Show Moore Announces He Will Accept N EW YORK Sept Sopt 14 John John Bassett Moore announced at hl his residence here iere today that he would election to the International court of justice He HeIs Heis Ie is in his hia sixty first year Elihu Root who had declined election because of age is 76 70 Mr has been professor protessor of or International in international In- In law and diplomacy at Columbia Co Co- Co- Co lumbia university for or twenty years cars and has had a varied public service involving ing Ins international relations He was a law Jaw clerk of ot the tho department department depart depart- ment of state In 1585 third assistant secretary of state from 1888 to 1891 assistant secretary of or state In 1898 secretary and counsel ot of tho the Spanish Spanish- American peace commission in 1898 counselor of or orthe the state department in 1913 He has been a t member of oC the permanent court at The Hague since 1914 and is vice vico chairman of the international international inter inter- national high commission organized at atthe atthe atthe the Pan-American Pan financial conference In 1915 |