PEACE OF ENGLISH-SPEAKNIG WORLD

Evening Post, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 7, 9 January 1912, Page 3

PEACE OF ENGLISH-SPEAKNIG WORLD

FIVE MINUTES' REST FOR PRAYER. Absolute cessation, co far as possible, lof the activities of 150,000,000 Englishspeaking people throughout the world for five minutes for silent prayer and contemplation, is a suggestion whicb Senator Root, of New York, has made for tho Celebration of the one hundredth anniversary of peace among EnglishBjjeaking peoples/ Tho suggestion came in connection with the appointment by Mayor Gaynor of a commiti/ee of one hundred prominent New York men to have charge- of the celebration of tha centennial in Now York Tho national committee plans to commemorate the permanent anniversary , by the erection of permanent memorials, rather than through tho celebration by 1.-agcante. For this reason it has bean necessary to organise for in advance of the timo of celebration, which will extend from _ 17th February, 1915, until sottio tiino in th«i summer, during which Great Britain, Canada, and other parts of the -Ensflish/sppakini,' world will participate, j The dutt) suggested for tho five-minute atoppftge of activities of Englieli-spoak-mg p*>plo i* 17th February, 1915, ¦date of ratification by tho American and British Governments of tho treaty sigusd sit Ghent, Belgium.