The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-05-22
Women's International
 Council at Berlin

1 also Mrs. Carrie Chapman catt, Mrs. Is- apella Charles Davis of the Kings Daugh- ters, Miss Mary Anthony and Adelaide Johnson. Finally there was that rohs lest Roman of them all, Susan R. An thony who has worn her wine coIored VelVet gown for best the past ffteen years and whom heard a lady artist say was the pest dressed woman she had eve- seen. Susan B. Anthony was 84 last Fah- ruary, yet she Is such new woman that she sklps off with the alacrity of girl or l6 to this council of women across the sea at Berlin.
 You might search the world over for better looking group than this comnanv of American women thinkers and doars All their faces are illuminated with in- teihgence and sincerity. All have strono 1 nhe faces, many are handsome, and not | IeW are young. To see and hear then, you might think they were merely A com | pany Of independent women of means ont on lark. Yet all are animated bv higb purpose, and 1t is part of that purpose to be cheerful and happy all the days of their lives.
 | Altogether there will be 15O American | "cIhen Tn attendance on the international council at Berlin and on the International congress immediately following it. The preliminary meeting of the council will De held Saturday, June 1; the closing | meeting of the congress will occur Sat urday, June 1S You will conclude that | an association of women trained to the business can get considerable talk in dur ing two weeks. and you will be right. We'll what is 1t all about?
 Fully seventeen years ago it was borne in on the mind of Mrs May Wright Sew all. A. NJ, that there was almost no general corps spirit CT broad sympathy 1 among women. Each was interested in those of her sex who were interested in tho same things she was; outside of these not at all. It was a pity, for If women could be brought to labor in union and sympathy. each with all other workers of her sex they might set in motion a current that could move the world
 Mrs. Sewall resolved to start the cur rent and thought out her plan accord ingly. She proposed to various public spirited ladies the founding of a general union of the women of all nations, work ing together for the good of the race. It was to be a new internationalsm making for justice, harmony and kinship among all peoples Moreover. it was to be an internationalism of women, since men in the whole world cycle in which they have had things their own way seem still in- capable of rising to the idea of harmo- nious cooperation among mankind. Mrs SewaI says now as she said at ina founding of her organization:
 ''Fo promote the new internationalisr, that lnternatlonalism which is co-opero- tlve instead of competitive peaceful in- l stead Of belligerent, and which resuIts m honest friendship instead of jealous rn,, rlvaIry' is the object of the international
 At Washington, March s1, 1888, the 1n- lerhatlonal Council of Women was or Sahized' The preamble of its constitution sets for in the start its reason for be- i Ing; -0'
 We. women of all nations sincereIv believing that the best good of humanity VII De advanced by greater unity of Hiought' sympathy and purpose and that ah organized movement of women will pest conserve the highest good of the ramliy and state, do hereby band our- selves in a confederation of workers to further the application of the Golden Kule to society. custom and law.
 | CThe Golden Rule: Do ye unto others as ye would that they should do unto i you.)
 A large contract these ladies of the
 International Council have undertaken. | the largest and noblest entered on by 1 any organization, and it was women who initiated 1t. Man, with his na-
 ture of fight of greed and commercial 1 ism-would man ever have undertaken ! 1t at all? Universal peace and settling national disputes by arbitration was one of the first topics selected to be ! labored for by the council It began working for this before the Czar of Russia called the arbitration conference
 at The Hague in 1899. Indeed, on each
 recurring date of the converting of The Hague conference-AIay Remembers
 of the women's council all over the
 world make a universal peace demon- stra tion. nns af the thtnzs shay aa