Evening star., 1921-08-16
WOMEN OF WORLD
UNITE For PEACE
Jane Adams at International
League Meeting Makes
Keynote Speech.
ny KATHLEEN b. JENNIsON.

Special Correspondence of The Star and Chicago
Daily News.
VIENNA. Austria, July 12.-Jane
Adams struck the keynote of the
Congress of the Women's Internation-
al League for Peace and Freedom
which is being held here in Vienna
this week. in her short opening ad-
dress on the morning of July 10. She
alluded to the congresses of 1918 al
The Hague, and of 1919 at Zurich ana
expressed the hope that this third in
ternational congress held in a coun-
try that has suffered SO much through
the war as we'll as through the peace.
might promote understanding ana
good will among nations. AS YET
she added, 1.-The groups working In the
different countries are small, but
every good. thing has been begun by
the few. We want to state that war
is not a natural expression or hu-
man conceptions. War may be as olu
as the world, but war including mass
against mass is only twenty centuries
old, and we want to create new or
der in which there is no room for war:
Women who generate life Will WORK
| to preserve life, and loosen all tne
forces in the world to promote
peace. War has to be made impossiII
BILE forever That is why We have an
come together May we open this
congress with the wish that it may
bring constructive forces into the
world"
1t is we'll night Impossible to ex-
press in an adequate way the eas
spirit of cooperation which pervaoes
the assembly hall of this third peace
congress, the fire which gives warmtn
and zest to the program and MAKES
priceless these meetings In Austrla
capital. Vienna. the city OF mus, nus,
clans, of universities. OF magnincehs, J,
buildings, now made so bitterly ana
hopelessly poor by war! 1t is nttlns
that women from all over the Worlo
should meet here to protest aeaihss
anv further wanton tearing down Oh
constructive energy.
Many Lands Represented.
When Miss Adams. as international
president of the league. opensd the
congress she stood halfway down
! long table with members OF tne
ecutive committee on either hano. tac
fhg the huge, magnificently sculptured
music hall in which sat delegates
from thirty countries. The Americans
occupied the first three foSes on t1e
left and on, around and in the poay
of the hall came representatives. .,n IRON
Australia Austria, Belgium. Bulgaria.
Canada, China. Czechoslovakia. Dem
mark, Finland. France. Germany,
Great Britain, Greece. Hungary, INDIA
Ireland. Italy. Japan, Jugosiavia. Mex
leo, Netherlands. Norway. Poland
Roumania. Sweden. Switzerland the
Ukraine and Uruguay.
Among the delegates from organi-
cations having interests in common
with the Women,.s International
!. League were Mrs. Henry Willard. pres
ident of the Women's Peace Society,
UAited States: Mrs. Maud SchWartz'
secretary of the International WON,
: ems Trade Union League. United
/, States; Frau won Furth. international
Woman Suffrage Alliance. Austria;
. Nine. Clara Guthrie d'Arcis. Union
Mondiale de la Femme, Switzerland;
Frau Korber. Union 1nternationale
, des Etudiantes pour la Paix ct les
Droits de la Femme. Switzerland. and
, Mrs. Helen Curtis of the Pan African
! Congress. United States.
After Miss adams opening words
. Frau Yella Hertzka, president OF the
Austrian section OF the league, maze a
moving speech of welcome. She ad-
dressed herself first to the old and
new sections and then to the individ-
,ual women who have done SO much for
the peace movement. who have worked
i in the conquered countries as well as
! in those that were victorious. for the
relief of families that are destitute
and throughout the war have been full
i Of courage and full Of the real love OF
mankind.
Austria" said Nine. Hertzka, has
, suffered unspeakable misery during
the last two years. and is suffering
still. Vienna. however. has one great
consoler-music-wh has been a
stimulus to the Viennese who have
shown pluck and courage through
hopeless times. The Austrian people
. are willing to work hard for their
freedom. And the same spirit lives
in Austrian women. We rejoice that
we are part of our new republic
which has been founder without the
spilling of a drop of blood. But we
must take care that we use our rights
as citizens in the best possible way,
that we respect, first of all, the holi-
ness of human life. The laws that
contradict this principle. that do not
hold life sacred. must be done away
with. We must replace them with
constructive laws that protect life.
I'VE Austrians have realized this
principle through bitter experience
and we would like to spread 1t over
all the world. That is why we are
happy to have the congress here, that
all women present may help to make
Vienna a center Of peace"
The mornings Of the week Of July
11-16 are devoted to congress busi-
ness, the afternoons to committee
meetings and to visits to various re-
lief agencies and the evenings to pub
lie peace meetings.