Evening star., 1937-03-12
PEACE NOT EASILY
KEPT, SAYSBAKER
Former Secretary of War
Champions League at
Woman Congress.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, March l2.-Three prom
inent Americans brought message OF
peace last night to women gathered
from 38 States for the fourth annual
Woman Congress.
Addressing the final session of the
Congress, sponsored by the Chicago
Tribune. were Newton D. Baker, Sec
retary of War under President Wilson,
Senator Gerald P. Nye, North Dakota
Republican, and Norman Thomas,
Socialist candidate for President last
November.
THE most profound question in the
minds of the American people today
Is the preservation Of peace" Baker
declared.
IT came here" he said, "to warn
against the assumption that the prob
lem of peace is simple and that the
problem of keeping us out of war is
simple"
Champions League Of Nations.
He said survey of the peace efforts
OF today made it seem to him that
what the world was trying to do was
to establish who won the last war.
Again he championed the League Of
Nations, saying:
IT am not advocating that the
United States join the League tomor-
row, but I will make this statement:
We have our choice between interna-
tional cooperation Or chaos
"I don't believe it possible for us
TO see aggressor nations conquer one
after another of the weaker nations
and not know that our turn will come
some day.
Senator Nye told the Congress
little or no progress" had been made
by civilization toward elimination of
war.
The chairman of the Senate Num-
tions Investigating Committee pre-
sented what he termed "a program
of genuine preparedness for peace"
Among its points were:
l. Larger education on the recog-
nized causes of war.
2. Dramatic peace and celebrate it
as well, or at least as we do war.
8. Step out of participation in the
present world arms race and conflne
our preparedness program strictly to
ability to repulse foes that attack us.
a. Take the profits out of war.
5. There should be larger voice by
all the people in determining when, if
ever again, our country shall partici-
pate in a foreign war before we have
actually been attacked.
6. A plain statement of policy Of
neutrality to prevail automatically
with the coming of war between other
nations.
Security Price of Peace.
Thomas chose for his subject, THE
Price of True Democracy declaring
the price of democracy was peace, and
the price of peace security.
Democracy, menaced by the war IN
Spain, was in retreat, he asserted, de-
manding: Why did the democracies
of the world not rally to the aid of
Spain? This new triumph of Fascist
aggression menaces our peace far
more than the ordinary rules govern
ing nations in war"
Thomas said the real struggle for
democracy was not between nations,
but between men. 1--WE are facing
world in which the price of democracy
and the price of peace has interna-
tional complications for us ALL" ne
said.
Another speaker at the final session
was Mrs Lena Madesin Phillips, presi-
dent of the International Federation
of Business and Professional Women's
Clubs. She told the delegates one of
the Nations major problems was to
adapt its economic order so every per-
son could earn living commensurate
with Americas high natural and me-
chanical resources.
TO keep many millions of our own
citizens upon the dole, public charity
or trivial made work, shifted from one
triviality to another" she said, lis
un-American. 1t bespeaks not free
dom and opportunity but return to
the caste system"