Evening star., 1915-01-07
BIG OPEN MEETING
SUNDAY ARRANGED
Women's Movement for Con-
Structive Peace Draws
Many to City.
MISS ADDAMS INCLUDED
IN THE SPEAKERS LIST
Mrs. Harriet Stanton Blatch and
Nine. Rosika Schwimmer Also
Will Be Heard.

| Women from all parts of the coun-
try are beginning to gather in WASH
| lngton for the meetings Saturday and
Sunday in the Willard Hotel to further
the women's movement for construc-
tive peace. started on the suggestion of
Mrs. Pethick Lawrence. the English
non militant suffrage leader
| Announcement of arrangements was
made today by Mrs. Christian Hem
mick, chairman of the committee, and
| Mrs. ellison Gardner, chairman of the
| publicity committee.
| The big open meeting is to be held
| Sunday afternoon. at which the speak
ers are to be Miss Jane Adams of
| Hull House, Chicago; Mrs. Harriet
| Stanton Blatch of New York; Nine
| Rosika Schwimmer. secretary of the
international Woman's Suffrage AL
| lance, and Miss Janet Richards Mrs
John Jay White, chairman of the
Washington organization, will preside,
and the honorary chairman is to be
Miss Adams
me reception committee for this
meeting is composed of Mrs. Bo
sweeney. wife of the assistant secre-
tary of the Interior; Mrs Nevil Mon
roe Hopkins, Miss Genevieve Clark,
catherine Hitchcock and Miss Catherine
ushers are to be young women from
the Colonial School.
Mrs. Gait to Be Here Saturday.
Mrs. Carrie Chapman Gait, president
OF the International Woman's Suffrage
Alliance, is to attend the Saturday
sessions, but on account of a previous
engagement cannot remain in Wash
lngton for the Sunday session.
The Saturday morning meeting is to
pc purely executive. In the evening
Miss Jane Addams will preside and
the meeting will. be opened by a speech
ant secretary of labor. Mrs. Post will
be followed by two hours of five-min-
ute speeches, in which many members
OF Congress particularly interested in
the peace movement will participate
With other prominent women who
have signified their intention of speak
ing are Mrs. Glendower Evans and
Mrs George F. Whicher of Illinois
The European war will be felt more
in the next generation than In this"
declares Miss Susanna Cocroft of Chi
cago. who is coming to Washington
for this peace conference.
Miss Cocroft has devoted her life to
the Improvement Of the health Of wom-
stood the peace organization will be
able through her to reach at feast 50,-
900 women almost Immediately
Asked to Aid Peace Cause.
Women with a large national fol-
lowing have been invited to contribute
strength to the peace cause, and it is
believed that within a few weeks the
organization will extend throughout
the country.
Mrs. Christian Hemmick. chairman of
the committee which will work with
the different states. has just received
letter from Miss Cocroft, which
voices one Of the ideas on which the
peace organization will proceed at its
meeting.
The spirit of hatred. and worry and
suffering engendered by this war is go
ing to have a terrible effect on the
health of European nations" says Miss
Cocroft in her letter. THE greatest
price Europe is going to have to pay
is not even in the lives of men she is
now giving, but the blasted lives Of
generations yet unborn.
Results Of this titanic struggle are
going to be felt in the health of the
nations at war for generations to come
of untold hardships endured by the
men in the trenches are appalling to
all of US, but more terrifying to me is
the thought of what all this suffering
means TO the women who are left be-
hind and the effect it is bound to have
on their lives.
Woman's Opportunity Cited.
The American woman has the great
est opportunity for service ever pre-
sented to the women Of any nation in
the world. This is the opportunity to
stretch forth helping hand to her
sorrowing sisters across the seas. Let
statesmen advocate world peace: let
diplomats look after world politics.
but let the women of America start a
movement. to be extended to the wom-
en- Of every other nation, with the OBJ
ject OF bringing about lasting world
peace. Woman rarely fails when her
cause Is just and she starts out with
| u determination to succeed, The ex-
tent of her influence cannot be meas
ured. nor can 1t be overestimated, 1t
has no bounds: 1t knows no creed nor
nationality when II IL at work for
Womankind,
"A convention, including members of
the great organizations of women of
the country. Will develop ideas of the
most far-reaching import. 1t Will, un-
doubtedly, bring to this terrible world
problem the best thought of American
womanhood."