Milford chronicle., 1919-09-05
WOMEN DEMAND
WARS SHALL END
Teace League Means More TO
Them Than It Can Mean
to Men.
Or. SHAW'S STIRRING PLEA.
Csy the Late Dr.. Anna Howard s.,,.,

'sy the Late Dr.. Anna Howard Shawl
seven million one hundred thousand
men VINO had laid down their lives in
me great war Think of itl Seven
mlillon' one hundred thousand vopnp
men had died on the field Of bottIar
what does that mean to the women
OF the world? It means that seyen
million one hundred thousand women
walked day by day with their faces
toward an open grave that they might
give life to a son. It means tbat
seven million one hundred thousand
little children lay in the arms of a
mother whose love had made them
lace even the terrors of death that
they might become the mothers of
men.
1t means that year after wear these
women had put up their lives into the
liYes Of their sons until they had rear
ed them to be men. For what? an
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 lone. These
were the things that the women had
in their hearts when they gave~birtb
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 have paid for this war: what
it has cost them, not only in the death
Of their sons, because that is a 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
nothing of the forty thousand English
women who went to work back of the
renches in France.
They tell us nothing of the thou
sands upon thousands upon thousands
IF women who not only toiled and
worked and Slaved in order that the
var might be successful, but we do
lot hear of the thousands of women,
lot alone in Armenia, not alone in
Montenegro, not alone in Serbia, but \
n Flanders, in Belgium, in Rumania, I
N Rugsia-- ~ a.
Who lie in graves today, murdered,
o horribly murdered that men dare
ot speak Of it.
And yet we women are asked what
re know about the League of Ma |
ions; asked what we can understand
bout League Of Nations. Oh men
le horrible deaths; the horrible lives
thousands upon thousands of wO-
zen today in all these nations, who n
ust live, and who must look in the III
ices of children unwelcOmed, unde- N
red-Of little children-and know III
lat these are the result of war. II
And then ask women why they III
lould be interested in a league Of
eace? III
Women Suffer Most From War. III
If there is any body of citizens in III
e world who ought to be interested III
a league to ultimately bring to the III
)rld peace it is the mothers of men, II
d the women who suffered as only III
omen can suffer in the war and in Nh
yastated countries. III
And we call upon them, we women
the world call upon the men who
We been fighting all these battles of
e years, the men who have led =
mics, and led armies close to their ..
lths.
We are now calling upon the men
the world to in some way or an
Ter find a passage out Of the sea Of
lth. We are asking them to form
eague which will bring hope to the
men of the future. If women are
bear sons only that they may die,
women may not have hope
! aspirations for their children,
women may not dream the dreams
It have in them the hope of the
hest civilizations, the highest moral
] spiritual life of the people-if wO-
n may not have these in their