Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1922-11-16
MISS ACKERMAN
SPLENDID SPEAKER
GIVES PUBLIC ADDRESSES
AT PRESBYTERIAN
CHURCH


sic Ackerman under the auspices of
the Business and Professional Wom-
ems club at the First Presbyterian
church, is proving a great success as
is attested to by the favorable COM
ments one hears ON all sides. Miss
Ackerman has lived in thirty coun-
tries in twenty-seven years, her time
being devoted to study of condi-
tions.
When asked by a reporter of The
Pilot what she considered our great
est need today Miss Ackerman an
swered: "The ChristianiZing of the
constructive forces of the new social
order by putting decent men in Of
flee regardless of politics or party
lines to enforce the laws. We do
not need new laws so much; we have
good laws now There are names
enough on the church roll of any
community 10 put clean men in office
who would carry out the laws if the
voters had any conscience concern
ing the profession of Christianity in
its relation to citizenship"
Miss Ackerman further stated that
we are nation of egotists, content to
tell "how our forefathers fought and
bled and died for the flag and the
principles it symbolized to them, with
out any endeavor on our part to live
up to or carry on the same princi-
pies" Miss Ackerman says that in
her work throughout the United
States she has found the west much
more ready to take hold of the vital
problems of the new order of civili-
cation than is the east. Not that the
east lacks cultural knowledge but it
seems apathetic toward the big ques-
tions of the day.
Miss Alderman was present at the
disarmament conference and in con-
versation noted Chinese statesman
remarked that 800 books had been
written on who won the war and
when asked if one of his countrymen
had as yet written book on the sub
ject, he replied: "Not yet, but when
he does he will say, When every
Christian country in the world was
flying at the throat of the other they
could not kill each other fast enough
and every pagan country was called
to help in the slaughter, and, if the
war was won, it was won by the pa
gan"
Miss Ackerman was present in the
Shantung province when 300, 900
coolies were sent to France to- take
their place in the fields to release men
for service. England called to her as
sistance the Egyptian and the Indian,
Germany the unspeakable Turk and
France the Moors and Chinese.
When asked as to the Russian situa-
ton Miss Ackerman replied: RUS
sia has advanced fifty years because
of the revolution. Although only two
per cent of her people were literate
at the time the revolutionists tried
to elect their Duma of 900 represen-
tatives, the peasants refused to be
guided by any Duma in which they
felt they were not properly represent
ed and insisted that every man and
woman be allowed to vote for the rep
resentatives they wanted, thus show
ing spirit hardly to be expected
among so oppressed a people, To-
day about 40 per cent Of the army of
Russia is literate."
Miss Alderman believes that every
man and woman should exercise his
right to vote and remarked that few
days ago she was in conversation with
a very sanity old clergyman who told
her that he never voted and raising
his eyes declared he was a citizen of
another country. Miss Ackerman
replied: Friend you are long over
due to claim that citizenship"
Miss Ackerman paid high tribute
to the courage and determination of
the Business and Professional Wom-
ems organization stating that it was
great thing for any group of women
to establish so fine club home and
to endeavor to bring to Wausau things
worth while.
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