Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-01-13
SENATORS TO HEAR
PEACE SENTIMENT
1000 Woman Delegates to
Conference Plan March
to Capitol Tuesday.

Sentiment favoring the Kellogg peace
Greatly will he reported to Senate mem
berS by women from Is States who are
coming to Washington for the fourth
annual conference on the Cause and
Cure of War, which opens a To-day
session tomorrow at the Washington
Hotel
Headed by Mrs. Carrie Chapman Gait
national chairman, and captain of State
delegations, procession of more than
1000 delegates will march to the Capt.
toll Tuesday morning, according to their
plans announced yesterday. They will
be received in the Offices of the senior
Senators from their States, with the
junior Senators also present, to hear
the result of 10000 meetings held under
auspices of the 10 national women's
organizations affiliated with the
National Committee on the Cause and
Cure of War. Other State and local
organizations have co-operated in the
mass meetings at which resolutions
urging the Senate to ratify the peace
pact were passed.
Mrs. Gait and vanguard of dele
gates have arrived to arrange for the
conference and the reception at the
Capitol.
Banquet Opens Conference.
A banquet will formally open the con-
ference tomorrow evening, when inter-
pretations of the peace treaty will be
given by Mrs. Gait. DR.. Harry Emerson
Fosdick and E. C. Lindeman of the
School of Social Work. Sessions Of the
conference will continue through jan
AIRY II.
All points of view on war and peace
will be presented at the various meet
ings. Advocates of defense through
preparedness will have their innings on
the program Wednesday morning, led
by Capt. Thomas Schneider. former
aide to Gen. Pershing and now profess
sor of law at West Point. The argu-
ment for those who believe in renunci-
alton of war by treaty will be presented
by Paul U. Kellogg.
Committee meetings will occupy to-
morrow morning and in the afternoon
there will be a readers conference for
women following a prescribed course
of study sent out from the New York
headquarters Of the national committee.
Latin America will have an important
place on the conference program with
Drew Pearson, local writer, discussing
the inter-American arbitration treaty
Thursday afternoon. That evening Mrs
Gait will present THE Psychology OF
the Monroe Doctrine" and Raymond
Buell. Of the Foreign Policy Association
will answer the question, Can Irrita-
ton Be Removed from the Monroe Doc
trine?"
A discussion Tuesday evening as to
why the nations of the world, in spite
of peace pacts, maintain their war es-
adjustments, will be participated in by
Raymond T. Rich of the World Peace
Foundation; Arthur Billiard, formerly
OF the League of Nations Secretariat;
sity, James G. Macdonald of the For
eign Policy Association, Sidney l.. Gu
lick of the Federal Council of Churches
OF Christ in America and Bruce Bliven
OF the New Republic.
The State captains who will head the
procession to the Capitol are as follows:
Arkansas, Mrs. j. r. Wikon, Ell Do
rado; Colorado, Mrs. James r. Arneil,
Denver; Connecticut, Mrs. Robert F.
Zadd, Hartford; Delaware, Mrs. A. D.
Warner, Wilmington: Florida, Miss
Leila Russell, Miami; Georgia, Mrs
Marvin w. Underwood, Atlanta; Illinois,
Mrs. w. G. Hubbard, Winnetka; Indiana
Mrs. Edna NJ. Christian, Indianapolis
Iowa, Mrs. William Milchrist, Sioux
City; Kentucky, Miss Sarah Blanding
Louisville; Maine, Mrs. John T. Skol-
Held, Portland; Massachusetts,, Miss
Leslie Hopkinson, Cambridge; Michigan
Mrs. N. r. Melish, Saginaw; Minnesota
Mrs. Arthur Brln, Minneapolis Mis-
souri,. Mrs. Louis T. Mcguire, st. Louis;
Nebraska, Mrs. j. G. Alderman, Aims.
worth; Nevada. Mrs. J. G.. Beatty. Reno,
New Hampshire, Mrs. Harold Smith
Concord.
New Jersey, Mrs. Agnes Wilson Os.
borne, Newark; New York, Miss Ruth
Morgan, New York; North Carolina
Miss Gertrude Well, Goldsboro: Ohio
Mrs. M. H. Lichliter, Columbus; Penn.
Sylvania, Mrs. Frank Miles Day. Phila
delphia; Rhode Island, Mrs. John H
Wells, Providence; South Carolina, Mis-
Mary E. Fraser, Columbia; Tennessee
Mrs. Arch Trawick, Nashville; Texas
Mrs. w. r. Potter, Bowie; Utah, Mrs
James H. Hogle, Salt Lake City; Yer.
mont, Mrs. Herbert Y. McMullen, Mont
pelier; Virginia, Miss Roberta Wexford
Richmond; Washington, Mrs. H, z
Maltby, Seattle; West Virginia, Mrs
Orlando West, Huntington; Wisconsin
Mrs. Ben Hooper, Oshkosh.
The cooperating organizations ar
the American Association of Universit
Women, Council of Women for Hom
Missions, Federation of Womens Board
of Foreign Missions of North America
General Federation of Women's Clubs
National Board of the Young Women
Christian Associations, National Council
Of Jewish Women, National Federation
of Business and Professional Women
Clubs, National League Of Womei
Voters, National Women's Christian
Temperance Union, National Women
Trade Union League.