Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-01-13
BY CORINNE FRAZIER.

this week in Washington for the fourth
National Conference on the Cause ant
Cure of War. which opens tomorrow
night at the Hotel Washington with
banquet. over which Mrs. Carrie Chap
man Gait will preside. A discussion o
this same subject formed the high ign
of the MidWinter session of the ma
tional board of the General Federation
of Women's Clubs, which closed herr
Friday morning.
Inventions of the past few years,
said Mrs. Ben Hooper, chairman of thu
department of international relations
of the General Federation of Women:
Clubs, in giving her report Of the activi-
ties of her department during the pas
six months, which she said have beer
confined entirely to work for the pas
sage of the multilateral peace treaty
'are of character which make it i'm
possible for war and civilization to ex-
list in the same world
1T is time to outlaw war. Shall we
keep faith with the boys of 1917, tt
whom we promised that this war should
end wars? We know now that war will
not end war But that does not re-
lieve us of our promise.
Our boys did all that soldiers could
to put an end to war. it is our response
bility today to work out methods by
which all misunderstanding between
nations can be settled by peaceful
means. If We fail, the responsibility
for the next war rests on the shoulders
of the mothers of the world.
THE first step Is the ratification of
the Kellogg peace pact. Until that leg
islation is passed the sole business OF
our international relations department
sc n
attending strictly to this business. We
have secured more than 3,945 resolu-
tons from various member clubs of the
federation which cannot fail to carry
weight in Congress, where the treaty
now is being considered.
when this step is completed our
work will not be done, but just begun.
What the character of that work may
be depends upon subsequent events.
There is little difference of opinion in
the General Federation as to adequate
preparedness in America, but some diff
ference exists as to what constitutes
such preparedness. This is not ques-
ton for clubwomen to settle, but for
experts in that line to determine. Let
us turn our energies to backing con-
structive legislation for peace when
outlined by experts rather than to at
tempting ourselves to outline plans for
obtaining the common end toward
which we all are working"
Reports from the departments were
heard during the board sessions, an
other interesting one being that of Mrs.
Joseph Lindon Smith, chairman of the
division of Indian affairs who urged
the clubwomen to press Congress to
reinstate the 100000 cut from the
appropriation asked for the Indian
Service
II believe in the budget system and
consider that the budget officials are
doing the best possible under national
circumstances which neceSsitate an
economy program" said Mrs Smith.
Nevertheless, / do not believe that it
is wise economy at this time to permit
any cuts in the original estimates pre-
sented by the Indian Bureau officials"
MRS. CARRIE CHAPMAN Gait
@'A and DR.. Harry Emerson Fosdick
will give interpretations of the Kellogg
BRAND peace pact from the viewpoint
of the peoples of the various nations
at the banquet opening the cause and
cure of war conference tomorrow
night.
An astonishing change in public
opinion in favor of peace pacts instead
of wars to settle international differ
ences has taken place in the five years
since our committee has been organ
ized," said Mrs. Gait, commenting on
the call to the conference. This
might almost be called the peace-mak-
ing century so radical and enormous
has been the shift in favor of actual
commitments between nations in order
to eliminate war;
The national committee which has
an annual conference in Washington,
Mrs. Gait explained, is the outgrowth
of a desire on the part of wornenS
groups to obtain exact and dependable
information on causes leading toward
war and the possible alternatives by
which peace may be established.
In the contrasting subjects of i'm
portant addresses which will be made
before the delegates this week is shown
the scope of the conference which, its
leaders declare, is not a ''pacifist body,
but one brought together for open
minded discussion of all angles of the
problems of peace and war in an effort
to reach a conservative solution which
would point the way to permanent
peace. Capt. Thomas Schneider, u
S. A., former aide to Gen. Pershing
will speak on The Necessity of Pre-
paredness for Defense" while Pau
Kellogg will discuss the Peaceful So
luton of International Difficulties
Through PactS."
During the course Of the conference
discussions Of the real obstacles to ma.
tional reduction of armament will bt
held.
Other speakers will include Dr. james
T. Shotwell, DR.. John H. Latane, Charlie:
P. Rowland, Prof. Edwin M. Borchard
John Nevin Sayre, Dr. Sidney Gulick
Bruce Bliven, Mrs Carrie Chapman
Gait, chairman of the national com
mittee; Miss Josephine Schain, secre
tary of the national committee; Mrs
Laura Puffer Morgan, Mrs. Dan Everett
Waid, Mrs. L. II. Fradkin and Mrs
Lucia Ames Mead. Presiding over tn
sessions will be Mrs. John F. Shippel
Mrs. Robert E. Speer, Miss Lena Made
sin Phillips, Miss Belle Sherwin, Mrs
John Ferguson Mrs. Ella A. Boole, Mis-
Marian P. Whitney. Mrs. Joseph E
Friend and Mrs. Maud Swartz of tn
cooperating organizations.
The sessions of the conference ar
open to the public.
WITH Mrs. w. L. Darby as chairman
w the District of Columbia branche
of ten national womenS organization
are cooperating in making the locs
arrangements for the conference. Mr.
Frank E. Ellington is chairman of tn
banquet and Mrs. Donald Clement
in charge of tickets for the banque
next Monday evening, at which tn
conference will be formally opened.
=
Brown are vice chairmen of the gen
eral committee on arrangements, an
the chairmen of subcommittee are
Registration, Miss Esther Caukin; In
formation, Mrs H. L. Parkinson; page
Mrs. Sidney r. Jacobs; house, Mr.
Harry E. Hull; ushers, Mrs. T.
Howerton; literature, Mrs. E. c. Dir
widdie.
The local cooperating groups who: