Evening star., 1925-01-04

may be discontinued and permanent
peace established
Extremes of Viewpoint.
.Visualizing the masses Of persons
whose thought trends toward de-
sire for discontinuance of war and
establishment of peaces there are on
the one hand the extreme right peo-
pie and on the other the equally eX-
treme left
president Roosevelt said that
every movement has it's lunatic
fringe. The peace movement has its
full proportion of lunatics. So has
the movement for preparedness on
the theory that only by being pre-
pared for war can we maintain
peace. The quarrel of these lunatics
on the fringe appears to be the whole
movement. They embarass the Gov
ernment equally. Those on the ex-
treme right contend constantly that
we are .on the verge of war with
Japan because of the immigration
problem, with Mexico because of
American business interests, with
France because of old war debts.
"On the contrary, the members on
the extreme left are conscientious
objectors to war no matter what it's
provoca tion may be. They go to the
extent of declaring that if there is
another war, they will have nothing
to do with it,
VIII Take Middle Course.
This conference of which l am
general chairman composed of the
foremost national women's organiza
tions, without peace society among
them. is rot likely to take the posi-
ton of those on the extreme Right.
tc Tod fn a
on the Left. 1t is rather to find
middle course between these two, to
walk in the middle of the road, and
to weigh the arguments which Will
come to it from either side.
IT'S chief object Is to discover the
cause of war as they have existed in
the past and they exist today-to
make a calm, sane, and sensible In
vestigation into the whole thing.
TT is our hope that out of this
gathering and discussion will come
first. a greater understanding of the
situation on the part of the millions
of women who are represented in
the nine national organizations send
ing delegates; and second, co-opera-
tive program upon which all these
organizations may unite. That this
program will be neither a militant
one nor timidly conservative one
road between the two, looking to
action on the part of the Government
and education on the part of the
people in order to prepare the nation
al mind and the national will for the
substitution of peace for war is our
desire"
Big Groups Represented.
The organization Of the personnel
of the Conference on the Cause and
Cure for War, for which Mrs. Gait is
general chairman. is now complete.
Acting as vice chairman are the presi-
dents of the nine national women's
organizations: DR.. Aurelia Rein
hardt, American Association of Uni
versity Women; Mrs. John Ferguson,
Council of Women for Home Missions
Mrs. E. H. Silverthorn, Federation of
Woman's Boards of Foreign Missions
of North America; Mrs. John Sher-
man. General Federation of Woman's s
Clubs; Mrs r. E. Speer, national
Board of the Young Women's Chris
tian Associations: Miss Rose Brenner,
National Council of Jewish Women
Miss Belle Sherwin. National League
of Woman Voters; Miss Anna A Cor
don, National Woman's Christian Tenn
perance Union; Mrs. Maud Schwartz,
National Womens Trade Union
League.
The general secretary of the con-
ference is Miss Josephine Schain, Ma
tional League of Woman Voters; the
treasurer is Miss Ethel B. Ketcham,
American Association of University
Women; Mrs. Thomas G.. Winter,
chairman of program committee, Cen
eral Federation of Women's Clubs