Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-08-07
NEW YORK WOMEN
TO PROTEST WAR
CARRIED in Black, Bare-Headed
and With MuffIed, Drums
viii Parade.

NEW YORK, Aug. 7.-Bareheaded
and dressed In black. thousands Of
women of all nationalities and creeds
will march together down Fifth ave-
nue. to great outdoor mass meeting
of protest against the war, If the plans
to be laid today by women prominent
in peace, suffrage and social organi-
cations meet no official check Ban
nerless, as well as hatless, to beat Of
muffied drums, the women will march
to show their attitude toward what
they consider if not a personal trag-
edy at least the blighting of European
civilization.
The personal suffering that women
in the Old World and many here are
called upon to undergo pales before
the setback to civilization" said Mrs.
Harriet Stanton Batch, who has Of
fered the use of a room at the Wom-
ems Political Union headquarters to
the committee. Our great grand
children will feel the result OF this
war. Art galleries and libraries will
be destroyed. America win have TO
carry the light. Ruslzin said that il
all the women in the country put on
mourning the moment the war was
declared, it might be stopped. We in
tend at least to register our horror at
the situation
To Parade ON August ~.
The actual organizing and mobiliz-
ing of the parade will be done by Misc
Lillian Deaver, secretary of the Wom-
ans Fusion Committee, who later
acted in the same capacity for the
committee on industrial relations, of
which Mrs. Borden Hartman is a
member. Thousands of letters will be
sent out to former marchers in suf-
frage parades and to all women's or
CARNATIONS. Every woman in New
York. however. will be invited through
the press to march. The anti-suffrag-
lists will receive a special appeal. The
parade will probably take place on
August %.
our protest must necessarily be
feeble" said Miss Lillian d. Wald, OF
the Henry Street Settlement, but If
we can do anything to let people
know how sorely grieved we are l
think we should do it. | am sure
every settlement will cooperate In
taking enrolments.
DIR. Anna H. Shaw to Participate.
81 believe many foreign women VIII
march, and I know the German and
Russian women will have no objec-
tion TO marching in the same parade.
Their feelings on this terrible subject
are the same. I do not think they
should be divided up by races. All
women should march together simply
as women. sisters in sorrow IL not IN
nationalities.
at shall be glad to march in a
parade of women" said DR.; Anna
Howard Shaw, president OF the Ma
tional Suffrage Association. But 1t
should not be simply parade OF
mothers or even of older women. Our
country is filled even now with
women who never became mothers
because of our Civil War. Germany
is filled today with girls who viii
never be even widows. Every other
| woman has had to be a wage Garner
there; now 1t will be every woman.
There should be no trouble in OBJ
| tanning Fifth avenue for such a pur-
pose. 1t is to be used for civic pa
rades. and If this does not come under
that head / do not know what does
But the parade should be quiet and
| solemn. There should be no banners
and no music and no horseback
riders. Every woman should walk
except those who are too feeble
Anything that we can do in behalf
of peace will not come amiss," said
Mrs. Carrie Chapman Gait. president
of the International Suffrage ALI
ance. at may not have great deal
of influence in itself, but all things
taken together may bring people to
consider the terrible uselessness of all
this and how it may be ended"