Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-09-19
Jahncke Tells Veterans Such
Societies Seek to Undermine
Patriotism of Youth.
GOV. POLLARD WELCOMES
AUXILIARY DELEGATES
Women Go to Mount Vernon to
Pay Respects at Shrine
Of Washington.

With assurances from the Assistant
Secretary of the Navy Ernest Lee
Jahncke, that practical peace measures
need have nothing in common with the
propaganda Of pacifist societies, leaders
of the Federation Interallies DIES Anciens
Combatants today directed their atten-
ton to those problems of world peace
and international good will embodied in
the aims Of the organized war veterans
Of 10 nations.
While committees were meeting in the
forenoon to prepare a set of resolu-
tons which will establish the position
Of the Fidac Congress on international
problems, arrangements were being
made for pilgrimage into historic vir-
ginia later in the afternoon. Leaving
the war veterans to thresh out their
common problems, the woman delegates
Of the Fidac Auxiliary will go TO Mount
Vernon to pay their respects at the
shrine Of Washington.
Welcome by Gov. Pollard.
Awaiting them later in Alexandria,
Gov. Pollard of Virginia and his
hostess daughter, Miss Sue Pollard,
will welcome the distinguished visitors
at old Gadsbys Tavern, where re-
ception win be rendered by the Ameri-
can Legion Auxiliary, Department of
Virginia.
The veterans of the Tidac are ex-
pected to join the Auxiliary members
in Alexandria, but in view Of the I'M
certainty of all their plans during their
stay in Washington, the woman dele
gates were determined to make the
Virginia pilgrimage regardless of what
the masculine element in the congress
contemplated doing.
Without sufficient advance notice the
Fidac changed its plans this morning
| and held sessions at the Carlton Hotel
| instead of Memorial Continental Hall
as previously arranged. For more than
an hour. half a hundred visitors and
4 a number of delegates waited patiently
| in the d. A. r. Hall before they were
aware OF change in the plans.
Pay Tribute to Movement.
Mr.. Jahncke, who welcomed the dele
| gates when the session finally opened
I at the Carlton, paid a tribute TO the
movement that resulted in the organize
ton of the tnterallied veteran organi-
cation.
The activities of 10000 soldiers
of the World War dedicated to the reali-
zation of that wars pledge ito end all
| war" cannot fail to have most potent
influence for peace, he declared. Such
an influence would go far beyond the
possibilities of official diplomacy, he
! pointed out, because it is based on the
only enduring foundation for interna-
tional peace-sincere and unself1sh
| friendship.
THE veterans Of the American Lee
| gion, like the veterans of other lands
/ that freely offered their life's blood for
1 their ideals of God and country, rep
resent the best citizenship in the land"
| Jahncke said. BY its affiliation with
1 your federation, the Legion has DEM
onstrated to this country that practical
peace measures need have nothing in
common with pacifist societies that
seek to undermine patriotism and in
culcate in youth the spirit of contempt
for our institutions"
Meanwhile, the auxiliary members
were welcomed by Assistant Secretary
of State William r. Castle and con-
Quoted their business sessions before
| their departure for Mount Vernon.
It was decided today at the Fidac
Congress to postpone the election of
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