The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1915-02-14
FOR
PEACE HAVE
been CALLED

= Is Fl. ~
New Woman's Organization Is
sues Call for Gatherings on
\. Washington's Birthday.
1yAsTI1NGpoN, Feb. fs.-washing-
ton IS Birthday has been selected as
the time for the mass meetings to be
Z held al over the country by the new
~ orgenized wpman's peace party. At
n recent meeting Representative Hob
! son of Alabama, advocated the cali
ing Of the third Hague conference In
Washington. He pointed out that the
third conference would lapse unless
one OF the neutral nations could Is
sue the call, and that he believed the
United States to be In the best posi-
ton 70 do this. The moral effect
would be good, Mr.. Hcbson declared,
even II only the neutral powers par+
ticipatet. ut lis little short of crlm-
tnal to let this nucleus OF what villa
some day be an international world
government lapse at this critical
time, he said.
Woman Being Pushed Back.
Woman in Europe is being pushed
back 1000 years by the war. Mrs.
Anna O. Spence stated in her adj
adress before the Ethical Culture So
ciety. The war raises again the old
IDEAL OF wornanhood as breeder Of
food for cannon. The prelates in
England and Germany are even now
advertising reduction in marriage
fees. Dyery soldier Is encouraged to
get married and given three days
leave for honeymoon before going
to thetwar. Woman, slowly emerging
from Industrial and sex slavery. is
TO be, plunged back again. Mrs.
Spence explains, fact that is al
ready emphasized in other quarters
Printed statements In the press
quoting foreign dispatches, state with
/ plain effrontery that 1t will be neces-
sary after the-war for man to have
two wives, and that "if the slaughter
sof the, last six months is continued
Sifor another half year, each wife will
have to share her husband with two
other ,women-or be an old maid"
The time isShappily past when wo-
men in any ,country-e Mo-
Mammalian Turkey-where the harem
idea has always been excepted-would
not tolerate such a proposition. For
the Wumanhood of. Europe to accept
Ipolygamy is unconceivable, and GER
Vtatllys q stronger, and more imperious
necessity would have to be advanced
than that Of being ian old maid" a
bug a-boo, which no longer is able
to- brighten, let alone make sexual
slaves OF enlightened Christian :wo-
men 81 -
!. Sends Peace Appeal.
The Rev. A. s. Tsanoff, teacher
and Bulgarian educator, a graduate
OF Amherst college,, sends an earnest
appeal for American intervention for
European and international peace.
We Bulgarians tremble at the very
Thought Of having the whole OF the
BALKANS at war;" DR.. Tsanoff. states,
adding proudly what. Americans, too,
should be able to say, although Bull
gaTda is quite ready to defend her
rights, even by arms, IL forced to do
80. And all this is the work OF So
called Christians and civilized Eu-
rope.
Notwithstanding the jibes and
sneers In some quarters at the neu-
tralitys OF the United States and at the
peace prochvities OF some of the adj
ministration's chief officials, 1t be-
comes more evident day by day that
abroad, all eyes are turned towards
this country, not only for actual re-
lief IN giving necessary food supplies
for starving Belgians, and the as
needy Poles, but for the greater and
more far reaching help asked in aid
ing the end of the. devastating and
useless war.
Actual Facts Presented.
Great public interest has been
aroused by the discussion of the laws
o. the different states, their relation
Ito married women and their. Offspring
and property, by. the presentation
during the last suffrage week OF the
scenario, Your Girl and Nine"
Between the reels, slides were dis
played on which the names OF the
states inswhich similar laws most OBJ
noxious by their injustice to women
ware shown. Nevertheless, an anti
suffragist has written an open letter
I to one Of the Washington papers, in
which he asks for the very informa-
4 ton given, showing that he either has
z not seen the film, or has not troubled
himself to read the data regarding
I the law presented at every perform
ance each day and evening for week
which in itself proves in a most con-
svihcing manner the kind OF person
who fills the now depleted ranks OF
those who take every advantage Of
\ an opportunity to belittle women's
rights, and yet are blind to the most
4 self evident truths.
Minnesota Follows Lead.
The officers of the National Stuff
rage Association, realizing the almost
ihsnrdnountable difficulties and delay
In the way Of amending many Of the
state constitutions, advise the women
! i'm such states as are not already en-
gagged In q suffrage campaign to work
for the introduction in their legisla-
t,rreS OF q bill asking for presidential
suffrage, similar to that secured by
the women Of Illinois under the able
leadership Of Mrs. Medill Mccormick,
Mrs Antoinette Funk, and Mrs. Sher!
man Booth, the famous trio of fem
mime poll ticians who secured, by their
knowledge Of the law, splendid bus
n mess Judgment, and indefatigable eff
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