Evening star., 1933-01-18
SUPPORT URGED
FOR D|SARM|NG
Van Kirk Appeals to Peace
Mind of Nation at War
Cure Session.

The peace minded people of the
United States" were asked today by
Walter w. Van Kirk, in an address
before the Conference on Cause and
Cure of War, to mass their influence
behind a three-fold program to make
the World Disarmament Conference
success.
Kirk, representing the Commission on
International Justice and Goodwin Of
the Federal Council of Churches, led
a forum on how to help the peace cause
in Geneva.
He advocated:
Full cooperation by the United
States with the World Disarmament
Conference when that parley resumes
sessions late this month.
gress ito provide respectable headQuar-
tiers for the United States disarmament
delegation at Geneva.
Abolition of Weapons.
Complete abolition of such weapons
of attacks as tanks, heavy artillery,
battleships and submarines.
1T is nothing short of an interna-
tional scandal that millions of men
should be without bread at the very
moment when billions of dollars are
being spent on HowitZers and bayontes,"
said Van Kirk
1.-THE only way people have of reliev-
ing themselves OF this burden is to
compel the politicians to act. Diplo-
mats and politicians, as a rule, will not
move until they are forced to move by
an indignant and outraged public.
"A campaign of peace education
must be initiated"
Carrie Chapman Gait, 74-year-old
peace campaigner who mapped the
work of the conference, today turned
the thoughts of her followers defanltely
to the Arms Conference scheduled to
reconvene later this month in Geneva.
Women, who yesterday listened to
Miss Mary e. Woolley, only American
woman delegate, tell the difficulties OF
debt debac,e" and Far Eastern "men-
ace confronting the conference, were
asked today: What can we DO TO heip
the situation In Geneva?"
Miss Woolley herself, making two ap-
pearances before the group, suggested
that they concentrate their efforts on
f1uence and impact-explaining the last
word was chosen to indicate the course
to take with Congress.
Conference Open Forum.
The conference resolved itself into an
open forum under Mr.. Van Kirk to
concentrate on the problem pronounced
by Mrs. Gait the most important be-
fore this country so far as peace is
concerned.
When she was questioned on default
of war debts and other world economic
problems, Mrs. Gait pronounced the
first objective in world comfy the sue
cess of the Geneva Conference.
THE rest can be taken UP later"
she said
Prof. James T. shotwell, director of
economics Of the Carnegie Peace
Foundation, yesterday urged moral
disarmament through an international
congress as more vital than 'arithmet-
ical reduction"
"You must beware that modern
science has in its grip a capacity of
destruction which outranges all artil-
lery in existence" he said, in contend
ing that nations first must have the
wish for peace
Speaking over the radio in connec-
ton with the conference, Prof. Shot
well said that there is complete mis-
understanding in this country of the
League of Nations. It's potency, he ex-
planned, is power to prevent conflicts
from breaking out.
Plans fer the Wellesley Summer In
stitute for Social Progress, open to men
and women In active life, were an
nounced at the conference last night.
This project has been launched by
joint committee of prominent New York
and Boston men of affairs, economists
and alumnae of Wellesley College. The
attendance will be recruited from
variety OF people and occupations, the
idea being to disseminate knowledge to
q cross-section of society.
The institute will be operated by a
board of governors including the fol-
lowing: Kari Compton, president of
the Massachusetts, Institute of Tech
nology; Henry Dennison, president of
the Denrison Manufacturing Co.; John
H. Williams, professor of economics and
one OF the experts representing the
State Department in the World
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