"PEACE DELUSIVE UNLESS MILITARISM IS DESTROYED"

Probability and grave danger of another German peace drive were emphasized by President Lowell yesterday in his address at the opening session of the Convention of the League to Enforce Peace, in Philadelphia.

"It is not at all improbable that with in a few weeks Germany may propose to make peace on terms that appear on their face reasonable and moderate. Such an offer might well beguile the Allies into a delusive peace. The peace would be delusive for unless the principle of militarism is destroyed, the promises would be kept no better than those broken in the past. Autonomy of other races would mean their organization for the strengthening of Germany; until she had control of the resources of a population of 200,000,000 for her next war. Such a settlement would be a mere truce pending another strife.

"If the upshot of this war is inconclusive the whole world will be preparing for another. During any temporary truce men of science in all countries will devote much of their thought to making engines more destructive and more deadly for the next struggle which will be well nigh a war of extermination.

Must Establish Permanent Peace.

"Civilization as we know it has reached a point where it must preclude war or perish by war and war can be precluded only by a conquest of the world by a single power, or by an organization of many nations to prevent its recurrence.

"The principle of predatory militarism cannot be done away unless mankind has the intelligence, the magnanimity and the determination so to organize itself that justice shall take the place of violence, and that the predatory state shall be restrained, by force if need boy from a wanton resort to arms. No one nation can do this, nor can it be done if the United States stands aloof. The time has come to take part in a League of Nations to maintain an enduring peace here and elsewhere. We must finish the work we have begun until the principle for which we fight stands victorious and unquestioned."