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The Sewickley Valley's Home-News Weekly
Vol.34.   No. 25.
SEWICKLEY, PA., FRIDAY, MAY 14, 1937
Price 5 Cents
"THE TWO MULES"
A FABLE FOR THE NATIONS
THE CHILDREN'S MESSAGE
"Boys and girls everywhere: we, boys
and girls of Wales, send you once again
our message of hope and good cheer.
"In a world in which there is so much
strife and so much suffering, we are
glad to think that, on this Goodwill Day,
greetings are being sent through the air
from children to children. And that over
the five continents and across the seven
seas youth calls to youth that it wants
to live for peace.
"We are glad, also, that in so many
countries foremost men and women, not
yielding to despair, are bidding people
in all lands rebuild the walls of peace.
Faith and firm resolve can do it. Let
us say to the whole world it must be
done.
"And on this day, and in this our
Coronation Year, we would dedicate ourselves with you all to the service of
mankind.
'' Science has made us neighbors. Let
Goodwill keep us friends."
THE  PEACE  CRUSADE
Goodwill Day will be observed next
Tuesday, May 18th, as in past years.
It is of special importance this year
because of the threatening situation in
Europe, the eager attempts by neutrality and by war-restriction legislation to
assure against our own country's being
drawn into another World War. A_nd it
gets additional emphasis as part of the
current nation-wide No-Foreign-War
Crusade inagurated last month, of which
Commander Richard E. Byrd of Little-
America fame is honorary chairman, in
which some 2,000 cities and towns in all
parts of the nation are participating in
an endeavor through education to foster
a strong public sentiment sufficient to
to keep us out of war in which we may
be under severe temptation to engage.
Sewiekley's own Committee on Education in the Ways of Peace is in full
sympathy with this movement and with
observance of Goodwill Day.
MORAL:
CO-OPERATION IS BETTER THAN CONFLICT
(A cartoon used by the National Peace Conference)
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The story of Goodwill Day
On May 18, 1809, a conference of
governments was held at The Hague, in
Holland. It was the first official conference ever hold with ho direct relation
to any war. Its chief achievement was
to establish Tho International Court of
Justice (the so-called Hague Tribunal)
through which nations may settle their
disputes without resort to arms. Frau
Selonka, a German woman of Munch,
has been given credit as first suggesting
that every year on this anniversary
thore should be hold a universal demonstration for world peace.
May 18th has been officially adopted
by such international organizations as
tho world's Goodwill Day. It brings, to
no people memories of defeat or humiliation in war. For many yoars it has
boon celebrated as an international
Peace Day, both in the East and in tho
West.
Tho Welsh Loaguo of Nations Union
has perhaps done most in dramatizing
Goodwill Day. Each year on May 18th
a worldwido wircloss mossago is broadcast by the children of Wales. Usually
this is sent out by the British Broadcasting Company during tho Children's
Hour in late afternoon. In othor countries the mossago is picked up and re-
broadcast, and often national programs
are  arranged in  reply to  the  Wolsh
message. In return, school children
from all over the world send their replies in forms of cablegrams, letters,
illuminated books, photographs, and
handmade gifts. Above is given the
text of the Wolsh message which will
be thus broadcast on this year's Goodwill Day, next Tuesday. And answers
in some form will be sent from Sewickley and other schools in this country.
This world can be a pleasant and safe
place to live in only if the peoples in it
can find some means of getting along
together peaceably. The spirit of friendship and mutual understanding must be
developed between nations, races and
classes. This must start with children
and thon continue through life. Children are naturally friendly; thoy enjoy
knowing how other children play, dress,
act and Sing. This international ex-
chango of greetings tends to mako them
realize that pooplo of other nations are
at heart much like our own, and with
such an understanding it will bo harder
to arouso mutual fear and hatred and
tho lack of oconomic consideration and
ncighborliness—tho lack which is often
tho prime cause of wars.
Among tho practical and effective
moans of Education in the Ways of
Peaco, suroly this interchange of friendly messages between the children of
tho world is ono promising tho best
long-range rosttlts for the future.
The National Peace Conference
"Why don't tho people working for
world justice and peace got together'?"
This question is being asked by an increasing number of people. Tho National
Peace Conference is intended as the
answer to this inquiry. Thirty-two
national organizations having as their
primary aim or as ono of thoir objects
the promotion of bettor international
relations are represented in tho Conference, through which may be secured
united action, and, when critical questions aviso, a concentration of efforts
of tho various agencies to supply the
facts upon whieh public opinion can
proceed, with avoidance of duplication
of effort. To what extent this unity can
be realized in future the work of tho
poaco groups remains to be seen. But
a start has been made.
For the past threo years tho members
of tho National Peaco Conference havo
been carrying on an experimental program of cooperation. During this period
the executives of tho various peaco
groups havo boon laying tho basis for a
moro pormanont form of united effort.
On Docomber 1G, 1036, this plan of permanent procedure was adopted.
Tho National Peace Co.uforei.co is not
anothor rjeaco organization. The Conference is the agency of tho member
bodios,   its   ntombors   tlio   designated
representatives, two each, of the organizations belonging to it. Its aim is not
to diminish any of their activities but
to unite tlieir voices, when they can bo
united, into coherent and articulated
force able to speak with weight and
authority for peace as questions affecting America's attitude in international
problems arise. Actions of the Conference are by majority vote of members
present and voting, and regarded as
the actions of the voting membors and
not as the actions of the affiliated organizations; they aro considered recommendations to the member organizations
Following are somo of tho activities
to be initiated by the Confevonco:
1. Preparing recommendations regarding program and policy for reference to member organizations.
2. Launching a nation-wide radio
program of peace education.
3. Sponsoring, on occasion, publie
mass meetings for a discussion of the
peaco aud war problem.
4. Issuing press releases and othev
publicity materials regarding the program Of tho Conference.
5. Preparing a master file of koy
persons in the United States known to
bo interested in tlio pooco movement.
The Conference has headquarters at
S West 40th Street, Now York, with
Walter W. Van Kirk as Director.
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