Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1922-04-26
PEARL Of GREAT
PRICE DEFINED
BY LADY AsT0R
Is Unselfishness, Vision,
Courage and Cleanliness,
VisCounteSS Declares at
Dinner in New York.
(By The Associated Press.)

New York, April 25.--Lady Aston,
[ in the speech which she prepared
today for the annual luncheon OF
the Associated Press at the Wal
dorf-Astoria, defined as the pearl
of great price which she was striv-
ing to place in public life by enter
ing politics, what any man gets
from his mother and what most
: men get from their wives If they
choose observation-disclosures, vision,
| courage and cleanliness"
! But, said the first woman seated
| in the British house of commons to
turn to practical politics, what the
world now needed most in practi-
! cal way was work, and trade was
Ithe most practical way to start
work.
Establish confidence" she
urged, first, confidence between
capital and labor, then confidence
| in your government, then conf
idence in other nations"
There, she continued, was where
the press came in.
Press Can Unite Countries.
1T is for the press to unite
ISouHttito lcl tLdue anu prosperity
and peace.
I know many of the
American foreign correspondents.
They are most able men,
a credit to the American press
They are trustworthy. That is the
opinion formed by the people who
know in England.
IF the press wants to unite
countries. it can. If it wants to
disunite them it can. America wants
lpeace. America started the league
Of nations. All Europe looks to
America, not for large armies, not
even for food, but for a great moral
lead. Help us. I do not know who
has been kinder to me since | got
home, the public or the press.
do know that if the press had not
been SO kind the public would
never have been, and / should like
TO thank the Associated Press here
today very deeply, for the splendid
welcome.
II am not so grateful for this
for myself alone as for this--you
see when a person leaves her own
country and goes to another, ma
turally there's apt to be prejudice
against her in both countries.
know or felt it myself Then when
that person. can't say unfortun-
ate person-happen to care deeply
about both countries and even more
deeply about things concerning all
countries. her task is not made
easier.
ITS easy enough to take the
easy way in any country. It's not
always so easy to take what you
feel is the right way in any coun-
try, but here l ana proof to all
countries that England and Amer
lea Will. give you a chance IL you
can prove to either of them that
what you are striving for is some
thing which will hurt no man,
woman or child Of any country.
but which you earnestly feel is
going to help all countries.
Pearl of Great Price.
Now you will ask, what Is this
pearl of great price? What does
this woman think will help all
countries?'
I'll tell you. 1t is the pearl of
great price that l am striving for
Il am striving to take into public
life what any man gets from his
mother and most men get from
their wives. If they choose wisely.
she wants this-just to put into
public life what she's always had
TO put. into her home life-elso
none OF her young men would have
peen mere today-unselfishn vi
sion, courage and cleanliness-th
real kind. the kind which helps
men to live up to what's best ia
tHem, and there's so much good in
an men; but only good women can
bring it out.
1t may sometimes seem hard,
this mother love, and you will feel
that you know better, but you don't
really. That's what is hard about
being pioneer; you don't realize,
you men, how much you need our
help.
Arena of Politics.
NOW no mother really wants to
DC dlsagreeable and often, to make
you what you are, We have to do
dlsagreeable things. So We feol to
make the world better; we must
40 disagreeable things and enter
the arena of politics. It's well
described as an arena and there's
many stout old pagan in it, yet In
1t we must go.
so, gentlemen, now that you
know what it's all about you will
see why l am SO deeply grateful
10 you, far more grateful than |
can say; for in spite Of your think
Ing us a sex who talks too much,
we don't even then tell you all we
know