The Washington times., 1925-01-24
WAR CONFEREES
ADDRESSED BY
COOLIDGE
President Holds Intelligence
More Potent Friend Of
Peace Than Force

President Coolidge today told hun
dreds of delegates to the NationaI
Conference on hte Cause and Cure
of War, who called upon him at
the. White HOUSE, that human intel
ligence, rather than force. is the
cure for international conflict.
He proposed to the women par
ticipation by the United States in
the Permanent Court Of Interna-
tional Justice as the next link in
the chain 70 peace efforts sponsored
by this ountry in recent years.
81 believe that with our ad-
herence to that tribunal" said the
President, for which + earnestly
hope, it will become one medium
in which may gradually be precfpi-
lated and crystallized a body Of
international law and procedure
which, by avoiding the dangers that
would attend the establishment CT
a supergovernment, will ultimately
command the respect and approba
ton of the worlds public opinion.
and the cooperation of the nations.
Force Not Only Authority.
President Coolidge declared his
conviction that physical force is not
the only authority which may en-
force an anti-war policy provides
that civilization is worthy Of its
name"
He told the women that an inter
national peace tribunal such as he
thought would bring about the de-
sired effect would rely for the en-
forcement Of its DEGREES not upon
armies and fleets and all the re-
Iatd means OF destruction, but
rather upon the two most construc-
tive forces in the world" These
forces he defined al ''the intelli-
gence Of tn mass Of individuals and
the moral opinion of the com
munity."
The conference is to conclude its
sessions later today, when final
action will be taken upon various
reports and resolutions.
When the morning session adj
journed, in order to go to the
White House, the conference was
eIoundering through sea of word.
shadings and interpretations, which
came in the form OF suggested
changes in the report Of the com
mittee on the cures OF war.
The meeting struck snag in
taking up q paragraph which would
recommend Through an adequate
agency" the enactment OF IAN inter
national law declaring that war is a
crime, in which an aggressor nation
should be dealt with as q criminal =
Some delegates proposed that the
paragraph be altered so as to
state that war henceforth is a
crime" 1t was suggested that the
paragraph in its present form would
make George Washington a crimi-
nal. The position of the hence
forth" in the paragraph furnished
further material for the dissenting
delegates. One proposed the word
now" instead OF 'shenceforth.
Such battles as these over the
phraseology OF reports marked the
major part of the session.
The report of the committee on
the causes Of war. citing numerous
reasons for international combat,
was accepted after hong debate.
Senator Pttman Speaks.
The surprise OF the morning ses-
sion was the appearance of Senator
Key Pittman of Nevada, who urged
the conference to steer away from
over-intimacy with the League of
Nations, in favor of more general
proposals for the settlement of
the differences OF nations by
arbitration.
"All we want to do is to kepe
alive the .wilN for peae," said Sem
ator Pittman. 1T will not be long
then until the people will urge Con-
gress to give up some of their pre-
onetved values and seek settlements
by olrt, by arbitration, by any means
except war"