The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1916-04-30
new WORLD RULES
CERTAIN LANSING
Secretary Says the War Will
Send Many Old Ideas to
Scrap Heap.
PRINCIPLES TO

WASHINGTON, April 2s.-secretary
Lansing IN an address at the dinner OF
the American Society Of International
Law declared tonight that. many Of the
old ideas regarding the rules Of inter-
national law must be sent to no scrap
heap as the result Of the great war.
Mr.. Lansing said:
There is coming a time. a time
which will begin with the restoration
Of peace to his suffering and war sick
world. when NO, will have to resdjust
our ideas as to the rules Of Internal
tional law. I do not mean the principles
Of that law. for they are immutable.
founded as they are on Justice,
righteousness and humanity.
81 mean that the application OF these
principles to new conditions will give us
new rules which ave never before been
recognized or even conceived by the ma
tons OF the world. and which cannot,
therefore, he now invoked by ~bellfgcrent
or neutral.
III I were asked what was the CHIEF
cause of the new conditions and changed
methods of and and naval warfare ]
would unhesitatingly answer the inven-
ton OF the Internal combustion engine.
II has made practicable the automobile,
the submarine, the %aeroplanc n the
~dirigiblc. 1t has made surprise Amos
impossible on and and II has vastly
Increased the possibility of surprise Al
sea.
THE change Of conditions which this
invention. aided by the telephone. the
wireless and the camera has brought
about Is comparable only with that which
was wrought by the invention and use
% ~gunpowder. These new conditions
offer 10 the student Of international Law
a field of speculation which Ia at once
attractive ard difficult.
IT mean 10y difficult that however
ardent the student may be he must
go very slowly or he will lose his bear
ings. He must be "a philosopher rather
than a legalist. He must scrapheap d
lot OF the old ideas embalmed In layers
OF precedent and return for light and
inspiration to those eternal principles
which must guide nations in their re-
lations with one another II liberty and
justice are TO be aNalted on the earth.
at IL the interchangeable standard OF
these fundamental principles which Is
the rock Of salvation to international
law. Whatever code of rules ~ to the
conduct oil war may III tnt lu'ure W.
formulated by the nations of the world
II must find "a sure foundation on that
rock which is imbedded deep in the con-
seriousness OF modern civilization
Elihu Root was reelected president
Of the society. whose annual meeting
ended to-day.
Senator Lodge and John Basset
Moore. former Counsellor of the stat.
Department. were elected vice-presidcuis
succeeding William J. Bryan and th'
late James X. ANGEL Of the tniversi,!
~ Michigan. Mr. Bryan is moi now a
! member OF the society.
Financial aid given by the Carnegi'
Endowment for International Peace e
the society's committee on study an,
teaching NJ International law was eN
planned to-day 10y Dr. James Brow
Scott. director of the endowment H.
said $4,000 had been donated to "a,
the committees .eSearch and referre,
TO what he declared was unwarranie,
criticism Of the receipts Of 'tainte,
money.
Prof. James ". Garner OF the Uni
versity of Illinois said the cominitte,
in accepting the donation from the en-
dowment was not bound to participate
IN any propaganda.