The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1914-11-07

% DlOou-lust anu uidbOlCdl brutality OF
- war Let me whisper (for as neutrals
we must not repeat aloud the names
tales they tell of the awful crimes
tales they tell fthe awful crimes
which shrek aloud to Heaven for
vengeance. So, let me whisper, very
softly, that many of these poor babes
can never again play with toys-for
they have lost their little hands.
Think of it, sisters mine Little
children mutilated by big brutes who
pose as warriorsl A London friend
tells of a specific case in which
Scotch lady asked to have sent her
for adoption a homeless Belgian child
and they sent her a 7-year-old little
girl-without ears! The lady begged
for an unmutilated child, and the au-
thorities confessed that with all the
little waits they had none were un-
mutilated, most of the children having
had their ears or both hands cut off.
Feminine Apostle of Peace.
Madam Rosika Schwimmer of Buda-
Pest feminist, journalist, lecturer and
official peace representative of the
agonized women in war tortured
Europe, comes to America to lay be
fore our president and people the wall
OF the mothers and wives of the belli-
gerent nations, and to tell Of the star
vation and suffering of innocent little
Madame .Schwimmer de-
3lares that a crisis such as the world
Is now witnessing would not have
been possible-if the wives and moth
ers sat in the council chambers with
heir fathers, sons and husbands.
A Call to Women.
The National American Woman Suf-
rage association issues a call for the th'
9Th annual convention. which is to MI
e held by the invitation of the Ten att
essee Equal Suffrage League in Nash Su
lille, November - to II inclusive. WA
'he Importance Of this convention is Mr
trongly emphasize and the necessity str
or ar-sighted intelli gence and united
fort made plain.
The call explains the diabolical hor- Tho
)rs and the needlessness Of the war cen
CIV conyulsing the supposed to be Obi
civilized world in this the twentieth low
'ntury, century marked by golden O'U
in art invention, science Rar
civic betterment and up beg
t work for the whole worlds good W
Id yet it is this century Of the world S 0l -,
ogress which is forever disgraced by othf
ferocious conflict, which in brutality rem
d CORY carnage, bloodthirstiness and and
rror has a supremacy in iniquity "ne
yer before known-eyen in the So
He'd dark ages. .,
The cali states "The hearts or rs "
of women have been torn
the death and wounds of those they Al
re, of those they love. Yet never road
S the will and power to help been $40
mans need Of such help staff
ar been more clearly seen tract
hrs Kate Waller Barrett, the re- one
mer and suffragist speaking he.
e the Alliance of Jewish Women, Ger
0 voiced the feeling which has topct
nd birth in the hearts of American seDa,
men when she said. "When the onme
ilization Of Europe is rebuilt-and
must be rebuilt-it will be upon a An
v basis. The country which will NOT
2 the greatest contribution will be toDb
country. l believe that these Seyit
at international questions will fin wear
be solved by women" When the
rt of woman co-operates with the Go,
d of man and the two work hand Gated
hand Mrs. Barrett believes that for \
l, and then only, will we see war tralia
pt from the face of the earth" now
RS. Wesley Martin Stoner of that
whose work as an organ mills
last winter for the national asso-
ion was so successful throughout TTta