Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1921-05-12
CHURCHES UNITE
FOR CONFERENCE
ON DISARMAMENT
Call to Protestants, Catholics
and Jews of America to
Demand International Par
lev on Disarmament.

New York. May lO--FOur OF the
largest religious organizations IN the
United States, representing Protes-
tanta, Catholics, and Jews have united
| III nation wide appeal for an
international conference on the re-
unctiOn OF armnments. Letters sign
ed by the Officers of each OrganiZa-
ton We're attached to Il call issued
by the committee on reduction or
armaments of the Church Peace un-
ion, which was mailed to 100000
clergymen Of all these sects resid-
ing in every state of the union. The
committee asks each clergyman to
do three things:
1rirst--Read this call with the let
tiers attached to their congregations
on Sunday. June s..
letters to Representative
SecoEd-InTite their congregations
to send a strongly-worded resolution
to their congressman urging upon
them the imperative necessity for Il
conference OF the leading nations"
Third--Sign and return to the COM
mittee on reduction of armaments at
10 Fifth avenue, New York, the post
card enclosed with each letter so
that the signatures might be added
to Il great petition urging President
Harding and congress to call an in
ternational conference on the reduc-
tion Of armaments.
The four separate denominatiOnal
appeals mailed with this call come
from the federal Council or Church
es Of Christ in America, the Ma
tional Catholic Welfare Council, the
Central Conference Of American Rab-
bis, and the United Synagogue OF AZ
merica.
This movement to unite all the
churches for Il reduction of arma-
ments resulted from a letter recent
ly received by the Church Peace
union from General Tasker Fl. Bliss.
formerly chief OF staff of the United
States army. A copy Of Gen. Bliss's
letter which also accompanies the
general call says
General Bliss Letter
81 would not take single step
in the way of disarmament except
a sthe result Of an agreement. thor
oily acceptable to us, between our
selves and the other principal ma
tions engaged in the armament rival
ry. l have not the fainest idea Of
what form that first agreement might
take. / have. therefore, no scheme
OF disarmament to propose. Ny sole
purpose. therefore. is to have such
an international conference Either,
there is no practical common sense,
among the people of the United States
Or else they don't know the essential
facts that point to the; necessity of
such conference. N, -, II
THE farmers of the United States
apparently are Of the belief that
some action mast be taken by our
government TO relieve the repres-
sion in their#affairs. They have got
ten together and have Pit pressure
upon their congressmen and the lat
ter. in their turn. have put pressure
upon the government with the GER
tainty that now rightly or wrongly
something is going to be done. II
the farmers had not done this or
had continued talking among them
selves in their various conventions
nothing would have been d done. J.
II the clergymeh Of the United
States want to secure q Limitation Of
ornaments they can, do It now with
out any further waste OF time. Il