Evening star., 1939-01-21
Cause and Cure
Of War Group
Meets Here
Neutrality Act
Revision Is Chief
Question

Seven hundred peace-loving wom-
en- from all parts of the United
States and from abroad gathered at
the Washington Hotel today for par
ticipation In the Fourteenth Con-
ference on the Cause and Cure Of
War. The conference will continue
through Wednesday.
The meeting is sponsored by II
women's organizations comprising
the National Committee on the
Cause and Cure of War, which rests
its program on a policy of interna-
tional cooperation for peace and
the withholding of economic and
financial aid to nations which dis
regard treaties.
The paramount question before
the women concerns revision of the
American Neutrality Act. They seek
a neutrality policy less isolationist
in character than the one now in
effect
When the conference opens off,
cially at 8 pm. the delegates will
hear a review of the world events
of 1888, drab year for any set of
peace seekers, from James G. Nc
Donald, president of the Brooklyn
Institute of Arts and Sciences and
former president of the Foreign
Policy Association.
Miss Schain to Preside.
Miss Josephine Schain. chairman
of the national committee, will pre-
side at this meeting. and also at the
Monday evening banquet. Then
Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt, Mrs.
Carrie Chapman Gait, honorary
chairman of the national committee,
and Lady Doroth6h Layton, British
peace leader, will be the guest
speakers.
The educative aspect of the con-
ference for the women will be en-
phasized tomorrow evening. Then
varying points of view on foreign
policy Will be presented in panel
discussion by experts, Maj George
Fielding Eliot of the Military 1ntelli-
gence Reserve. U. S. A.: Clark M
Eichelberger, director of the League
of Nations Association, and Devere
Allen. editor of Nofrontier News
Service.
A prominent place in the confer
ence will be given Wednesday morn
ing to an evaluation of the recent
Eighth International Conference of
American States at Lima, Peru, with
Mrs. Burton Musser, United States
representative at the conference,
taking part in the round-table dis
cussion.
Bishop Oldham to Speak.
Two new sessions will be devoted
to interviews with authorities on
possible channels for furthering
world peace. At the last session the
Right Rev. G. Ashton Oldham,
Bishop of Albany, will speak on The
Moral and Spiritual Bases of Peace"
Mrs. Ida B. Wise Smith, national
president of the Women's Christian
Temperance Union and a delegate
to the conference, emphasized the
relationship of immortality and vice
to world decline, when she spoke
over the Columbia Broadcasting
System this morning from Station
WJSV.
The organizations which comprise
the Cause and Cure of War Com
mittee are:
American Association of Univer-
sity Women, General Federation of
Women's Clubs, National Board of
the Young Women's Christian Asso-
Citations. National Committee of
Church Women, National Council of
Jewish Women, National Federation
of Business and Professional Wom-
ems Clubs, National Ho;le Demon
stration Council, National League
of Women Voters, National Woman s
Christian Temperance Union, Ma
tional Women's Conference of the
American Ethical Union and Ma
tional Women's Trade Union League.