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Federal Council Of Churches
Appeals to World Conscience
In Disarmament.

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point out that axiom, and to denounce
without limit and rule of the state,
that blood thirsty Moloch which the
governing classes try to identify with
of the World War, during the confer
ences Of the Hague, where were laid
the foundations Of international ar
bitration, the delegates of certain gov
ernments drew back from the obliga-
ton of recourse to it.
"This pitiable evasion was hardly
tolerable before the CHASTITY catas-
trophe which has bathed our planet
in human blood; but today it is hide
Gus and damrable. The honor of the
State and the Sovereignty of the
State are dead formulas; they are
empty. hypocritical, and homicidal. 8.
Militarism in America.
1.-THE United States refused to rat
ify the Treaty Of Versailles because it
/ did not want to assume burdensome
duties, (for instance, the care Of agon-
{ lied Armenia) but now it wants to
profit by the rights which the treaty
comedies to it. And to lend weight
Ito it's claims, it is constructing a COL
| lossal fleet, it's military expenditures
reach dizzy figures.
+: !: ''The entire world is noting the pro-
gress Of the military spirit in the
United States, some with a ma!ign
joy, others with inquietude: and the
press, in many countries, even resti-
fies to lack Of respect for the dis,
armament conference convoked by
I President Harding. It is whispered
that this is nothing but phase of the
naval rivalry between England and
the United States and Japan.
The United States cannot longer
practice it's narrow policy of isolation.
It does not want to any more, for IT'S
interests lie in cooperation with the
rest Of the nations, and it ought not
to do so; neither conscience nor Ev-
angelical tradition will permit it to-
repeat the words Of Cain: Am my
brothers keeperfi'
League of Nations Lives.
"Of course, the actual League un-
der our eyes, calls forth criticism
Without the United States, Russia,
and Germany, it seems to group tine
greater victorious European powers,
and to take on the chara cter Of a ratl-
itary coalition in the eyes of certain
neutral powers. Again, it is re-
preached with being, not the repre-
sentation of the parliaments, but the
| instruments of governments. And
there is food for still other well-fou11-
ded criticism.
The application Of the famous
Article x, is not easily interpreted
And yet. the League of Nations, lives
and moves and has it's being. That is
the wonder. Something really new
has come to our old planet. some
thing unique in history. For the first
time, the idea of an association Of
Nations is transformed from theory
| to fact. 1t is today the most original
and audacious manifestation of the
ideal Of humanity.
Tyranny of Our Trusts.
when I think of the way in which
your country was formed, when I
think how 1t was born out of the tears
and prayers of a 1ew hardy champions
Of liberty. when I reflect how it never
ceased to draw to itself as to a Jew
ish City of Refuge the oppressed Of
the entire earth, the victims Of parse-
~cution, the prophets of new times to
come, exiled patriots, the pariahs Of
our cruel civilization of iron and gold
driven towards your shores by wretch
! ness, militarism and intolerance,
Tit seems to me then that the United
Estates received from on high. the mis-
sion to succor, and even to save the
world of today!
"And I persist In my belief, in spite
of the tyranny of your trusts. in spite
of the brutality of your social CON
flicts where strikes often >degen crate
into bloody battles, in spite of the i'm
prisonment Of the socialist Debs Tor
having been opposed to the recent
War, in spite of the cruel custom of
lynch law against negroes.
Hosts of other letters have come to
the officers of the Federal Council
from leaders of thought in both the
churches and the public life of other
! lands, with one accord expressing .he
new hope aroused by the call Of Presi-
dent Harding to the Conference On
the Limitation of Armament.
| / This newborn hope, however is
dinmed with reservations. They de-
clare frankly that unless the churches
and the moral forces the world over
| take the lead and mobilize a great
army of Christian public opinion
nothing efective can or will be ac-
:complished and 1.-The world will 60
from armament to armament until
the next great war carries civilization
4. down in a crash.
r." "America must strike the decisive
1 blow in world reconstruction as she
did in the world war; is the general
i Viewpoint Of them all. .,: .s
I ASHEVILLE, N. c., Nov. 1O.-Al.
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