Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-19
ARMS DENOUNCED
BY MRS. Gait At
SESSION OPENING
600 Cause and Cure of War
Delegates Told PaCtS Are
Only Hope of Peace.
FIRST CONFERENCE
IN 1925 is REVIEWED
Chairman Mcdonald of Foreign
Policy Association and SEN
ator Reed Speak.

Declaring the chief cause OF war 70
be competition in armament building
and its only cure, pacts of peace and
disarmament, Carrie Chapman Gait,
famed fighter for world disarmament
opened the sixth conference on the
Cause and Cure of War this afternoon
at the Washington Hotel.
Attended by 600 delegates, represent
ing IL national women'S organizations
the afternoon program marked tne
opening of four-day session at winch
prominent speakers will be asked 10
discuss the problems wnlcn Ieno "O %
wards the furtherance or prevention OF
the conferences chief objective, dis
armament and demobilization.
Briefly comparing the first conference
on the Cause and Cure OF War, held In
1925. to that which is convenlng tnlS
week, Mrs. Gait said:
1--WE were not certain whether the
first conference had been a comedy a
tragedy or an experiment. In the f1rst
conference our speakers enumerated
causes until I counted 257, and they
went home leaving us to find the cures!
Cure In Peace Pact.
"ApuroachinC our sixth conference
the delegates, having dismissed the 257
causes Of war, have learned that COM
petition in armament building is the
chief cause of war and that pacts OF
peace and of disarmament are the chief
cures of war"
"The crucial question now is" con-
cluded Mrs Gait, how may our be-
loved Nation be persuaded to assume
world leadership in the peace move
ment. This is the question which per-
haps we ought to answer before we
part"
Sketching international events of the
last year in their bearing on world
peace in the future, James G. Nc
Donald Chairman Foreign Policy As
ISOLATION. impartially traced events
casting both optimistic and pessimistic
notes upon the possibilities Of world
peace.
I'm Europe" declared Mr.. McDon-
aid, developments during the past
year have been confuSingly contradic-
tory. For every step forward, there
seems to have been a step backward"
Payments More Difficult.
Expressing the belief that the Young
plan was distinct advance over the
Dawes plan as a means of determining
what Germany shall pay the Allies,
Mr.. Mcdonald continued, owing to
the rapid fall in prices, however, since
the new plan was drafted, Germany's
payments, which are in gold, are APP
proximately 20 per cent more difncult
for the Reich to bear than was antici-
pated a year ago"
while the London Naval Conference
resulted in an agreement by the United
States, Great Britain and Japan which
would eliminate dangerous elements OF
competition between these powers, the
speaker pointed out that as result OF
their inability to agree as to the size OF
their navies, France and Italy are today
further apart than they were before the
conference.
Although a date, 1892, has been sug-
Rested for the converting Of the Gen
eral Disarmament Conference, to be at
tended by virtually all the nations OF
the world, Europe, in the meantime,
continues TO be an armed camp, Mr..
Mcdonald declared.
Menace Of Russia.
"Nor Is it surprising" he continued,
"that the capitalist states of Europe, d.
vided among themselves by nearly pro-
hibitive tariff walls and overburdened
with preparations for war; should see
In q united Communist Russia the
menace of the future"
1.-THE major tendencies in interna-
tional relations during $780," concluded
Mr.. Macdonald, have been confused
and contradictory, but not completely
devoid Of encouragement. Worldwide
economic depression has accentuated
every cause OF uneasinesS. international
constructive efforts have for the most
part been counteracted by narrow, de-
strlctive nationalism."
Miss Jane Adams, noted head of Chi
Cages Hull House, will deliver the open
ing address at this evenings session
which will be held in the Washington
Hotel at Sis.
Paul Kellogg, editor of Survey, will
appear on the evenings program with
Miss Adams.