The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-11-19
WOMEN DEMAND A
PEACE TABLE VOICE
Organizations Meet and Adopt
Resolutions Asking Pres
ident to Act.
TAKE FLING AT LAWYERS
DR.. Shaw Says They Could Not
Frame Constitution PeO-
= pie Would Accept.

DR.. Anna Howard Shaw, who has
passed the last two years in Washing
ton as chairman of the women s commit
tee of the Council OF National Defence,
came 10 New York to tell heads of
women's organizations who gathered at
the Hotel McAlpin last night to urge the
appointment OF women on the delega ton
to the Peace Conference that unless
women take a stand for themselves
governments will never take IL for them
i've come TO feel that since I've been
In Washington" she said THE Gov
eminent means to be Just, but 1t forgets
MY secretary writes me to-day that
thousands of young women who reported
at the capital in response to the urgent
call OF the Government for patriotic
women to serve as stenographers. clerks
&c. are being discharged. and in some
cases they came without enough carfare
to return home. and the war ending so
quickly they haven't been able to save
up enough TO take them home. The Gov
eminent owes it to those women to send
them home just as much as 1t owes 1t
to tie soldiers to get them home.
1T isn't because women know more
that we want them at the peace table.
| know they>/know more about some
things and men know more about
some things. but women and men to-
gether know all there Is to know about
anything Women aren't going to as
sumo TO be constitutional lawyers-but."
said DR.. Shaw with twinkle, "a certain
very able constitutional lawyer failed. in
1915, with other able males at the Con-
stitutional Convention to draw up n
constitution that the common people Of
New York would accept. The people
the men people--voted II down.
Mrs. Gait Reads Resolution.
"lf this country is TO stand BY the
vision of just and righteous world,
pictured by President Wilson as no
other man has pictured It. there must be
women as we'll as men at the peace ia
ble' else II will be a LIBEL on all this
country has been saying and fighting for
"A libel on equality and liberty"
Mrs. Carrie Chapman Gait president
OF the National Woman Suffrage Asso-
citation. began her speech by reading the
Following resolution, which was adopted
by the 400 women present and will be
sent to President Wilson:
Whereas the great war just ended
has been a partnership OF all the people
of every belligerent country. composing
two vast armies. one in the trenches and
one OF civilians who have formed n
second line OF defence TO supply the
needs of the fighters, thus making IL pos
sihle to night; and
Whereas the war could not have been
carried TO a victorious conclusion with
out the aid Of women in civilian activ-
tiles, as is shown by the testimony OF
men in high authority in every bellger-
ent land; and
Whereas all truly Intelligent people
now wish to make a final end of war
and so 10 reorga nize the forces of civil
iZation ae~to NAL future; war nmpossi.
BILE: and
Whereas women compose half of
society, with very special and peculiar
interests TO he conserved and protected.
all too frequently overlooked by men;
therefore be IL
Resolved that We urge the President
of the United States 10 give ADEQUATE
representation on the United States
delegation to the Peace Conference. We
urge him to select women whose broad
experience and sympathies render them
competent 70 defend and support every
point which bears upon the establis
mcnt OF liberty for all the peoples of
this world. and especially upon the pro-
lection OF women and children in peace
and In war We urge him to select
women who may be relied upon TO up
hold free representative institutions
based upon the will OF all the people in
every land in which independence Is es-
tahished In order that democratic in
stitutons may make an end of war"
Many Letters to BE Written.
Mrs. Gait urged that the women OF
this country join with the women Of
Great Britain in demanding adequate
representation for their sex at the mo-
mentous conference. Womens organ!-
cations In various States are beginning