The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-11-18
Women
 IoEnd War
 For All inc

l
 war shall come no more and that
 peace shall be enjoyed forever" said | Hiss Sheepshanks, who was one of 1 the speakers who addressed the mem | bers of the League of Women Voters and their friends after the banquet at | the Stratfield hotel last night which | closed the annual state convention of | two days.
 Many prominent foreign states
 men are even now blaming the won-
 en for not preventing the last wal | but they are a little harsh. for women
 were not in power then. but now there is no excuse for them. If | women are seeking more rights for | themselves let them show the world | what they can do for humanity when 1 these rights are granted, she said. | adding:
 England has just spent many mil lion dollars to send an expedition to l Constantinople and this money will be made Up by depriving widows of ! their pensions; babies of clinics care | and of the free milk, given at public | stations: and abandoning the praise. worhy practice of serving free dinners | to children of poor parents.
 In several other ways Miss Sheep shanks showed how England has to l starve and kill its women, children 1 and babies in order to have enough
 money to feed the great god of war.
 Continuing, the English woman said:
 'Tt won't be of any use to tidy up
 the nations, we must act so that etern- | al peace will be assured. The na- tions of the world must begin coop erating instead of competing. All the nations of Europe look to Ameri- ca to step in and settle this matter; become the arbitrator, because 1t is the biggest nation and it is the big get nation because it has the biggest cooperation and the biggest free trade. But the way to make Ameri- ca still bigger Is to extend this idea and to bring all nations into it." Favors League of Nations. Miss She epshanks discussed at
 length the difficulties between Eng land and France and accused France l of using her devastated areas 10 ex- cite pity instead of grasp1ng every opportunity to rebuild them. The
 English Labor party. she declared, has become unusually influential in
 tributed to the fact that it Is the | only party which has definite for | eign policy. It proposes to excuse the l debt from France on terms and the means that France will withdraw her army from the Rhine and that France l will lower the bill for reparat1on from Germany.
 Miss Sheepshanks declared, as did | the other speakers. that while the League of Nations may not be a per- feet plan as it stands at present, it is
 the surest, logical means by which he world may get back on it's feet. The address by James McDonah, of the Foreign Policy Association, was especially interesting. He took up separately the plight of each country, and expressed fears for the survival
 of Russia and Poland during the next ten years. He explained the deplora- ble conditions in this country and the frightful depreciation of the stand ards of money.
 France cannot forget that the Ger mans have not paid, and although
 Germany has already given much money to France, it has not been the cost of maintaining the huge army which France keeps on the Rhine has eaten it entirely up. or
 ohe conditions in Germany many
 France everything looks rosy in Ger
 many, but 1t is just the opposite. There is no saving there. The middle ulass which before the war were country, invested their entire savings In what was known there as 'Liberry Bonds." Five thousand marks were
 paid for the $1,000 bond during the government will pay the bond hold CTS back the 5000 marks which now amounts to about fifty cents. The people who are supposed to be max
 
 aren't getting even a living wage They will not save their money for they never know what this weeks pay will amount to next week. the
 Other Speakers
 Mir. Mcdonald told of a certain German man who went to an cleo tIical shop in Germany and bought storekeeper knew that there were no wires in the purchasers house and so asked the reason for buying so many bulbs. Well, the customer re piled, "The bulbs may be worth something next month, but no one can tell about the money
 America must remember that she is confronted by vicious circle: Germany which cannot pay; France which will not relinquish her claims on Germany unless England in turn England who will not release her claims On France unless America re- dnqufahes her claim on England"
 The third address of the evening was given by Miss Ruth Morgan chairman of the committee on Inter national cooperation to present War NatIona1 League of Women Voters, and the final speaker was Miss Grace Abbott, chief of the Federal Chil- dren's Bureau
 Legislative Program
 Dicussion of the resolutions to be placed on the active and reserve list l for the Legislative program for next l year occupied most of the morning 1ession fss sGe at at & the eo8ysntion Wot of the field hotel. The first list included l the fostering of the child welfare | and hygiene program e the State | Board of Health in accordance with | the Sheppard-Towner act; the pas | sage of law restricting the hours | or labor for women; and regulations 1 For the eligibility of women fo, Jury | duty. The main features on the re- 1 sere list was the efforts to raise the 1 age of consent. the methods of deal | ing with illegitimacy. the regulation | of street trade and the reorganIzs.- don of State departments.
 The report of the credentials con- | nittee showed that 191 delegates l and f3 alternatives were present. After the business meeting the vot | ing began and continued until a | o'clock when the following elections | were annouced: president, Mrs Her bert Knox Smith of Harrington; vice presidents Mrs William H |