Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1922-04-06
NAVY OFFICER
WANTS TO MAKE
WAR ILLEGAL
Ideal Plan for Nations to
Adopt Program to
OutLaLC.
BY CONSTANCE DRExEL.

not depending upon the removal Of So
called causes Of war, but upon making
was illegal just as individual murder is
Illegal was proposed by Captain Luke
McNamee, chief Of the naval intelligence
service. before the National Council for
Reduction of Armaments at a meeting in
the national headquarters this afternoon.
Captain MeNamee was asked by the
council to present the Nays point OF
view on the reduction to a Navy person
mel Of $1,000 as proposed in Congress,
but said he spoke as an individual
In his opinion, the Navy should main
tain Secretarr Denby's recommendation
of 5000 u,en until further reduction in
armamer:s could be obtained through
INTERIM Cional agreement. He then sug-
gested that the ideal way would be for
all nations to meet together TO adopt
a program which would outlaw war and
make it Illegal between nations.
The naval officer, who had merely to
cross the street from his office in the
imposing pile Of the State, War and Navy
building to make his speech, made him
self very popular with his hearers who
listened to his prepared address with
keenest attention.
As viii be noted below, the very plan
Of getting rid Of war, not merely by the
uncertain, contentious method OF remov-
ing fits impossible causes, but by making
it Illegal, suggested by Captain McNamee
was already on the program for discus
sion
Today's meeting had been called for the
purpose Of passing upon questions which
will be submitted to the approaching ma
tional women's conventions which many
rf h.. 49, g.,
will hold in the near future. The ques-
TOMS adopted for submission are as fol-
lows:
1. (a) Shall we support practical steps
towards effective world organization to
replace war as a method Of settling in
ternational disputiesT
OBJ Shall we favor the outlawry OF
war and codification of international law
in general accordance with the Knox
LevinsOn plan with the omission of its
provision for a citizen army?
2. Shall we support progressive reduc-
ton Of world ornaments toward a police
force by agreement and example when
the latter method shall not endanger ma
tiOnal security?
3. Do we support definite action Of
agencies Of education leading to improved
international understanding?
4. Do We favor participation Of the
United States in an economic confer
ence with the nations Of Europe as soon
as conditions make reasonable success
possible and IN further conferences for
the reduction OF ornaments by agree
menti
5. Do we favor participation by the
United States IN the world court at The
hague?
6>ao we favor the concentration Of
the manufacture Of munitions in govern
ment hands as a step toward information
al control Of munitions?
:. Do we favor the consolidation Of
the Army and Navy in a department of
national defense?
s. Do we favor the abolition Of sub
marines By international agreement and
support the outlawry OF gas warfare?
The people voting TO submit these quo
tations, and the organizations they repre-
sented, are as follows: Mrs. Maud Wood
Park. League Of Women Voters; Mrs.
Lucia Ames Mead Of Boston, women's
international League and Massachusetts,
Council Ter Reduction Of Armaments
Laura Rookie Church, National Reform
Association; Margaret C. Afanle Of Phila-
delphia, Girls Friendly Society Of Amer
lea; A S. Boyer and y. P Atlas. Inter
national Association Of Machlnists; Mrs
Samuel MacCliRtock, National Board Y.
". c. A; Mary Stewart, National Fedora
ton Business and Professional Women's
Clubs; Mrs. Arthur Watkins, National
Congress Mothers and Parent Teachers
Association; Mrs. William D. Phelan,
General Federation Of WOmen's Clubs :;
Mrs. Raymond B. Morgan, American As
ISOLATION of University Women: Charles
A. Lyman, National Board Of Farm Or
ganization; Marion Parkhurst, League Of
Women Voters; T. Januey Brown,
Friends Disarmament Council; Hugh S.
MagiIl. National Education Association,
Mrs Ellis A. Yost. ". G. T. T.; Adelaide
= Baylor, American School Citizenship
League
Women took a hand today in protest
ing the peremptory dismissals from the
Bureau Of Engraving Department as a
violation OF civil service rules.
At q meeting Of the women's joint
congressional committees subcommittee,
which is supporting the Sterling -Lehl,
bach bill for rehabilitation of the Fed
eraI civil service, Miss Ethel Smith Of
the National Women's Trade Union
League was particularly incensed at the
manner Of Diminishing the four women
division chiefs from their positions.
The women's Union Of the Bureau Of
Engraving and Printing also protested to
the President IN a letter signed by Ger
trude NJ McNally, secretary. Il began
ION behalf Of the women's division Of
the Bureau OF Engraving and Printing
representing thousands Of the women en-
pIOyed in various processes in the bu-
reau, We desire 10 call your attention to
the fact that among the twenty-eight
employees dismissed by your order. with
out specification as to cause. were four
women who held the highest positions
thus far opened to women in the bureau -
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