Evening star., 1932-05-03
.ESCH MAKES PLEA
FOR WORLD PEACE.
Wise Craftsmanship Needed,
He Says Before Justice
Conference.

There is a need for wise statesman
ship producing constructive measures
founded on Justice for the benefit of all,
John j. Esch, president OF the Ameri-
can Peace Society, told the American
Conference on Institutions for the
Establishment of International Justice
today in the United States Chamber of
Commerce.
Wise craftsmanship, Mr.. Esch de-
| clared, will take cognizance of human
nature as manifested in racial, religious
and economic prejudices and will seek
through patient and painstaking re-
search to allay or remove them by find
| ing and properly assessing their cause.
I'm the words of Washington, Moth
ing is more essential than that the per-
manent, inveterate antipathies against
| particular nations and passionate at
| tachments for others should be exclud-
! ed, and that in place Of them, just
and amicable feeling toward all should
be cultivated
Urges Abandonment of War.
"As war, like every other social
phenomenon, is answerable to public
opinion, and as, due to the disastrous
effects to both victor and vanquished
of the Great War, the feeling against
war is universal, now is the time when
every effort should be put forth to ad-
vance and strengthen all pacific means
for war remuneration. The modern
world wants progress. War is now
known to be retrogreSsion."
Mr.. Esch pointed out that the Amer
ican Peace Society has for more than
a century urged governments to aban-
don war as a means of settling inter-
national disputes.
"AS practically all nations have, by
the Kellogg BRAND peace pact" he
added, ''renounced war as an inStru-
ment of national policy and have
agreed to seek settlement Of their In
| ternational differences by pacific
means this society has stood and now
! stands for preparedness for defense and
| preparedness for peace.
Because the machinery for the
pacific settlement Of disputes among
nations is, as yet, Inadequate. the So.
ciety believes that until the power Of
| world public opinion has had many
years Of test. there will not be that
confidence which warrants the aban-
donment Of preparedness for defense
among nations. The society commends,
however, the efforts now being made to
reduce ornaments"
Nations Held Interdependent.
The contention that nations are IN
| terdependent was advanced by another
speaker, NJ. w. Alexander, president
of the National Industrial Conference
Board.
I'VE are interdependent culturally,
politically and economically" he said.
| I'VE need this interdependence for the
| benefits that we can bestow and for
| the advantages that we may derive.
| We need it in order to promote world
unity in which there is truly family
| of nations, at once competing and
cooperating with one another. Only
in this way can We hopefully look
| toward the goal of world peace in the
attainment of general world progress.
"Interdependence presents serious
problem only when excessive rivalry
creates friction and i'll will. To the
extent to which the business men Of
the world contribute to the develop
ment Of an atmosphere Of internation-
al good will, they will minimize what
ever fears economic interdependence
may produce and will establish a sound
foundation for peaceful world inter-
| course.
within our own country, the differ
ent branches of economic life are in
terdependent, but this has not pre-
vented effective cooperation in the in
terest of the common welfare. Eco
nomic interdependence among nations
should equally lead to intelligent CO.
operation in the conduct Of world af-
fairs"