Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-12-13
GROUP ORGANIZES
in WAR PREVENTION
Citizens Form Council in Dis
trict With Aim of Promot-
ing World Peace.

The District of Columbia Council for
Prevention of War was organized last
night as the local chapter OF the Ma
tional Council for Prevention of War.
DIR. Edward T. Devine, dean of the
graduate school of American Univer-
sity. was elected president at the
gathering at the / street meeting place
of the Society of Friends. Rev. NJ. S.
Kenworthy. pastor of the Irving
Street Meeting of Friends. was elected
executive secretary. Offices will be
with the National Council at 532
Seventeenth street.
Other officers were named as fol-
lows: Vice presidents, Rev. Frederick
Brown Harris, pastor of Foundry M.
f. Church; Rabbi j. T. Loeb of Ohev
Sholom Synagogue; treasurer. Merrill
E. Hiatt.
Executive Committee Personnel.
|. The executive committee in add.
ton to the officers was elected to in
clude also the following: Miss Lydia
Burcklin of Friendship House, Rev.
j. ]. Dimon, pastor of st. Andrews
Episcopal Church: Rev. j. n. Hollis
ter, pastor of Chevy Chase Presby-
terrain Church; Rev. M. r. Lowell, pas
tor of Mount Pleasant Congregational
Church.: Rev. John A. Ryan of Cath
Ollie University, DR.. Albert H. Putney,
director of the School of Political
Sciences, American University, and
Rabbi Louis ]. Schwefel of Adas Israel
Synagogue.
The purpose of the new organiza.
ton here, according to the constitu-
ton adopted, is ito discover forces af-
fecting international good will, to re-
veal these to the public through the
platform and press, to give active sup
port to the movement for interna-
tional justice and the remuneration of
war, and to work constructively for
world peace in every consistent way"
The policies of the local organiza-
ton, the constitution says, shall at
all times harmonic with the declared
purposes of the National Council
namely, progressive world organiZa-
ton, worldwide reduction of arma-
ments by international agreement
and worldwide education for peace. :"
Address by DIR. Devine.
The speaker of the evening was DR..
Devine. who discussed Live Proposals
for Prevention of War DR.. Devine
took up for exposition the principal
agencies, including the League of Ma
tons, and outstanding proposals for
setting up machinery for preventing
international conflict, including the
recent Russian plan laid before the
preparatory disarmament commits
sion at Geneva and the French pro-
posal submitted by Minister of For
eign Affairs BRAND.
The greatest influence toward inter-
national peace, however, DR.. Devine
said, would be a realization of world
citizenship by the peoples of the earth.
This he said would prevent that per
verted national patriotism, which
means despising Others" This kind
Of citizenship, he explained. was the
genuine capacity for placing our
selves in other peoples viewpoint"
In attempting to achieve world citi-
zenship DIR. Devine proposed that 1--WE
put ourselves in the place of other
people to see how what we are going
to do would look to them" This atti-
! tude on the part of the people of the
world, he said, would do more to pre-
vent war than any piece of interna-
tional machinery" which could be
| set up.