Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1937-04-20
STRONG DEFENSE
URGED FOR PEACE
Georgetown Dean DEGREES
Pacifistic Philosophy In
Talk to D. A. R.

Resembling pleas for national de-
Tense rang through the crowded May
flower Hotel ball room yesterday aft
ernoon, as four speakers discussed
varied phases of the problem, under
leadership Of Mrs. Vinton Earl Sis
son, chairman of the Committee on
National Defense Through Patriotic
Education, of the D. A. R.
Discussing National Defense and
Peace" DR.. Thomas Healy, dean of
the School Of Foreign Service,
Georgetown University, called on the
American people to be well armed to.
forward the cause of peace.
You can't be neutral and remain
at peace unless you are strong
enough" he declared.
Scoring the opponents of adequate
preparedness, DR.. Healy charged that
probably the strongest and most in
sidious attack now going on against
our national defense is based on
complete misconception of civic and
religious rights and Obligations"
NdiutS NEW 1oTk DlSHOp.
The speaker named Bishop Francis
J. Mcconnell of New York as leader
IN the religious movement which was
claiming that "brand-neW" philos-
opny of religion taught that 1T is con-
trary to both religion and law to par
ticipate in military activities for the
defense of your country" Waving be-
fore the women a newspaper adver-
tisement showing that Bishop McCon-
nell was chairman of a meeting in
New York Saturday night Ito cele-
brate recent loyalists victories in
SPAIN" DR.. Healy charged the bishop
with being Inconsistent"
II can't remember" said Healy, "of
the bishop presiding at any meeting to
celebrate loyalist victories of those who
fought to defend Democratic Amer
lea Declaring Bishop Mcconnell
previously had declared it was against
the law of God to have anything to
do with the military Healy con-
tinued, but apparently the law of
God is not working in Spain"
AS a matter of historic fact, Healy
said, religious teachings of all ages
and all countries show conclusively
that military defense is a primary
obligation imposed by the law of God"
Calling on the D. A. R. to disclose
all facts possible relative to the argu-
ment over national defense, the speaker
urged them to study closely the status
OF proposed substitutes for military
defense, and the relations of the mill
tary establishments to the Kellogg pact
He stressed especially the relations of
the military establishment to the "civic
and religious rights and obligations"
of the people.
Sees War Inevitable.
Carleton sSmith, traveller and lee
turer, declared that European nations
from England to Soviet Russia are
preparing for war. THE peoples of
these countries do not want war" he
said. European dictators do not want
war. But the things they are trying to
get can be had only by war. Those
who have not would take from those
who have and those who have will
not give up any part of their hold
ngs. When the struggle will come no
one knows. But that 1t will come
everybody knows"
Theodore G. Holcombe, president OF
the Immigration Restriction League of
Boston, an expert on immigration de-
clared the immigration problem could
never be solved until the ultimate
goal of selected immigration" is
reached. But that, he predicted was
"a long way off, because our method of
psychological examinations have not
yet proceeded to the place where we
can do that
Robert M. Calland, student of Ohio
State University, discussed the aims of
the Student Americaneers," with its
program of patriotic education, in
high schools and colleges. He sharply
scored several student organizations
which he characterized as COM
munistic."
Dropping into the meeting to praise
the movement and pay tribute to Mrs.
Sisson as "a marvellous chairman" of
national defense, Mrs. William A.
Becker, president general of the D. A,
r., extended her congratulations to
the group.
1t is up to women" she declared,
to preserve the traditions and ideals
that have made this Nation great"