Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-02-27
RABBI WISE ASSERTS
WAR IS NOT CURELESS
Absence Of Women From Councils
of State Partially Responsible
for Turmoil.

CHICAGO, February 27-The absence
or women from the councils of state is
partially. If not largely, responsible for
the continuance of the plague Of war
upon earth. said DR.. Stephen S. Wise,
rabbi OF the Free Synagogue of New
YORK, in an address today before the
National Peace Conference.
is War Cureless?" was the question
he discussed.
Inc belief that man was born a fight
ing animal and must forever remain
one ne called the most immoral of all
moral heresies." and he viewed diplo-
macy's hidden ways as one OF the ulti-
mate causes not only of the present
war, but virtually of all wars.
Deepest Cause Of War.
The deepest cause of the war;" he
continued, has been the faith that
mighty ornaments alone could avert
war; that the billions. not millions,
which the military powers of Europe
have spent in the last thirty years were
the premium which these nations were
paying Tor the insurance against war.
ls no nation ever to make a great adj
venture In behalf of world peace as
AosAOho 6CcIH " De ready TO naZ-
ard the adventure of world-war! Our
opposition to war must become real
and final and inflexible. The time must
come when men will have to choose be-
tween killing and being killed. No
government could constrain me to slay
my child. II my country bids me Stay
my brother beyond the national from
tier. should say nay. though the gov
eminent slay me. The time has come
when men must choose that they be
a ut nv !,
eT imam go forth to slay their brother
at the behest of any government.
substitute for war must be found
ana can be found. some outlet for the
together. some opportunity for the play
or the social instinct which burns
within men and is ready to merge the
interest OF the citizen in the interest
OF the country. Men must be given
some great and resistless call to sery-
Ice that merges the individual in the
community. If you will not let men
march and stand and serve together
they will stand and observe and battle
against one another. The new empha-
sis OF the peace movement must be
constructive. providing for public and
commonwealth service on the part of
the youth of the nation, to whom Prof.
James plan must be offered-a year of
service for the ablebodied youth of the
land.
One Reason Assigned.
Il hold that the absence of women
from the councils of state is partially,
if not largely. responsible for the con-
tinuance of the plague of war upon
earth. Is in less than incredible that
eight or nine nations are engaged in
the greatest war that the world has
ever known and not woman in all
these lands has been consulted as to
whether war or peace should be,
though tens OF thousands of men of
women born have died and the last
great terrible cost of war in lifelong
sorrow and suffering will be by wo-
men borne?
The last thing to be dreamed of
in connection with this war is revenge.
Only one thing could be madden than
the present warfare, and that were a
to infiict crushing pun
ishment upon any one of the contest
ing nations. Out of this terrible wei
ter of blood and massacre there must
come renewed and deepened respect
on the part of nations for one another,
a renewed and heightened reverence
for national dignities, religious integ-
rites and racial individualities.''