Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1923-06-14
PREPAREDNESS IS
URGED by WOMEN
FINALLY AROUSED TO COMBAT
THE EFFORTS OF THEIR DIS
ARMAMENT SISTERS.
WARM STRUGGLE In CAPITAL
Washington Watches With Great In
terest the Fight Between These Well
Organized Forces-Likely to Have
Effect on Congress.
By EDWARD B. CLARK

Westinghouse strife with
in the ranks of the great political
parties over the League of Nations
proposal and other things is tame and
timid as compared to the battle now
being fought in Washington between
the forces of women VINO want the
United States totally to disarm, and
the more militant sisters who are on
the offensive in behalf Of preparedness
Washington today is the scene of an
amazonic combat between well or
ganized forces. 1t took the prepared
ness women long while to wake up
to the full knowledge of the progress
that their unpreparedness sisters were
making in their propaganda for
permanent peace to be secured, as
they claim, by doing away entirely with
the armies and navies of the United
States no matter what other countries
may do. Now the opponents of this
total disarmament plan are aroused to
action and the fight is on. 1t is a
warmly picturesque sight from any
advanced observation post
The district commandery of the
American Legion, the Military Order
Of the World War, the Sons of the Rev
olution and other patriotic organiza-
tons which are all for peace but not
at all for defenselessness, realized
finally that the capital of the country
was being made the central head
quarters of propaganda in behalf of
quick and complete disarmament with
out regard to the rest of the world,
propaganda, as the patriotic Or
CARNATIONS believed, also partly in
tended to communize the United States.
Interesting Fight to Watch.
The aroused organizations con-
sidered it their first duty to rouse the
interest of those women who had been
thinking that their disarmament sis
tiers and their sisters suspected of
Russian sympathies, simply were
sentimentaiists and were not getting
anywhere and therefore that no action
was necessary. Finally various or
CARNATIONS of women in Washington
saw what they believed to be a light
and they followed it into the field, and
today they are engaged in combat with
those female forces which for two
years have been bombarding congress
and the War and State departments
with petitions in behalf Of complete
disarmament, and in behalf of recogni-
ton of the communist government OF
Russia.
Washington is watching with interest
the struggle between the well equipped
forces of women. A day or two ago
the largest woman's organization in
the capital of the country. the Twen-
tieth Century club, passed and gave
unanimous endorsement to a resolution
directed against the efforts of their
disarmament-pleadin sisters. The
most marked feature of this resolution
was its second paragraph which de-
clared specifically that the club en-
dorsed heartily the efforts of the armed
services of the United States to pre-
pare this country to defend itself in
case defense should become necessary.
The club went on record fatty in behalf
Of preparedness.
1t is now believed that the awaken
ing of the women who stand for pre-
paredness will have it's effect on the
lawmakers. Last winter the national
legislators here assembled, apparently
thought that every woman in the Unit
ed States was back of the propaganda
to force the infantry Of the country
to throw away it's rifles, the artillery
to spike its guns, the aviators to cease
their training and the sailors to refuse
to go down to the sea in battleships.
Permeates to the Schools.
Charges are made in Washington to-
day that the public schools of the Dis
trfct have been opened to the teaching
of the unpreparedness advocates while
men and women who believe the other
way have not been allowed to make
their views known to the school chill
dren.
Word came the other day to the
commander of a Washington post of
the American Legion that some Of the
parents of the school children had
protested against the Introduction of
propaganda into the school life and
that it was specially noxious because it
didn't represent the views of the ma
jority of the parents of the pupils.
It is understood to be the intention
of the women who were delegates to
the recent convention of the Daugh-
tiers of the American Revolution to de
liver to women in their home towns
throughout the country the news of the
fight in the capital and to urge that
some means be taken to offset a
propaganda which most of its oppon-
ents seem to think is not merely d.
rected to the ends of peace-on earth,
but mainly to an attempt to secure
recognition by the United States gov
eminent of the communist government
of Russia, and to lead Americans
TO a belief in communism.
World Court Still Live Topic.
American membership in the World
court continues to be a live topic in
political and general official circles in
Washington, and from messages which
burden the wires and the mails it