St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1916-06-07
COMMERCIAL CLUB MEET
Heard Address BY Hon. III. c. Ide On
Enforcement of Peace

Heard Address BY Hon. III. c. Ide Or
Enforcement of Peace
The Commercial club held one Of
their meetings in Pythian hall Thurs
day night at which peace rather than
war was the dominating note, and
though the attendance was smaller
than usual all considered it one of the
most profitable of the year.
Supper was served at $50 and dur
ing the hour that followed most en-
joyable music was furnished by the
Academy orchestra. Following the
banquet a little business was trans
acted. The bylaws. presented at the
last meeting by the officers OF the
Tuck school, were unanimously adopt
ed and a committee Of five nominated
to present, a list Of nine directors to
serve the club the coming year. The
nominating committee consists OF
Charles w. Steele. Richard G. Baker,
DR.. F. z. Farmer, Joseph Fairbanks
and George H. Cross and they Will
submit a list of directors to be bal
loted for by the members of the club.
Miss Mykoff, representing the Red
path Lyceum Bureau of Boston, spoke
briefly in the interests of her organ
eial club have a course of lectures
and entertainments here the coming
winter. Following her presentation of
the advantages of such a course a
committee of three were named to
consider and report on the subject at
the next meeting. This committee
consisted of Charles w. Steele. Rev.
p. d. Moody and DR.. w. G. Kicker.
Arthur f. Stone Presides.
The postprandial exercises were in
charge Of Arthur F. Stone and the
first speaker was Rev. F. B. Richards
who made a brief but urgent appeal
for the relief of the people who are
now such great sufferers on account of
the European war. He urged that the
Commercial club start fund to which
our townspeople could generously
subscribe and that this be done as
soon as possible as the need was
great. He closed with a suggestion
that a committee be appointed to issue
an appeal and raise money at once
for the sufferers. The following were
appointed on this committee: Rev.
f. B. Richards. A. H. Gleason, F. B.
Jacques, Charles E. Peck, DR.. F. E..
Farmer, Frank G. Landry, James A.
Cosgrove.
Industrial Exposition.
Mr.. Stone then reported for the In
dustrial exposition, which he declar-
ed was a great success even If there
was deficit Of about 500. He said
it had advertised the town all over
New England in the best way and
that it was something that ought to
be repeated at some future time. He
spoke particularly of the splendid ex-
hibits in manual training and domes-
tic science of our public schools and
of the exhibits of the commercial de-
partment and the manual training ex-
hibit Of the Academy. He also said
that the parade of all the school chill
dren on Friday afternoon was an in
spring sight and again demonstrated
the fact that Vermont's best crop was
her boys and girls. During the four
days there were 5,672 paid admissions,
divided by days as follows: Wednes-
day, 70; Thursday, 1925; Friday, g.
1858; Saturday. 2,399. In addition
there were $50 helpers and exhibits
tickets and over ]. 400 school children
admitted free, so the total attendance
for the week exceeded 5000. Had
the weather been favorable the anti
cipated 10, 900 admissions would have
been recorded and the financial sue
cess been assured.
Gov. Ide Speaks.
The speaker of the evening was our
honored townsman, Gov. Henry c..
Ide, who very clearly and forcefully
presented the aims and purposes of
the League to Enforce Peace. He
said that first communities and then
states banded themselves together for
mutual protection, and why could not
such a scheme be enlarged to include
nations. That was exactly the idea of
the newly-formed League to Enforce
Peace. organized at Philadelphia on
the 18th of last June and whose an
nual meeting has just been held at
Washington. 1t was the plan OF this
organization to have all the leading
nations of the world submit all jus
ticiable questions to a court of nations
before declaring war upon another
nation, and all non-justiciable ques-
tons to a court Of Cancellation for
their consideration and recommends
ton. In case one of the signatory
powers declared war upon another
power. without submitting their case
to the court of nations, all the other
signatory powers would by force of
arms If necessary compel the offend
ing nation to at once make peace with
the other nation. II such an agree
men had been in force two years ago
II was inconceivable to suppose that
Austria would ever have delivered its
ultimatum to little Servia and thus
precipitated the greatest war in all his
tory.
Officers of League.
The president Of the league is Hon.
William H. Taft and in it's official
board are such well-known statesmen
and diplomats as Alton B. Parker.
Oscar s. Straus. Myron T. Herrick.
President Hibben Of Princeton, Presi-
dent Lowell Of Harvard. Editor Holt
OF the New York Independent, Elihu