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Show ARGUMENTS OF ROOSEVELT ARE iT PROVED Colonel Writes a Paper on "Social Values and Nation al Existence," Read at Sociological Society THEORIES ARE HELD TO BE FALLACIOUS Professor Emily G Balch Says Effects of the War Make Women "Drug on the Market " F4.SHIGTON Dec "9 fter a Japer by Colonel Theodore RoosevelT advocating a vigarb s policy of national defense had been read before the Amen an Sociological society here to day several of the delegates cr ti s d the colonel s theory as fallacious The Sociological society is one of many cientif c meetings held here at the same type as the Fan American con gre s It has devoted its se "ions large ly to the discussion of the economic ef feet of the tear Professor Edward Kos of Wiscons n read Colonel Koosevelt s paper and Pro fessor John Alez of the American Peace society attacked the colonel s argument J -"There is a fallacy in Colonel Koosc I Telt s theory he said which is com ft Dion to all militarists and those who think it necessary to mamta n anna ft rnents for peace purposes. The fact that it Belgium Persia, Poland and other coun fries have suffered Is no reason for m creasing the instruments which have caused that suffering Professor Hayes of the University of Illinois said he agreed with Colonel Eoosevelt up to a certain point Overlooked Charges Kj; 'feoosevelt's citations from history ' Bp&aaid ''have overlooked the great ele-Baheniy-of change All great steps in ad fyafite have" been called impracticable, Hfejfeff Wlhemoment of accomplishment ' By PjTbfessor Emfly G Balch of "Wellesley Et6Hegs told the society that one of the mKtffetii- of war on the statns of women BrpHH be to make them "a drug on the ffXt may be that in more primitive Ef bates-' said she ' sneh a situation &. wooldi "be a eause of polygamy In our W day It win mean a vast overplus of B women. Jlen will remain not only with S mrportanee enhanced by the glory of the ( fcaftlefieia, but with a scarcity vajue "A second and conflicting effect is that women, being more necessary become be-come more important instead of less A third effect will be a great increase of unmarried women Another result la that there is forming- under our eyes a new sex international Someone has said If the brotherhood of man had grown as much in the last two centuries as the sisterhood of woman has grown in the last two decades, this war would not have occurred. ' Roosevelt s Paper The paper of Colonel Roosevelt was on. "Social "Values and Rational Exis tenee and was read by Professor Edward Boss of the University of Wis cousin, president of the society 'Infinitely the most important fact to remember m connection with the war and militarism in relation to moral and social values, wrote Mr Roosevelt, is that if an unscrupulous warlike and militaristic nation is not held in check by the warlike ability of a neighbor ng non militaristic and well behaved na tion then the latter will be s,j ared the necessity of dealing with moral an 1 social values because it won t be al lowed to deal with anything It seems to me positively comic to fa 1 to ap preciate with the example Belgium before our eves that the real question which modern peace loving nations have to face is not how the mil tanst c or warlike spirt within their own borlers will affect these values b t how fa 1 nre on their part to resist the m 1 tar sm of an unscrupulous neighbor will affect them Defines War Discussing the mental onf s on of the average citi:en who th nk var n itself i wrong, Mr Boose a t wrote that war could be defined as the se of force between nations and that the ucs tion of whether it was riglt or wrong depended purely npon the jurp sc for which and the spirit n wh h it rai waged 'There arf of o rsc pc n wl o believe all for e in in mo al that t is immoral to resist wrong loi g 1 force headlol I ha o overtaken much interest in n 1 v 1 als wl pr fess this kind of moral ty. a 1 I I n t know the extent to wl h the ira t cally apply it B t of co rsp f thev are right ft, theory tl en t s w rong for a man to endeavor by forct t sa bis wife or water or laughtnr fr m abuse or to save his chll Iri-n from ab doetion and tort ire It i a waste o t me to discuss with a j na a i osl tion of such folly w kc mess an 1 jol trdonery Applies Lof,ic If the man who oljerts to war ob jeets to the use of force n civil life, bis posit n is logical altho gh abs ra and w kel If the llegn pres lent politicians, a torn HI nan fa tur rs and the like who luring the jast year or two have rreachel ra If m I Its most ign bW f v, II it to th o t thp stjptala I th s a fa rly ( h s ss r f mn I t o n s on at n ' h Irm I urn s. h n u t t I t ps f I s fT n t si l a t pinjr ePnt Y I s li I h rr a tole " he Vklfn we In p 1 o ered a method by whicl r ght 1 v g n a be pread o un ersall n cago and ew lork that the two t es an w tl salety abol ah then po l e torces then and not unt 1 then w 11 t be worth wh le to talk abo t the about on of war , The Soc olog cal society meets at Washington th s -year cont nued the paper o 1 beca se the man after wnon the ty was named as w 11 ng to go to wa It he and s assot atee had not gone to wa ther would ha e been no poss bit of 3cuss ng so cial alues tl e "Un te 1 States f o the excellent reason that there -no Id ha e been no Un ted States Cites Lincoln as Example If L ncoln 1 ad not been w 11 uj, to go to ar to appeal to the swo d to m trod ce m litar sm on a tremenio s scale throughout the TJu ted States the so c ologists who will 1 sten to th s paper t the ei s,te 1 at al wo Id not be con der ng the oc al al es en merated abo c b t the soc al val es of 1 e and s h go erimieutal and ja str al problen s as can now be st 1 ed n t e Lentral V ner an republ cs it P e e t a th s wo 11 and fo the nn ed ate f ture wrot Mr Koose e t oncl & gn it is e ta n that he onl way snccesaf 11 to op pose t e m gbt wh eh s the se ant of w ong is bj n cans of the m ght which he ser ant of r ght speal ers on the progran me to d s Coo e Roose elt s pa er ncl ded Dr John M Alez of the Vmencan Peace oc at Mi s Mabel Boardman of the Vu en an Ked Cross soc etj Piofessor r C Ha es ot the Lnivers tj ot II no s and Professor J Q Dealey of Brown un ers tv |