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j Called by League to Enforce Peace
!. To Meet in New IOrk-Eaft, Lo-
well, Van Dyke, walsh And Ger
ard Among Speakers.
New York, January 13-The State
Branches Of the League TO Enforce
Peace in New York, New Jersey.
pennsylvania. Maryland. Delaware,
Virginia, West Virginia and the Dis
trict Of Columbia Branch will coop
crate in holding the Atlantic Con-
gress for League Of Nations" in
New York City, February ) and g..
The call for this convention, issued
here today, is signed by Il Commit
tee on Organization consisting Of
thirty-one of the most prominent
H. cmbers of the League in these
States.
Sessions will be held on both days
in the ballroom of the Hotel Astor,
and the Congress will close with a
mass meeting IL the Seyenty-frst
Regiment Armory. The Governors
and Mayors and the leading organf-
cations and societies in the seven
States have been invited to send
delegates. Several Governors al
ready have made their appointments
This Congress will be the first of a
series of nine to be held during Feb
ruary at important centres of popu
lation throughout the United States
under the auspices of the League to
Enforce Peace and its State bran
ches. The other convention cities
are Boston, Chicago, Minneapolis,
Portland, Oregon: San Francisco Salt
Lake City, Kansas City, Mo-, and
Atlanta.
William H Taft, President of the
League. will preside and speak at
all nine conventions, and will take
with him in his tour of the country
group Of speakers, which will in
clude: DR.. A. Lawrence Lowell,
President of Harvard; DR.. Henry Van
Kyke, formerly Minister to the Ne
therlands; Frank P. Walsh, former
ly joint chairman of the War Labor
Board, and James w. Gerard, form
erly Ambassado: to Germany Other
speakers for the individual con-
congresses will be announced later
The purpose Of the convention, ac-
cording to the invitations issued to-
day, is o''marshal public opinion be
hind Americas real purpose in the
war;" which is defined as the crea-
ton at the Peace Conference of
League of Nations to insure the OF
derly development of the world and
preserve peace" Resolutions along
these lines will be adopted and
eabled to Paris and also sent to the
Senators gnd Rcn1ssen tass
States represented. The invitation
says:
''Will you help in this greatest
crisis of history to marshal public
opinion behind Americas real pur-
pose in the war?
agreements made at the Peace
Conference will, for generations to
come, vitally affect for good or i'll
the economic, political and moral
we'll being of mankind. The crea-
tion there of I League of Free Ma
tions can alone insure the orderly
of the world and pre-
serve peace. To get such League,
President Wilson wisely decided,
by personal attendance on the side
of an unselfish and righteous peace,
with a League of Nations to safe
guard it perpetually.
THE series OF nine Congresses for
a League of Nations, will siye oDpor-
tunity for those who won the war,
both on and behind the fighting line,
to speak their wishes. Agreement at
Paris, and ratification by the Senate,
may depend on the size ano temper
of these Congresses and the carrying
out in each State of the plan of ac-
tion they adopt
The Committee on Organization for
the Atlantic Congress follows:
New York-Samuel Gompers, John
G. Agar, Frances F. Cleveland Pres
ton, VIM. Church Osborn, VIM. Jay
Jacob Gould Schurman,
Anna Howard Shaw, Nathan Straus.
New Jersey-Henry van Dyke, Har-
old B. Wells, Thos. N. McCarter.
Pennsylvania-Henr S. Drink ,Cy-
rus H. X. Curtis. VIM. l.. Clause,
Thomas Reaburn White.
Maryland-Edwin WarfielG, Thee
dore Marburg, Henry W. Williams,
VIM. F. Cochran.
Delaware Graz. Josiah
Marvel, Charles r. Miller.
Virginia-George Bryan, William
Hodges Mann, Roland X. Chase.
District of Columbia-Frederic D.
McKenney, Martin--A. Knapp, Rich
ard B. Watrous.
The committee has established
Headquarters on the twenty-thlrd
floor of the Bush Terminal Sales
Building, $50 West AID street, New
York.