New-York tribune., 1921-11-13
w omen Parade
In Dena11dT
w orld Disarm
Immediate, Universal and
Complete Movement Is
Called For by Thousands
in March Up Fifth Avenue
Would Scrap Battleships
Veteran Suffragists and Ori-
entails in Demonstration
of the Peace Societies

Women dramstized their plea for dis
armament in a parade which moved up
Fifth Avenue yesterday afternoon, one
thousand strong. They carried no ban
ners but the white flag Of peace. There
was no flash of crimson and gold and
blue. to- make q brilliant spectacle of
their patAde--iust column after column
of f$mall white banners, above the drab
masses Of the women in their winter
coats and uuffiers.
The very lack Of pomp and pagentry
however, served their cause we'll. 1t
told better than banners just what they
were--a band of women, unorganized
united by no bond but the hatred of
war, hastily assembled on the day of
Washington, to utter their protest
against any compromise with the war
gods.
For Immediate Disarmament
Immediate, Complete, Universal Dis
armament this was the theme of
the parade, expressed in the largest
banner carried by eight women at the
head of the parade.
Many of the marchers we're the same
women who: in 1911, carried the first
suffrage flag up Fifth Avenue, and the
flag which headed them yesterday was
the same that led that first suffrage
parade-"Forward Out of Error. For
ward Into Light" This was carried by
Miss Eleanor Brannan, daughter Of
ARs, John Winters Brannan. Both
mother and daughter have been active
In the suffrage campaigns, even to serv-
ing as pickets at the White House.
Behind Miss Brannan marched the
members of the Women's Peace Society
and the Peace Union, the two organi-
cations responsible for the parade
with them marched Mrs. Henry Viii
lard. sturdily disregarding her seventy
seven years and the chill wind which
beat against the parade.
;, Alter these were delegations from
the Amalgamated Clothing Workers,
the Community Church, the Workers
Council of Brooklyn Citizens Com
mlttee, the Order of the Golden Rule.
the League for Mutual Aid and the
Harding urging the success of the con-
Church of the Ascension.
There was small group, of Chinese
girl students from Columbia Univer-
sity, and Japanese women telling the
onlookers that 10000 Japanese women
had signed a message to President
Harding urging the success of the cno-
ference.
sho'+ not kill" was one of the
banners which won scattered out
bursts of applause from the shivering
crowds on the curb. For the most
~>eenue gazed on the march
ers without response. There was no
laughter as there was for these first
suffrage parades; there was no hos
tiilty as there might have been for a
peace demonstration at any time when
the hearts of the people were not
filled with high hopes for the Arma-
ment Conference.
The fact that these paraders were
out, more in protest against the pos
eible weakness of the conference than
ia support of it, was apparently not
comprehended by the crowds. They
gazed stolidly at sucn sentences as
this:
"scrap the battleships and the
Pacific problem will settle itself" and
'the way to disarm is to disarm."
The parade started from Washington
Square at o'clock, and moved up the
avenue under police escort, occupying
-one-half of the width of the street.
Southbound traffic flowed unrestrained
but the police protected the women
against interruption from northbound
vehicles. At Fifty-seventh Street they
turned east and disbanded.
Mrs. Caroline Lexow Babcock, chair
man of the parade, announced it's pur-
pose as follows:
AHS4C 10 WsuCop1S eau ucCcIlIll lilo
tion to bring genuine disarmament out
of the international conference begin.
ming to-day. The Administration is
calling it an arms conference, or q
Conference on the Limitation of Arma
ment, but the people are calling it :
disarmament conference. The womer
who are here to-day say they are not
content to sit back and wait while the
great powers decide what to do with
China. They want the conference tt
get right to work on disarmament, anc
they are convinced that if it begins By
scrapping the battleships most of the
Pacific problems will settle them
selves"
Among the marchers were DIR. Kath
arine Bement Davis, Miss Zona Gale
Mrs. Florence Kelly, Miss Elinor Byrns
Mrs. Edward Thomas, Mrs. Jacob Riis
Mrs. Scott Nearing, Katharine Dever
eux Blake, Mrs. Calvin Tompkins
Paula jacob, Mrs. j. E. Ruutz- Rees
Bertha Mailly, Mrs. Annie Riley Hale
Mrs. Felix Adler, Mrs. Jane Thompson
Bausman. Edwina Stanton Babcock
Ami Mali Kicks, Jessie Wallace Hugh
an, Crystal Eastman, Mrs. John Dewey
Mrs. Mary Ware bennett, Sara Conboy
Miss Ida Craft, Sarah Cleghorn, Mrs
Charles Knoblauch, Mabel Potter Dag
gett, Mrs. Robert Admson and Miss
Martha Davis, the granddaughter Of
Lucretia Mott.
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