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If ON the night of Tlmrsdnv, ' I cliru.irv S, a special car will start from New York City on a trip of luvurn! tliuusund 111 ilea Hint will have fnrruucliing consequences not only for the Uuited States but for all the vorld , U will carry, among other distinguished passen gers, an e-presidont of the Uniti-d States, the man who represented the American people at the court of Kaiser VVilholm at the time when we. en tered the warj a former minister to the Nether lands who Is also one of the countrv s most fnmrnn literary men; the, president of a famous university, the chosen representative of Labor on one of the most Important tribunals set up during the war. and the head of the most Influential organization of women In the United States. This eompnny. wilh staff of secretaries, and organisation and pub licity experts, will undertake a tour remarkable even In a country accustomed to propaganda In all Its varied forms. The tour will orciipy nearly a month and be fore It Is over every portion o7 our population will fce reached by the message these men and women will deliver. They will be heard first In Mew York City during a series of nubile meetlnss lasting two days February 0 and fl. The first ston after New York will be Boston. Then the ear will mak" a long Jump to Chicago. The schedule from thnt point Is: Minneapolis. Portland. Oregon. Sae Francisco, Salt T.ake Citv. St. T.onis. and 'Atlanta, from which point the ear will return to New York, completing the circuit of the United States. The purpose of this tour Is to nrrmse popular Interest In the establishment of a League of Na tions. At the nine cities where the ear will stnii conventions have been organized which will draw delegates from the surrounding states to hear ad dresses by the speakers who are making the trip and br others recruited from local territory. These Bine meetings are In reality one great convention and they have so been announced by the T.earue to Enforce Peace, which Is responsible for these ar rangements. 200.000 INVITATIONS. During the past month more than two bundl ed thousand persons all over the United Stales have received Invitation. to the "National Concress for a League of Nations." In this case. Instead of the audience traveling to meet the sneakers, the speak ers will go to the audiences, at least part of the way. Manifestly, It would be Impossible to set up a great national convention on these lines without a great national organization. For the past four years, the League to F,n force Peace has been or ganising branches all over the United States, and now, at the culmination of Its work. It has strong tranches In forty-eight states. The task of holding these nine conventions has been placed In the hands of these forty-eight branches, each branch being responsible for a portion of 'be work re lating to the convention In If own territory. For the Atlantic Congress, to be held In New York City, there will be a eo-operative effort by the states of New York, New Jersey. Pennsyl vania, Maryland, Delaware. Virginia, West Vir ginia and the District of Columbia. Delegates have been appointed by nearly all the governors In this group and by Important organisations repre senting labor, argicultnre. education, the rhnrch, big women's clubs, Chambers of Commerce e.rd Others. The delegates will assemble on February S in I'm hflllrnom nf llie tTnfpl Ast, Tin... rtll ia three sessions on that day and two on the fol ft a .9 m ... &wfnar car. and tna Congress will eulminnte in i great ponnlar mass meeting en the nlgh of Fcbro try 0. At this mcel!r!r a platform will be adopted iLMi will f"'--?j the .demand ofjltiose assembled . fill wCi K IP if XI i fl i 'W Ley to lock Mm up f3n or i 1 1 w if,ii j j- o'- p.o,- for a practical, OiLUueeslike Lenrue of. Nations. Copies of tins resolution will be cabled to the Purls Peace Conference and sent to every member of the United .States Senate and the House scntatives. This is Ilie program arranged for everyone of the nine cunirrcsscs U lule ihc speeches and the THE OKMCATIONS OF VICTORY UK end of the war brmtjt ut fact to face with thr task of vreveniina the recurrenct of a catastrophe that threatens the ilrstruetiou of civilized life. The one plan 'it doinn th'u that is receiv intf serious attention is the establishment of c League of Free .Ynfion. 70 bvsi.irts, irhich has seen the cumulations of a centurt) consumed roar, this plan holds out a prospect stable international relations. ac hi of Labor, which has ahcaas borne the principal burden of injustice and strife, sees in the new order of justice, democracy and fellowship qnaranteed by a leaqne, tneir only refuae from nnlshevism Religion sees in the coming together of the nations the dawning of the Kingdom of Cod. In the hearts of fhe mothers of a gen eration that ha paid to war a toll of sir million sons, tha vision kindles a hope that their children's children mo fe spared th' urt more terrible t-rrows of future rears Men xcho risked their lives in the buttle for democracy find in a league of nations the sum of that for uhich ihey fought and their comrades died. The proposal presents the most import ant question of national policy that as citiiens we shall face in our lifetime. In an hour when the creation of a league it the principal subject for dit- cussion throughout the world, the society that was the pioneer in bringing forward the project of a league, owes to the uncon vinced an explanation of what is proposed and to beli'vert in a league a plan of action by which they may help to secure one that, will succeed and endure. Such is the double purpose of this national con gress in nine sections to which the recipi ent of this program it invited. resolutions will vary in detail, owing to different shades of local opinion, they will all focus upon the s.'tine supreme object 111E SPEAKKiiS. ' " .Tiliw'. This would be difficult to accomnlish were it not lor tne tne me dresses w peakcrs. eacebEntir ,j(iMI 1? (IIS IP 1 : 10332232 President National ComttfiL Signed (hxvetvteoxi 4 mm m tl A ' ? 