The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-06-22

din of the political groups and the pro- fessional organizers the voice of the American woman rings high and clear. She is saying to national political part ies, I've don't care how you do it-but do it. We insist on way to stop war. Show us what you have to offer"
 Yes, the time for cajolery has passed. Women are far more canny now than they have ever been before. They are in no mood for flattery. They can not be fooled by half-baked promises with nothing back of them. Woe be unto the political bosses who try to put any thing over on them in this years cleo tion !
 Yes. the eighteen national women's organizations, with their millions of members, may be said to have written that plank That every organization and thousands of individuals have helped to crystalline the widespread sentiment against war into national action can not be doubted. And the fact that this &C., tion has come from so many directions and has had it's inspiration in so many sources is itself guaranty that it is from the heart and soul of the Ameri- can people. It is no more political catch phrase or party slogan. No party, no group will be able to claim it. But all must embody it if they hope to reckon with the twenty-seven mil lion women who are eligible to vote this year.
 As for the second plank, it must be said that it might never have been written had it not been flor the high | ha kal convictions and the organization gen lus of one woman-Mrs. Henry W. Peabody of Boston. Yet no one would be more quick to disclaim credit than she. For years our organized women have been wandering blindly in a will derness of uncertainty. For years we have been hoping for female Moses to lead us out. Maybe Mrs. Peabody is that leader. Who knows?
 On her own initiative and at her own expense, Mrs. Peabody, for many years leader of recognized ability in the church world, called meeting in Wash ington in the interest of law enforce ment. She and the able women who as- sisted her, worked very, very swiftly and very, very quietly. But when the meeting was called to order on the tenth of April in the Hall of Nations of the Washington Hotel, there were more than thirteen hundred delegates from thirty seven States! They represented all of the great national organizations of wo- men.
 Through these delegates, in declara- ton of principles unanimously adopted at the closing session, the voices of ten million organized women said to both national political parties, and to any that might hereafter be formed. we will vote neither with nor for any party that does not stand for the strict enforcement of the law"-and thus was the second plank written in the Ameri- can woman's platform-the shortest, the most significant, and the most far reaching platform ever written And yet so quickly had this gigantic organization work been done that it was all over before official Washington real ized it at all How extremely clever it was of the women to make an occasion so important and so widely representa- tive. that no well-regulated politician or Government official could afford to de- cline an invitation! And how nearly all of the key men of the nation were given the opportunity" to state their position on this all-important question of law enforcement!
 Yes, they were all there, and they all are committed to the woman's platform of law enforcement Not that any man was committed against his will It is such an obvious thing-the necessity for law enforcement. Who could think or speak against it? Who would dare to Who would want to? And yet it is stimulating, isn't it, to have it all down in black and white-broadcast through the press, broadcast through the air |: President Coolidge, Secretary Wilbur, Secretary Hughes, Senators, Congress. men, and various officials operated And on the platform were such women as Mrs. Coolidge, Mrs. Harding, Mrs Taft, Mrs. Preston, Mrs. Hoover, Mrs Lansing-people of all faiths, of all parties, of all political persuasions, and of all cJub