The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-10-09
WOMEN ZOE NORTH  END TOLD HOW
 WARS CAN STOP

structive and interesting talk and was listened to with the deepest interest by the auditors. Mrs. Hogan is the wife of the Democratic alderman from the Sixth district.
 The women showed keen apprecia- tion of the witty sallies of Frank Clancy, candidate for alderman. who flayed the local Republican machine for. it's extravaganza.
 Lieut. Joseph J. Devine, candidate for probate judge, said in part: Ut, seems to me the ladies got here early and drove the male members outside. To be perfectly frank I hope they will stay there, because Irhave an: appeal to you mothers and sisters. and sweeth carts of men who served In the great war. I studied French , French in France, that is the only way to learn a language, and you by coming here tonight are following the only course that will give you a clear understanding Of politics, that is by actually taking part.
 My knowledge of French helped me to gain a clearer insight into con- ditions in France from the time of keper in Verdun trying to make a fiv- ing selling notions, a kindly old lady. She asked me in March of 1918 how many men America was going to have in France on July 1st. I told her a million and a half, and when I said that I felt I wouldn't be there July 1st when she found out it was a lie On July 1st in the hospital when I picked up a paper and found Secre- tary Bakers announceent that there were 100000 American soldiers in France it made me very happy to know that that woman would not lose her confidence in me. I had stretched my imagination to the utmost and the American people under the leader ship. of President Wilson had gone to the limits of imagination.
 make my appeal especially to gold-star mothers, but I appeal also to all who had anyone in the service to remember how anxiousIy YOU watched for the postman each day when your. loved ones were away. You must still remember the hours of anguish you spent. The months spent in the hospital and the hard ships we endured at the front I can easily forget, and I only bring them up so that you can recall the days March 1918. Think what you would have, thought then if something could have been given to the American people like the League of Nations to at that time to man who said: There is means of stopping war for all time Wouldn't you have said My God, why wasn't it done? The war was over too quickly for some of us, but I can't forget as our Re- publican friends do the devastation and ruin of France, I can't forget talking to grayhaired women bent over their work in the fields, and their faith that the Americans will save us and there will never be an other war. 'Jamais, jamais, jamais! they cried. Never another war, and to bring that about France is today in the Lea que of Nations.
 WHERE ARE WE?
 I've should be with France to keep the faith with those splendid boys those wonderful boys who will never come back, who died to end war those boys who would still be with us if we had a League of Nations in 1914. The League is the only means presented to the world which tends to end war. I don't say it will pre- vent all wars, but I saw it's ma chinery is so constituted that no na- ton can declare war suddenly and what is the result. Nations are just like small boys, hot word and d fight, but if you pull them apart, they'll growl and say I'll tell my big