Evening star., 1934-01-18
Women'S Conference on War
Seeks to Find "NeW Germ
of Patriotism" .
MRS. ROOSEVELT HOLDS
BATTLE GLAMOUR is LOST
British Speaker Lays Depression to
Disregard of 1927 Economic
Farley Mandate.

After hearing plea from Mrs. Frank
lin D. Roosevelt to enlist American
youth in great crusade for peace, 500
woman delegates to the ninth annual
Conference on the Cause and Cure of
War today attempted to find some
new germ of patriotism" that would
inspire young people to fight for peace.
Speaking at the annual banquet last
night in the Hall of Nations at the
Washington Hotel, Mrs. Roosevelt de-
nounced war as utter futility' and
deadly stupidity" but expressed the
belief that to the young people of to-
day war is not as attractive as it was
In her youth.
See New Germ Of Patriotism.
II think there is a distinct change
in the thought of youth" said Mrs.
Roosevelt. Il don't think war is as
glorious thing today as in the days
when I was young. There was no
greater thing held up to the youth OF
my time than the supreme sacrifice OF
giving your life for your country.
"A new germ of patriotism is COM
ing to us through youth"
The First Lady then recalled how
she saw Noel CoWard'S great motion pic
ture, "Cavalcade," and had come out
realizing the utter futility OF human
experience"
How deadly stupid we are; how ter
rible that we can study history; that
we can live through things complacently
and allow the same causes to put US
the same terrible experiences"
she exclaimed.
Il don't believe we can continue so
stupid; if We do We deserve to commit
suicide and We certainly will"
Mrs. Roosevelt urged the conferees
to ''be practical about this cause, not
entirely idealistic.''
I'VE must be willing to face the facts.
willing to sit down and know what truth
is before we can 60 forward. The facts
about peace are these: We talk great
deal about nobody wants war, every
body wants peace but what are the
causes that bring about war? We have
got to begin therC.
Governments Not Honest"
Eve have get to face the fact that
it is the economic causes that bring
about war. Many people are beginning
to realize they have to change their
ways of living, change their ideas of
values.
Look at nations more realistically.
We can't have peace because
governments won't be honest with one
another, and we won't have peace as
long as people won't change and gov
ernmentS won't be honest. We really
tfoU 10 foc ho tn
be honest with ourselves.
Some of us have got to give up
something so that all of us may live.
The same thing is true among nations.
The movement for peace is an ac-
tive crusade that women the world over
must undertake, a crusade that the
youth Of the country must undertake"
Mrs. Roosevelt was introduced by
Mrs. Carrie Chapman Gait, 75-year-old
who started the campaign for
peace after her fight for woman's Suf-
rage was won. Mrs. Gait called Mrs.
Roosevelt the first Presidents wife who
Is really one Of US" the first Presi-
dents wife who belongs to the woman
She said President Roose-
welt initiates the new deal but Mrs.
Roosevelt 'interpretS it,
New DeaT Is Attacked.
Mrs. Margery Corbett Ashby, Great
Britain's only woman delegate to the
Conference at Geneva,
was the only other speaker on the ban
quet program. She reviewed her aCtiv-
tiles at Geneva and attacked isolation
as the greatest foe of world peace. She
said the present economic depression is
the result of the failure to accept the
of the 1927 Economic Confer
ence," which she said recommended
lowering tariff walls and greater CO.
operation among nations. She said the
world situation, is rapidly reaching a
point where it will be isolation versus
cooperation.
At one of the round tables this after
noon, the new deal was attacked as an
instrument of nationalism and defended
as step toward intelligent interna-
tionalism. Prof. Harry D. Gideonse,
University of Chicago, criticized the
N. r. A. as an attempt to promote ma
tlonal recovery without adequate con-
sideration of its international roper
cussions. AS such, he said. he believed
1t had diverted attention from certain
necessary changes in our commercial
policy which would permit the rebuild
ing OF stable world economy.
Need Foreign Markets..
The administrations farm policy was
vigorously defended by DR.. MordecaI
Ezekiel economic adviser to the Agri-
culture production, who saw control of
American production as a forerunner
of an international attack on the prob
lem of agricultural surpluSes.
He said there could be no basic solu-
tion of the American farm problem
which does not provide for foreign mar
kets, and If no change is made in
American tariff policy, the only alter
native Is permanent curtailment OF
which must involve serious
domestic readjustmentS.
DR.. Leo Pasvolsky of the Brookings
Institution stressed the Importance OF
stable foreign exchanges for the de-
velopment of international trade.
Trade as such, he asserted, is an ele-
ment of collaboration, rather than
animosity among nations.
Maxwell S. Stewart, economist Of the
Foreign Policy Association, in sum-
marizing the discussion, pointed out
the conflicting elements in the national
recovery program and stressed the
need of an early decision on the path
the United States is to International
ist or internationalist.
Either is theoretically possible" he
added, but the attempt to puruse both
courses simultaneously has intensified
international friction and laid the basis
for war;"
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