Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-05-28
NOTES FOR WOMEN.
- q e Nationsl

Earth wearies and wastes with her fresh
life outpOured,
sword.
new era opens. transcending the old,
Ii calls for new leaders, for new ranks
For wars is0 grim tradition it maketh appeal
10 service Of man in the worlds com
monweal.
The workers aheld in the mill and the
In Commerce, in council, in science ana
Shall bring of their gifts and together
The manifold life of the nrm-builded
State.
And more shall the triumph of right over
Be shield to the weak and curb to the
whe7 counsel prevails and, the battle-hags
The High Court of Nations gives law to
the world.
And thou. o my Country, from many made
Last born of the nations, at morning Thy
sun.
Arise to the place Thou art given to fill.
And lead the world-triumph of peace and
goodwill
Second National Peace Congress.
IF anything is done in this peace con-
gress it will be through the efforts of
women declared a distinguished man
who participated in the deliberations of
the unique assembly.
Not so brilliant, perhaps, in point of
foreign attendants, as the meeting held
in New York under the patronage of
Andrew Carnegie two years ago, the sec
end National Peace congress, which
closed in Chicago Wednesday evening,
May ., was. nevertheless, notable i'll
many respects, and chiefly in the prac-
teal work for peace projected by wom-
en-. Statesmen, educators, philosophers
and philanthroplStS, with q fair repre-
sentation of ambassadors from European
courts, contributed to a programme that
covered every phase of the peace prob
lem. ethical and economic. Stupendous
figures relative to the cost of war. and
the futility of armament as promotive
of world peace, were prominent in the
arguments advanced; and the women
discussed these commercial aspects of
the question as Familiarity as they would
discuss the style of a new gown. In
fact. the feminine simile was in evil
dence in the statement of one speaker:
Il do not ask my dressmaker," she said,
whether or not | want a new gown.
decide that question myself and then
are needed. On the same principle, it is
folly to ask military man whether or
not we need larger navy. lie is not a
statesman, not logician; he is a fighter
of course he wants larger navy"
The views of women on the question
of world peace were presented most
fully in that section of the programme
under their direction. Representatives
of organizations that have an aggre-
gate membership of more than a mil
lion women brought greetings and ex-
pressed the sentiments of their socie-
ties concerning the peace movement. The
General Federation of Women's clubs
had the largest representation, and it
was stated by Mrs. Philip n. Moore
of St. Louis, the president. that the
peace question would have a place on
the programme of the next biennial con-
vention, TO be held in Cincinnati in 1910.
The National Council of Jewish Wom-
en-, the Congress of Mothers, the Ladies
OF the MaccabeeS and the Woman S
Christian Temperance union were rep
resented. the last named being the only
W0lnan's society that has a regularly
equipped peace department IN both ma
h0nal and international unions.
The woman's point of view on the
question of war or peace is not that
most often exploited in pulpit and press,
despite the fact that none are so vital
ly interested as 'the mothers of men"
The relation between war and indus
trial life for women, between war and
the decreasing birth rate in France and
Germany, was pointed out with unerr-
ing accuracy by such speakers as Mrs.
Lucia AmeS Mead of Boston, n director
of the American Peace society and the
moving spirit in this congress; Miss
Jane Adams of Hull House, Chicago,
whose name is synonymous with move
ments for world betterment; Miss Mary
Mcdowell of the University of Chicago
Settlement, whose influence is said to
have been the determining factor in the
settlement of the great stockyards
strike; and Mrs. Ellen NJ. Henrotin, of
the Chicago Woman's club. who pre-
sided over the meeting.
Mrs. Henrotin called attention to the
fact that few references are made to
Woman's part in the Civil war Visit
our national cemeteries" she said, land
see what war meant to the women OF
that day. The best men were taken, and
their loss not only cost the nation a de-
cadence in art, poetry, and other pro
auctions of the men of ideas, but 1t
forced women into industrial life as
bread winners. The women of France
and Germany, knowing that their sons
are doomed to CONSUMPTION, refuse TO
endure the pangs of childbirth as an of
Iel:ag to the god of war. The more in
telligent women become the more intol-
Grant they viii be of the idea of rearing
sons for the lannon's mouth. American
women will gladly give their sons for
the uplift of humanity, but not for the
carnage of war;
The decadence of the Latin nations
was cited as a result of war. The best
men are picked for military service; the
Weakllngs remain at home to become
the parents of the succeeding genera
ton.
Miss Mcdowell emphasized the inter
national phase of the problem by refer
lng to the number of young Lithuanian
girls who come to work in the Chicago
stock yards. The young men of that
country emigrate to escape conscription
ana the girls follow. They are unskilled
VIII work for a pittance, and the wage
Is lowered for all workers in conse-
guence. The Lithuanians would prefer
70 remain in their own country-to mar.
nv and lead normal lives-did not the
draft for military service interfere No
nation. no state lives to itself: there are
try.