PROF. BALCH AT POLITY CLUB

Professor Emily Greene Balch, of Wellesley, and Miss Chrystal Eastman were the speakers at a meeting of the International Polity Club in Phillips Brooks House last evening. Professor Balch spoke of the attitude of the warring nations towards the establishment of universal peace. She emphasized the point that the Ford peace party, which provoked the ridicule of the entire world, nevertheless accomplished valuable results.

"People in Europe," she said, "believe that we in the United States desire the war to continue, because we are prospering from it. The peace-ship made the men in the trenches realize that there are many of us here anxious to secure immediate peace through mediation. The project was also responsible for the establishment of a Neutral Conference." Professor Balch stated that an over-whelming victory for either side in the present war would accomplish nothing. "The real fight is not between the Triple Entente and the Central Powers. It is the struggle of two opposing forces, the militaristic and non-militaristic, in which each belligerent country is internally involved. This fight is going on in Germany, in France, in England and also in the United States. Compromise alone, and not victory, will insure future security."

Miss Eastman told of the vicious nature of the preparedness movement in this country. "It is dangerous to our democracy," were her words, "and is contrary to all the hopes of modern civilization."