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A WORTHY CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION ASSUREDSource: Advocate of Peace through Justice, Vol. 89, No. 8 (August, 1927), p. 453Published by: World Affairs InstituteStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/20661666 .

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ADVOCATE OF PEACE

VOLUME August, 1927 NUMBER 89 8

A WORTHY CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION ASSURED

pHE city of Cleveland, Ohio, will be the place where the American Peace

Society will celebrate its one-hundredth

anniversary early in May, 1928. Cleve

land is the home of its President, Theo

dore E. Burton. Leading citizens have

underwritten the event handsomely. The only problem now is to stage a

conference worthy of the occasion. Both

Mr. Burton and the Secretary leave Au

gust 5 for Europe with the intention of

enlisting the interest of leading Europeans and of getting statesmen and publicists from abroad to speak at the conference.

Governor Brewster, of Maine, an

nounces that that State is planning a

celebration in honor of the one-hundreth

anniversary of the American Peace So

ciety and its founder, William Ladd. Those who follow the work of this

Society will recall that the Legislature of

Maine passed, during the month of

March, a joint resolution calling attention

to the fact that William Ladd, known in

this country and abroad as The Apostle of Peace, did his major work for peace be

tween nations while living for nearly

thirty years in Minot, in the State of

Maine. The resolution went on to re

quest that the Governor of the State co

operate with the American Peace Society, and that he appoint a committee to be made up of the presidents of Bowdoin,

Colby, and Bates colleges, the president of the University of Maine, the Commis

sioner of Education, and such others as he

may deem wise, to aid in such a com memoration. Pursuant to this resolution, the Governor has extended, through Dr.

Augustus A. Thomas, State Commissioner of Education, a very cordial invitation to the American Peace Society to hold a cele bration in honor of William Ladd, in Maine. There is no doubt that the people of Maine, like those of the city of Cleve

land, will bring energy, intelligence, and devotion to the enterprise.

It is already clear that the one-hun dredth anniversary of the American Peace

Society is to be an event of international

importance.

RELATION OF SEA POWER TO THE PEACE OF THE WORLD

T

HE ADVOCATE OF PEACE accepts as a

fundamental principle that the regu lation of sea power in the interest of inter national peace can best be promoted only by first regulating the policies of States. It has not been our purpose, however, to embarrass in any way the more direct at

tempts to limit the power of fighting craft. President Coolidge was undoubtedly

right when, in his message to Congress February 10, he pointed out that competi tive armaments constitute one of the most

dangerous of contributing causes of inter national suspicion and discord, calculated

eventually to lead to war. The Washing ton conference of 1921 grew out of that fact. Since the Washington conference,

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