The Washington herald., 1921-01-15
WOMEN PRESSING
BATTLE In HOUSE
FOR END OF WAR
Peace W Workers Make
Stand on Disarmament
Bill Before Committee
By CONSTANCE DRENEL.

tatlng both Senate and House Of
Representatives. There is no ques-
ton that seems to be receiving more
serious attention on, the floor and
IN the committee rooms of Congress.
and II was to be expected that wo-
men would not allow the Opportu-
nIty OF telling where they stand to
pass unnoticed.
Their opportunity came yesterday
morning at a hearing on the Brooks
resolution before the Committee on
Foreign Affairs of the House.
Edwin B. Brooks is a Representa-
tive from Illinois. His resolution is
very brief and reads as follows:
Text of Resolution.
Resolved. by the Senate and
House OF Representatives of the
United States of America in Con-
gress assembled, that the President
DC, and he is hereby. authorized and
empowered. at his discretion, to in
Vite the governments of all nations
to send accredited delegates to an
International convention, to be held
in the United States, to consider
ways and means of bringing about
joint disarmament"
The hearing before the committee
to which a resolution is referred
gives people a chance to say what
they think about IT, and then the
committee is expected to report Ia
vorable or unfavorable before the
resolution can even have a chance
to come to a vote on the fioOr.
Hearing Lively.
The hearing this morning was a
very lively AFFAIR. Democratic and
Republican members of the COM
mittee frequently interrupting the
speakers to hurl questions at each
other.
If you want disarmament" spoke
fup Representative Flood, of Nir-
ginia, why didn't you go into the
league of natiOns?"
The American people said what
Athey thought about that scheme last
November." fired back a Republican
Representative
That's because you fooled them
about Article Y. What's the mat
kter with Article VIII, which is about
disarmament" the controversy
ragged.
\ Mrs. Jessie Hardy Maokaye, of
4 New York, legislative chairman of
the woman's Peace party. who was
speaking. gently but firmly remind
ed the gentlemen OF the committee
that women were not interested in
the political advantage that might
be considered
Gives women's side.
whether the American people
were or were not correctly inform
ed" she said. rs neither here nor
there. We simply know that we
have not gone into the league Of
nations. and we women think it
perfectly fitting for the American
people to call upon their Chief EX-
eCutive whether ii be President
Wilson or President Harding to
call a disarmament conference such
a. the Brooks resolution suggests.
Mrs MacKaye. as we'll as other
speakers. referred to the provisions
Of the HensIey naval act of August,
1915. which authorizes the President
to call such a conference.
We are still technically at war,
il was pointed out. therefore the
100000 appropriated for this pur-
pose by this act is right in the
Treasury. ready for the President
to use. The Brooks resolution sim
ply asks him to call world dis
armament convention
Other Speakers.
The other two women speakers
were Mrs Henry Willard, of New
York, president of the Womans
Peace party, and Miss Ethel Smith,
legislative chairman of the National
women's Trade Union League, who
spoke as a representative of the
American Federation of Labor.
The working women know what
IL l. i
even the guns and the ships for
war. And what has it amounted
to-" she asked The majority Of
congress did not think it would
gain the end by entering the league
of nations. We have a perfect right
to look to that majority to find
some other way, and this resolution
is a step
Members of the committee de-
cIared that the women had made
fine showing. and they were much
Impressed with the common sense
of the testimony.
In 1890 william Penn formulated
n plan for league Of>nations and
advanced a social philosophy as ap-
nIicable today to the international
Situation as regards ornaments and
var as it was in Colonial times,
CONSERVATIVES of the Society OF
Friends Of Philadelphia yesterday
told the House Foreign Affairs
committee. They urged favorable
scrion on the Brooks resolution au
tborizing the President to call an
International conference on disarm-
ament. ,,
mia. secretary of the field force of
tbs Society of Friends, presented
~ the committee for its delibera-
ION william Penn's league of ma
Harvey said that differences with
Canada over 100 years ago had been
settled by arbitration.
IF 2 nation looks for war it will
have war" he declared, and If it
looks for peace it shall have peace.
T. Ia largely a state of mind, and
: We continue to arm, We are going
90 have another outbreak"
He pointed out that while 10 the
.,nronriations for the fiscal year
Ia51 EOS per cent was provided
For ornaments, that in the apprO-
nriation for the fiscal year 1922,
% per cent was for this purpose.
IN disarning Germany, he said, the
| .I1jas had done that country pro
found service"
Dr. Harvey c. Wiley went into
details how chemistry and physics
to5ay were using their best energies
~ invent big guns only to be scrap
- when the other fellow invented
goT,ething still more dreadful.
lively tiff arose during the tes-
- Mrs Willard who is q