Evening Star Newspaper, May 11, 1940, Page 5

Plans Made to Keep Commerce Moving; Sailings Delayed B the Associated Press, NEW YORK, May 11.—Emergency eommittees to handle Netherlands shipping, financial and press affairs in this country will be set up im- mediately, Jan Schuurman, consul general in New York, announced today. Emil Zimmerman, trade commis- sioner for the Netherlands Indies, eo-operating with Schuurman in plans to keep their country’s com- merce moving, said trade with their Pacific possessions “was continuing &s usual.” Schuurman said 141 persons, in- cluding & dozen women, have ap- peared at his office to volunteer their services in the Netherlands cause. Lacking instructions from his government, the consul gen- eral listed their names against pos- sible future need. Agents for Netherlands and Bel- glan steamship lines here withheld information concerning the move- ments of their ships. At the office of the Holland-America Line, oper- ators of the largest fleet between New York and Holland, an official stated: “We are a belligerent now, and we cannot talk about what our ships are doing.” Sailings of the Netherlands liners Colombia and Castor, scheduled for yesterday, were apparently canceled and both ships remained in port today. A spokesman for the British Min- {stry of Shipping said Britain likely would adopt the attitude toward Bel- gian and Netherlands shipping she has taken toward Norwegian ships— “to keep them and their operating profits from reaching Germany.” Red Cross Names Chiefs 0f D. C. Disaster Groups Leaders of the District of Colum- | bia Chapter (American Red Cross) | Disaster Preparedness Committee | and subcommittees were appointed yesterday. Brig. Gen. Frank R. Keefer, chap- ter chairman, was designated com- ! mittee chairman, and Melvin C Hazen, president of the Board of District Commissioners, was named honorary chairman. Vice chairmea are V. B. Deyber and Walter David- son. Otto S. Lund was appointed executive officer and Mrs. M. H. Robbins purchasing officer. Subcommittee leaders for the work, which Gen. Keefer said in- cludes emergency action as well as rehabilitation in the event of local disaster, are: - Rescue—Chairman, Dr. A. M. MacDonald; vice chairman, Robert | Duncan. Food—Chairman, Mrs. William S. Bpencer; vice chairman, Miss D. C,‘i Dennison. | Registration and Information— Chairman, Mrs. Carlos D. Bell; vice chairman, Mrs. Violet T. Zacarin. Medical Aid—Chairman, Dr. Wil- Uam Earl Clark; vice chairmen, Dr. Joseph S, Wall, Dr. D. F. Lynch and Miss Mary L. Hawthorne. Clothing—Chairman, Mrs. J. H. Fishback; vice chairman, Miss Grace 8. Wright. Funds and Publicity—Chairman, C. H. Doing; vice chairman, Earl A. Nash. Shelter—Chairman, Gen. C. L. Corbin; vice chairman, Col. C. A. Hardigg. | Transportation and Communica- | tion—Chairman, E. G. Bliss; vice | chairmen, Oscar Coolican and Roy C. Corderman. | Rehabilitation—Chairman, Walter | Davidson; vice chairman, Miss Mabel | ‘T. Boardman. | Charles E. Jackson Heads | South Carolina Society Charles E. Jackson, acting com- | missioner of fisheries and former secretary to Senator Smith of South Carolina, last night was elected president of the South Carolina | State Society at the group’s annual meeting in the Shoreham Hotel. Other officers elected included J. Austin Latimer, first vice president; Ben P. Fishburne, second vice presi- dent; James A. Hoyt, third vice president; Miss Joan Krentzin, sec- retary; Warren R. Clardy, treas- urer; V. Ratterree, assistant treas- urer; Chris Chappell, sergeant at arms, and Miss Sarah Marcum, historian. Harry Slattery, administrator of | the Rural Electrification Adminis- tration, was named chairman of the Board of Governors. Col. J. Mon- roe Johnson, Assistant Secretary of Commerce, was appointed vice chairman. The society elected Mary Ellen Bush, 19-year-old employe at the Federal Housing Administration, as May Day queen. Miss Bush, who lives with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. Julian Bush, at 3815 North Upland street, Arlington, Va., “ruled” at the dance which fol- lowed elections. Mother-Daughter Dinner Served by Fathers + Usual methods of serving meals were reversed last night when fath- ers donned white coats and served the annual mother-daughter dinner, under auspices of the Concordians, in Concordia Evangelical Lutheran Church. The dinner is held each year as a preliminary to observance of Mother’s Day. Capt. Rhoda Milliken, head of the Women's Bureau here, principal speaker at the affair, urged con- tinued co-operation by the churches to improve social conditions in this city. A message in behalf of the mothers was delivered by Mrs. Rudolph W. Santelmann and Miss Marie Strobel spoke for the daugh- ers. Mrs. Ernest W. Brown, wife of the superintendent of the Metro- politan Police, sang. Mrs. Harry Meiners was toastmistress, Alumni to Meet ‘The Washington Branch of the University of Buffalo Alumni Asso- ciation will hold its spring meeting ‘Tuesday at 7 p.m. at Highlands Res- taurant. Honor guest will be Dean A. Bertram Lemon_of the school of pharmacy, who will discuss the new general alumni structure, Mrs. James Redding is handling arrangements. THE EVENING Text of Roosevelt Speech President Tells Scientific Congress He Is ~Thankful That Invasion Shocks Americas The eddress of President Roosevelt Dbefore the eighth American Scientific Congress last night follows: ' Fellow servants of the Amer- {cas: All of the men and women of this Pan- American Scientific Congress have come here tonight with heavy hearts. During the past few years we have seen event follow event, each and every one of them a shock to our hopes for the peaceful devel- opment of modern civilization. This very day three more inde- pendent nations have been cruel- ly invaded by force of arms. In some human affairs the mind of man grows accustomed to