The Survey, volume 30, number 7, May 17, 1913Various
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The Survey, volume 30, number 7, May 17, 1913
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Rev. Jenkin Lloyd Jones discussed the psychology of heroism. The
writer recalls riding with Mr. Jones in Washington in 1909, when we
were corralling speakers for the Chicago congress. Mr. Jones burst
out: “I want some one to discuss the psychology of war. There will
be plenty of discussion of international law and of the economic,
moral and educational aspects of the peace problem.” Then and there
the subject of Armaments as Irritants was assigned to the veteran
social worker and militant pulpiteer. And his presentation of this
subject before the Chicago congress (using the homely barnyard figure
of de-horning cattle) was one of the most delightful and valuable
contributions to that congress. At St. Louis he followed up this
psychological investigation with his survey of heroisms. So human,
so true to life, so morally prophetic, so shot through and through
with first hand information gained in four years of service in the
Civil War, so illumined with poetry and ripe literary culture was
this address, that again and again the speaker was forced to bow in
response to the prolonged applause.
There were not lacking men who “spoke by the book,” men who had
participated in the Hague Conferences, senators and representatives,
authors of books on international problems—men like former
Vice-President Fairbanks, Dr. James Brown Scott, Senator Burton
(president of the American Peace Society), Congressman Bartholdt
(president of the congress), Congressman Ainey, Dr. Benjamin F.
Trueblood (for over a score of years secretary of the American Peace
Society), Prof. Paul S. Reinsch, Prof. W. I. Hull, Dean W. P. Rogers;
the United States commissioner of education, Dr. Claxton; college
presidents like David Starr Jordan, C. F. Thwing, S. C. Mitchell, A.
Ross Hill, Laura Drake Gill, Frank L. McVey, Booker T. Washington,
and others; business men like Andrew Carnegie, Leroy A. Goddard, J.
G. Schmidlapp and Eugene Levering; the secretaries and directors
of various peace offices from Bunker Hill to the Golden Gate; the
official head of the General Federation of Women’s Clubs, Mrs.
Pennypacker, and her predecessor, Mrs. Phillip N. Moore, under whose
administration was created the peace department of the women’s clubs.
British America was represented by such distinguished men as Hon.
Benjamin Russell, justice of the Supreme Court of Nova Scotia, and
John Lewis, editor of the _Toronto Star_.
In connection with the congress inter-collegiate oratorical contests
were conducted, the coming Hundred Years of Peace Celebration
described, special church services held, and social courtesies
bestowed through receptions and dinners.
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