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Die Abkommen der Haager Friedenskonferenzen, u. s. w. New edition by Hans WehbergThe Advocate of Peace (1894-1920), Vol. 77, No. 6 (JUNE, 1915), pp. 150-151Published by: World Affairs InstituteStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/20667248 .

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150 THE ADVOCATE OF PEACE. June,

Tampa, Lake City, Winter Garden, Oakland, Apopke, Orlando. Several other places would have been included had time allowed. Everywhere was found a hearty wel come.

The Convention proper was held at Orlando from

April 29 to and including'May 2. Arthur D. Call, of the home office at Washington, was present at the open ing and made a clear and forceful presentation of the status of the peace cause, and showed the necessity for an aggressive campaign to the end that all nations shall find a better way to settle their difficulties with each other than by the taking of life. There must be a sub stitute for war.

Friday was our educational peace rally day. One of its best features was a peace parade by the public schools, the pupils carrying banners on which were inscribed some of the most suggestive peace sentences. About 800 of the pupils marched through the streets to the theater and there listened to an address on "The Peacemakers." The director never had a more appreciative audience. At night he gave another address on "What I Saw and Learned in the War Zone." On Sunday he gave three more addresses, besides riding some forty miles.

It was on Saturday morning, May 1, in the office of the People's Bank, Orlando, that the State organization was completed and the following-named officers elected:

President, C. P. Dow, of Orlando; secretary and treas

urer, Miss A. E. Moremen, of De Land; auditor, Frank A. Smith; directors, Mrs. C. D. Christ, Hon. W. E.

O'Neal, Mrs. Frank Bellows, C. B. Dow, C. E. Howard, and Frank A. Smith; honorary vice-presidents, Hon. Park Trammell, Governor of Florida; Hon. C. B. Park

hill, Dr. A. A. Murphree, Dr. W. F. Blackman, Dr. J. W. Stagg, Dr. J. B. Conradi, Dr. Claude Duke, and H. B. Stevens.

On Saturday afternoon Mrs. Christ presided over a

meeting for women. An interesting feature of this

meeting was the rendering of "The War Brides." Many of the women present expressed their purpose to enter more heartily into the work of seeking the world's peace.

The closing meeting of the Convention took place Sunday night at the Presbyterian Church, Hon. W. E. O'Neal presiding. Dr. W. F. Blackman made a fine ad dress. Dr. Hall addressed the meeting on "The Present

War and How to Prevent Future Wars." After this he took the midnight train for Columbia College, where he

made two addresses the next day. In closing this article we can well say that too much

credit cannot be given to Mrs. Dr. C. D. Christ, who had so much of the responsibility of the Convention resting upon her and who labored every way to make it a suc cess. The president elected is one of the leading bankers and business men of Orlando, and while new to the

peace work he enters upon his duties with enthusiasm and splendid purpose. The secretary is an earnest and

capable peace worker, who helped us much in arranging for some of our meetings. Hon. W. E. O'Neal, president of the Orlando Peace Society and director of the State

Society, is active in all things that relate to the progress of Florida.

This Peace Society is organized as a constituent branch of the American Peace Society, and with such a

band of workers it will not fail to make a good record and to carry forward the peace work, in all of its depart ments, into every part of the great State of Florida.

WAR BRIDES.

Lean Soils Cohen.

Yonder on the plains and mountains Slay the Teutons, Slavs, and Huns,

Whilst they mock the voiceless heavens With the thunder of their guns.

War kings blessed my war-made marriage As a noble duty done;

Now they tell me that my soldier An heroic death has won.

I have yet a nobler duty; Cunningly you snared the flesh,

Soul of motherhood revolting Breaks your Machiavelian mesh.

Cursed monarchs, statesmen, bishops, Is my duty but to breed?

For your hellish church-state-king-craft Son of mine shall never bleed!

t?In The Review.

Book Reviews.

Christ or Napoleon?Which? By Peter Ainslee. New York: Fleming H. Revell Co. 1915. 96

pages. Price, fifty cents, net.

Dr. Ainslee, minister of Christian Temple, Baltimore, and one of the delegates to the Constance Church Peace. Conference last summer, has gathered in this volume several of his papers on the general subject of mili tarism and war. He contrasts Napoleon, the personifi cation of the military leaders of the world, with Christ, the living principle of the triumph of the spirit of

brotherhood, and shows the possibility of overcoming evil with good. The present war would have been im

possible, says Dr. Ainslee, had the church been true to her teachings, and had Christ's followers refused to en list in any army, as they did in the first century after

His death. The church's present duty is to take up the ethical teaching of the Master and follow His supreme ideals, even to the laying down of life. Only thus can our country escape the dangers of militarism and be worthv the name of Christian.

The Christ Method of Peace-making. By W. Evans

Darby. London: Headley Bros. 1914. Price, one shilling, net. 126 pages.

Under this title is compiled a series of addresses given by the secretary of the Peace Society, London, in 1908. Dr. Darby maintains that the doctrine of peace is the heart of the gospel itself, not merely a part of Christ's

teaching. The chapter titles are suggestive: Forces

Making for Peace, The Authority of Christ's Teaching, Its Bearing on War, Christ's Method of Peace-making, and the likte. The reading of this little volume will

bring fresh inspiration to Christian peace advocates who may have grown disheartened at the present cloud which temporarily overshadows the cause of peace, and

they will gain fresh hope from Dr. Darby's vital Chris tian message.

Die Abkommen der Haager Friedenskonferenzen, u. s. w. By Dr. Hans Wehberg. ''New edition. Berlin: Guttentag. 1915. Nr. 99 Guttentagsche Sammlung. Price, 3 marks.

