Evening star., 1927-05-29
PACIFIC NATIONS GATHER
FOR CONFERENCE In JULY
Honolulu Session to Mark Second Step
of Ocean.Bordering Peoples to
Peace and Good Will.

Jon0 "A. Ryan OF IdtIlOllC OHlNeT
sity. Miss Belle Sherwin, presiden
of the National League of Womei
Voters. and Mrs Carrie Chapman
Gait. chairman of the National Com
mittee on the Cause and Cure o
| War.
Would End Misconceptions.
Discussing the general aim of thu
institute, DR.. Wilbur said that people
| in different parts of the world car
reach mutual understanding in the
fields of science, medicine and educa-
ton and the pioneers in the Insti-
tute of Pacific Relations are seeking
to extend that same sort of cooper.
ative discussion into the realm of is
sues that lead to misconceptions be-
| tween countries.
Armed combat would prove an in
effective method of settling differ
ences in the Pacific in any event
| because the distances are so great
| DR.. Wilbur believes.
Because of the great distances
he said, 1--WE could only scratch at
each other and interfere with trade
relations"
Mental disarmament" or the re-
moval of misunderstanding. is to be
the keynote of this years meeting.
The fact that half the population of
the world is in countries bordering
on the Pacific makes the need for
mental disarmament apparent, in
DR.. Wilburs opinion.
Peace Over the Pacific.
"There is the hope" he continued,
that out of friendly understandings
and contacts there may develop re-
lationShips in the Pacific so that
this ocean will not have to play the
bloody part which the Atlantic has
taken in recent centuries"
Referring briefly to the present in
ternal strife in China, DR.. Wilbur said
that country is passing through a
stage similar in some respects to
the past history of our own country.
and he predicted that the Chinese
will adjust their differences within a
comparatively brief period of time by
reason of their ability as negoti-
atorS.
On the list of Americans going to
the Honolulu meeting in July appear
many well known names, drawn
from almost every profession and ac-
tivity in the United States. includ-
ing President A. Lawrence Lowell of
Harvard University, President Mary
Woolley of Mount Holyoke College,
President Edward ii. Hume of Yale
in China, President Arnold Bennett
Hall of the University Of Oregon,
Paul Scharrenberg, San Francisco
labor leader; Leo Wolman, New
York labor leader; DIR. Paul Monroe,
director of the International Insti.
tute of Columbia University; Ches-
ter II. Rowell, formerly editor of the
Fresno, Calf, Republican.
Other Prominent Figures.
Other important figures are Prof.
James T. Shotwell of Columbia
University. Robert Dollar, president
of the Dollar Steamship Line; Wal
lace M. Alexander, president of the
Honolulu sugar firm of Alexander &
director of the Institute of 1nterna-
tional Education; Prof. George H.
Blakeslee, student of history and in
ternational relations. Clark Univer-
sity; George G.. Wilson, professor Of
international law at Harvard Univer-
sity; Jerome D. Greene, member of
Lee, Higginson & Co., international
bankers; Galen M. Fisher, director
Of the Institute Of Social and Re.
ligious Research and authority on
Far Eastern questions; Col. Manton
Davis of the Radio Corporation of
America; Ivy Lee. publicist; w. F..
Morrish of the National Bankers AS
ISOLATION; Archbishop Edward j.
Hanna, leader of the Catholic Church
in California; William H. fitzpatrick,
professor of the philosophy Of edu-
cation, Teachers College, Columbia
University, and Quincy Wright, pro-
fessor of political science at the Uni
versity of Chicago.
Among others who will attend are
DIR. Henry S. Pritchett. president of
the Carnegie Foundation; Carl L.
Alsberg, food and population expert
from Leland Stanford University;
Fletcher S. Brockman, Far East sec
retary for the Y. M. c. A.; f. c.
Carter, secretary of the institute;
Representative Frederick M. Daven-
port. New York; A. G. Elkinton,
president of the Philadelphia Quartz
Co. of California: Daniel J. Fleming,
professor of missions in Union Theo-
logical Seminary; Mrs. William G.
Hibbard, women's club leader OF
Chicago; Mrs. Alfred Mclaughlin of
San Francisco; Alfred Holman, Pa
cific Coast correspondent Of the New
York Times; jeremiah w. jerks,
president of the Alexander Hamilton
Institute; Stanley Hornbeck, re-
Gently member of the Tariff Com
mission in Peking and Robert Newton
Lynch, vice president OF the San
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