Evening star., 1932-03-27
PARLEY ON WORLD
JUSTICE IS TOP|C'
Director of Conference, to Be
Held Here May 2 to 5,
Speaks on WMAL.

The American Conference on Inter
national Justice, to be held in Wash
ington May 2 to 5, was the subject
of radio address last night by DR..
Arthur Deerin Call, director of the
conference and secretary of the Ameri-
the Washington Chamber of Commerce
program over Station WMAL.
The conference the speaker de-
clared, will present time 'for the
calm consideration of possible ways Of
reaping the benefits of the lesson" the
world has derived from the great war
and its inevitable aftermath, the
economic mess" of the universe.
And through the calm consideration
of the facts" Dr. Call continued, ways
and means may be developed to pre-
vent as far as possible the outbreak
of another such holocaust by examining
the cause and removing the effect"
Message From Hoover.
Including a message from President
Hoover, the executive branch of the
Government will be well represented at
the proceedings, Dr. Call said. The
chairman of the Program Committee is
DR. James Brown Scott, authority on
international law. Associated with him
are Magnus W. Alexander. president of
JIlS NdIIOIla1 1I1OuSITlaI
Board; Harold G. Moulton, president,
Brookings Institution; Rev. Edmund A.
Walsh, S. j.; Walter I. Mccoy. Charles
Cheney Hyde. Right Rev. James E.
Freeman, eX-Gov. Nathan L. Miller of
New York, Representative Henry w
Temple, Wade H. Ellis and William
Tyler Page.
Declaring there is need now for a
national conference on international
justice, DR.. Call said:
THE nations find themselves fallen
into a slough of despond. The whole
human race seems to be suffering from
a form Of pandemic psychoSis, a func-
tional mental disorder which tends to
spread over large numbers of people.
During the war we planned, Or
ganized and co-ordinated the activities
of each in the interest of all, and with
a success we thought permanently ap-
plicable to the times of peace. In our
industrial order we have elaborated
scientific methods Of cost findings, of
accounting controls, of production, of
purchasing, Of selling, all under most |
carefully devised techniques of admin
istration. Adding to these, research, |
standardization and cooperation, we |
thought we had established the fixed |
forms of a developing national eff |
cheney. We thought our economic sys-
tenn was firmly and permanently es-
tablished.
100000 Slaughtering."
"In 1917 we took about 100000
men, one-fourth our population en-
gagged in gainful occupations, and
turned them for the most part away
from ordinary processes of production
of goods and of services and put them
at the business of collective slaughter
in the interest of democracy. While
there was a tremendous expansion in
production of goods necessary for the
conduct of the war, labors in the in
terest of garden cities, of soil fertility,
of flood control, of the fine arts and
of the general well-being of the COM
munity, practically ceased.
I'VE planned for the Army and Navy
on a large scale. We adapted our re-
sources to demands and co-ordinated
cur war industries through definite or
gans set up for that purpose, such as
the War Industries Board, the Food, the
Fuel, the Railroad Administration
Boards. We set up Shipping Board
and Federal employment exchanges.
Through the expansion of credits we in
vebped an unprecedented national
activity. We then entered upon
period of imitation. There soon devel-
oped, however, a disparity between
prices and incomes, a maldistribution
of purchasing power, and expenses be-
gan to exceed incomes.
The net result was threat Of in
solvency that ended in crisis, which
is still upon us. We thought we had
developed a system Of production,
backed by loyalty and enthusiasm; a
That x1,oYY1d ,-oo11lofa y1JIrph q sing
power and guide the means OF in
creasing that purchasing power safely
between too much and too little. But
we were quite mistaken.
mo Reference to Justice"
Through this entire structure there
was little if any reference to the deeper
principles of justice, justice between
man and man, justice between nation
and nation. The morass in which we
unhappily find ourselves, 1t is now sus-
pected, may be due to this unfortunate
omission.
Men in position to know agree gen.
orally that the worlds economic mess
is the inevitable aftermath OF the |
World War Now, after IA years, this |
fact seems to have struck home. The |
time is at hand, therefore, for the calm |
consideration of possible ways of reap |
ing the benefits of this lesson, and,
through the calm consideration CT the |
facts. not only to prevent, as lar as
possible, the outbreak of another such |
holocaust, but by examining the cause |
to remove the effect"
The aim Of the conference is to pro-
mote institutions for the establishment
of international justice, DR.. Call said.
1t will be held in the United States
Chamber OF Commerce Building.