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THE COLLEGE NEWS

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NEGOTIATION IS URGED

. future, not in the past,’ said Miss

Jane Addams Talks

on Peace Movement



Women’s International League
- Nearly Managed to End
World War





“Any orthodox lecture on peace)
goes back to Isaiah, for Isaiah first
was bold enough to put peace in the

Jane Addams, speaking in Goodhart
Auditorium, Monday night, November
27, on The Hopes We Inherit. For
three centuries the early Christians
would have nothing to do with war,
until Saint Augustine vindicated just,
as distinct from «unjust, fighting. Sul-
ly, Grotius, Quakers like Fox and
Penn, and, in our own day, Count
Tolstoi, made efforts to recapture the
early Christian attitude, without
widespread success. When the Age
of Enlightenment was ready to con-
demn war as opposed to reason, a
series of nationalistic, revolutionafy
struggles once more ennobled the con-
cept of war. .

In the Victorian era, projects were
set on foot toward peace. Though
the peace methods pursued before the
Great. War failed to avert that con-
flict, there is something to be said
for them as laying the foundation for
later and more successful post-war
plans.

In the late nineteenth century, peo-

ple talked of the gradual abandon-
ment of war by a triple international
process, corresponding in its three
parts to~the three” branches~ of~ the
United States Government. The first
is the judicial method. The _Court
at The Hague, opened in 1899, seem-
ed the consummation of long effort.
The United States led the way by
first using the Court when Roose-
velt appealed to its judgment over the
trouble with Mexico about lands in
Southern California. Roosevelt ap-
pealed to it again in connection with
fisheries, confirming American . ap-
proval of arbitration methods as made
possible through the Court.

The second peace method was the
legislative. An _ Interparliamentary
Union, composed of two representa-
tives each from nations with parlia-
mentary government, was established
in 1888, to discuss together matters
of international interest, and then to
uphold the views of the Union before
the legislatures of their own coun-
tries. This Union was able to effect
such a world-wide reform as the use
of white phosphorus for the protec-
tion of the workers in the match-in-
dustry. :

The third of the peace methods was
the executive. This branch of en-'
deavor worked through commissions,
of which there have been listed as
many as 375, among them the Inter-
national Postal Union. Concerning
themselves with shipping, manufac-
turing, health, and other matters, and
they did their work so well that peo-

ple soon recognized their usefulness.





In the midst of the apparent prog-
ress toward peace came the Great
War. These first steps did not per-
manently fall. to pieces, - however;
many of the commissioners, for in-
stance, reorganized promptly and effi-
ciently at the elose of the war. With
the horrors of war fresh in their
minds, men- were more than ever
ready to work for peace.

Out of the war grew the League of
Nations and the International Court,
the latter unlike and superior to the
earlier ‘World Court at The Hague.
The League Assembly Room is often
the scene of striking incidents, Dur-
ing one session, a black man from
Haiti rose to protest against the con-
duct of certain British soldiers in
bombing African villages. to collect
taxes. To this man, challenging on
a purely moral issue, representatives
of the British Empire excused their
countrymens’ conduct and explained
that reparations had been made.

On another occasion, the great
French minister, Briand, in reply to
a speech of the German Chancellor,
declared that—for good political and
economic reasons French and Ger-
mans had fought ever since they’ were
called Teutons and Gauls, but pre-
dicted that war should never happen
again, that another method of settling
disputes was now provided in the
Council and Assembly of the League.

A type of peace society sprang up
after the war, like the League for
Democratic Control in England and
in Germany the Band of the New
Fatherland. The former believed that



if the situation in the British For-
eign Office “were submitted to ‘the
House of Commons year by year for
discussion; “it “‘would-make* for better
foreign relations. vie

In May, 1915, the Women’s Inter-
national League was established. A
group of American women was invited
to meet a group of Europeans in
The Hague. Most of them were suf-
fragettes of the International Suf-
fragette Association. Twelve coun-
tries were represented, and they sat
for three and a half days. They hop-
ed, not to stop war like a traffic po-
liceman, but to get together various
national efforts and present to their
countries a feasible peace program.

They advocated a system of contin-
uous mediation, devised by (Grace
Wales, of the English Department of
the University of Wisconsin. The
idea was that if a group of educated
people from the neutral countries ‘met
in a neutral capital to consider. the
fortunes of the war,-it might make
suggestions which would lead to nego-
tiation.

To make the plan known,
groups of women set out, one to the
Scandinavian countries and. the other
to Central Europe. They boldly took
the scheme to the Prime Minister and
to the Minister for Foreign Affairs
in every country, who, having already
gone through one winter of the war,
with expense, terror, and loss of life,
were ready to hear the, proposition.

There was an amazing response to
the plan. The Hungarian minister
applauded the women for taking such

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a step, and declared that it was the
first sensible. proposition that had
come to him since the war _ began.
Lloyd George, then Minister of Muni-
tions, confessed to occasional misgiv-
ings@s to the rightness of war.

The Women’s International League
met at the close of the war in Zurich,
with twenty-three countries represent-
ed. Later meetings were held at Vi-
enna, and in Ireland. The League,.
like all other peace societies, pinned
its faith on negotiation, as a means
of avoiding war.

American peace societies, started as
far back as 1826, as the peace exhib-
it in the present World Fair will
prove, culminated in the widespread
post-war longing for peace. War is
an anachronism, and, whether or not
we are at present down in the trough
of peace, there is a determination in
the hearts of the people and of groups
to bring war permanently to an end.



“There is nothing like a strike to
dodge examinations,” say Chinese stu-
dents. They. have used it so often
that administrations now take spe-
cial care to see that there are no
grounds for friction between’ faculty
and students immediately preceding
the examinations.



Because of the increasing nuisance
caused by’ skunks in the vicinity of
State College, Pennsylvania, the
State Game Commissioners have ruled
that students may kill the animals
without the necessity of a hunting
license.















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smoking Camels because I like their taste
and mildness...they never jangle my nerves.”

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nerves. I’m a steady smoker. People
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They say I never have a cigarette out
of my mouth. During all these years .
I’ve been smoking Camels, not only













































































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