Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 14 April 1939 — Page 4

STATO, PASTORS IN WAR

Methodist Group Warns ‘We . .. Cannot Support You’ In Foreign Fields.

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[ Text of Roosevelt Pan-American Day Speech

WASHINGTON, April 14 (U. P.).—The text of Presi

dent Roosevelt's Pan-Ameri-

can Day address: | The American family of nations pay honor today to the oldest and most successful association of sove| ereign governments which exist in| ‘the world. Few of us realize that the Pan-| | American organization as we know it has now attained a longer history

wf the World War,” the letter said. ~Ne thought there were great ideals to modern history. But that for which we |

at stake.

and a greater catalog of achievements than any similar group known |

Justly we can be proud of it. With

Thought we were fighting was not even more right we can look to it

realized. The worla was not made safe for democracy. and we did not fight a war to end war, “We are convinced that these fdeals never can be achieved on the field of battle. The injustice of the Versailles treaty sowed the seeds of hatred which the world is now reaping. This injustice must be rectified before there can be peace in the world. .- “From all facts available. it would SOW appear that America was forced into the World War to save she loss of the money which Amer‘jean citizens and American institutions had invested and loaned to the Allied countries. For the Amerfcan people to have to spend more than 59 billion dollars in order to save the loss. to certain institu‘tions of little more than five bilJion dollars seems to us a rather Stupid business transaction. : Peace Leadership Urged : “If American business concerns 2re now making profit out of wars abroad. if they are lending their fmoney ta nations engaged in war, Rhey should be told that they are doing so at their own risk. and “that their profits will not be guarlanteed bv the blood of American wouth, nor will the American peoMle have heaped upon them another 30 billion dollars in taxes to se‘cure these profits for privileged individuals. + “Mr. President, we quote our lead‘ing commentators when we say that ithere is no voice for peace in the ‘world today. Just before the Munich *Conference your voice was raised in ra noble plea for peace. We gloried Wn that great utterance. Our plea ‘today is that you lead us in the will ‘to peace rather than the assent to swar, Can you not again call upon ‘the world for a consideration of a ipeaceful solution of the problems ‘facing the great ‘Have’ and ‘HaveNot’ nations? Would not a world leconomic conference now avoid the terrific results inevitable if war ‘tomes? : Communism Feared \ “A war in Europe can mean bus fone thing. When it is over, Germany, France, England. and Italy Xill be exhausted. perhaps crushed. Rifssian Communism will then be the dominating power in Europe. “Since we know these things, would it not be the part of wisdom for us to ‘stay out’ that we may be strong and able to preserve our democratic ideals in a day of world chads. Our churches, our influence, our all are with you in the support of American ideals and the preservation of our native land: our all is against sacrificing American boys and heaping debts upon American citizens through entrance inte a European war.” BEEKEEPERS TO MEET Times Special MT. VERNON, April 14—The annual meeting of the Posey County beékeepers will be held here April 21. James E. Starkey, Indiana Beekeepers Association secretary, will] lead discussions on “Care of Bees,” “Disease Control,” and “Manage-| ment Problems.”

as a symbol of great hope at a time when much of the world finds hope } dim and difficuit. Never was it more; [fitting to salute Pan-American Day than in the stormy present. For upward of half a century the republics of the Western world | have been working together to promote their common civilization un-| der a system of peace. That ven.) ture, launched so hopefully 50 years! ago. has succeeded: the American) family is today a great co-operative group facing a troubled world in

This is a view of the Pan-American Union from the rear dent Roosevelt addressed the Union governing board today.

Rajof the mere defense of our

Presi-

serenity and calm. which impends? Yes, I am con- “ | fident that we can.” “IDEAL PROTECTS US [ I stil have that confidence, Fag! is no JO eh forces . the Old World towards new catas- $ This success of the Western, 0" yah are hot prisoners of | Hemisphere is sometimes attributed fate, but only prisoners of their own to good fortune. I do not share minds. They have within themthat view. There are not wanting Selves the power to become free at

[any moment, here all of the usual rivalries, all a

of the normal human desires for, power and expansion, all of the commercial problems. The Americas are sufficiently rich to have been themselves the object of de-

CO-OPERATION PRAISED

Only a few days ago the head of

sire on the part of overseas govern- a great nation referred to his coun-|

ments; our traditions in history are try as a “prisoner” of the Mediteras deeply BT old world ranean. A little later. another chief as are those of Eu x , It was hot accident that pre. Of stars, on learning that a neighvented South America, and our own bor country had agreed to defend West, from sharing the fate of other the independence of another neighgreat areas of the world in the bor, characterized that agreement Nineteenth Century. We have here 25 # “threat” and an “encircle

i t.” Yet there is no such thing diversities of race, of language, of Ment. X 8 custom. of natural resources, and 2S encircling, or threatening, or im-

of intellectual forces at least os |PhisORIng ori Fearcral malin J» great as those which prevailed in Other peaceful nations, We have Europe. reason to know this in our own exWhat was it that has protected Perience. us from the tragic involvements! For instance, on the occasion of a which are making the old world a Visit to the neighboring dominion new cockpit of old struggles? The Of Canada last summer, I stated

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‘this hemisphree are taken as guar {antees, not of war but of peace! [for the simple reason that no nation jon this hemisphere has any will to

|aggression, or any desire to estab. lish dominance or mautery. Equally, | because we are interdependent, and | [because we know it, no American ‘nation seeks to deny any neighbor ‘access to the economic and other re[sources which it must have to live | lin prosperity. | | In these circumstances dreams of ‘conquest appear to us as ridiculous ‘as they are criminal. Pledges de/signed to prevent aggression, ace! | companied by the open doors of trade and intercourse, and bound | together by common will to co-op-| erate peacefully, make warfare be[tween us as outworn and useless las the weapons of the stone age. | We may proudly boast that we have begun to realize in Pan-American relations what civilization in ine [tercourse between countries really means. | If that process can be successful there, is it too much to hope that |a similar intellectual and spiritual

g World, that our customs and our! i actions are necessarily involved with |

answer is easily found. A new, and powerful ideal—that of the community of nations—sprang up at the same time that the Americas became free and independent. It was nurtured by statesmen, thinkers and plain people for decades. Gradually it brought together the Pan-Ameri-can group of governments; today it hag fused the thinking of the peoples, and the desires of their responsible representatives toward a common objective,

RECALLS 1936 SPEECH

The result of this thinking has been to shape a typically American! institution. This is the Pan-Amer-ican ‘group, which works in open conference, by open agreement. We hold our conferences not as a result of wars, but as the result of our will to peace. Elsewhere in the world, to hold! conferences such as ours, which meet every five vears, it is necessary to fight a major war, until exhaustion or defeat at length brings! governments together to reconstruct their shattered fabrics. Greeting a conference at Buenos!

| Afres in 1836, I took occasion to say:

“The madness of a great war in another part of the world would affect us and threaten our good in a! hundred ways. And the economic! collapse of any nation or nations: must of necessity harm our own | prosperity. Can we, the republics of the New World, help the Old World to avert the catastrophe

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lin defending Canada were she ever We really have to assume that naattacked from overseas. Again at|tions can find no better methods

‘Lima, in December. the 21 American | Of realizing their destinies than ‘nations joined in a declaration that those Which were used by the huns they would co-ordinate their com. ®"d vandals fifteen hundred years

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