The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-09-04
Off To Vienna To
 Talk Peace
By J. BART CAMPBELL, International News Service Staff
 

Correspondent.
 Washington, Sept. Five sena- tors and five Representatives sailed away for Europe the other day to heip revlve the dream of world peace.
 And as the American delegates to the twentieth conference of the Inter- Parliamentary Union, to be held at Vienna on August 2S, 29 and 30, all and financial problems awaited them
 From all quarters of the globe there will be present the chosen custodians of the panaceaS for war
 And yet the Americans were hope full that some good would come out of it all.
 The Senators dn the party were of ,thought-McKinley of Illinois; Ladd. of North Dakota; and spen- cer. Of Missouri-and two Democrats who yE once urged the entry of the United States into the League of Ma ttons-Harris. of Georgia, and Carra- way, of Arkansas.
 Theodore P. Burton, once a sena- headed the members of the lower chamber. The Republican Burton rubbed elbows with the Democratic Andsew Ainis n,ha Jackson ls,s Montague- of Vir- American Peace Society for 1920.
 From a handbook of the Union Senator Mckinley quoted:
 There is here a bond of union and basis of organized cooperation with enormous power for good in the de- velopement of closer International re- sources of friction between the coun- tries represented in the Union, and in securing national legislation upon international questions" There was also set forth:
 1.-The single principle to which the members of the parliaments of the world commit themselves in af- flllating with the Inter-Parliamen- Union jS haf of orIaix, substitute for war in the settlement of disputes between nations. "A vital tenet of its creed is 1 that no action shall be taken or con | templated which seeks to impinge, in any manner or degree. upon the sov- ereignty. the independence or the ter r1t0r1al integrity of any nation | The handbook. a neat little leather pound volume, bore upon it's cover the imprint of the date, 1914 and an examination of its contents showed questionably good) adopted at the seventeenth conference of the Union held at Geneva in 1912 and the eigh- teenth confernece of the Union held 1 THE WORLD WAR 1 But those principles and the tenets spread broadcast first through a world on the verge of the most ter rfble conflict in its bloody history of warfare still burn with the unquench- able lire of hope that men will turn eventually 10 the settlement of their disputes by peacable measures
 Let the peoples of the world speak Tor peace and against war through their Senators deputies, Members of Parliament and of Congress and per- maps never again would the wliu vanity or ambition Of an emperor like the present Civilian Hohenzollern plunge the world into a terrible ca tastrophe like that from which it has NOT yet fully emerged.
 It was in this optimistic vein that Senator Mckinley discussed the pos abilities at Vienna. whither he and his colleagues were bound as the re- presentatives of the American Con gress, which itself thought so well of the Inter-Parlianentary Union idea before the World War that in 1905 it appropriated $5o,00O to help it along. Tn a circular issued by the secre- tary-general of the Union from Gen eva recently it was stated that tits object is also to study all questions Of an international character suitable for settlement by parliamentary ac- tion.'
 The agenda of this months con- ference includes:
 1.--'The work of the Washington Conference and the continuation of that work with view to the eco homie reconstruction of the world.
 seduction of arTnaments. Work done by the League of Ma tions.''
 Universal obligatory military service (consscriptfon) and the fnsti- tuition of civilian service for conscien- ticus objectors.
 A. "Parliamentary control of for eign policy.
 5.-"Economfc and financial o,es- lions
 6.-Colonta1 mandates. 1 7-R1ghts of racial n1fmorities''