Ford Hall Forum Director Raps D.A.R. Critics
European political affairs, and especially the sessions of the League of Nations, revolve about one compromise after another, resulting in an endless series of deals in the settling of national differences, Mrs. Cornelia Stratton Parker, author and lecturer, who has just returned from [overseas], pointed out in an address on "Human Nature and the European Tangle," at Ford Hall Forum last night.
"If one will sit in at the sessions of the league at Geneva," she added, "it will be easy to see and understand the chaotic situation behind the Europe of today." The speaker declared her belief that America should enter the league to make world peace possible.
She pictured conditions in France, Germany and England, saying that the greatest problems faced on the continent are economic imperialism and nationalism. "Economics will be at the bottom of any future wars," she said, "but national psychology will force the actual fighting." Psychological differences and misunderstandings, she declared, will topple nations into war no matter who is controlling the reins of power.
Director George W. Coleman, who presided, in referring to criticisms of Ford hall speakers, made at the state conference of the D.A.R., here last week, declared: "We are delighted at any time or anywhere to be classed with Miss Jane Addams." Mr. Coleman expressed the hope that all members of the D.A.R. will read Mrs. Parker's book on the meaning of Americanism. This statement brought forth vigorous applause from many of the 1000 persons in the audience, some of whom asked: "Who are the D.A.R.?"
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