The Garland City globe. (Garland, Utah) 191?-1925, 1919-09-06
WOMEN DEMAND
WARS SHALL END
Peace League Means More to
Them Than II Can Mean
to Men.
DR.. SHAW'S STIRRING PLEA.
DR.. SHAW'S STIRRING PLEA.
(ey tho Late Or. Anna Howard Shaw,

(By the Late Or. Anna Howard Shawl
Seven million one hundred thousand
men who had laid down their lives In
the great war. Think OF i'll Seven
million, one hundred thousand young
men had died on the field of battlel
What does that mean to the women
of the world2 II means that seven
million one hundred thousand women
walked day by day with their faces
toward an open grave that they might
give life to son. IL mems that
seven million one hundred thousand
little children lay In the arms OF q
mother whose love had made them
face even the terrors of death thut
they might become the mothers OF
men.
II means that year after year these
women had put up their lives into the
lives OF their sons until they had rear.
cd them TO be men. For what7 In
the hope that these sons OF theirs could
give to the world the things for which
women dream, the things for which
women hope and pray and long. These
were the things that the women had
In their hearts when they gave birth
TO their sons.
But who can estimate the value Of
seven million one hundred thousand
dead sons OF the women of the world3
Who can estimate the price which the
women have paid for this war; what
II has cost them, not only In the death
OF their sons, because that is a phase
OF our war 10 which we look.
The Courage Of Women.
We hear our orators tell us OF the
courage OF our men. How they went
across the sea. Very few OF them re.
member to tell ny OF the courage of
our women, who also went across tho
sea; OF the women who died nursing
the sick and wounded; the women
who died In the hospitals, where the
terrible bombs came and drove them
almost TO madness. They tell us
nothing OF the forty thousand English
women who went 10 work back of the |
trenches In France
They tell US nothing OF the thou.
sands upon thousands upon thousands
Va "pAhNh VIM hot ohiy tOlltu anu
worked and shaved In order that the
war might be successful. but we DO |
not hear OF the thousands Of women,
not alone In Armenia. not alone In |
Montenegro, not alone In Serbia, but |
In Flanders, in Belgium, In Rumanla, |
In Russia-the thousands of women |
who lie In graves today, murdered.
A hArrihlu nanrAnrah hat Aa
not speak Of II.
And yet we women are asked what
we know about the League of Ma.
lions asked what we can understand |
about a League OF Nations. Oh men
the horrible deaths; the horrible lives
of thousands upon thousands OF wo.
men today In all these nations, who
faces of children unwelcomed, unde.
sired-of little chlldren-and know
that these are the result OF war
And then ask women why they
should be interested In a league OF
peacef
Women Suffer Most From War.
II there is any body of citizens In
the world who ought TO be interested
In league to ultimately bring to the
world peace II Is the mothers of men,
and the women who suffered as only
can suffer In the war and In
devastated countries. II
And We call upon them, we women
Of the world call upon the men who
have been fighting all these battles OF
he years, the men who have led
armies, and led armies close to their
ieaths. II
We are now calling upon the men
)f the world to in some way or an.
,ther find a passage out of the sea OF
ieath. We are asking them to form
! league which will bring hope to the
women of the future. If women are
o bear sons only that they may die. h
women may not have hope
md aspirations for their children,
women may not dream the dreams
hat have In them the hope Of the n
ighest civilizations, the highest moral Y
nd spiritual life Of the people--if Yo Y
len may not have these In then
carts as the mothers of men, then /
omen will cease to desire to be the
lothers Of men. And why should
hey not? Why should they notf {