The Grangeville globe. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho) 1907-1922, 1919-10-16
WOMEN DEMAND
| WARS SHALL END
Peace League Means More to
Them Than 1t Can Mean
to Men.
| DR.. SHAW'S STIRRING PLEA.
tBy the Late DR.. Anna Howard Shawl

(By the Late DR.. Anna Howard Shaw.)
Seven million one hundred thousand
men who had laid down their lives in
the great war Think of it! Seven
million, one hundred thousand young
men had died on the field of battle!
What-does that mean to the women
Of the world? 1t 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 a son. 1t means that
seven million, one hundred thousand
little children lay in the arms of a
mother whose love had made them
face even the terrors of death that
they might become the mothers of
men.
II means that year after year these
II women had put up their lives into the
lives Of their sons until they had rear
ed them to be men, For what? 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
we're 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 world?
Who can estimate the price which the
women haye paid for this war; what
It has cost them, not only in the death
Of their sons, because that is phase
Of our war to 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 us Of the courage of
our women, who also went across the
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
women who. went to work back of the
trenches in France.
They tell US nothing of the thou
sands upon thousands upon thousands
OF women who not only toiled and
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 Rumania,
ID Russia-the thousands of women
VINO lie In graves today, murdered,
50 horribly murdered that men dare
not speak of 1t,
and yet we women are asked what
we know about the League of Ma
ions; asked what we can understand
ABOUT League of Nations. Oh men
We horrible deaths; the horrible lives
Vi thousands upon thousands of wo-
ueh today in all these nations, who
faces of children unwelcomed, unde-
slfed-of little children-and know
mat these are the result of war.
And then ask women why they
should be Interested in a league of
peace?
Women Suffer Most From War.
IL there is any body of citizens In
uie world who ought to be interested
~ league to ultimately bring to the
world peace 1t is the mothers of men,
anu the women who suffered as only
women can suffer In the war and in
devastated countries.
ana we call upon them. we women
Vi the world call upon the men who
nave been fighting all these battles of
me years, the men who have led
aiihles and led armies close to their
deaths.
we are now calling upon the men
VI the world to in some way or an
"'her find a passage out of the sea of
'eath We are asking them to form
q league which will bring hope to the
women of the future If women are
~ pear sons only that they may die.
Women hay not have hope
aau aspiratlons' for their children,
women may not dream the dreams
.na' have in them the hope of the
highest civilizations, the highest moral
anu spiritual life of the people-ie wo-
'eh may not have these In their
WARTS as the mothers of men, then
""ihoh will cease to desire to be the
.,'''ii"ts of men. And why should
MY Lo,f Why should they not?