The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1922-04-26
BELIEVES AMERICA
CAN SHOW THE WAY.
TO PEACE ASTOR
Virginia Born. Member. of the
British House of Common
Talks to Editors
rs GUEST AT LUNCHEON
OF ASSOCIATED PRESS
Touches on a Score of Subjects
From Mother Love to
Practical Politics
(sy The Associated Press)

(By The Associated Press)
NEW YORK, April 25-Lady Astor
told leading editors and publishers Of
the United States today at the annual
luncheon Of the Associated Press, that
America would yet join the conference
at Genoa.
{ Il believe America can show the
way to peace she exclaimed fervent-
ly amid a gale of applause.
The reference to Genoa was but one
OF score of subjects touched upon
by the Virginia -born member of the
British house OF commons. in breezy
address on mother love and practical
politics that held the close attention
of her auditors in the grand ball room
of the Waldorf Astoria. Her audience
was mostly men, although the boxes
in the gallery We're filled with women.
Lady Astor seemed perfectly at home
from the moment she tripped jauntily
into the room to the strains of Dixie"
she Joined in the singing of Garry me
Back to Old Virginia; shouted, 'hear,
hear, when her husband, Viscount
Astor spoke briefly and mounted a
chair and waved goodbye at the con-
clustons az the slalneheon
She dfgressed considerably from her
prepared address touching at random
on such topics as Lloyd George, Boil
shevisna, labor and capital, the power
of the press, q closed understanding
between England and the United
States.
She proudly said she was s'Vir-
ginia patriot and very ardent one"
This patriotism she said, had stood
her well, because it has proven to
England that the real patriot can be
useful in any country, and a narrow,
bigoted patriot is no use to any coun-
try, even his own..''
She stopped to apologize for her re-
cent remarks against the bonus say
ing: II forgot / was British member
OF parliament, and | spoke as a Vir-
ginian. seem to have worried some
people she said, "but perhaps these
people are not fifty-fifty like I am"
Touching on politics, she said:
81 suppose many OF you are des-
perately. set against women coming
into politics and 1 don't blame you,
am sorry for you, I think sooner or
later you will see that we are perfectly
right to want to come into public life"
In discussing the press, she said:
''The press Of a country is a little
different from ambassadors. We send
our ambassadors and they can inter-
pret their governments; but the press
can even go further. They can inter
pret the different peoples. And that
is why The Associated Press has
been, l think, really one Of the great
est agents for progress that we have
known in our generation. You cannot
realize how great that responsibility
is, I no not want to f1atter the press,
do not really like to flatter any one.
'But think the whole world should
know what it owes to Mr.. Melville E.
Stone, {councellor OF The Associated
Press and for many years It's general
manager.) His vision created you
and when he did 1t think he did what
Mr.. Melville Stone did. he just out
thought himself But his vision is GO
ing to lead a better world and a
better under standing among all coun-
tries.''
'I know a good deal about The As
sociated Press because have seen
it in England and 1t Is not what II
think about it that counts. 1t is what
the representative people think about
it, have heard men in the very high
est positions in England say, well,
If that is The Associated Press let
them in. We can tell them anything,
as much as you could cabinet min
lister, because they always play the
game.
Gentlemen, it is up to you," she
continued ''The two greatest forces
in the world for peace and civilization
are mothers and the press Ours is
the greater task. Our children are
going to be what we mothers make
them and although you hear lot about
them American mothers. feel that the
press sometimes loses it, head about
flappers and modern mothers and
things like tn at Perhaps they are
lacking headlines. / am not disturbed
about the modern mother any more
than I am about the modern press
'eNow will you let me speak to you
as a Virginian and not as British
member Of parliament. It is true we
are getting on Washington helps q
lot. we can thank God for Washing
Continued on Page Six