Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-20
Tells Cause and Cure of War
Members Nothing viii Stop
Him From Fighting.
ADVOCATES ADHERENCE
OF U. S. TO WORLD COURT
Naval Officers Warn Again Placing
Too Much Confidence in
Disarmament.

the claims of cause and cure of war
members that the chief cause OF war
is armament building, and its only cure
is disarmament.
At this afternoons session of the
Sixth Annual Conference on the
Cause and Cure Of War at the Wash
ington Hotel, and attended by 600 dele
gates from IL national wornen'S organl-
cations, military considerations in re-
lation to disarmament were discussed
by Mai. Cen John F.. Organ, who
commanded the 9th Division during
the World War.
The general declared that ornaments
or no ornaments, guns or no guns, that
as long as man is man, nothing VIII
stop MIN from fighting if he is so IN
clined
1T Is. the man behind the gun, not
the gun Nself, which is. the menace TO
peace" sara Gen. Organ.
Pleads for World Court.
"Some say" he continued, abolish
ornaments and you abolish war, for
how, without armament, could a people
make war? The war problem is not so
easy of solution. Armament in the mill
tary sense is not an essential of war.
What is an essential Of war is the will
to fight. If the will to make war be-
comes effective, and no armament is
available at the outbreak of war, 1t will
at first be tmproViSed and thereafter
fabricated as rapidly as possible. Re-
member, that just as swords have been
turned into plowshares, SO may plow-
shares be turned into swords"
Gen. Organ concluded his address
with a strong plea for the World Court.
Il believe the duty of all advocates of
world organized for peace is to con-
fa no od IF
United State1 to the World Court" he
said.
Greatest Menace %CntOuched.
If it be true thSt ornaments cause
wars, then the limiting Of the greatest
menace to q future world peace, the
airplane, has been completely untouch-
ed, was the claim of Edward P. War
ner, former Secretary in Charge of
Aeronautlcs, Department Of Commerce,
who also spoke during this afternoons
program.
Corroborating. Gen. Organs state
ment that man and not machines made
war, Mr.. Warner said: THE terrors
Of war will depend upon what is in the
hearts of men and their hearts will not
be changed by new mechanisms. The
airplane," he continued, lis perhaps
the gravest menace to the success of
efforts for disarmament agreements, for
in the air it proves difficult to the
point Of impossibility to define what 10
to be limited or disarmed. Neither at
Washington nor at Geneva has there
been real approach to solution of that
dilemma"
During the morning session Admiral
William V. Pratt, chief of operations,
and Rear Admiral Mark l.. Bristol
sounded a note of warning against
placing too much confidence in the
theory that disarmament will bring
world peace.
Man Must Cure Own Faults.
81 see no hope for everlasting peace"
said Admiral Pratt, until humanity
! has changed entirely its nature Indi-
yioual man must cure his own faults
first, for the Nation is merely collec-
ton OF those individuals who agree to
| serve under the same banner"
Denouncing the efforts Of certain
groups to bring about complete dis
armament and to eliminate military
training from the Nation, Admiral Pratt
continued, In this campaign, I have
yet to see where they attempt to get
at the causes of war. Such procedure,
If carried to extremes, would place our
country in the danger Of being despoilcd
| by others less high minded than the
advocates of the pacifist plan"
Rear Admiral Bristol, who from 1919
to 1927, was senior naval officer in
Turkey, and from 1927 to 1929 COM
! manded the Asiatic Fleet, discussed the
! United States Navy as an influence for
world peace.
Substantiating the claims Of other
| speakers OF both the afternoon and
! morning programs, Admiral Bristol said,
! War is disease Of the body polite
! My experiences of the past 10 years
| have taught me that economical, politi-
cal and social influences predominant
in International irritations."
| The admiral quoted extracts from ~
article written for the press during the
| American relief work in the Near East:
Messengers of Peace.
THE American deStroyers were well
! coined in all the ports of the Near East
| as messengers of peace and good will
! and not as ships of war"
! Agreeing with the military and naval
men that peoples and not ornaments
I cause wars. Salvador Madariaga, former
/ secretry of the commission on dis
armament. League of Nations, Geneva,
! who delivered the opening address at
| this mornings session. said 1T is not
| because people are armed that they
| fight; it is because they fight that they
/ are armed.
A policy of world cooperation is in
Senior Madariagas opinion the only
means toward world peace and security.
! He urged that to further this end. the
| United States become a member of the
League of Nations.
Last evening, a brisk discussion of
| what is security" was held from the
conference floor by Miss Jane Adams
Of Chicago. Miss Adams placed aboli-
| ton Of war on parity with abolition
| of slavery as a national duty.
Miss Adams was co-speaker OF the
| evening with Paul Kellogg, editor of
| the Survey. Mr.. Kellogg opined that
much of the cause Of world unrest and
, disturbance of world peace. is the con-
slant fear and uneasiness which hangs
above mankind.
The second days program of the
1 four-day session of the convention Will
F! be concluded this evening with DIM
ner for the delegates and an Evening
Of Drama Conferred on the Naval Con-
| ference"
| MRS. GOLDMAN POISONED