The New York herald., 1922-05-23
LADY ASTOR WARNS
j. s. IN FAREWELL
Says if America Wants
Peace She Had Better En-
ter Peace League.
POINTS OUT PARADOX
Asserts We Ask League to
Protect Oil, Refuse to Aid
Christians Tortured.
1900 HEAR 4oTH. SPEECH
NOtables at Dinner for nj. P.
Who Sails To-day After
t Months Visit.
1,5OO HEAR 40TH SPEECH

Lady Astor said farewell to the
American public last night at a dinner
given in her honor by the League for
Political Education in the Hotel Astor.
| 1t was one of the largest affairs she
/ las attended since her arrival from
England more than month ago.
When $500 acceptances to the leagues
4 invitations had been received the
reservation list was closed. although
hundreds more wanted to hear tie
flnal message from the vivacious M. p.
+ The occasion marked the close OF a
series of speaking engagements In the
interests of world peace and woman's
political emancipation. Lady Astor,
with Lord Astor, who was also one
of last nights speakers. will start Tor
England on the Aquitania at noon to-
day.
Woman NJ. c. Among Guests.
Special interest was given to the din
ner by the fact that Miss Alice ROBERT
son, Representative from Oklahoma ana
the only woman in the House at pres
ent, was a guest OF the league. These
English speaking countries have met
before, but this was their first appear
ance together on a public platform.
Although they hold opposite views on
some questions relating to the advance
ment of women, they agree on one. and
that is that there should be no woman's
party. Lady Astor predicted there
would be no division in politics on sex
grounds despite the fact that certai..
faaH hot, n nd n a.
yocate such q thing. She declared that
woman's party was impractical.
The committee in charge of the dinner
included Henry w. Taft, chairman Mrs.
Henry A. Alexander, Mrs. Z. II. Harri-
man. Mrs. Egin r. l.. Gould. Miss Mabel
Choate. Miss Charlotte S. Baker. Mr.
and Mrs. Frank A. Vanderlip. Mr.. and
Mrs. Robert Erskine Ely. Mr.. and Mrs.
William H. Bliss, Mr.. and Mrs. John T.
Pratt, Mr.. and Mrs. Felix NJ. Warburg
AIR. and Mrs. George Gordon Battle and
Alton B. Parker.
Miss Spence presided. Others at the
quest table with Lady Astor were John
w, Davis. Alice NJ. Robertson. Oscar S.
Straus. Mrs. Charles Dana Gibson.
Henry Rogers Winthrop Miss Mabel
Choate. Col. Michael Friedsam. Mrs.
Frank A. Vanderlp. Robert G.. Mead.
Mrs. Quincy A. Shaw. Marguerite l..
Smith. Adolph Lewsohn. Mrs. Elgin r.
T.. Gould. Miss Florence NJ. Marshall
Robert Erskine Ely. Mrs. Schuyler n.
Warren. Lord Astor, Mrs. Robert
Erskine Ety. the Rev. F. j. Foakes
, jackson. Mrs. Alfred Lyttleton, Henry
w Taft. Mrs. John W. Davis. Charles
Dana Gibson. Mrs. Henry Rogers Win
throp. Prof. John Bates Clark. Miss
Margaret Woodrow Wilson, Miss Annie
Mathews. Charles NJ Dickinson. Mrs.
Felix NJ Warburg. Miss Charlotte $.
Baker. George Gordon Battle and Mrs.
Ralph l.. Shainwald.
Ea-Prcsident's Daughter There.
Miss Margaret woodrow Wilson,
daughter of former President Wilson !;
Miss Mary Garrett Hay. Mrs. Carrie
Chapman Gait and Mr.. and Mrs. Charles
Dana Gibson we're among those present.
Miss Hay and Mrs. Gait represented the
! League Of Women Voters. which organ
iZa.ion invited Lady Astor to come to
. America and address its convention. held
recently In Baltimore and Washington.
The League of Women Voters has
appointed a committee. including Miss
! Hay. Mrs. r. Louis Slade, Mrs. Herbert
! l.. Pratt and Miss Katherine Ludington.
TO see Lady Astor off at the pier to-day.
Robert Erskine Ely, chairman of the
/ League for Political Education. intro
] uuttu l<ddy fASboi dl tHc
The sprightly Commoner from Ply
mouth said;
Education Is a dangerous thing un-
/ less II is started on the right lines. To
/ start educating yourself for yourself is
certainly one of the most misleading or
! mistaken forms of self-mprovemen
Real education should educate us out OF
J self into something far finer-into a self
/ 1essness which links us with all human
\ inoI f<t. r1x. l.
same. The more ! see of life the more
see that the only way is the narrow
way and broad view.
when / landed here In New York
about four weeks ago expected to mako
two speeches and then go 10 Virginia
and renew my youth. 7 have made al
together over forty speeches. I spent
only eleven days In Virginia and my
youth obviously has not ben renewed
However. in spite of talking. I have
learned a lot. ! have found out what
wonderful thing II is to belong to two
countries and try to be preiudiced
against none. I've learned. too. how
well AZ countries and all States think
or Virginia. and well they might IL
was In Virginia that the first laws Of
the best lawmakers in the world were
put INTO practice on this North Ameri-
can Contlnent-the common laws or
England.
ITS wonderful tribute to these laws
when one thinks Of how we'll they have
worked away from the little island on
which they were started.
Emfgrants Who Returned.
Think of what America has taken ON
70 her shore In the last hundred wears
NOW. II was not only humanity or chris
tianity which made us welcome tho er,i.
grants any more than II was the search
OF these two qualities which brought
them. They have come from necessity
and we welcomed them from necessity.
They brought much to the country ana
some have taken much away IT'S amaz-
70 see how many returned TO their ma
tive countries after period OF about
twenty-five years. In the meantime
they have helped develop the country
and N our common law and common hui
manty and common Christianity have
been brought into action we will have
helped TO develop them, and when they
leave these shores they will carry away
more than mere money. When we look
at Europe to-day we almost wish we had
sent more.
People are so apt to feel apathetic
or Indifferent about local politics.
~ we are content only to havef our
Presidents fine and to nave less fine