Pueblo chieftain., 1921-08-13
WOMEN kHD DISARMAMENT

, poets to arrange delegation to put
! the proposition before the president in
| the near future
JANE ADDAMS SUGGESTED
| When Miss Emma Wold, chairman
of the committee. was asked what
woman II favored As suitable dele
gate. she answered that there are so
many women who are competent TO
discuss ornaments and peace prob
lens that no particular candidate
would be suggested Miss Void mem
toned. however, as a few possibilities,
Jane Addams. who has sat at interna-
tional conferences before and n known
as strong advocate of peace meas
ures: Julia lathrop. head OF I he
Children's Bureau. Rose Schneiderman.
who ran for congress last November.
Ida Clyde Clarke, and Mrs Carrie
Chapman Gait.
she National womans PartT. which
Is backing the woman delegate idea.
Is not supporting any one candidate
either According 20 Miss Alice Paul.
the Woman's Party cannot take sides
on the question of disarmament be-
cause II has one big program before
Ito put women on an equal status
with men in government and before
the law.
From this standpoint alone" said
Miss Paul the party is interested in
the disarmament conference, tho un-
doubtedly many members Of the party.
80 "lAA'AA lAAdlNs UtAu kIIhnE VIEWS on
the subject. of disarmament
The Woman's Party holds that
women should be equally considered
with men I'm making this decision, and
IA meeting Yill be held on August l..
AT our Watch Tower in Washington.
at which a committee on the dlsarma-
ment conference VIII be appointed.
After that. pressure will bC brought
to bear upon the administration. so
That at least one woman may be ON
the commission to discuss disaTma-
ment"
pITILrss PUBIIoITS URGED
Delegates to represent the people is
one Of three aims for which the Wom-
ems Committee for World Disarma-
ment is working. The other two are
gardinE proceedings, and that side
issues shall not be allowed to distract
the conference from itg pur7ose-to
make some decision regarding rcduc-
uon Of arm1ments.
The sentiment in favor Of open
diplomacy is growing People are be-
ginning to demand that officials re-
member that they are rcprescntativeg
OF the public and to insist that tho
day Of trusting oindly to Official
dom to do the right thing Us about
over.
The disarmament conference should
DO a public. meeting. declared Miss
Void. The people should know what
steps arc taken no the meetings pro-
seed, so hat criticism favorable and
unfavorable can be voiced by tho poo
pie before hnsl steps are taken. TbcN
too. II there Ia a failure to get results
at the conference the people would
know Who IS responsible"
The other point is that disnrmnment
should be tho supreme question, and
not forgotten In discussions on what
to do with Gap and the Philippines.
where to put the surplus population OF
Japan. and Is the Monroe Doctrine too
antlquatcd for use. and other intcrna-
tional subjects any one Of which might
be debated for days without noticeable
progress toward an understanding
The women's disarmament commit
tee fears that II preliminary confer
onces and side questions are intro
duced at the meetings, reduction pf
aimhments may he put off from daN
to day, and possibly IN the end post
poned to some more suitable date"
To bring these three points to the at
tontion Of women thruout the country.
and then to have them point out their
wishes to their go' crnment repre-
scntnuFos. Is koepils the disarma-
mont committee busy.
When the committee started. no
other organization could bc found that
would back SO unpromisinE n cause $
disarma ment Congress was consider
ing bigger army AMI navy plans and
sentiment seemed to be for protective
armaments regardless OF tho tax bur-