Evening star., 1925-05-04
REDPLOT TO WRECK
WOMEN'S COUNCIL
MEETING CHARGED
Educator Declares Agents of
lnternationaIe Are Here
Spreading Insinuations.
SAYS PATRIOTIC GROUPS
HAVE BEEN "TOOLS"
Insists Only Communists Have
Reason to Fear Activities of
Woman Leaders.

An alleged plot by the red inter
rationale to break up the Interna-
tionaI Council of Women. representing
SO 900 900 women in 42 countries and
now in session here, was brought TO
the attention of council officers from
two sources this morning.
DR.. Milton Fairchild, president of
the Character Education Institute, a
national organization of school su-
perintendentS, visited the headquar-
ters office at the Washington Audi
torium prepared to lay before the in
ternational officers what he said was
definite evidence that the world Com
munist organization had agents in the
Capitol who were using various parti-
otic organizations as their tools to
discredit the purposes of the conven-
tion.
DR.. F'airchild said that he had def
mite reasons to believe that these
agents were responsible for the
charges and insinuations of objec-
tionable pacifism and radicalism laid
against some members of the council
since their arrival in Washington. His
own organization. he said, has fol-
lowed closely the international educa-
tional activities of the council, and
in this connection has run against
the red plotting.
Russian Sends Word.
The second source was letter from
a high official of the Russian Council
of Women, whose name was withheld
for fear of possible vengeance by the
Soviet authorities. in which she eX-
pressed her regret that Russia would
be unable to send any delegates to
the Washington convention due to
the hostility of the government, which
had broken up the council and refused
TO permit any of its groups to meet
in public. The hearts of a large body
of Russian women were with the
council in spite Of the inderdict, the
letter continued, and expressed the
hope that conditions would have
changed so that some delegates could
be sent to the convention five years
from now. "a 4s,a-,g-sg1s-
DIR. Fairchild said: when you find
a body of decent, respectable women
from other lands, interested only in
the highest purposes of humanity, un-
able to set foot on the soil of the
United States without being inSulted
and accused of all sorts of pernicious
activities it is obvious that something
is the matter. The one great organi
. ZdtlOn IN IQe WOIlu WHICH mas reason
to be opposed TO international con-
cord to the sanctity of the home and
to a better understanding among
women is the world communist or
ganization. We have definite evil
dence that they are behind all these
activities. I am not prepared to men.
tion names just now. But there are
agents here in Washington, and the
organizations which have made the
protests against the international
council have been made the uncon-
scious tools of these agents. The
same sort Of activity is strikingly evil
dent in connection with every inter
national movement of women-in
fact, with every movement tending to
help mutual understanding on educa-
tiunal and home problems.
Reds Have Cause For Fear.
NO truly patriotic organization has
reason to fear the activities of the
woman leaders of thought through
out the world. The reds have They
fear the well known instincts of wom-
en- fo conservatism, for the protection
of the home, for the education of
children, for decency in life. To
carry out their war against such
activities they will resort to any
means. They will lie. They will cir
Culate the most convenient propa-
ganda at hand. depending on local
conditions. They will make use of
any tools at hand.
We had only to think back over
the recent meetings of women's or
CARNATIONS in Washington to see the
sinister hand of these people There
has not been a convention here at
which some sort of ridiculous charge
has not been launched. Il is disgust
ing indeed that the Capital of the
United States cannot have guests of
the standing of these women, both
in our own country and abroad. with
out having them subjected to all sorts
of insults"
DIR. Fairchild was prepared to lay
his charges and the evidence he has
collected to back them before Mrs
Philip North Moore, president of the
American council.
Explains League Attitude.
The attitude of the international
council toward the League of Nations
which has been the subject of the
most persistent charges, was explained
last night by the international presi-
dent, the Marchioness of Aberdeen
She said that 3S countries. whose
women have memberships in the coun-
Gil, also are members of the league
The councils of those countries work
in the closest cooperation with the
various league offices, she pointed out
Lady Aberdeen said that invitations
for this years meeting of the council
had been extended by Great Britain
and France and that they had ac-
Cepted the invitation to the United
States instead. Had the meeting been
held in either of the former countries
both league members, there could have
been no question of league propa-
Sanda, but she saw no reason. she
said, why the program should be
changed simply because they had ac-
Cepted the hospitality of America.
1t is not the intention, Lady Aber-
deem said, to discuss in any way what
soever the question of United States
relations with the league or entrance
into the league, and any resolutions
adopted in which the Geneva organi-
Zation is mentioned will not be bind
ing upon the women of this country,
any more than they would be binding
on the women of Mexico and Ger
many, both of which are members of
the council and not of the league. The
league, she said, no longer was a mat
Ter of dispute in the nations which
have accepted membership in it, so
there can be no question of disloyalty
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