The Washington times., 1938-01-21

Mrs. Arthur Br1n, OF MIME
apolis, president Of the National
Council Of Jewish Women, one
Of the II national women's or
ganizations participating in the
conference, presided at the
morning session.
This afternoon Miss Earlene
White, of the District Of Colum.
bia, president of the National
Federation of Business and Pro
fesisonal Women's Clubs, is con-
ducting the session, at which
the following are speakers:
Joseph Cadden, chairman Of the
organizing committee of the
World Youth Congress; Mrs.
George E. Barr, of Brooklyn,
N. Y, member of the industrial
department, Y. w. C. A.; Louise
Morley, student at Bryn Mawr
College, and Mrs. Frederic
Beggs, of Wyckoff, N. j., chair
man of marathon round tables
of the National Committee on
the Cause and Cure of War.
MRS. SIBLEY SPEAKER
Two distinguished speakers
will be on tonight's program.
which will be presided over by
Miss Josephine Schain, Of New
York, chairman of the confer
ence. They are Pierre de Lanux,
from the League of Nations,
whose subject is THE Hope for
Peace" and Mrs. Harper Sibley.
of Rochester, vice president OF
the National Council Of Fed
Grated Church Women and a
member of the national board
Of the Y. M. C. A.
A particularly inspiring meet
ing was held last night, resided
over by Mrs. James Austin
Stone, chairmc of the National
Women's Trade Union League,
another participating organiza-
ton. Speakers were Senator e.
bert D. Thomas of Utah and DR..
James r. Shotwell, professor OF
history, Columbia University,
and a trustee Of the Carnegie
Endowment for international
Peace.
NEW ERA OF PEACE
Speaking on the subject,
peaceful Change" DR.. Shot
we'll declared:
I'm the history of the peace
movement we can already detect
at least three great eras. The
first of these lasted throughout
long centuries. It was voiced
by the leaders of religion and Of
morals and was a protest against
the cruelty and barbarism OF
war. The second great phase
of the peace movement created
out of the World War and
was embodied in the League OF
Nations and the World Court.
The era which produced it was
one that still suffered so desper-
ately from the effect of the
World War, that everyone agreed
that peace at almost all costs
was better than resort to war
again
But now we have come to a
new era, that of peaceful change
an era as gotten far enough
away from the horror Of the
World War to be willing to risk
the menace of war in order to
get other nations to recognize
the changing situation between
nations. This era brings us the
final test of the peace movement,
because the world has ceased to
be static and has become a world
of continual change under the
influence of modern science.
REA0JUSTMENT PROBLEM
"This new era, while 1t rests
upon the whole foundation, is
opening a wholly new feature
for mankind and one which will
call for more and more change
as time goes on. The strategy
of peace, that is to say. the su-'
preme problem of craftsmanship
from now on will be that Of
peaceful change. The method
whereby the world can readjust
itself continually without vio-
1ence."
Only the nations which can
work out their own destiny in
terms of peace can plan to share
a peaceful world, according to
DR.. Shotwell. He told the women:
Governments which count
upon force to hold their own
people together cannot be eX-
pected to use any other device
for getting their way in the
world of nations.
'Now, the problem Of finding
q substitute for force falls into
two main parts. There is the
question of what nations want.
Would it not go well to have a
house of economics planning
alongside a house of diplomacy
In which the problems Of world
welfare would be studied in the
interests of all? The time has
come for some such major
change in the international or
ganization at Geneva.
WOULD STOP CREDIT
"There is no single cure for
war, Police action which we
call sanctions has failed. What
can be done? This is part Of
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