Evening star., 1934-05-19
ROOSEVELT GIVEN
PLEA FOR PEACE
Students Claim Leaders
Have No Right to In
fIict Suffering.

President Roosevelt had before him
TODAY a demand from students OF all
sections of the country to lead IN
securing a world treaty for complete
disarmament"
The petition calling upon the Presl-
dent to take the leadership in a world
wide peace movement was presented
to Mrs. Roosevelt yesterday afternoon
after the students had held a mass
meeting in McPhel son Square, FIJI
teenth and I streets.
To the tune of martial music by
the Soldiers Home Band, and almost
within the shadow of the statue of a
Civil War general, the students heard
orators speak bitterly of the horrors
of war. The meeting was in obserV-
ance of World Good Will day under
the auspices of the Women's Inter-
national League for Peace and Free
dom.
Resolution Presented.
The resolution presented to Mrs.
Roosevelt, copies of which were dis
tributed to all embassies and lega-
tions. said:
IF war comes, our generation Will
suffer, not only through the horrors
of the conflict itself. but through the
economic chaos which will surely
follow We challenge the right OF
the generations now guiding the af-
fairs of the world to infiict such
injury upon us.
I'VE call upon you now to end
this country's participation in the
armament race We call upon you
to take the lead in securing a world
treaty for complete disarmament
the actual abandonment of the weap-
ons of war and of force as means
of settling international difficulties. :"
Miss Elizabeth Wheeler, George
Washington University student, and
daughter of Senator Wheeler of Mon
tana. was chairman of the meeting.
She told the gathering, schools and
universities are much more important
in our lives than battleships and To-
inch guns"
Senator Frazier of North Dakota
called war crime against civiliza-
ton, and no less a crime because it
is legalized by the governments which
participate in it."
War teaches us how to kill with
germs and pestilence.' he asserted.
What pleasant, happy and hope
full prospect to hold out to the youth
of our land who are so ably repre-
sented here today"
Senator Pope of Idaho was roundly
cheered when he told of the Presi-
dents message asking for an investi-
cation of arms manufacturers. There
we're several blistering attacks on mu-
milton makers, who promote interna-
tional friction to boost their incomes.
Representatives Tobey of New
Hampshire and Foulkes of Vermont
added denCnCiatiOnS, and Rev. Fred
erick Brown Harris of Foundry NJ E.
Church drew cheers when he de-
clared the Christian Chudch is now,
as never before, serving notice to
those merchants of death. the mu-
milton makers, and to their lackey
politicians that there are untold
thousands in this country who will
not again goose-step when the bugles
sound for war"
Youthful Spokesman.
Darwin Cartwright, Swarthmore
College freshman. and Miss Anne
Henderson and Earl Kernahan of
American University were spokesmen
for the youth of America. They de-
manded abolition of ornaments.
While the mass meeting was in
progress, the American Peace Society,
in session block or two away, in the
United States Chamber of Commerce
Building. heard a plea for the 'mul-
titudinous peace societies to stop their
quarreling with one another
Rev. Russell J. Clinchy, Mount
Pleasant Congregational Church,
charged "the peace movement is
sterile and futile today because it is
scattered and broken by internal di-
visions and the lack of definite plan.
while the forces of militarism and ma
tional imperialism develop their def
mite aims and united action"
John ]. Esch. former member of the
Interstate Commerce Commission. was
Reelected president of the Peace
Society.
Dr. Arthur Deerin Call was re-
elected secretary and editor of its
publication, World Affairs, and Col.
U. S. Grant, Sd, was renamed treas
urer. Vice presidents chosen were
William c. Breed, Leo S. Rowe, Elihu
Root and DR.. James Brown Scott.