The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-08-31
Women and World Union

MRS. FLORENCE GUERTN TUT

wi TIES Women and World Eel
Grafton is an appeal to the women Of
America to realize the part that is theirs
in establishing lasting world peace The
League of Nations is Mrs. Tuttle's solu-
ton, and its possible failure, she feels, will
be due to lack of support from women
who have not so far appreciated the Mes
sianic nature of the compact. WARS
Will not cease until liberated women in
large numbers join liberated men in de-
handing that they shall cease; demand
and go out and work for their demand
just as they organized and went out TO
gain suffrage" So writes Mrs. futile,
whose task it is to see that they go armed
with complete understanding of their de-
mand. She bewails the fact that, cut OF
from supplies, she once had to go to six
homes before she could find a copy of the
Declaration of Independence. Also the
confession of an American soldier that
he has not in the three months since his
return heard single woman mention tie
forts are directed against just such abys-
NAL ignorance and Indifference
- Now while the league is more or less u
an open issue, she urges, let the women
awake, study and improve We haze not,
as. Mr.. Leacoek says of US in the matter
of prohibition, locked the door and thrown
the key away. Already one amendment
giving women the right TO hold Office in
the league has been made, and, 'if wome,
find upon close study that the league is
not TO their liking, let them take steps to
make it what they wish, but let them re-
member always that there is no substitute
which is immune from risks"
Mrs. futile has a masculine impatience
for the other side of the question, although
she makes sturdy efforts toward overeom.
ing it III such chapters as The League and
It's Critics. The great fear of it In Amer
lea she declares comes from thought of
threatened prosperity, but this is an atti-
tude of the minority only, and, turning
her bayOnet toward the Senate, that this
minority is under the spotlight that falls
upon the stage of the United States Senate
is unfortunate. 1t gives an American
patriot sudden hot sense cf shame" As
for the patriots in the army who stand
against the league, returning generals for
example who talk of ''getting our boys
ready for the next war;" Mrs. Tutt'e
would have none of them. They have
plucked the mote from Germany's eve
and placed it in their own. 1--WE have
fought great war to put down war ard
militarism, but in reality what spirit has
the war bredl 1t is up to mothers to sec
that no bo; is ever again sent to the
trenches"
"WOmen must not fear revolution.
They must comprehend and direct it.
Revolution is the friend and not the foe Of
women Women must stand against vio-
lence, but for honest rebellion wherever
injustice reigns," writes Mrs. futile in
chapter on Women ana Revolution which
establishes the fact that in this hour Of
the worlds darkness it is for American
women to arise and inseribe "Liborty"--
righteous and universal industrial liberty
in flaming letters upon the dome of tire
world. In another chapter the balance os
power is discussed as an alternative to tie
League of Nations, and special attention
Is given in group Of appendices to tie
fourteen points, the Paris covenant and
lastly to Wom0H's Programme to End
Var, cmbOdying what the woman's peace
party of New York demands of its eandi-
dates for the next Congress.
WOMEN AND WORLD FEDERATION.
By FLORENCE GUEKtfN FUTILE. Robert