The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1922-07-29
no MORE WAR" IS
PROGRAM OF DAY
AND SUNDAY DEVOT.
ED TO DEMONSTRATIONS
FOR PEACE

Beginning this morning a two-day
period has been set aside by the Ma
tional Council for the Reduction of
Armaments "a society with head
quarters at 352 18th ST., ~ W., Wash
ington, d. c., in which a nationwide
demonstration will be made towards
the irrevocable abolishment of war.
The w. G. T. u ladies of the city
have called the attentions of the COM
munity to the days observance and it's
significance. They will probably hold
a prayer meeting service sometime
Sunday in the interest of the move
ment.
Although no definite program for
tie day has been made the W. G. t.
U. is very anxious that every citizen
of Moscow unite in the spirit of the
occasion and give serious considera-
ton to the principles involved in
such observances.
Ten nations of Europe unite today
and tomorrow with the United States
in the great demonstration for no
more war on this anniversary week
end preceding the great war.
History of the Movement
Beginning in three cities on the
continent in 1920 no-more-war dem
onstrations were held last year in 200
cities in France and Germany. This
year ten nations of Europe are par
ticipating: England, France, Germ
any, Holland, Sweden, Austria,
Czecho-Slovakia, Hungary, Portugal
and Switzerland.
In England, committees have been
formed in all communities and the
demonstration will take the form of
The Central Committee in London in.
cludes such names as: Brig. General
Birdwood Thomson, Major G. r. Atley,
Bishop Charles Gore, G. Bernard
Shaw, Bertrand Russell, Jerome K.
Jerome, Maurice Hewlett, Lawrence
Hausman, A. J. Gardiner, Margaret
Wintringham, M. P. Margaret Bond
field. Robert Smillie, Charles Trevel-
lyan, J. Ramsey Macdonald, Arthur
Henderson, M P, Neil MacLane, M.
P, Lord Parmoor and Rev. DR.. r. j.
Campbell.
The plans by the Council at a
meeting on June Is and in which the
various organizations Of the country
have been asked to unite in carrying
out are:
l. ga bombardment for peace" IN
the form of messages to the president
and congress expressing the desire
of the people to have this govern
ment follow up the Washington con-
ference with a -further-step-~toWa
world peace. Messages to be sent by
mail wire and radio. The sending OF
the messages can be made a dramatic
occasion by having them brought to
public square and sent simultan-
eously, with appropriate speeches,
etc.
g. The simultaneouse posting of No
More-War placards on the morning OF
July 29th. For the greatest effect,
these p1acards should be put up dur
ing the night or early in the morning
and appear everywhere-in the Win
dows of homes and offices, on fences,
trees, automobiles, street cars and in
as many unexpected places as poss-
ible acros sthe mouths of old cannos
mounted on cardboard and attached
to sticks and arranged around the
base of war monuments, arranged In
windows on either side of gold star
or service flags of the last war.
The placards are 11x15 inches and
will be ready for distribution any time
after June 20. They will be supplied
by the National Council in whatever
number can be used to advantage
free of cost, or for any part of the
cost price of 1925 per thousand that
organizations wish to pay.
8. Additional features will be added
to the demonstration wherever local
committees can undetake them. The
churches, newspapers, governors,
mayors and other officials shonld be
asked to participate. Many ministers
will undoubtedly be willing to preach
on Sunday, the 30th, on the theme OF
No More War Editors, sympathetic
with the demonstration, may be will
ing to run the three words, mo More
War" acros sthe top or bottom of their
editions for that day.