The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-08-12


7 Delegates to represent the PEG.
pie is one CT three aims for which
the Women's Committee for World
Disarmament is working. The 9th.
err two are that there shall be fnu
publicity regarding proceedings
and that side issues shall not be al.
lowed to distract the conferences
from its purpose-to make some de.
cision regarding reduction of arm.
aments.
The sentiment in favor of omen
diplomacy is growing. People arg
beginning to demand that officials
remember that they are representa-.
tives, of the public and to insist tina,
the day of trusting blindly to of.
cialdom to do the right thing is
about over.
"The disarmament conference
should be a public meeting" de.
clared Miss Void. 1.-THE peoDle
should know what steps are taken
as the meeting proceeds, so that
criticism favorable and unfavorable
can be voiced by the people before
final steps are taken. Then, too, II
there is a failure to get results at
the conference the people would
know who is responsible"
The other point is that disarma-
ment- should be the supreme ques-
ton, and not forgotten in discus
sions on what to do with zap and
the Philippines, where TO put the
surplus population of Japan, and is
the Monroe doctrine too ANTICIPATED
for use, and other international SUBJ
jects any one of which might be de.
bated for days without noticeable
progress toward an understandings.
The women's disarmament commit
tee fears that if preliminary con-
ferences and side questions are in
troduced at the meetings, reduction
of ornaments may be put off from
day to day, and possibly in the end
postponed ito some more suitable
date"
To bring these three points to the
attention of women throughout the
country, and then TO have them
point out their wishes to their gov
eminent representatives is keeping
the disarmament committee busy.
When the committee started, no
other organization could be found
that would back so unpromising a
cause as disarmament. Congress.
was considering bigger army and
navy plans and sentiment seemed to
be for protective ornaments re-
CARELESS of the tax burden. Even
churches felt disarmament hopeless
1t the time.
But the committee kept on writ,
ng letters and making appeals, and
n two months the tide turned. No
1ne will ever know how much the
women did to turn public opinion
and official interest towards dis
Once it began to be
-egarded as a possibility, organiza-
ions everywhere have lent their
support Women's organizations
II 81 states are working for the
hree points.
The women's disarmament com
nitee is not combining its activities
o this country, but is writing TO
organizations in England,
rance, Japan and Italy, regarding
he three points of paramount in
crest to them as well as to women
f America. There has not been
ime for answers to these letters to
ONE to America.
1t is known already that women
4 these countries are awake to the
of the conference. To
axe one country, Japan, for in
lance, there is a group of women
imilar to the women's disaTna-
lent committee in this country,
allied the Ladies Association for
'eace." That they have public
eminent with them is indicated by
ne report of Ozaki, the former min
'ter of justice, that of 100000 peo-
lie to whom he has spoken regard
lg disarmament, "a per cent were
/ favor of it.