South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1920-05-20
BELIEVES WOMEN
CAN PREVENT WAR
Lecturer Says Women Unob.
structed Vision Necessary
TO Insure Peace.

the present man-made scheme OF in
ternational relations, and women.
given the chance. will avoid mans
international mistakes
such is the sermon read 10 man
kind by Miss Maude Royden, assist
ant preacher AZ the City Temple,
London. Miss Royden is the daugh-
70 OF baronet. an oxford university
extension lecturer. an editor and
leading worker for the cause OF
equal suffrage and for the League of
Nations. AS such she has lectured
extensively in America.
nany Mistakes.
Various members OF the interna-
tional organization of women which
has been striving to make the
League Of Nations effective have,
during recent weeks, charged that
failure Of the handmade" league 20
date has been almost wholly due TO
handmade" mistakes.
The International News Service
asked Miss ROyden TO clarity this
issue, to explain the reasons for the
growing dissatisfaction of thinking
women with the at least partial fail
ure Of the worlds greatest interna-
tiOnal experiment
THE League of Nations is being
repuduiated by the very people
whose one hope it has been through
out the black years OF the war" said
Miss Royden.
ut is safe to say that many peo-
pie retained their vanity and their
faith in the future of humanity dur
ing the war because they believed
that the world would never allow
such a horror again, and that the
/ one object of every statesman would
| be TO so organize international re-
| latiOns in the future as to remove
| forever the reproach of our modern
| civilization-that il had no Other
| methods than that of the most prim-
tive and savage tribe for settling
| its inter-tribal disputes. To these
same people even the peace of Yer
| sailleS-unworkab and unjust as
| they perceived many of its clause
| 10 be-still contained the promise
/ of better things in that it enshrined
I the covenant of the League of Ma
/ tions.
Hope Possible.
Hope was still possible.
'"The statesmen Of Europe are ap-
/ parently incapable of working any
| machinery except on the old lines.
! They do not seem-with very few
/ exceptions-to have the smallest
| idea what people mean when they
/ talk OF a new world.
1T does not surprise them that,
| after the long comradeShip in arms
of France. England and Italy-and
| a shorter but no less glorious one
with America-the great countries
should now be nursing a growing
jealousy and suspicion of one an
| other.
''We-the people in the street
| imagined that the brotherhood OF
the nations would be realized after
] the war. Our governors, on the
contrary, see all European split up
into little armed camps--or big
armed campS-hating each other,
| fearing each other, preparing TO fight
/ each other, spending their last far
| thing on arms and explosives, while
/ their children die of starvation and
/ philanthropiEos strive TO prolonE
/ their feeble existence by huge (but
\ still inadequate) doles of food and
! money.
And It seems that this is not at
/ all a surprising result, or an INSULT
/ cient reward for the agonizing suf-
/ ferng o. the war. They make no ex-
| cuseS,, they are not ashamed, they
/ are not surprised.
Complete Victory.
| "The allied soldiers won for us the
| most complete victory that ever was
won for any cause by any armies
and this victory has been used to
/ make Europe a worse hell of misery
| than we dreamed OF before it took
/ place. If anyone complains ii s be-
/ cause they are unreasonable.
Some of us are beginning TO re-
| call the dictum of Wellington that
! that the next worst thing TO defeat
/ is victory
''I am persuaded that someone
/ has got TO get into this thing-this
/ shadow that we call The League
l of Nations'-who has not been train
/ ed in the old ways. Not necessarily
| someone better, someone wiser or
I someone stronger; just someone who
/ has not t~ampled his rut so deep
that he can't see over he top Of It.
/ women. in short.
There is just one thing TO be said
| for women in this matter. and that
j is that the yhave none OF the ira
ditions which make it difficult for
men to see sense.
Reads Book.
Il remember reading a book on
/ the way business was carried on in
l the British house OF parliament. AZ
/ or describing its merits and defects,
! its ridiculous pretenses." the author
went on, lit is safe TO say not only
/ that this is 10 be carried on. but that
it is the only possible way. Well,
| Welli
And so the men seriously assure
/ you-mOre, theiy seriously believe
/ that il is the only possible way to
/ conduct matters in which we are
\ all concerned in the prOfoundest
! secrecy so as 10 create the maxi
! mum OF suspicion and unsettlement
\ even when all is we'll. They begin
az the wrong end, and draw new
I fontiers for military purposes, re-
\ GREETING that. alas, the integrity OF
I nations and the principle of self-de-
I termination must be violated to do
so.
Women unaccustomed 10 deal
/ with children, both good and bad
| would not 1 think, have thought OF
I a plan 80 ingenious as to give one
/ child what belonged to another and
/ then provided them with weapons
I because justice demanded that they
I should be allowed to defend them
/ selves from the rage and fear they
/ would certainly feel
To-day we are violating nation
atty everywhere and point out re-
/ proachfuly that. the world beine
what il is, we must be allowed our
! military frontiers and our crushing
/ arm "a ~, aufSf