The Sentinel=record., 1915-04-21
WAR AGAINST WAR
 IS CRY OF WOMEN
INFLUENCE OF WOMEN OF THE WORLD BEING FELT TO BRING
 POSSIBILITIES TO END.
Every Woman, No Matter How Hum ble, Is Urged to Help With Her In. fIuence in Preparing World for a Reign of Peace.

Geneva. April 20.-The World Union of Women" recently founded here by Mrs. Clara Guthrie Cooke of New Orleans, daughter of the late Judge E. J. Merrick, chief justice of Louisiana is receiving support anG members from all parts of the world.
 The Union, established upon the common basis of womanly compass sion which we shall endeavor to man. ifest justly in rational thought and act has issued the following address to American womer:
 "Women of America.
 You have been a tower of strength to the persecuted and desolated vic time of the frightful catastrophe which has overtaken Europe In a great wave of sympathy you have equipped ships of mercy with food and clothing and you have given nobly, while all the world has regard ed you with admiration.
 But there exists now a vaster ques- tion-a more important need, whicl the women of Europe call upon yoI to help them solve. It is the construc- tiOn of the means to prevent the pos sibility of a recurrence of the cruel events through which we are forced to live.
 This problem is unfortunately much complicated and difficult one when seen at close range, from the very center of the storm. than when viewed from across the ocean. We are hampered here in Europe by wide divergence of mentality of age old traditions and by the existing chaos from which you in America do not suffer We listen with admira- ton to the splendid, precise and defi- nite programs which your peace par ties have been able to draw up, but we acknowledge sadly that under the surrounding us on the European continent they would be im- possible for us to adopt
 And yet peace must be prepared and the women of Europe must under take this preparation here But they must dc it in their own way and in accord with the many different men, talities of the many respective na- tions. It is one thing to desire peace and another to get it.
 Our program may therefore seem to you very simple, almost rudimen- tary, possibly lacking in decision and in boldness. But if you will think of it, it is in reality a very courageous thing which we hayeundertaken 70 declare war agains. war amongst peo- ples who are under the spell of the g ories Of militarsm; to spread the gence where human hate is rampant: to work for internatiOnalsm among those whose souls are aflame with ma tional patriotism 10 teach the value of individual effort when individual right has never been at so great a discount It is not a great, brave task and one for which united woman hood is peculiarly fitted
 There is many things which we believe in, which We could not incor- porate in our program because we must first unite upon basis of hut manity and not of human opinions.
 iWe are therefore starting out in a ruined world, content to begin humbly the ground and sowing the seeds of peace. to try anad counteract the evil which makes war possible, and to suppress tbe frightful bitter ness which as the inevitable after math of war does more than aught else to impede mutual progress. We are content to begin humbly at the very bottom because we believe that it is the only beginning possible to us; but we expect step by step to ar rive together at a wise understand ing of the deep and mysterious causes of war and a comprenension of what is necessary to establish and maintain peace. We expect 10 cooperate in a realization which shall grant indiyid- ual rights and national rights and shall make of the Palace of Peace (now closed and mocked in all the beauty of it's inspiration) a temple of justice where national differences shall be arb,rated by an international