The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-08-13
WOODS TO PERMIT
WOMEN TO PARADE
Ten thousand VIII March as
Protest Against War on
August 30.
FIFTH AVENUE Is ROUTE
Cheers Greet Announcement =.
Hotel McAlpin Meeting
Mrs. Lease Among Speakers.

Many more than tho Hf-' l...I..1
women asked to serve ON t..
parade committee gathered At Gu, It.ff.
McAlpin Yesterday to discuss details ~
the parade. Warm applause fo'luN.I .,.
announcement of Chairman Nl.., ,,,.
pointer that Commissioner Wood. I,l
given consent for ,,aradc dow, I'rb
avenue on August 20.
I'VE feel an imperative need lY. 90
preston at this time when the ho..ft.
ing spectacle Of world engaged .p
slaughter fairly unhingcS reason. sal
Miss Lillian u. Wald rs she took 80
chair. at may seem like a feeble thing
for us to come together to parade ae,irst
such a thing. but only women can sttIp
war of It's glamour, its out Of date h.-n.
isms, and see In Il demon Of dostruc.
tion and hldeous wrong-murder On.
throned.
by our parade we shall he resIir,r.
Ing our belief In the righteousness ~,
peace and the practlcabilty OF arh,tra.
tion. We shall be stretching our hand.
across the water to tho men drafted into
service. to the mothers and wives and
children who are the final Victms"
There is ono person who can mov.
for rbitration---Presldcnt Wilson" sad
Mrs. Harriet Stanton Rlatch The "a.
ttons would not agree 10 tho first Tiapu.
plan. that the conference should ID.
always In session, with "A neutral army
and navy to enforce its DEGREES But /,
did agree In 1907 that any neutral
power could call al other powers 10 unite
with II In demanding arbitration instead
OF war We should make our parade ,
demand on the President to can all r,y.
tra nations tn unite - stopping the VI.
Let us issue womans proclamat'on
that this war may well he the death Knoll
or Christian civilization. II the nation,
OF Europe bleed each other 20 death M.
way Will be opened to the ycliow peril
women do not pray and weep lon mod
ern warfare. They get out and work Re-
hind every soldier with his knapsack on
MS back stands some woman who must
take his vacant place and see that he and
his children are clothed and ted d"
EXtemposdneous speakers arose from
time to time and insisted upon being
heard. Mrs. Mary T.. Lease, who once
ran for Congress IN Kansas gave N
GRAFTON upon the war, insisting that tie
women should march upon Congress and
demand that expectation of food to Eu-
rope he stopped az the quickest way of
ending the war Some members OF the
committee thought the parade should I've
sooner IT II were to have any effect, and
MISS Grace Strachan. president OF iH
lnterborouGh Association, objected that ITO
teachers would not be In town until Sen
TENDER ~
Mrs. Henry Willard was elected porui,-
nent chairman of the parade committee
winch Will have exc .utive offices at Is
West Forty-ifth street. telephone BRYANT
bSA3, where registrations for tn. par,de
and contributions for incidental exposes
may De sent III care of Miss Lillian
beaver.
1t is hoped to have 10000 women q
line for the march down Firth alci.ie
from t1fty ninth street To- Union Squa. o.
al O'Clock on SATURDAY, August - VI 81
'ar9,lny ;. Witcher, Of the Department
nf A.h s.Tt.