Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-01-17
LAUDS PACT ACTION,
ATTACKS SHIP BILL
War Cause and Cure Farley
Thanks Coolidge, Then Hits
Cruiser Program.

After adopting resolution thanking
the President for signing the Kellogg
peace pact the Conference on the Cause
and Cure of War directed its efforts
today to a campaign of protest against
the 15-cruiser bill pending before the
Senate as multiplying the American Gov
ernment's remuneration of war as ma.
tional policy.
First specific opposition 20 the cruiser
bill was voiced during the afternoon
session by Mrs. Laura Puffer Morgan,
Of the National Council for Prevention
of War. who declared that the reasons
given for increasing the battle fleet OF
the Navy at this time are all made
quate.
"A Navy to support our foreign
policy asked by Senator Hale, Is a
direct denial of the pact whereby we
agree to renounce war as national
policy" she declared.
.. Says 1t Offsets Pact.
Increasing naval construction. she
argued, creates international suspicion,
n1ents, even the anti-war treaty just
ratified by the Senate, are mere scraps
of paper"
I'VE are spending million dollars
day on our Navy now, without these
new ships" she said, land we do not
need the Is cruisers to attain parity
with the British navy, for although
ours Is slightly inferior in cruisers, 1t
is SO far ahead in submarines and
destroyers that the ratio Is maintained.
I'VE already have building and au-
cd 1orra cJ1h
marines and eight 10,OOo-ton cruisers.
This program will not be completed
until 1892 and will take care of our
immediate needs"
A quite surprising action was taken
by the conference this morning In view
OF its steadfast opposition to war, when
it struck from a committee report,
reference to the 'fallacies of self
defense as calculated to spread mis-
understanding of the discussions before
the body. which comprises among its
groups several organizations of strictly
pacifist leanings
The conference adopted resolution
calling for the converting of a fifth
War in Washington next year, instead
OF in 1891, as proposed. After sharp
discussion It voted down proposal to
hold regional conferences In the place
Of a national conference this year.
Opposition to abandoning next years
conference was voiced by one delegate
on the ground that 1t would be too
pleasing to the Senate"
will Confer With Aids.
Reelected as national chairman of
the conference, Mrs. Carrie Chapman
Gait of New York will confer with her
lieutenants on the program during the
ensuing year. Because of her recent
III health, she requested the naming
Of three vice chairmen to assist in con-
Quoting the work of the conference,
with which more than 1000 active
delegates are affiliated. The three vice
chairmen are Miss Ruth Morgan,
Mrs. D. z. Waid and Miss Henrietta
Roelofs, all of New York
Two secretaries also were named, in
stead of one as heretofore. Miss
Josephine Schain of New York was re-
elected corresponding secretary, and
Mrs. Ben Hooper of Wisconsin was
chosen recording secretary. Mrs
Edgerton Parsons of New York was
elected treasurer.
The unity of feeling between Ameri-
can and European women in the cause
OF world peace was stressed at todays
sessions. kilograms of congratulations
from Lady Astor, member of the British
Parliament, and Miss Kate Courtney,
head of the British Women,s Crusade
for Arbitration, were received, and
greetings from the International Al
lance of Women for Suffrage and
Equal Citizenship were brought in per-
son by the organizations vice president,
Miss Rosa Manus of Holland.
Peace depends upon women" wired
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Miss Courtney's message declared her
organization recognized and admired
the magnificent work done by Ameri-
can women for peace"