Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1921-11-30
Women Voters
Discuss Conference
on Disarmament 9
Program Of Especial Interest Given
e at Tuesday Evening Meeting Of the
Augusta Leasue-Mrs. A. o. Thorn
: ~ and Mrs. o. B. Frost the
Snoakers

Speakers -,
A very interesting disarmament
program was carried out Tuesday
evening at the. regular meeting ct
the Augusta League of Women Voters
held in tho Assembly hall at the Y
M. c. A. building. A business meet
ing was first held at which it was
voted to buy a health bond and at
which committee of two was ap-
pointed. to. assist County "Y" Secre-
tary Thomas Leonard with the plan
for a County "Y" conference to be
held here in January.
After the business Of the evening
was disposed of Mrs. A. o. Thomas
delivered a fine address on the Per
sornel of the Conference for the
Limitation Q Armament. She gave
short biography of each of the vot-
ing delegates from the big five" ma =
tions. The men spoken of were: from
the United States, Lodge, Underwood.
Hughes and Root; from Great Brit
ian, Balfour, Lee and Geddes: from
France, BRAND, Jusserand, Sanaut
and Viviani; from Italy. Ricci,
Schanzer. Albertine and Media; and
from Japan. Toaugawa. kato and
Shidehara. Mrs. Thomas made special
mention of the age. both in years and
experience of these men and of things
them for their duties at this confer
ence. 1t was noticeable that two or
three of the foreign representatives
have American wives.
Mrs o. B. Frost then spoke Of the
steps leading up to this conference,
dealing more with the work which the
women Of this country have done and
which has eliminated in this con-
ference. A prominent Republican
women had not got after this aues-
| ton. there would not have been a
| meeting of this sort for years to come.
The two groups of women most &C
tive in this work We're the Women's
committee for the Limitation of Ar
! mament and the League of Women
Voters. These organizations held
| meetings in the large cities and held
q National convention in April of last
| y
| League Of Women Voters for the re-
duction of armament by inter-nation-
disagreement which was presented to
President Harding. The league also
organized a national disarmament
week. Resolutions were sent to the
President and to the White House
both day and night. The resolutions
| OF Senator Borah. for disarmament.
were at that time under discussion
and the President seemed to be
| against them. The credit for causing
him to change his views must in a
large part so to the women who
| thought much pressure to bear upon
| this particular question. In this re-
spect it might he mentioned, that Mrs.
Maude Wood Park. president of the
League Of Women Voters. with other
national officers called upon the
| President and urged the Importance
OF having women representatives at
the conference.
| Mrs. Frost spoke briefly of the ar-
parent attitude, OF the different ma
tons and thought that the other ma
, tions were ready to do as much as We
would. Referring particularly to
Japan, she said that it was hard for
| the people Of this country to under
stand" the people of sthe Orient and
that in her opinion the Japanese were
much misunderstood by us. She said
that we must do all we could to pro-
mote the feeling Of fellowship DE-
tween the two countries and that We
must remember that it is only within
the last 20 years that Japan has
1 broken away from the customs of CEN
turtles and that they had not entirely
got their feet placed yet.
! Miss Mabel Conner then read let
I ter from the, national headquarters of
I the league in which much satisfaction
was expressed that the Sheppard
ToWner maternity bill had been pass
ed. Although this did not go through
as they had expected G. G., some
changes had been made which reverted
to the way the original bill read), it
was thought that this bill would he OF
great worth and that it would continue
| in force.
| IT was then announced that it all
| went well. two men would speak on
The "Prinaries' at the next meeting.
! One would speak fer and one against
the idea ard very interesting debate
would be the result. The meeting
closed with the reading Of the creed Of
| this organization.
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