The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-12-12
Leaders All Over Nation
Join to Give Impetus
to Movement.

BB United Press
NEW YORK, Dec. 12.-With
unanimous enthusiasm. New York
ministers today joined in the swell
ing appeal for favorable senate ac-
ton on the Kellogg treaty before
Christmas.
The idea of stamping the treaty
with the Christmas spirit has seized
Upon the imagination Of the people
in a way rare in the history of ma
tional and international questions.
Here are typical expressions of
ministers to the New York Tele-
gram:
1.-THE Kellogg peace pact, like the
star of Bethlehem, Is light to
guide us to new international re-
lationships," the Rev. Henry Dar-
lington, Church of the Heavenly
Rest, said. "Those of us who IN
France went through the last con-
1ict know that the most uncivilized
of institutions is war and that un-
less we destroy it, it will destroy us"
'"rhere is great public sentiment
in this country for quick rat1flca-
ton without reservations, and it is
to be hoped that this sentiment will
express itself unmiStakably to the
senate" DR.. w. r. Bowie, Grace
Protestant Episcopal church, as
serted.
PITTSBURGH, Dec. 12.-Pitts-
burgh is indorsing strongly the
Scripps- Howard movement to get
the Kellog peace treaty ratified by
the senate before Christmas.
Citizens are balloting on the
treaty under direction of the Press
citizens committee, consisting of
DR.. IT. S. Baker, president, Car
negie Institute of Technology;
Bishop Alexander Mann; Colonel
S. H. Church, president Carnegie
institute, and A. L. Humphrey, pres
ident Westinghouse Air Brake Com
pany.
CINCINNATI, Dec. IL. - Cincin-
natl today enthusiastically took up
the campaign to get the anti-war
treaty adopted by the senate before
Christmas.
Many ministers indorsed the
campaign of the Scripps- Howard
newspapers and will preach on the
subject next Sunday.
Mayor Murray Seasongood and
DR.. Frederick G. Hicks, former
president University of Cincinnati,
we're among those issuing state
mentS.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 12.-Gov-
ernment officials, college faculties,
ministers and women's organiza-
tions today voted for prompt KEEL
logg treaty ratification through the
Washington Daily News poll.
The chaplain of the house of rep
resentatives, the Rev. James Shera,
Montgomery, said: "ThiS is the
greatest step toward world peace
ever taken
"The Kellogg pact is the longest
and straighteSt step toward world
peace that the governments of the
world ever have proposed said
Bishop w. F. Mcdowell, Methodist
Ep1SCOpdl CnurcI.
CLEVELAND, Dec. 12.-Myron T.
Herrick, ambassador to France, and
Newton D. Baker, wartime Secre-
tary of war, were among the first to
cast their ballots in the Cleveland
Press poll to get the peace pact out
of the senate before Christmas.
Votes are flowing in by the hum
dreds, practically all in the affirma-
tive.
Cleveland organizations, including
peace societies, parent teacher clubs,
fraternal groups, civic bodies and
churches, have signified their in
tention of forming a city-wide COM
mittee to encourage balloting.
ROCHESTER, N. Y, Dec. 12.-
officials of the Federal Council of
Churches of Christ in America, with
which most of the Protestant de-
nominations of the country are
allied, are supporting vigorously the
I campaign to get quick senate ratifi-
cation of the Kellogg antiwar
treaty.
After the quadrenn1al convention
of the federal council in session
here had passed resolution urg-
ing prompt ratification, Bishop
Francis j. Mcconnell Of New York,
president, and DR.. Sidney L. Gulick
of New York, head of the Inter
national Friendship commission,
expressed their approval of the
Scripps- Howard drive for senate
action before Christmas.