The Days of a Man 



Cigis 



An 



Unofficial 

 Commis- 

 sion of 



Some of high-minded people — Dr. Jenkin Lloyd Jones,^ Mrs. 



%^r7' Joseph Fels, Miss Wales, Professor Emily Greene 

 Balch of Wellesley, the Rev. Charles F. Aked, John 

 D. Barry of the San Francisco Bulletin^ Mrs. Alice 

 Park of Palo Alto, Miss Inez Milholland, and a group 

 of students, one from each of several universities. 

 Lochner as secretary was to be assisted by Mrs. Ada 

 Morse Clark, my own private secretary at Stanford. 

 Fifty or more reporters were also taken along, as a 

 whole doing themselves no credit, their role with few 

 exceptions being to ridicule and discredit the group 

 to which they were attached. 



By election on the way over, Aked, Frau Schwim- 

 mer, Mrs. Fels, Barry, and Lochner were chosen for 

 an "Unofficial Commission of Mediation," with Mrs. 



Mediation dark as secretarial associate. But the strength of 

 neither Frau Schwimmer nor Aked, both of them 

 eloquent speakers, lay in constructive work. Peace 

 conferences of considerable interest were nevertheless 

 held at Stockholm and The Hague, and Lochner (on 

 whom management finally fell) showed m^uch energy 

 and skill in bringing about cooperation. The Com- 

 mission remained in active service for a year or so. 

 On the President's declaration of January, 1917, in 

 favor of "peace without victory," its position became 

 that of the United States government and Mr. Ford 

 recalled the two remaining workers. What might 

 have been accomplished under other conditions no 

 one can say; but a test could have been made at 

 vastly less expenditure. 



After the return of the Oscar II, on Mr. Ford's 

 invitation I spent a day with him in Detroit, finding 



^ Head of the Abraham Lincoln Center of Chicago, Civil War veteran, 

 thoroughgoing pacifist, and one of my most valued friends, recently deceased. 



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