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NATURE OF THE CENTENNIAL CELEBRATIONSource: Advocate of Peace through Justice, Vol. 90, No. 1 (January, 1928), pp. 5-6Published by: World Affairs InstituteStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/20661773 .
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ADVOCATE OF PEACE
VOLUME January,1928 NUMBER 90 1
NATURE OF THE CENTEN NIAL CELEBRATION
T HE spirit of the celebration of the one-hundredth anniversary of the
American Peace Society, May 7-11 next,
clearly appears in the invitation which
the Society is preparing to extend to all
of its members. That invitation will urge that the members of the American Peace
Society, after carefullest consideration, in conference assembled, lay before the
Board of Directors their best views as
to the aims and methods of the Society, now and for the immediate future. It is in this spirit that the program of the com
ing celebration is being developed. That proper opportunity may be offered
and results achieved, it is now clear that the Conference will have to consist of three
major divisions, having to do with the
general public, with special Commissions, and with the one hundredth annual meet
ing of the Board of Directors of the Amer
ican Peace Society. The public will be admitted to the gen
eral sessions as far as the seating capacity permits.
The Commissions will be six in number, each with conferences dealing with the fol
lowing aspects of human endeavor, repre
senting a rather inclusive transection of
public opinion: First, there will be a
series of Commission Conferences, devoted to the international implications of In
dustry, to which delegates will be invited from trade bodies, manufacturers, labor
groups, bankers' associations, and kindred
organizations. Second, another on Inter
national Justice, to which delegates will be invited from the legislative, the execu
tive, and judicial departments of the
government, from bar associations, inter
national law societies, teachers of inter
national law, and the like. Third, another on Methods of Settling International Dis
putes -
past, present, and future - to
which delegates will be invited from peace and patriotic organizations. Fourth, an
other on Education, to which delegates will be invited from schools, colleges, uni
versities, learned societies, and the press.
Fifth, another on Religion, to which dele
gates will be invited from the churches
and other religious groups. Sixth, an
other on Social Agencies, with delegates from the various groups of social workers, such as specialize in the social sciences, the American Association of Social Workers, charities, libraries, and parent-teachers' associations. Interest already shown in the coming Centennial clearly indicates that the invitation from the Centennial Celebration Committee will be generously accepted from a large number of these bodies.
There will be the annual meeting, through a number of sessions, of the Board of Directors of the American Peace
Society. At this neeting the Board will receive the annual reports of the officers, the recommendations of the conference, and take such action upon these reports, recommendations, or other matters as the
Board may see fit. The Board of Di
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6 ADVOCATE OF PEACE January
rectors, under the Society's Constitution, is the only body capable of speaking for
the American Peace Society. Official delegates shall be the duly ac
credited members of the American Peace
Society. As such they will have the
privilege of the floor and the right to vote
in the commissions and in the general sessions.
Associate delegates will have the privi lege of attending the commissions and the
general sessions and, where agreeable to
the official delegates, of participating in
the discussions.
All delegates, official or associate, will have the right to reserved seats in all ses
sions of the conference, commission or
general.
It has already been found necessary to
adopt the plan of sending out tickets, which the various delegates will have to
exchange for reserved seats at all sessions to be held in the Public Auditorium. Of
course, all members of the American Peace Society will be given an oppor tunity to obtain, as official delegates, re served seats before the invitations go out to the general public. Arrangements, un
der the rules of the railroads, have been made for a special passenger rate of one and one-half fare for the round trip to Cleveland for all delegates. In order that these efforts to meet the wishes of the
members of the Society may be effective, it will be necessary, however, that all pros pective delegates notify the officers, with
headquarters at the Hotel Cleveland, Cleveland, Ohio, of their plans at the earliest possible moment, certainly not later than March 1st next. After that date it is probable that all members of the
Society will be on the same basis as non members, so far as seating privileges and other rights are concerned. In the mean
time, the officials are reserving the largest possible block of seats for the members of the Society.
The management is pleased to announce
that Dr. James Brown Scott, former so
licitor of our Department of State and former President of the Institute of In
ternational Law, well-known authority on
international matters, has accepted the
chairmanship of the Program Committee.
Thus, it will appear, the Cleveland cele bration in honor of the one-hundredth
anniversary of the American Peace So
ciety is to be an event of importance. It
is the first opportunity offered since the war for the members and other friends of
the American Peace Society to meet, to
discuss, and to aid the Society in its de
sire to profit by counsel, to revise, to en
large, and to improve its service as an
effective agency for the promotion of a
world order, better in the coming century than has been possible through the hun dred years now past.
THE CELEBRATION IN MAINE
PEOPLE
interested in the American Peace Society will not need to be re
minded that the Legislature of the State of Maine unanimously voted last March a
joint resolution heartily endorsing the efforts of the American Peace Society to recall and honor the memory and services of William Ladd, the founder of this So
ciety. In this resolution the Legislature requested the Governor of the State to
express to the American Peace Society the appreciation of the people of Maine for its purpose thus to honor its former
illustrious citizen, and to do what he may consider lawfully proper to aid such ef forts. The resolution also requested the Governor to appoint a committee to aid in such a commemoration, and provided that the American Peace Society be in vited to hold its Centennial exercises in whole or in part in the State of Maine; and, finally, that the resolution itself be
given the widest publicity, "to the end
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