Evening star., 1915-01-16
WORLDWIDE PEACE
CONGRESS IS PLAN
Conference at Close of War at
Congress- Invitation
Promoted.
BIG MEN TO COMPOSE
NATIONAL Committee
Desired That Armies and Navies Be
Converted Into Great
Police Force.

DR.. John Wesley Hill. president of
the International Peace Forum. an
nounced today that a national COM
mittee is being formed to bring about,
at the close of the European war. a
great International peace congress in
Washington, upon the invitation, If 1t
the United States.
DR.. Hill arrived In Washington to-
day to attend a meeting to be held
tomorrow in the interests Of interna-
tional peace propaganda. The ma
tional committee, he said, is to be
composed of such men as David Starr
Jordan. James Brown Scott. Theodore
Marburg, Charles w. Fairbanks. John
Hays Hammond, former President Will
liam H. Taft, Alton B. Parker. An
drew Carnegie, Senator James Y.
Sherman, Senator Theodore E. Bur-
ton, former Gov Warren g. Harding
of Ohio. Gov. Whitman of New York
and a majority Of all the college presi-
dents of the country.
Negotiations now are going on, DR..
Hill said, with the big men OF the
other countries neutral in the war
with a view to making the committee
an international one.
Want World Police Force.
"The public has never known" DR..
Hill said, that toward the close of
the administration of Mr.. Taft the
governments of Great Britain. France
and Germany very nearly concluded
with the United States government
plan for an international peace con-
gress. What we now desire is the con-
version of the armies and navies of the
force, at the disposal of supreme
court of the nations for the enforce
ment of it's DEGREES, giving this su-
preme court the power to arrest the
commerce of any recalcitrant country
''If it be said that this is Utopian and
impra ctical, we answer first of all that
an international peace congress was
practically decided on at the last
Hague conference. The powers all
united on that plan, and the only rea-
from the fact that certain of the smaller
American countries insisted upon the
same representation as the larger coun-
tries of the world"
Union of Peace Bodies.
DR.. Hill also announced that he would
have a conference this afternoon with
DR., James Brown Scott with the idea
of uniting all the peace organizations
of the United States, of the world. per-
haps, under one head. taking in organ
izations such as the American Society
for the Judicial Settlement of 1nterna-
tional Disputes and others. An econ
omy of effort would thus be gained.
DIR. Hill said.
The meeting to be held tomorrow
afternoon in the interests OF lnterna-
tional peace is to be held at Polis.
Senator Sherman will preside, and the
gathering will be under the auspices OF
the International Peace Forum Ihe
speakers will be John Hays Hammond,
DR.. Hill. cambridge Colby, a New
the progressive ticket in New York at
the last election, who has reputation
as an orator. and Henry Clews. the
New York banker, who has taken a
great interest in philanthroplc WORK
and the peace propaganda.
Meetings Will Be Held.
Tomorrow's meeting will be the sec
ond of the forum. the first having re-
Gently been held in New York. Meet
inEs are to be held IN all the cities of
the United States and the legislatures
of the states are to be asked to memo
rialize Congress to invite the great
peace congress which is proposed to
meet here at the end of the war.
The forum is pointing to a statement
made by former Vice President Fair
banks as instancing the need for the
congress. He said:
1--WE live in the bloodiest age in all
human history. Let us hope that the
very savagery and horror of 1t may
lead men to forsake war for the ways
of peace. Limitation of the arma-
ment Of nations to police purposes Is
the only assurance of permanent In
tranquility"