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Show PE1CE HOWIES URCEjMENCE CHICAGO, Fob. 27. A conference of the neutral powers of the world to Bit while the -war continues and mediate bet-ween tho warring nations without the necessity of an armistice, was proposed pro-posed today at the national conference of the Emergency Peace Federation by John A; Ay 1 ward of Madison, Wis., representing rep-resenting the Wisconsin Peace society. The plan is known as the Wisconsin peace plan. Miss Jane Addanis, chairman of the executive committee of the federation, presided. Edwin Mead, director of the 'World's Peace foundation of Boston, in an address ad-dress said that in the present war "the neutral nations had been silent too long. "Their representatives should meet in conference upon the common welfare, and our own government should take the lead5 Mr. Mead said. "We should take a strong part iu the creation of a league of peaeo. Our people must give definite and persistent thought to their opportunity and duty.-' "The absence of women from the councils of state partially, if not largely, large-ly, is responsible for the continuance of iho plague of war upon earth," said Dr. Stephen S. Wise, Rabbi of the Ffree Synagogue, of New York. "Is War Cureless?" was the question he discussed. dis-cussed. . The belief that man was born a fighting fight-ing animal and must forever remain one, he called ' ' the most immoral of all moral heresies," and he viewed diplomacy diplo-macy 's 1 ( hidden ways as one of the ultimate causes not oulv of the present war, but virtually of all wars." "A substitute for war must be found and can be found," Dr. Wise 6aid. "There most be some outlet of the passions pas-sions of men to serve and strive together, to-gether, some opportunity for the play of social instinct, which burns within men and is ready to merge the interest of citizens in the interest of the country." |