This is a new edition of Dr. Wehberg's work of 1910,

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1915 THE ADVOCATE OF PEACE: 151

bringing the condition of the ratifications, declarations of accession, etc., up to March 1, 1915. It gives a sur

vey of the history of the treaties now in effect, and con tains also the treaties relative to mediation and good offices. There is a preface by Dr. Philip Zorn, privy councilor. The work is arranged in -sixteen sections, taking up in order the treaties concerning (1) peaceful settlement of international disputes; {2) limitation of the use of force by exaction of contractual debts; (3) be

ginning of hostilities; (4) laws and customs of war on

land; (5) rights and duties of neutrals in land war

fare; (6) treatment of hostile merchantmen on the out break of hostilities; (7) change of merchantmen into

warships, and the like. There is also added the London Declaration and the Geneva Convention.

Les Tribunaux Mixtes d'Sgypte. By Enrique Gar cia de Herreros. Wm. Dawson & Sons, St. Dun stan's House, Fetter Lane, London, E. C. 1914. 340 pp. Price, 5 shillings, net.

This volume in the French language provides a clear resume of facts, documents, and references to treaties, and will be most valuable as a work of reference to

jurists, diplomatists, and others who are considering the consular jurisdiction, the mixed courts, the abolition of the capitulations, etc. It was published just before the beginning of the war, and ought to be useful in the solution of some of the questions which arise in connec tion with the peace negotiations that will follow the war. Judge E. G. de Herreros is a councilor of the Court of Appeal in Spain, as well as judge of the Mixed Tribunal of Alexandria, and a competent authority on the subject he discusses. There is a preface by Mr. Francis Laloe, French councilor of the Mixed Court of

Appeal.

The Crimson Fist. By 0. H. Nel?nd. Boston: The Gorham Press. .1915. 208 pages. Price, $1.00.

Among the anti-war books now on the market is this entitled "The Crimson Fist," written by one who con ceals his identity under the name of 0. H. Neland. He

depicts the horrors of war, indicting successively five

agencies which in his opinion are making for aggressive patriotism and love of war?the Home, School, Church, Press, and Government. The author says we shall never have peace until a new and true internationalism takes the place of our present foolishly narrow ideals of pa triotism. He pictures the modern child, who worships brute force, this feeling being fostered by his home

training and the stories he reads. At school he is taught to admire generals and admirals, and learns that the

people of his land are more brave, more pure, more

truthful, and more united than those of other coun tries. "As to the church, how one who believes in being guided by the life of Christ can believe there ever was or could be a religious war is unimaginable. Yet what do we hear from most of the pulpits of the land ?" In the press we read that "we lead the world in civiliza tion; ours is an excellent government; we are fair in our dealings with foreign nations," and so on ad nau seam. The Government, too, is far from taking the stand it should concerning the standard of true patriot ism?a patriotism which should never excuse war, but should prepare for peace by stopping war preparations. "With the mothers of the world, as with no one else, lies

the future of peace and war!" * Were the Man of Galilee

living today, He would say, "Thou shalt not kill a for

eigner."

The Comrade oe Navarre. By Harriet Malone. Hob son. Philadelphia: the Griffith & Rowland Press. 280 pp. Price, $1,25.

This novel of the Huguenot period is written in a

quaint style, interweaving a sweet, pathetic romance with the story of the devotion of one gallant knight of

Henry of Navarre. There are three leading characters. The comrade of Navarre is the son of a massacred Hu

guenot leader, sworn always to uphold the Huguenot faith though it should demand the laying down of his own life. To this vow he was true, and we see his two dearest friends drop from the faith to which he is

pledged. His brother, a youth with early leanings to the Catholic faith, finally becomes a monk of great in fluence. Then there is the great king, Henry of Na

varre, who led the Huguenots through years of war, only to be convinced by this monk of the wickedness of

leading his subjects to death, even for a holy faith. After a long mental struggle, he saw that behind all creeds there is one great truth, and in giving up the faith which he had chosen for that which the majority in his kingdom demanded to bring peace, he was not

giving up his faith in God or selling his soul for a king dom.

The Great Evil. By Diana Agabeg Apcar. Yoko hama: The Japan Gazette Press. 1914. 114 pages.

Mrs. Apcar is an Armenian^ a clever and powerful writer, who has already issued several books and many pamphlets treating of the wrongs and outrages which her country has suffered. Her words come from the

heart, and constitute a burning arraignment of the

great powers which have allowed these wrongs to be per petrated. She speaks from the closest personal knowl

edge. Imperialism is the world's great evil. Three fourths of all the wars "have been fought out in the interests of some imperialism, and the remaining one fourth as resistance or opposition to the aggressiveness or yoke of some imperialism." . . . "Peace and

imperialism cannot live together in our world. Human

ity .. . must put imperialism on the scaffold be fore it can put peace on the throne."

BOOKLETS AND PAMPHLETS.

Non-Besistance. By Willard L. Sperry. 29 pages. Also, Christ, Our Peace. 21 pages. Boston: The Pilgrim Press.

The Pilgrim Press has just published two sermons recently delivered by Dr. Sperry in the Central Congregational Church, Boston. They are full of inspiration,, and ought to be read by all who are anxious to understand the position of those who believe non-resistance to be the only tenable doctrine that can be held by those opposed to war. The author calls to mind Garrison, one of the few consistent peace men; and also the example of the Society of Friends in Pennsylvania. The

only patriotism worthy of the name is that which takes its

inspiration from Christianity. We must be Christians first and Americans second, says Dr. Sperry, if we would serve our

country now.

After the War. By G. Lowes Dickinson. London: A. C. Fifield, 13 Clifford's Inn, E. C, 1915. 44 pages. Price, 6 pence, net.

Mr. Dickinson, of Cambridge, England, who represents the Union of Democratic Control, is the author of the bro

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