The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-01-09

Stirred by the declaration of Homer s. Cummings who after stat ing that his partisanship stopped at the waters edge, asserted that the same jacka1s that barked at his (President Wilson's) heels are bark ing and snapping at xhe heels of Sec retary Hughes in his efforts to bring peace to the world.' and by the state- ment of Miss Anne Rhodes, chair man of Women's Activities of the Women's National Republican Club, that she agreed with MT Cummings that this Is a question where party lines just cease to work and where America must demand as a whole that the moves that are in the right direction towards world peace shall be carried through to. a successful conclusion, 2.0O0 men and women of Bridgeport assembled through the efforts of the Bridgeport League of Women Voters at PoHs theatre yes- terday afternoon, unanimously en- Ella Fleck and seconded by Lynn W. Wilson endorsing the aims of the conference for limitation of arrna- ment at Washington and calling upon those aims had been carried into ef- feet.
 In addition to the speeches of Mir. Cummings and Miss Rhodes the pro- gram included an address by pr. Yum Slang Tsao of the Chinese delegation to the Washington conference, vocal selections by Mrs. Nankin and mo- ton picture setting forth the exploits Of the U-35 donated by William Fox.
 Although the meeting was arrang- ed by women. men predominated in the audience.
 The Bridgeport meeting is one of a series arranged by the National League of Women Voters, the second world to arouse interest in the arma- ment limitation conference. and to arouse interest among both men and women and to inform the women of America of the opportunities for membership in the organization. While the League of Women Voters has already become a powerful or- still in it's infancy in Bridgeport, and MISS Euphrosyne Bown made spir- fted and effective appeal during the meeting to Bridgeport women to place the local league in step with those or ganlzed in other progressive com- n1unities by adding their names to the membership list
 MT. Cummings address was a. iznasterly one. He said in part:
 'fI think that we may fairly say that this is a strictly nJon-partisan occasion. There are sometimes when it seems to me that there are much larger things than the question of party politics. Some things that
 
 ing that we must respond to them as We have power to respond to great ideals
 'I don't care what the rnaferialists may say, I believe that the great struggle which we went through was war against war. And into that crucible were poured the lives of Io,- 100000 human beings If the boys whi yalcmfwcmfwcrnfwcm who lay dead in France could arise, and march across this stage four abreast with the usual speed of the armies, do y~u know how long 1t would take them tc pass in review before you? If they marched from sunrise to sunset, and from sunset to sunrise again-24 hours in the day treading across this stage in review, the dead who died in the war would take 40 days and 40 nights to pass be- fore you Why, my friends. we have burned up three hundred billions of dollars. representing the toll and sac rifice of generations of labor. It has destroyed the moral of the nation,
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