuse to go to war
Mr.. SHIRLEY asserted that only through
the development of a system of inter-
national government can warfare be-
tween nations be effectually termi-
mated.
Rev. Oscar Roome, jr., of Emmanuel,
Episcopal Church led in the invocation.
1aSlor Chewing sang a solo entitled
Let Us Have Peace"
Text of Resolutions
The resolutions adopted declare:
That We declare for peace with
Justice:
That we call upon our fellow citi-
Gems throughout the republic to think
that thought and to voice that idea:
That we urge the consideration of
terms OF peace in Europe that shall
look forward to the establishment of
an international parliament, an inter-
national supreme court and an inter-
national police. along with the disarm-
ing of each nation of the world, there
by insuring peace with Justice and
terminating the immense expense for
national ornaments;
That We favor the immediate calling
of an international convention of UNI
official delegates of the nations to
frame a suitable form of international
government. and to urge the calling
of a convention composed of official
delegates of all nations;
That we declare that no nation
should engage in war until it's citizens,
irrespective of sex, have so declared by
majority vote:
Continuance of Relief Urged.
That we urgently request the con-
tinuance of relief for the stricken ma
tons of Europe, realizing that each
one of US is personally responsible for
the relief of suffering to the extent
that he or she has been blessed with
ability or wealth.
That We practice tolerance in speech
and thought, and abstain from
thoughts of hatred, centering our at
tention on helpfulness, especially the
relief, of suffering:
THAT we urgently recommend the
formation of war relief committee
in each community, with a large mem
attention upon the one avenue. in con-
aetcicn with the European war where
in the people of the neutral countries
nection with the European war. where
and
That we devote the larger part of
our energies to the removal of the
fundamental causes of war, and to the
measures as will make peace more
stable, more enduring and more benefi-
cial.''
The next meeting OF the Washington
peace committee will be Thursday at
s pm, at the assembly room of the
Public Library. George II. SHIRLEY, di-
rector of the Research Institute of this
city. will speak on THE Evolution To-
ward the World State.