Missionaries of Peace

Chief purpose of the Student Volunteer Movement for Foreign Missions is "to challenge students to consider foreign missions as a possible life work." But disarmament, not missionary work, made the most news last week at S. V. M. F. F. M.'s eleventh quadrennial session at Buffalo.

Some 1,400 U. S. and Canadian students cheered the proposal of Professor Samuel Ralph Harlow of Smith College that President Hoover and Premier Bennett each name a student delegate to the League of Nations' disarmament conference. Declared Professor Harlow: "You are the ones who are going to be asked to lay down your lives. ... If you can make war, ought you not to have the right to stop war?"

Promptly the students were polled, voted 1,366 to 14 for the proposal. Other proposals approved: The U. S. and Canada should disarm completely "if all nations join." The U. S. and Canada should reduce armaments independently. Military training should be banned from colleges. The individual citizen should have the right to refuse to fight.

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