22 The speakers who will ride In it Include 1 Tha Hon. William nrH Tsff .' rvriuvr r resilient ox us uniiea DiaieSi ta5 The Hon. Jamea W. Gerard, ..... -,;. IT. Tl ; l . . ... .. M. . . former Ambassador to Germany. .1 -XMim President of Harvard University. 'iBiia k -iL Airs. Philin North Mnnn President the National Council of Womefl. unea - The Hon Henry Van Dvke. Formerly Minister to the Netherlands, Tha H,n D m.l.k (,. " Formerly Joint Chairman National Wa Labor Uoard. The reader will agree that with list of speak ers like this it would not be difficult to assemble an interested audience in almost any part of thq United States. Mr. Taft, who Is President of tha. Leamie to Rnfnrea Pmm. will twtsrm I Via aVis.? at each congress and make one, and probably two, V; V F! 9 7 1 0 war La pop Board-. if V . v..vvXv.vsNM..I., . Vide&Tfovv&iVmvwjity ... u i. , i . , - speakers who will be chosen to represent impotUfiJ utexesti In each gronn fatcicsw ia eacn gronp ox states. CDATrDQ iW - ' v,wt v- oiaiia --w- .The New England Congress, which will foUoff u" meeusa- m new lork. wlU be neld In Boston an till MM K.nlnrl Tk. n...4 T -1 . r. h New England states. The Great Lakes Con cress, Chicago, February 10 and 11, will gathoj delegates from the States of Ohio, Indiana, Ken tacky, Illinois, Michigan and Wisconsin. "fl-" . swimwj i, win do tor tha bUtes of-MlanesoM, North and South Dakota and Montana. Tha Northwestern Congress, Portland, Oregon, Febru ary 18 and 17. will Mn..i r itr.l,i--v- and the northern half of Idahoi the Paciflo Coast Mjngress, can i ran cueo, February 19 and California. Nevada Anil A?rmt f rt Pa t! 20, West Cospess, Salt Lake City, February 21 and 23. wuw, rrjoming ana Bontnern Idsnoi tna r a f r. v . . Mid- c: as sir S :i3 1uj t y a March 1, North a.nd South Carolina, Florida, TnH nessee, Mississippi, Alabama, Louisiana and Georgia. To the autograph collector, the Invitations to these congresses have a special interest, for th.-y bear facsimile signatures of twenty-four1 nf most distinguished men and women 1n the United dunes. r.x-rresiuent 1 ait ana cardinal liititnuis head the list, and the other signers are almost n prominent They represent, moreover, an im-i presslve variety of interests and show the bread ihi of the League of Nations movement In this country.! i AN APPEAL FOR HELP. '"' ?' The Invitation is an unusual document in other; aja. Here ia the message It carries: . Will you help In this greatest crisis of history to marshal public opinion behind j America's real purpose In the war? I Agreements made at the Peace Conference will, for generations to come, vitally affect for good or ill the economic, political and moral wellbelng of mankind. The creation there of 1 a League of Free Nations can alone insure the orderly development of the world and ' pre serve peace. To get such a league President Wilson wisely decided, by personal attend ance, to throw his great Influence on Hie side of an unselfish and li-rhteons peace, with a League of Nations to safeguard It perpetu ally. - The series of nine Congresses for a Lencne of Nations, to one of which yon are herewith Invited, will give opportunity for those who Won the war both on and behind the fisbting Une, to speak their wishes. Agreement at Paris and ratification br the Senate may de pend on the sisse and temper of these Con gresses and the carrying out In the States of the plan of action thev adopt. In addition to Mr. Taft and Cardinal Gibbons, the signers aret Samuel Gompers, President American Federa tion of Labor. Dr. John R. Mott Executive Head of the . Y. M C. A. ' The Hon. .Myron T. Herrick. former Governor 1 of Ohio, former Ambassador to Prance. , The Hon. Oliver Wilson. Master National ' Grange. . Harry A. Wheeler. President United States Chamber of Commerce. - '.A; Lawrence Lowell, President Harvard , University, . The Hon. Alton B. Parker, former Democratic , candidate for President Richard I. Manning, Governor of South Caro lina. 1 . . Norman Hapgood, President of the League of Free Nations Association. John H. Fahey, formerly President of the , Chamber of Commerce of the United States John Sharp Williams, United States senator ... from Mississippi ' Thomas W. Lamont New York banker and Dr. Anna Howard Shaw. Chairman Women's Committee, Council of National Defense. Lyman Abbott, editor and publicist ', JTne Hon. Arthur Capper, Governor and sen a tor-elect from Kansas. .1 JL Goodwin Bhett. formerly President United KrVni Nrth Moore, President Naitonal oaries h. Macfarland. Secretary Cotmcll of Churches of Christ In A ji-if secretary reoerai : 4 4,ir-r -JbertE- 8peer, Chairman General War - timeCmiimisjrfon of the Cborehes. Br. Sbaner Mathews, Dean of the School of T iivmiry. umversityof Chicaeo. Beward Prosser. New York banker. V HUB tn nrrrKnl.H . . , Ma been decentralised as moch as possflde, never-, theless tha preparation has necessitated an fin--ttense amount of work at the national headquarters j gfthe Leagne to Enforce Peace In New York Citr. Two whole floors In the Bush Terminal Sale. Baflding, on West 42nd street, are crowded wilh leereUries, stenographers, typists and clerks, who! Bay been at work for the past month getting o.iti the Invitations and delegates' credentials ami at-' tending to the mnlUhide of details which have to be taken mm nt K n, .,! i . .. , tucftc nine congresses I iiBuwini organmaiion. i;ne Item Is the printing and mailing of nearly one mU itan pieces of printed matter. Of this convention nnon - 4 .aam-vmLxasiuv&Ltfiui,m,riT,