"Memoir of William Ladd," Biographies of Napoleon, Cobden, Palmerston, Gladstone, and others, Gibbons' "History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire," Molesworth's "History of England," Richardson's " Messages and Papers of the Presidents," Foster's "American Diplomacy in the Orient," and "A Century of American Diplomacy." Massachusetts Federation of Women's Ciubs For International Peace The largest public meeting in Boston held in the interests of peace and arbitration since the International Peace Congress in 1904, was that of February 11, 1913, in Tremont Temple, under the auspices of the State Federation of Women's Clubs. Mrs. Henry Coolidge Mulligan, President of the Federation, opened the meeting. Hon. Samuel W. McCall presided, and made an introductory address. Dr. Charles R. Brown, Dean of the Yale Divinity School, Dr. George H. Blakeslee, Professor of History at Clark University, and Hon. Joseph Walker, Ex-Speaker of the Massachusetts House of Representatives, made addresses. All the speakers gave their services free. Organ voluntaries and singing by the Adelphi Quartette added much to the occasion. The musicians also volunteered their services. Over fifteen hundred persons were present. Stereopticon Lecture Dr. Tryon will give his stereopticon lecture, Britain and America in Their Hundred Years of Peace," before the Massachusetts Peace Society at the Twentieth Century Club Rooms, 3 Joy Street, on Thursday, April 3, at three o'clock. The lecture will be followed by a reception and afternoon tea. Members are invited to bring friends. National Peace Congress in St. Louis, Missouri The Fourth American Peace Congress will be held at St. Louis, Missouri, May 1, 2, 3, 1913, in connection with the dedication of the Jefferson Memorial. Delegates will be present from peace societies and various business, civic, and educational organizations and institutions from all parts of the United States. The Congress will include in its scope representatives of every nation in South and Central America. About four thousand delegates are expected to attend. The Business Men's League of St. Louis, which invited the American Peace Society to meet there, will take an active part in promoting the convention. Hon. Richard Bartholdt, President of the American group of the Interparliamentary Union and a director of the American Peace Society, will preside. The annual business meeting of the American Peace Society will be held on one of the days of the congress. Massachusetts has always had a large representation at our National Peace Congresses. All members of the Massachusetts Peace Society who can go to St. Louis for the congress this year are urged to write to the Secretary for details. Lake Mohonk Conferences on International Arbitration The Lake Mohonk Conference on International Arbitration will be held May 14-16. It is a pleasure to report that these invaluable conferences, founded by the late Albert K. Smiley, are going on under the direction of Daniel Smiley. Peace Sunday Sunday, May 18, the anniversary of the meeting of the First Hague Conference, will be observed as Peace Sunday. It is hoped that on that day every clergyman in the United States will preach on some topic relating to international justice and peace. An especially prepared address will be published by the Massachusetts Peace Society which can be read in churches and religious societies if desired. This address and other helpful literature will be furnished on application to the office. All members of the Massachusetts Peace Society are invited to attend a special service at Trinity Church at four o'clock in the afternoon. The names of the speakers will be announced later. Peace Day in the Schools Members of the Massachusetts Peace Society are urged to see that an appropriate observance of Peace Day is held in the schools of their respective towns and cities. For information as to exercises in the public schools in connection with the observance of Peace Day, address the American School Peace League, 405 Marlboro Street, Boston. Annual Meeting and Dinner The annual meeting of the Massachusetts Peace Society will be held at the Twentieth Century Club Rooms on Thursday, May 22, at three o'clock in the afternoon. There will be a dinner with speeches at six o'clock. Other events are planned, and will be announced from time to time. Parlor meetings may be arranged at any time by the Secretary, or by Mrs. Mead, Chairman of the Parlor Meetings Committee. Conferences at the Hague this Year Both the Interparliamentary Union and the International Peace Congress will meet at the Hague this year, probably in September, when the new Palace of Peace will be completed and ready for use. It is hoped that a large delegation of Americans will be present, and that the Massachusetts Peace Society will be represented by a good-sized delegation. The office would be glad to hear from members who intend to be abroad this summer, and who might attend the Congress at The Hague. Information as to dates and details will be received later in the spring. MEMBERSHIP AND EXTENSION The Massachusetts Peace Society began with an enrollment of thirty-seven members and in one year raised that number to nearly a thousand names. About one-half of this membership has come from the list of the American Peace