Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-04-19
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Mrs. Anthony Wayne Cook Is
Member of Commission Ap-
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the covenant would bring the United
States parity security ano honor
Mr.. Vile said that the United State:
did not achieve at London everything
it set out or hoped to get, but emerged
with substantial results"
Half a limitation and reduction Loaf
is better than no loaf" he said. y
foreshadow that the United States Sen.
ate will ratify the London treaty anc
in doing so vindicate the President
plishment for peace Its reJectlor
would be a blow to peace"
The cleaning lesson of London. apart
from the three-power pact, Vile pointed
out. is the "searchlight the conference
has turned on the present-hour psy-
chology of Europe.
1T should be a lesson which our
peace-at-any-price, our turn-tne-otner-
cheek, school of American PATRIOTISM,
should take seriously to heart"
Mr.. Vile outlined briefly this psy-
choloev manifested at the conference
in the complexities and the contro-
versies which the American delegation
had to meet.
"our delegates are not coming home
empty-handed," he said. They are
bringing us, on the contrary, very
far-reaching covenant" Vile stressed
that this covenant is not the millen-
MUM 1T is only further step to-
ward it." he said. 1T succeeds in 1880
where we failed in 1927" he added.
Imperfect and incomplete as it may
] be from the standpoint of the big
navy or the small navy factions and
others, he said, the London treaty IS
not inadequate from the standpoint OF
American security.
"It may entail an expenditure Of
$500, 000, 900 or $500 900 900 during the
next six years" he explained. But
such O sum Is q mere bagatelle for the
worlds richest country to pay for ma
tional fire insurance, he stressed. "It
works out a premium Of bare So per
capita"
marine, Prof. Haag of Georgetown, who
is also director of the Bureau of Re-
search of the United States Shipping
Board, declared that $4,000, 100000 was
the price this country paid in the World
War for neglecting its ocean shipping.
Mr.. Haag described the efforts being
made to restore the merchant marine
which are now bearing fruit in in
creased tonnage. Whereas in the decade
previous to the World War, American
ships carried only 10 per cent of Amer
lean foreign trade, over IS per cent was
carried in American bottoms during the
past decade With this steady increase,
ha pointed out, the value of foreign
trade carried in American ships now
amounts to two and a third billion
dollars annually, he said.
Comparing the 1910-1914 period with
the amount of American shipping to-
day, the speaker said that American
trade with Europe has increased SO
per cent; with South America, 200 per
cent: with Africa, 325 per cent, and
with Asia, $50 per cent.
Last nights session, for the Daugh-
tiers, was the last of the program of the
congress devoted to the discussion of
international questions. for the closing
scene will be enacted at the annual
banquet tonight, which will be one of
rejoicing in looking back upon past
achievements and in looking forward to
future fields of patriotic endeavor.
One of the pleasing features of last
nights program was the recital given
by Flora McGill Keefer, meZzo con-
tralto. She was ably accompanied by
Miss Mildren Kolb Schulze, a Wash
ington musician who is very popular
in ID. A. r. chapter circles.