The Monmouth inquirer., 1924-05-08
DEMANDS FOR
WORLD COURT
Representatives of Church, Bar
ano industry Call for Speedy
approval at Hearing.
NATION REPORTED AROUSED
Men and Women From Maine to
California Voice Reasons Why
America Should Join Tribunal
Committee Gives No Decision

Committee Gives No Decision
lshington.-Le in church
organizations, industry, the bar and
the field of education urged American
participation in the World Court at
opening hearings on the question by
a subcommittee of the Senate
Foreign Relations Committee. Pro-
ponents alone were heard during the
day. and when adjournment was tax
en- the list of delegations to be heard
had not been materially reduced
The Federal Council of Churches,
claiming membership of 20,0OO.00O'
gave its Endorsement through Bishop
Charles H. Brent of the Protestant
Episcopal Diocese of Western New
York; the Chamber of Commerce OF
tie United States registered its ap-
prevail through Walter D. Hines,
chairman of it's foreign relations COM
mittee: the favorable views OF the
American Bar Association were trans
mitted by George w. Wickersham'
while the World Peace Foundation
declared its position through DR.. A.
Lawrence Lowell, president of Har-
ward University.
The speakers declared the court
had. been set up largely through
American initiative of the last fifty
wears, was to all practical purposes
free from the League of Nations. and
met the demands of the great ma
jority of the thinking public OF
America"
Bishop Brent declared the question
OF entry into the World Court had
risen because of it's worth above
party politics and now is the program
of the people" He and Mrs. James
Lees Laidlaw, of New York, represent
ing the Woman's Non-Partisan
League. agreed that a wave of indig-
nation is sweeping the country be-
cause of the long delay of action IN
the Senate committee on. the court
proposal
Mr.. Hines asserted that American
adherence to a World Court had been
repeatedly Endorsed by the chamber
since the proposal was first brought
before it in 1915 The present court
was specifically Endorsed. he said. at
the annual meetings of 1922 and 1923.
Mr.. Wfckersham analyzo the court
from a legal viewpoint and came to
the conclusion that the objections
which had been raised to it on the
Clound of connection with the League
of Nations could not be eustained.
He also vouched for the high stand
ing of the personnel now sitting in
the court in the eyes of the jurists OF
the principal countries.
A memorial presented in behalf OF
the churches bore the names of hum
dreds of high dignitaries of every
faith
Quoting the message of President
Coolidge to Congress last December
as placing the question outside Of
partisan politics, the memorial said
in the World Court was seen "a con-
crete expression of the Christian
spirit that is needed, the promise of
larger and truer righteousness and
Justice among nations, step forward
in the establishment of the Kingdom
of God
DR.. Lowell declared that in spirit
of organization the court presents IAN
interesting similarity of Angles Saxon
tenets and custom" Viewing the
situation as an historian, he said he
was convinced that posterity would
consider formation of the tribunal
long step toward closing the era in
which men took each others lives in
settling disputes not worthy Of such
cost"
One Of the most impressive parts
of the meeting was the presentation
of a memorial signed by the repre-
sentatives of twenty-nine church de-
nominations representing 2O,0O0.000
communicates, every one Of whom,
the committee was told, believed that
entrance into the court was an i'm
portant step toward world peace.