Society members in Massachusetts, who have been transferred to the State Society; and the other half is constituted of entirely new members. The Chairman of the Committee on Membership has sent circulars of invitation to many representative people in every part of the Commonwealth. There are still in Massachusetts about three hundred direct members of the American Peace Society who have not been transferred to the State Branch, but it is hoped that all of these will be added before the completion of our second year. The total Massachusetts membership on the national rolls is about thirteen hundred- the largest of any State in the Union. Relation to the American Peace Society It should be understood that everybody who joins the Massachusetts Peace Society becomes also a member of the American Peace Society. That society is now being federated by States through its central office, Washington, D. C. As fast as possible, the direct members who joined under the old plan are being transferred to branch membership. Hence it is the earnest desire of the Directors of the Massachusetts Peace Society that all direct members of the national society in Massachusetts will as soon as possible become transferred. Transfer may be effected by simply writing a request to the Secretary of the Massachusetts Peace Society. With every five hundred members, a State society is entitled to a director on the National Board. The Massachusetts Peace Society would soon have three directors on that board, if all the transfers could be completed. The Advocate of Peace. Every member of the Massachusetts Peace Society and of all other branches of the American Peace Society receives the "Advocate of Peace." This monthly journal of the peace movement contains editorials, special articles, and addresses on topics of international interest, and also gives an account each month of the advance of the peace movement in different States of the Union. Extension by Local Branches and Affiliated The Massachusetts Peace Society invites its members and all other persons who desire to extend the peace movement to open correspondence with the Secretary, Dr. Tryon, as to the formation of local branch societies and the affiliation of associations having kindred aims. The organization of societies in cities and towns will be an important feature of the Society's work in the year 1913. The New England Department The American Peace Society is being organized not only by States, but by departments. The Director of the New England Department is Dr. James L. Tryon, whose office is in the same building as the headquarters of the Massachusetts Peace Society, 31 Beacon Street, Boston. This department comprises all the peace societies that are affiliated with the American Peace Society in the New England States. The Massachusetts Peace Society co-operates with this department; besides sharing its office with the Director, it has actively assisted him in organizing new State societies in Maine, New Hampshire, and Vermont, and in federating with the American Peace Society, the historic Rhode Island Peace Society whose beginning dates back to 1818. The Connecticut Peace Society was organized and became a branch of the National Society before the New England department was created. Other Departments of the American Peace Society The Massachusetts Peace Society not only co-operates with the New England Department, to which it is closely related, but with the other departments that within the past two years have been created by the American Peace Society. These are the departments of New York and New Jersey, Professor Samuel T. Dutton, Director, Columbia University, New York City; the Central-West Department, Charles E. Beals, Director, 30 North LaSalle Street, Chicago, Illinois; South Atlantic States Department, J. J. Hall, Director, 1201 Empire Building, Atlanta, Georgia; Pacific Coast Department, Robert C. Root, Director, O. T. Johnson Building, Los Angeles, California. New departments are contemplated by the American Peace Society, which will be organized in the near future. Invitation to Membership The Massachusetts Peace Society invites to its membership all who believe that international differences, when not adjustable by diplomacy, should be settled by arbitration or by judicial procedure. Fees The fee for Annual Membership is one dollar. Contributing Membership, two dollars; Sustaining Membership, five dollars yearly. Life Memberships are twenty-five dollars. Legacies The Secretary or the President will be glad to correspond with persons who desire details necessary for the making of legacies to the Society. Contributions It is hoped that every one will co-operate in extending the influence of the society, whether by contributions of any amount (from one dollar upwards), by quiet personal influence, or by active work. The workers are few in view of the enormous work to be done. The great work of all peace societies is educational; in other words, to put before the people the possibility and duty of supplanting the war system by the law system. The need of money for such a propaganda is great, and we earnestly appeal to all who believe in the cause to contribute large or small sums. Ten thousand dollars a year is needed. to carry on the work already contemplated by the Massachusetts Peace Society. |