unusual actions if they are oft repeated. That is not so in the world happenings of today— and I am proud that it is not so. T am glad that we are shocked and angered by the tragic news from Belgium and The Nether- lands and Luxembourg. Challenge to Civilization Is Seen in Arms. The overwhelmingly greater part of the population of the world abhors conquest and war and bloodshed—prays that the hand of neighbor shall not be lifted against neighbor. The whole world has seen attack fol- low threat on so many occasions and in so many places during these later years. We have come, therefore, to the reluctant con- clusion that a continuance of these processes of arms presents & definite challenge to the con- tinuation of the type of civiliza- tion to which all of us in the three America have been accus- tomed. I use this Pan-American Scientific Congress as one of many similar {llustrations. It is no accident that this meeting takes place in the New World. In fact, this hemisphere is now almost the only part of the earth in which such a gathering can take place. Elsewhere war or politics has compelied teachers and scholars to leave their great calling and to become agents of destruction. We, and most people in the world, believe in a civilization of construction and not of de- struction. We, and most people in the world, belleve that men and women have an inherent right to hew out the patterns of their own individual lives, just so long as. they as individuals do not harm their fellow beings. We call this by many synony- mous terms—individual liberty, civil liberty, democracy. Truth Grows for Well-Being Of Our Fellow Men. Until now we permit ourselves by common consent to search for truth, to teach the truth as we see it—and by learning a little here and a little there, and teaching a little here and a little there to allow the normal proc- esses of truth to keep growing for the well-being of our fellow men. In our search and in our teaching we are a part of a great adventure—an exciting adven- ture—which gives to us a larger satisfaction even than did the adventure of settling the Amer- icas give to our founding fathers. We feel that we are building human progress by conquering disease and poverty and discom- fort, and by improving science and culture, removing one by one STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, SATURDAY, MAY 11, 1940. the cruelty, the crudity and the barbarism of less civilized eras. . In eontrast, in other parts of the world, teachers and scholars known might not suit the designs of their masters. Too often they are not allowed to teach the truth as they see it, for truth might make men free. They become objects of suspicion if they speak openly, if they show an interest in new truth, for their very tongues and minds are supposed to be modilized for other ends. This has not happened in the New World. God willing, it shall not happen in the New World. At the Pan-American Con- ference at Buenos Aires, and again at Lima, we discussed a dim and unpleasant possibility. We feared that othe) continents might become 50 involved in wars brought on by the school of de- struction that the Americas ht have to become the guardian of Western culture, the protector of Christian civilization. Only a Fear Then, But & Fact Now. In those days it was merely a fear. Today the fear has become a fact. The inheritance which we had hoped to share with every nation in the world is, for the moment, left largely in our keeping; and it is our compelling duty to guard and enrich that legacy, to pre- serve it for a world which must be reborn from the ashes of the present disaster. 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Allows valuation up té $50. $1 Minimum Charge—on scarfs, muffs and other small fur or furdrimmed pieces. Allows valuation up to $33. , 7 cent weeks too many citizens of the American’ Republics believed themselves wholly sa 8i= cally, and econ lly and soci- ally—from the impact of the at- tacks on civilization which are in progress elsewhere, Perhaps this alse teaching of geography—! thought that & distance of several thousand miles from a war-torn Europe gave to us scme form of mystic immunity which could never be violated. ‘Yet, speaking in terms of time- tables, in terms of the moving of men and guns and planes and bombs, every acre—every hectare —of the Americas from the Arctic to the Antarctic is closer to the homes of modern conquerors and the scenes of attack in Europe than was the case ir historic ef- forts to dominate the world in by-gone centuries. From the point of view of conquests, it is & shorter distance from the center of Europe to Santiago de Chile than it was for the chariots of Alexander to roll from Macedonia to Persia. In modern terms it is a shorter distance from Europe to San Francisco than it was for the ships and legions of Caesar to move from Rome to Spain or Britain. Today it is four or five hours from the continent of Africa to the continent of South tions between all nations through the spirit of co-operation and the interchange of knowledge. What has come about has been use. and are using, your inven- tions of peace in a wholly differ- ent .cause—those who seek to dominate hundreds of millions of people in vast continental areas —those who, if successful in that aim will, we know down in our hearts, enlarge their wild dream to encompass every human being and every mile of the earth’s surface. ‘The great achievements - of science and even of art can be used to destroy as well as create; permanent or safe if it is solved for us alone? That, it seems to me, is the most immediate issue that the Americas face. Can we continue our peaceful construction if all the other continents embrace by prefer- ence or by compulsion s wholly different principle of life? No, I think not. 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