The Washington times., 1938-01-15
DR.. .H.Wright
T ak S Before
ClubWOmen
BY MARY PADGETT

DR.. Herbert Wright. pro-
fessor of international law at
Catholic. University, speaking
before last nights session of the
annual mid-winter board meet
ing of the General Federation
of Women's Clubs, voiced his
belief that international law, in
spite of crises, does exist and
treaties are not mere scraps OF
paper.
THE Role of Treaties in In.
ternational Relations, was the
subject of DR.. Wright's ad-
dress. DR.. Wright is editing a
volume on basic American
treaties, the publication OF
which the General Federation
is sponsoring in the hope that
q knowledge of the treaties
underlying current American
foreign policy will make for a
greater understanding Of cur
rent problems.
FORCE is EMPHASIZED
DR.. wright declared that
mere violation of law or OF
treaties does not mean that
they are not binding or Of no
effect, because no nation ever
willingly admits violating a
treaty. DR.. Wright said:
Every state in every age un,
der every crisis has endeaVored
to justify under international
law every important apparent de-
parture from the universally ac-
cepted rules of international
conduct and the fact that they
try themselves is an admission
of the force of international law.
We must not magnify the I'M
portance of the occasional VIOLA
tions of international law with
impunity as COMPARED with the
countless penalties exacted OF
violators of this law and the
myriads of cases in which inter
national law has been observed
almost without notice"
Another speaker at last nights
session was Rev. George w.
Shepherd, who recently returned
to the United States after spend
ing twenty years in Marking
Rev. Shepherd described the
New Life Movement in China,
and expressed the wish that
every woman in America unite
her spirit with that of Madame
Chang Kai-shek by making 1t
her business to see that no loans
and credits go from the Golfers
of this country, directly or in
directly, to rebuild and to de-
velop China under any govern
ment other than that Of Chinese
people themselves"
Sessions of the board meeting
began officially Thursday morn
ing and lasted through this
morning. presided over by Presi-
dent Mrs. Roberta Campbell
Lawson, of Tulsa, Okla, who
has been assisted by other OIL
GERS at the different meetings.
MISS ACHELIS SPEAKS
Miss Elisabeth Achelis, preSi-
dent of the World Calendar
Association, was one of the
speakers today. She declared
"the calendar is no longer func-
tioning on the square with US;
neither are we living on the
square with the calendar" Miss
Achelis urged the General Fed
Grafton to put women's we'll
known practically and energy
behind the growing world move
ment for the adoption of an
equal-quarter perpetual world
calendar of IL months"
Unprecedented good will exists
today between the press OF the
country and the woman's club
movement, it was said this morn
ing by Mrs. J. Henry HighSmith,
of Raleigh, N. c., chairman OF
press and publicity, in her re-
port to the board of directors.
MES. Norman Hubbard Hast
ings, of RoSlindale, Mass, chair
man of the department of the
American Home, in her report,
said: Let our goal for the new
year be a uniform regulation of
marriage and divorce because
of the great confusion result
ing from present laws. In some
cases, divorce legalized in one
State is not recognized in an
other State or in the State Of
residence, thus making man
or wife bigamists in their own
State"
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