New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-08-13
Literature, Sent Broadcast,
Attacks Draft, Food Con-
troll and Bond Issues
Call Hoover Dictator
Two Issues of Peace Party's
Official Organ Barred From
the Mails

ernment's war plans. The propaganda
4 is being carried on by the Woman's
Peace Party Of New York. This paci-
| fist group, which is a branch Of the
National Woman's Peace Party, headed
by Jane Adams, of Chicago, maintains
/ headquarters at 10 Fifth Avenue, from
which anti-war literature is sent
/ broadcast.
/ Opposition to the draft law, to food
control regulations, to military super
vision OF anything, to war bond issues
/ and to further continuance of the war,
/ form the basis of the propaganda, but
/ it's special appeal is to women, who
are told that the war will rob them Of
their rights" Here Is the basic ar
/ gument, set forth as a preamble to
food of anti-war literature:
What are American women going
( to win in the great war? Child labor,
/ long hours, scant food, high prices,
/ lowered standard of living, loss Of con-
! stitutional guarantees of freedom,
martial law, venereal diseases, infant
mortality, bereavement and desola-
/ ton"
Mark Twain's Daughter Quoted
( Clara Clemens, daughter of Mark
/ Twain, is thus quoted
: Every intelligent man in this ma
ton knows that TO kill his neighbor,
b whether German or fellow American,
/ is crime. War is the last stage OF
savagery. The people of this nation,
sweeping aside, if need be, the little
! company of men in Washington, must
speak out their mind and say, We will
/ have none of it,"
/ Consumption is thus attacked:
Compulsory military service is a
! violation in the name of the republic
/ of that individual liberty which the re-
/ public is first supposed to defend.
Compulsory military training is the
method by which kingships and oil
garchies have always perpetusted their
| power.
Military training is training in su-
/ tomato animal obedience. II is cum
| ming destroyer of personal indie
pendence and free judgment. The
/ trained soldier combines emotions of
/ self-importance with the character and
! habits of a slave.
/ "To make trained soldiers of all the
| citizens is to sacrifice on the altar OF
! the nation that vigilant assertion or
liberty which alone justifes a nations
being.
Pacifists Define Patriotism
"The refusal to fight is by no means
a sign of a weak or decaying patriot.
| ism. On the contrary, it may be, ana
/ generally is, an evidence of intelligent
/ human desire to adjust differences by
! reason rather than by rage, and as
/ diplomacy and concession must always
/ play a large part in adjusting terms Of
J neace after the war is ended and the
/ mower to fight longer is exhausted,
! wisdom says it is better to make the
: concessions and discuss the differences
sanely before rather than after the
war"
! The organ of the Woman's Peace
party is -Four Lights" of which Mar
garet Lane is managing editor. This
magazine. published monthly, is sent
} wherever il can reach women who
might be converted to pacifsm. 1t is
replete with arguments for peace.
Here is some of the argument put
forth in a sarcastic vein and written by
! Mary Alden Hopkins:
Women must not feel that they can
not help in the great war because they
are accustomed to dealing with little
things. A bullet is a little thing, but IL
is stronger than life. Women must not
feel that because they work in the mar
row confines of the home they cannot
helm in the great work of destruction.
IL is tender nursery thought that the
baby in the mothers arms, properly
trained, may grow up to destroy more
persons and property than any man be-
fore him. And that this helpless foppy
mink hand may some day write his
mothers name in the blood of the en-
emy-though, of course, it is too early
TO tell just yet which enemy 1t will
then be.
"Accustom your children gradually
to the sight of blood. And for your
self learn to kill little every day. One
sweet woman is accustomed to ask her
self searchingly each night, Whom
have | killed to-day? And to fall
asleep resolving to kill more on the
morrow"
Women Attack Hoover
Herbert C. Hoover, the Food Con-
troler, is called "a military Dictator"
and his advice to women to save food is
called "a satire" thus:
Recently. in referring TO the just
protest of Mrs. Rogers against blaming
women for the wholesale waste of the
food manipulators, he reveals the cloven
hoof of the military dictator, thus:
"Tn any event, this woman's atti
, tude is one that we simply cannot stand
for
as this the language of one who is
seeking to enlist the voluntary cooper
alton of all the women of the country?
an the same statement, to be sure,
he did show his broadmindedness by
saying that he did not believe Mrs.
Rogers TO be in the employ of the Ger
man government.
"As to the facts, the present price
of food would seem to be ample insur-
ance against wanton waste. To the
women whose families have barely
enough TO eat, let alone waste, Mr..
Hoover's admonitions are little short of
satire. A wise official should know that
the housewives of the country are in
no mood to be tainted"
Two issues OF FOur LlBh-s were
suppressed by the Postoffice Depart
ment. The August number appeared
yesterday with the buoyant announce
ment: 1--WE have just had one other
encounter with Federal authority" The
announcement says that "a Department
of Justice official called and demanded
to know whether any of the women ed
itors Of Four Lights were German or
had German ancestors.
"The organization initiated a hurried