Evening star., 1924-12-07
RESERVE CHAPLAIN
CORPS IS OPPOSED
Non-MiIitary Basis OF Re-
ligious Work in Army
Object of Move.
By the Associated Press.

ny the Associated Press.
ATLANTA, Ga, December 6-War
ana race problems tonight were the
most important subjects before the
Federal Council of Churches as II
brought it's business sessions of the
week TO a close. DR.. NJ Ashby Jones
Atlanta, described the racial question
as the most insistent challenge to
Christian religion but declared
progress is being made in meeting
the question of white and colored
races in the South"
War was branded as the "chief col
lective sin of human society" in reso-
luton offered by DR. Charles c. Nor
rison, Chicago, editor of the Chris
tian Century, asking that the council
committee on Army and Navy chap
lains discontinue Its activity and
responsibility in the appointment Of
chaplains in the Officers Reserve
Corps"
Referred Without Debate.
DR.. Morrison's resolution was in
nedistely sent to the business com
mittee without debate II recon
mended that the committee be in
structed by conference with proper
Government officials to study the
question of taking such steps as
may be necessary and effective 10
place the service of ministers of re
ltgion TO the men of both Army and
Navy upon a non military basis 2"
The report Of tho findings. under fhr
resolution, would be reported to tn
counciIs executive committee ncsr
year.
THE next great war must be rr
vented before it is started former
Gov. MilliSen of Maine told the deIr-
gates. The churches are the custo-
dtans and trustees upon this earth Of
the only force that will prevent il
by substituting love for hatred and
good will for suspicion. brotherhood
for bitterness, in the lives Of human
beings. And so in the policies Of
nations. How great this responsi-
bility is, not only for the spiritual
welfare Of humanity, but for the vcrv
physical structure of civilization. il is
impossible 10 ovcrestimate."
Takes Rap at Pacifsts.
Tho former executive declared le
had little patience with the puerilc
pacific propa ganda which seeks 10
prevent war by pledging individua S
to refuse cooperation with thcir
governments in the event of war >
Such an attempt to prevent war, he
continued, lis like seeking to dam
Niagara by throwing pebbles on the
brink of the cataract"
The primary expression of race
consciousness is that primary in
stinct of the individual for self
fullment." said DR.. Jones. 1t is re-
vealed in the instinct of selfpreser-
walton or self f-defense."
We must face the fact that the
superior might OF one group over
others often gives that group supe-
rior opportunities which have issued
in superior achievements" he said.
These superior opportunities may
have been land, climate and i'm
munity from manual tasks.
We must face the fact that these
superior achievements in government
and the arts of civilization must he
preserved and at times defended from
the weaker and more backward peo-
pies. This may become the justitica-
tion for the government of one race
by another.
This has been responsible, how
ever, for most Of the tyranny of the
world. It has almost always been
too severe a test of human nature to
make one group subserVient to an
other. 1t seems we'll nigh impossible
for the stronger group to govern for
the welfare of the weaker group. II
is 100 great d ten lpldNIOil 70 SAplOll
housekeeping them weak in order
that they may be used for the benefit
of the strong"
Work for Racial Peace.
The work of inter-racial committees
in the South. he said. has been CON
cerned with human sympathy and the
meeting of the best representatives
of both races to discuss not the aca-
demiC question of the relation of the
races, but the specific needs of the
home, cases of injustice and discrim-
ination in the courts of the business
world
The supreme good is to be found
not in any specific results" he said,
but in the spiritual atmosphere of
human kindness which his been ere
ated.'
A greater place for women in the
work of the organization was recon
mended by the council in adopting the
report of its committee on policy.