Evening star., 1926-12-05
MRS. Gait ASSA|LS
ISOLATION STAND.
Washington's World Differ
ent, She Tells Association
of University Women.


George Washington's warning
against 'entangiing alliances" is not
applicable to the present movement
of the National Conference on the
Cause and Cure Of War. which opens
it's second annual meeting here to-
day, Mrs. Carrie Chapman Gait, gen
eral chairman of the gathering, told
the American Association of Uni
versity Women at a dinner given In
her honor last night
This question of the worlds
peace" declared Mrs. Gait, lis one
that doesn't belong to the world that
George Washington lived in" At the
same time, she told the association
that her organization Is trying to
find a program that can be followed
to the very end, no matter how many
centuries it takes, but we are going
to know it is the right program"
Ths opposition which the confer
ence is meeting has about three
ideas-superficial and temporary"
Mrs. Gait declared. ''One is that if
there is talk that there may be sub
stitute for war. the persons re-
bolshevistS and traitors.
But if we go deeper and talk about
entering the World Court or the
League Of Nations-if we, get deep
enough. they always go back to the
entangiing alliances which George
Washington warned of. I sometimes
think there are people who only know
that George Washington chopped
down a cherry tree and warned
against entangling alliances"
The reactions of war and the deluge
of inventions that has swept over the
people give very little opportunity to
quiet down and devote time to calm
thought, the speaker declared. when
George Washington retired to his
study to read a paragraph" she said,
'he could not have been interrupted.
He had calm and quiet. That's why
he thought out all those entangling
alliances.
Will Take Many Years.
We are going to have a program"
continued Mrs. Gait, 80 that every
body can say that it is the right way
to travel on to perfect peace. We are
going to obtain processes of peaceful
settlement Of war, just as certain as
the sun is going to shine tomorrow.
/ don't think it will come in the life
time of the very youngest of you here
tonight. 1t took - years to get suf-
frage after the movement was started.
T! The temperance movement began
about 100 years ago. But they never
| thought the thing through. These
| temperance people were going to have
everybody sign pledge to stop drink
! ing. but people either wouldn't sign
| the pledge or. if they did, they con-
tinued TO drink. SO they had to go on
and do something else. until we have
! today what may not be what every
| BODY really wanted. We are trying to
| do something different. Instead OF
| taking Il temporary question and SOW
| ing that. we are trying to find a pro-
gram that can be followed to the very
| end. no matter how many centuries
| it takes"
| Mrs. John Jay O'Connor, president
of the local branch Of the association,
presided.
The conference will open this after
noon at a public meeting at the Be
lasco Theater. and will continue
through Friday at the Washington
Hotel.
The Introductory mass meeting,
which will begin at 2:30 o'clock, will
| include addresses by Gen. Tasker I'll.
Bliss on "The Foundation OF Peace,
! DIR. Alfred Il. Zimmern of the Inter-
national Institute of intellectual Co
operation on The National Basis OF
Internationalism" and DIR. Ernst
Jackh Of Berlin, former member OF
the German High School of Politics,
on Germany and Future Peace.
Mrs. Carrie Chapman Gait, general
chairman Of the conference, VIII
preside.
ORGANIZATIONS participating in the
conference are: American Assocla-
ton of University Women, Councll OF
Women for Home Missions. Federa-
ton of Woman's Boards of Forelgn
Missions of North America, General
Federation Of Women's Clubs. Ma
tional Board of the Young Womens
christian Associations, National
Council of Jewish Women, Natlonai
League of Women Voters, National
Woman's Christian Temperance
Union and National WOmens Trade
Union League.
Rusiness sessions of the conference
will he held morning. afternoon anu
evening The opening session WI
begin at 10 o'clock tomorrow morning
and the conference will close Friday
evening after q reception by the
president and Mrs. Coolidge at the
White House.
The program will include a discus
sion led by DIR. James T. Shotweii'
professor Of history at COLUMBIA Ohi-
yersity and former chief of the dlvl-
sion Of history at the Paris peace con.
ference, on National Security ana
the Causes of Insecurity. Prot.
Edward Mead Earle, also OF ColumDla,
will speak in the afternoon on The
economic Causes of War and Their
Relation to Competitive Armaments.
The general subject of the evening
session, which will begin at o'clock,
win be Progressive international
Disarmament" and the speakers VIII
include Representative Theodore f..
Rurton and Norman Angel, English
various phases of disarmament and
other problems of peace VIII be dis
cussed by representative speakers at
the business sessions throughout the
week. Several hundred delegates are
expected to be in attendance, repre-
in