The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-02-03
A DEMAND
League To Enforce Peace Meets
in st. Louis.
Delegates From Nine States
Will Be at Meeting.

st. Louis, Feb. 3.-The state
branches of the League to Enforce
Peace in Missouri, Iowa, Nebraska.
Colorado. New Mexico, Arkansas,
Oklahoma, Kansas and Texas will CO.
operate in holding the Mid Continent
Congress for a League of Nations"
in St Louis, February % and &c. The
call for this convention. issued here
today, is signed by a committee eli
organization, consisting of fifty-one
of the most prominent members of the
league in these states.
The governors and mayors and the
leading organizations and societies in
the nine states have been invited to
send delegates. Several governors
have already made their appointments.
This congress will be the eighth of
a series of nine to be held during Feb
i ruary at important centers of popula
ton thruout the United States under
the auspices of the League to Enforce
Peace and its state branches. The
other convention cities are New York,
Boston, Chicago, Minneapolis, Port
land, Ore. san Francisco, Salt Lake
City 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 a group
of speakers, which will include: DR..
A. Lawrence Lowell, president of
Harvard; DIT, Henry van Dyke, for
merly minister to the Netherlands;
Frank p. Walsh, formerly joint chair
man of the war labor board. and
James w. Gerard. formerly ambassa-
dor to Germany. Other speakers for
the individual congresses will be an
nounced later
The purpose of the convention. ac-
cordinE to the invita- tiOns issued today,
is to marshal public opinion behind
Americas real purpose in the war"
which is defined as the creation a the
peace conference of a league of ma
tions to insure the orderly develop
ment of the world and preserve
peace" Resolutions along these lines
will be adopted and cabled to Paris
and also sent to the senators and rep
resentatives of the states represented.
The invitation says:
will you help in this greatest crisis
of history to marshal public opinion
behind Americas real purpose in the
war?
agreements made at the peace con-
ference will. for generations to come,
vitality affect for good or i'll the eco
nomic, political and moral well being
of mankind. The creation there of
league of free nations can alone insure
the orderly development of the world
and preserve peace. To get such
ed, by personal attendance, to throw
his great influence on the side of an
unselfish and righteous peace, with a
league of nations to safeguard it per-
petually.
1.-The series of nine congresses for a
league of nations will give opportunity
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 and temper of these con-
crosses and the carrying out in each
state of the plan of action they adopt"
Committee Is Chosen.
The committee on organization for
the Mid-Continent Congress follows:
Missouri-George Warren Brown B.
F. Bush. Sam b Cook. William B.
Cowen, j. Lionberger Davis, Oliver H.
Dean, James r. Dunn, Fred Fleming,
Jackson johnson. Frederick n. Jud-
son, W. T. Kemper, Henry w. Kiel.
R. A. Long, Festus J. Wade, Percy
Werner.
Kansas-Arthur Capper, P. w Goe-
bel. L. w. Hoch. George H Hodges.
w. r. Stubbs, Frank P. MacLennan.
William Allen White.
Nebrasl1a-Lys!e J. Abbott, Norris
Brown, w. A. Frazier, DIR. P. L. Hall.
Iowa-GeOrge W. Clarke. E. T.
Meredith. NJ. J. Wade. Lafayette
Colorado. Ward Bannistcr. Den
yer L. Plat, Karl c. Schuyler. S. Har-
risor White.
New Mexico-C. NJ. Bolts. Thomas
3. Catron. Neill B. Field, o. a. Lar
razola. w. f. Lindsey.
ADMINISTRATION r. breckenridge,
Charles H. BrouEh, George W. Dono-
ghey, II. L. Remmel.
Texas--O. E. Dunlap, J. A. Kemp,
r. NJ. Johnston, Pat NJ. Keff.
Oklahoma-C. B. Ames. C. o. Blake,
James J. McGraw. Tom Wade.
The headquarters of the committee
SE Of
Louis, with Miller Hageman as as
sistant manager.
National Officers League to Enforce
Peace.
The officers of the League, elected
at the Win the War for Permanent
Peace convention last May in Phila-
delphia. are:
President: William Howard Taft,
Vice-president, Allen V Parker.
Treasurer. Herbert S. Houston.
Secretary, VIM. H. Short.
Trustees:
William Howard Taft.
John Greer Hibben.
Thomas n. McCarter.
Vice presidents from Kansas
A A. Hyde
Frank P. MacLennan.
Charles f. Scott
w. r. Stubs, Lawrence.
William Allen White. Emporia.
Committee on information:
Herbert S. Houston, New York
chairman; Allen P. Ames. New York
secretary, and one or more newspapeI
men from each state.
Those named from Kansas are:
Hon, Arthur Capper Topeka Capi
ital; -
Hon. D. r. Anthony, Leavenwortl
Times:
Frank P. MacLennan. Topeka Stat
Journal.
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