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AOVANCEOF PEACE
President of Dominican Re
public Thinks Consultation
Able Safeguard.
The Dominican Republic's con
tribution to the cause of world
• peace through its recent pact with
Haiti and the achievements of the
* Buenos Aires Conference in pro
■ moting unity on the American con
tinent are discussed here by the
President of the Dominican Re
public.
, BY GEN. RAFAEL L. TRUJILLO.
CIUDAD TRUJILLO, Dominican
• Republic, February 13.—When his ex
cellency, President Roosevelt, ad
dressed himself. Just a year ago, to
the heads of all the states of the
. New World, to suggest a special inter
American Conference to unify the
continent's will to peace. I had the
pleasure of accepting without reserve
; so lofty a suggestion as a lerttmate
Interpreter of the feelings of the
Dominican people, which all through
' its history has kept a fervid cult
1 of peace and justice.
The Dominican Republic has Just
' tnade, together with the Republic of
Haiti, a real and effective contribu
tion to the cause of world peace. This
contribution is a positive fact and not
merely words or promises—the old dis
putes over boundaries between the two
states have been definitely settled
through the cordial and friendly agree
ment I had the honor to close with
my illustrious friend, President Vin
cent.
President Roosevelt's suggestion was
received with unanimous optimism
throughout this continent. There
never was a more propitious hour
to appeal to the conscience of the
Americas. The war-like episode of
the Chaco had e ided and the task
• had been started to find an har
monious way to adjust the quarrel
definitely.
It had been shown once again that
the free Americas are the continent
of peace, inasmuch as a case that
was an exception to this rule had
been adjusted peacefully. Besides, re
cent experiences in the international
life of the world had again shown
the need for an attitude of solidarity
throughout our continent in the face
of future contingencies.
United by Common Purpose.
Having made it a point to respond
to President Roosevelt's appeal, rep
resentatives of all America went to
Buenos Aires in December. The re
sults achieved there through the in
ter-American Conference for the con
solidation of peace may be summed
up in one phrase: The American con
tinent is now more united than ever.
The American republics will as
trume from now on a common and
united attitude when confronted with
any threat to peace. The treaty for
the maintenance and consolidation
of peace sets forth the obligation of
mutual consultation among the gov
ernments in the moments of danger
to the continent. The pact co-ordinat
ing and insuring compliance with
existing treaties among the American
nations reiterates the principle of mu
tual consultation and establishes the
rules for concerted neutrality.
The protocol relative to non-inter
vention, besides reaffirming the op
position to outside intervention in the
internal or external affairs of a na
tion, further establishes the obliga
tion of mutual consultation in case
this principle is violated. And the
declaration of American solidarity,
made at the suggestion of the Cen
tral American nations, enumerates the
rules accepted by the American in
ternational community, declares that
a united democracy exists in the
Americas and still further reiterates
the duty of mutual consultation.
We have entered, therefore, into a
new era in the international life of
the New' World. "We have all en
joyed the glories of independence—let
us now seek the glories of interde
pendence,” said President Roosevelt
in a memorable speech.
Consultation Basis Established.
To guarantee continental solidarity
we have already arrived at reciprocal
consultation. There is no doubt that,
if this happy innovation were not
enough, the American republics would
go beyond It. This has been clearly
shown by the resolution adopted by
the conference, ordering further and
preferential study of the projects sub
mitted by the Dominican Republic
and by Colombia on the creation of
a league or association of American
nations.
The reciprocal consultation proce
dure determines a function, although
It does not • create the organ that
would carry it out. But all func
tional activity requires a special or
gan for its development, and if this
does not exist, it is created. Consul
tation will show the need for getting
together—that is, for overcoming the
difficulties originated by long dis
tances.
The organ will then be automatic
ally created. It will only be neces
sary thereafter, when defining its con
stitution and prerogatives, to choose
between a permanent grand council
of American republics or a larger
body with greater purposes—that is,
a continental league of nations, such
as I referred to in July, 1935, and as
I suggested in my letter to President
Roosevelt on February 11, 1936.
Any solution decided upon in this
respect will only reaffirm the unity
of the American Continent, victori
ously sealed at the Buenos Aires Con
ference.
Treaties Speed Cause of Peace.
The conference, besides, did efficient
and trail-blazing work through other
treaties, such as the ones relative to
good offices and mediation and pre
vention of controversies, and through
various conventions, resolutions, rec
ommendations and votes on impor
tant juridical, economic and cultural
questions.
One of those resolutions declares
that the Columbus Memorial Light
house "will be the symbol of the fra
ternity and union of the Americas.”
May the beams of that lighthouse,
which will radiate from the Dominican
Coast, reach remote regions as a
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Series of Four Lectures to
Begin Tuesday in Guid
ance Program.
A series of four weekly lectures,
designed to help unemployed men and
women find work, will be given at the
Y. M. C. A. beginning Tuesday night
in connection with the institution's
occupational guidance program.
The lectures will be given each
Tuesday from 8 to 9.30 p.m. in the
central building, Eighteenth and G
streets, it was announced by E. A.
Drumm, who is in charge of the
program.
At the first meeting Dr. L. L. Jarvie
af George Washington University will
discuss the alms and general purposes
of the program and Dr. C. L. Shartle
of the United States Employment
Service will give suggestions to job
hunters for analyzing their own
qualifications.
C. E. Lamson, director of the Dis
trict of Columbia Employment Center,
will speak the following Tuesday on
occupations available in Washington.
A. H. Arenson, personnel director of
the Social Security Board, will speak
the same evening on “What to Find
Out About Jobs and Where to Find
It."
The March 2 meeting calls for a
talk by William Lohman, personnel
director of the Hecht Co., and by Mrs.
Lyle Campbell of the Y. W. C. A.
During the last meeting on March
9 there will be a talk by an employer,
as yet unselected, and suggestions for
conducting interviews with employers
by Miss Dorothea de Schweinitz of
the National Youth Administration
and Miss Jane Palmer of the Chil
dren’s Bureau.
The meetings are free and open to
the public.
FAMILYRELIEFCUT
BY LIMITED FUNDS
Dr.’ Perkins Says Homes With
Employable Will Not Eeceive
Further Aid.
Inadequacy of the appropriation for
public relief makes it impossible for
a family that has any employable
member to' get public assistance, it
was declared by Dr. Frederick W.
Perkins, president, at a meeting of
the Board of Managers of the Family
Service Association.
While the private relief agencies are
doing their best to help the most des
perate cases, they cannot stretch their
resources to cover the wreckage of the
depression. When all resources were
gone it was possible for a time to se
cure relief here, but now public relief
can be secured here only after its
employability Is gone, Dr. Perkins as
serted.
He said there were 670 applications
to the Family Service Association in
January, and of these only 90 could
be given aid.
SHOPLIFTER DISCARDS
CRUTCHES IN FLIGHT
Detective Sergt. Charles Warfield
always will be suspicious of crutches,
he told Police Judge Walter J. Casey
yesterday when he appeared as com
plaining witness in a shop-lifting
case against Richard Boyd, colored.
Boyd was sentenced to serve 90 days
in jail.
According to Warfield, Boyd, using
one crutch, stole a dress in a down
town department store and stuffed
it under his coat. Warfield followed
Boyd to the street, but when he
started to make the arrest, the sus
pect placed his crutch under his arm
and made a break for safety without
its use.
Warfield said he had to show con
siderable speed in order to make the
arrest.
spiritual influence that will bear the
fruits of this example, given to the
world by this continent that builds
its glory on peace and justice!
(Copyrlaht, 1937, by the Nortb Americas
Newspaper Alliance, Ine.)
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