Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1916-01-09
Judge George Cray Of Della
ware, Delivers Powerful
Address at Banquet Given
by Secretary Lansing.
PREPAREDNESS AGAINST
WAR Is POLICY NOW
Minister CaIderoo Of Bolivia
Pays High Compliment TO
Union Proposed by Pfesi-
dent Wilson,

~ Voesac JOURNAL SPECIAL trtsro w,Fel
Washington. Jan S--Dclegates to.
the second pan-American Scientific
congress. which ended q two weeks
session here today were guests Of
Secretary Lansing tonight at ban
quet featured by addresses re-empha-
sizing the growing tendency toward
closer relations among the American
republics
Secretary Lansing, Ambassador Ed
uardo Saurez-Mujica, Of Chile presi-
dent Of the congress Judge George
Gray. Of Delaware, chairman Of the
unned states delegation and lgnacio
Calderon. BoliNia's minister here,
were among those on the after-dinner
program Mr.. Lansing expressed the
qualification OF the United states for
what the congress had accomplished
and Ambassador Suarcz, responding
for The organization, proposed a toast
to the president Of the United states
as u symbol Of the country that has
entertained us fratornally.
Presidents policy ENDORSED.
In delivering farewell 70 the de-
parting delegates. Judge Gray urged
that the American republic which
need no formal treaties to impel us
to unity Of thought and action,
should not neglect in their friendly
relations with each other to take
steps. for military preparedness. An
other endorsement Of President WIN
sons Pan-American policy was made
by Minister Calderon who declared it
"a great doctrine which excludes No
man, threatens no country but is the
elimination of ,hat great. universe
yearning for freedom, fol peace, foi /
justice and for amity.'
Monday, as the guests Of the United
states government the foreign dele
gates will leave Tor tour as far north
as Boston. which viii end at New
York January g. They Will be enter
tanned at luncheon Monday by the
baltimore board of trade and after
ward will visit Philadelphia. Prince
ton. New Haven. Boston and various
other cities
Judge Gray in his farewell address
tonight emphasized that military pre-
paredness should be directed mot for
war. hut as happily has been said,
against war" He added that the op
portunity might come and we all
fervcntly pray It may soon come.
when the president could offer rs the
spok Of nll the Americas a sug-
gestion that might find Judgment in
the mind ana heart of the peoples of
the world
This voice. he continued, when
spoken must be the voice of virile
people, who with no selfish aims to
subservc and with no purpose OF as-
erosion Of ACKNOWLEDGMENT stand for
law aud Justice and the broad human
tiles that under-le our civilization
Strengthenne of the sea power
south ms wta MS north, he said, was
a duty that We may protect every
where the commerce that traverses
the high seas and ocean paths that
are open to an neutral nations,
while the United states must SO
strengthen It's army chat it may
serve as the nucleus upon which the
citizen soldiery ef the states may b"
built into an efficient army Of de
Tense
Need No Formal Treaties.
These. he declared, are the SEN
timents which are felt in the hearts
If the Americans as they hold up the
Olive branch OF peace to the nations
of the world We need no formal
treaties TO impcl us to the unity OF
thought and action that will make the
injury of one the injury Of all. 1t Is
for us. of an the world, To make "a
moral salvage Of Christian civiliza-
ton To paraphrase the words Of the
president Americans ask nothing for
themselves. except what they have a
rlght to asl, Ior humanity itself
'Frieudliness and good will have
been the atmosphere in which this
congress has worked for the benefit
of humanity It is only for the peo-
pies of the two continents Ia viii to
~ friends. and the work is accom-
plished. TIME and circumstances
have drawn us together We cannot
ignore the community of our interests
Il We would-nor can We neglect the
duty OF cooperation. which that com
munity imposes on us.
Plea tor ran-Americanism.
with the performance of that duty
~ cooperation viii come | am sure,
the mutual respect upon which alone
true friendship can be founded--on
such foundations | look forward
hopefully "a d union of the peoples Of
pan-America, more enduring than any
that can com, from treaties or laws.
Secretary Lansing told the DELEGATES
he hoped each 81 them would return
tu has country an apostle OF Pan
Americanism teaching his fellow ciu-
zens The truth as to other republics,
wiplng away the dount rs to their
sincerity ile said Americanisim
should D. ih, guide OF an the Ameri-
can republic n their intercourse and
the hope of america in all times