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WHY NOT INVEST IN PEACE?Source: Advocate of Peace through Justice, Vol. 88, No. 7 (JULY, 1926), p. 389Published by: World Affairs InstituteStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/20661309 .

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ADVOCATE OF PEACE

V0L E JULY, 1926 NUM7BER

WHY NOT INVEST IN PEACE ?

MEN

and women everywhere stand

anxious to invest in the cause of

peace between nations. They hesitate be cause they are not sure how to go about

it. Some rest their hopes wholly upon the

army and navy, some upon the church, some upon the schools, some upon this or

that program specially designed to pro mote peace, some upon nothing at all.

Why not invest in the American Peace

Society? It works permanently and pro

fessionally at the business. It has been

working since 1828. It has been sup

ported by men and women, some of them

of world fame, who now are passed from

earth. New men and women are needed to fill in the vacant ranks. The opportu nities for service are limitless.

The immediate need of the American Peace Society, expressed in terms of dol

lars and cents, is an endowment of

$500,000. This would assure the Society a permanent home, a permanent office

force, a permanently developing magazine, a permanently growing library, a perma nent ^information bureau, something of a

publishing department and a developing extension of its field work. Any one of

these can be endowed separately, or they can be endowed together. Endowed they must be, separately or together, by 1928.

The work of raising this endowment

ought not to require any professional

"campaign," with its inevitable waste of

strength and money. If the friends of

this Society will refresh their memories

with the sacred labors of the martyrs who

gave their last full measure of devotion that the purposes of the American Peace

Society might prevail, if they would catch even a little something of their faith, the

matter of money would cease to impede this sane, steady, increasingly effective work in the interests of a governed world.

At least every member of the American Peace Society may well pause and ask, why not invest in peace? The future of the Society is in the hands of its friends.

IT IS NO TIME TO SCOFF

WHILE

thousands of women were

walking from all parts of England on to London, there in Hyde Park to voice their opposition to war, the World Alliance for Friendship Through the Churches was

holding a "speakers' conference" in Chi

cago in the interest of a greater unity among the peace ^workers of America.

This conference in Chicago, lasting through two days, showed again the abid

ing faith that the war system can be over

thrown, that the duty to do it is imminent. Plans were laid for an international good will conference to be held in Pittsburgh November 10, 11 and 12.

It was agreed that forces for peace are

growing; that churches have a "searching

opportunity" now to help establish world

peace. The promotion of international

peace is a "supremely important function of citizenship and statesmanship."

Immediate and specific measures for

peace must be supplemented and safe

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