Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-12-11
PENNA. SOCIETY
DISCUSSES PEACE
Many Harrisburgers Present at
Eighteenth Annual Dinner
in New York

New York., Dec. IL. - A brilliant
gathering of American men and wo-
men in the ballroom of the Waldorf
Saturday night shook an array of an
cient flags with their cheers when
James NJ. Beck, standing beneath a
portrait of William Penn, who wrote
centuries ago that the only insured
peace is the artificial peace of force"
cried in peroration;
This should never be forgotten, it
is part of universal law, it is true as
the living God, that the great and
necessary condition of peace is the
recognition of justice, and that the
cause of justice is infinitely higher
than the cause of peace"
While the assemblage gathered at
the eighteenth annual dinner of the
Pennsylvania Society to discuss the
problem of how society could be re-
constructed to avoid the horrors of
ware aroused to enthusiasm by Mr..
Beck's assertion that the everlasting
truth of the past two years is that the
peace of the world depends not upon
the disposition of the pacific, but upon
that of the bellicose," they were hush
ed in thoughtful silence by the SOL
emn warning of PRESIDENT Nicholas
Murray Butler of Columbia that pat
riotism must be based on principle and
not prosperity, and that it was time
for the United States to learn to keep
scrupulously its international prom
| iseS.
No Time For Peace Proposal
Though Sir George Eulas Foster, Il.
| c. NJ. G., Canadian Minister of Trade
ana commerce commended the deter
/ mtnation of the society TO continue it's
efforts of many years to further the
cause of world peace, he was firm and
/ crisp in his declaration that Great
Britain and her allies, while deeply
sympathetic with the home op making
war horrors memory would hearken
to no suggestion of terminating the
! present conflict: would brook no in
terference until the world struggle had
| gone on to an end.
The dinner, with its more than one
thousand guests, was one of the most
deliberately staged of the season. Free
| ly sprinkled clusters of red roses and
yellow carnations contrasted with the
black and white of the men in ball
room and stood out from a back
ground formed by q great screen of
green's, in which hung the portrait of
William Penn; the unique collection of
I flags owned by the society. all of them
reminiscent of bright spots in Ameri-
can history, added festive touch, and
| the several hundred handsomely
gowned and jeweled women in the
low-hanSing gallery framed the scene
in cleaning color.
March in TO Roll of Drums
Led by Richard 7. Davies and Cap
tain Francis NJ. Gibson, the guests of
honor and the officers of the society
marched into the ballroom TO the roll
OF drums and the waving of flaes. Sir
George Eulas Foster walked with
James Nj. Beck, president of the So
ciety. Then followed in couples DR..
Butler and Joshua \. Hatfield, Mr..
Davies and William NJ. Barrett. John
Nj RaN-nnlHC
William Perrine of the Evening Bulle-
tin and T. w. Siemon, the Right Rev.
Thomas q. Garland. chaplain of the
society, and Charles NJ. Schwab and
DR.. f. B. Fackenthal. Jr.. Senator
Boies Penrose and c. S. Woolworth,
Marcel KneCht and DIR. Herbert L.
Wheeler. Henry p. Dawson and John
Cadwalader, ]. Hay Brown. Chief Jus
tice of Pennsylvania, and p. NJ. Speer,
Governor James +. Fielder of New
Jersey and Henry A. Knapp, Louis de
Sadeleer and Thomas J. Baldrige.
Stephane LauZanne fthe Paris Matin
and Murdoch Kendrick, George w.
Perkins and Robert f. Umbel, Frank
b. McClain, Lieutenant Governor of
Pennsylvania, and Charles II. Demp-
wolf. DIR. Samuel Black Mccormick
Charles A. Blakslee, Rear Admiral r.
E: Peary and George L. Low, the
Right Rev. James II. Darlington,
bishop of Harrisburg, and Paul w.
Houck, the Rev. DIR. Oliver Huckel
and c. c. Heller. William II. Steven
son, president of the Historical So
ciety of Western Pennsylvania, and
Fl. B. KEEPER, Herman Leroy Collins
and Frank H. Gordon.
Harrisburgcrs Present
Among the Harrisburgers present
were: w. L. Gorgas, ]. W. Bowman,
T. T. Weirman.s E. J. Stackpole.
Thomas Lynch Montgomery, John A.
Herman. Charles A. Boil, John T.
Brady, NJ. a. Cumbler and d. E.
Tracy, president of the Chamber of
Commerce.
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