The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1921-11-15

ing and better co-operase--> among
our foreign element and ourselves,
and did great service with immi :
grants. She was elected to her pres
lent high position in 1920, and will
serve four years. Mrs. Winter has
never been south before. She went
into office the year Mrs. Haley made
out the programme for the Des Moines
convention.
The general federation head has ex-
pressed herself in no uncertain terms
on the question of reduction of arms.
She has declared:
"Have you ever thought what would
happen IL the women of the world
would organize solidly and en-
Enthusiastically to work for peace ms
they did to work for wnrf That
same, united, consecrated patriotism,
in world politics.
World Peace
I'VE are Just now looking once
more toward the sound building of
world peace The things for which
we have been working so long are
dependent, absolutely. upon this issue.
So long as we continue slowly and
painfully with the prospect of war
lowering over US, we are like the child
who builds a house of cards which
the first gust of wind will destroy.
What might we not have in con-
structive progress If the enormous
amount spent upon wars. past. pres
ent and to come, were turned into
channels of production?
No wonder that We have to fight
so hard to get an. appropriation to
save 10000 American babies each
year, when only ~ cents out of each
dollar of taxes we pay can go for
such purposes. and the rest must pay
the constantly mounting war debts!
I'VE call this world question a re-
duction of armament but 1t means
reimbursement of all human relations.
Shall we glare like wild beasts from
nation to nation, or shall we shake
hands dixie gentlemen; shall we spend
our energies in hate. or shall life go
on unafraid and normal? Shall our
money and our time be used for de-
stroying or building? Does the flu
ture hold war, filled with horrors
worse than we have known before, or
shall we take one more step toward
human brotherhood?
China Speaks
Many of us have been interested
in a recent article by the President
of China. in which he finds that the
Christian nations are destroying each
other, and sees in the oriental the flu
ture masters of the earth. We have
seen conferences Observation-Disclosures
that met with high hope and fell
apart or were side-tracked into minor
Issues or became the prey of public
or private selfishness. The success
of this great conference Is going to
depend on the public opinion that sur
rounds 1t, and the efficiency with
which public opinion makes itself
felt. 1t is not only up to- the official
but 1t is up to you and me. We are
the creators of that public opinion
Let us stand by the President in his
efforts in behalf of the future sanity
and safety Of the world. War sweeps
into the dust heap all those things
that we club women work for-cit-
zenship, education, public health, good
institutions. conservation. home life.
child welfare. art. music, literature
and such activities of peace
Now we are told on all sides that
the next war will be infinitely more
cruel and destructive. It may easily
become one of the most hideous cat
aclysms that wipe out q ciliziation
that destroy a race. The very per-
mission to live at all. the very exist
ence OF our children, the building up
of all that makes life~ worth living,
depends on choking 1t down.
U. s. Loves Peace
Can we play only with tho small
things-the minor interests-when
the world is making in choice
Which shall 1t be. war or peace; SAN
lty or insanity; life or death? There
IL no doubt that the people Of the
United States believe in peace and