Evening star., 1925-05-05
WOmen's Council Takes Mid
Stand on League of Nations

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sic evening at the auditorium tonight
was completed today with the an
nouncement that Miss Velma Sutton,
coloratura soprano, who has just re-
turned from an extensive tour of Eu-
rope, would be the soloist A special
feature will be the appearance of a
group of Sioux Indians from the Pine
Ridge agency, in North Dakota. They
Will be In native costume and will give
rendiitons of Indian music
Welcomed by Hoover.
The formal welcoming meeting. the
first gathering Of the entire council at
this convention. was held in the audi
torium last night Secretary of Com
merce Hoover delivered the address of
greeting in behalf of the United
States, and the Marchioness Of Aber-
deem, as president of the council. pre-
sented her message. Mrs. Philip
North Moore, president of the National
Council of Women of the United
states, presided, and music was fur
nished by the Marine Band. Responses
to the welcome were given in the
four official languages of the quin-
quennial-English, French, German
and Spanish-by Lady Aberdeen,
Nine. Avril de Saint Croix, Dr. Ger
trude Baumer and Sonora Celina
Lauth de Morgan
Secretary Hoover, who spoke very
briefly, warned the delegates that the
great danger in the world today lay
in the tendency of spiritual growth to
lag behind material development. The
nations, he said, were laboratories of
social, economic and political expert
ments. He declared that the political
influence of women had contributed to
the moral and spiritual advancement
OF the world, and he saw in the gath
ering OF the council an assurance of
the upbuilding Of these processes.
Aids Toward Movements.
Lady Aberdeen said: TT is hard to
make people understand that it is just
because we are welded to no one prop.
aganda, because we impose no restric-
ton on those who join us, and because
we welcome all to our sisterhood who
simply accept the Golden Rule-just
because of this wide latitude, that our
council is strong to help forward all
that tends to the good of mankind by
the magic power of the greatest thing
in the world. That great force can so
permeate all human activities that it
brings us all into a union so deep and
far-reaching that we can help forward
the great humanitarian movements of
our time without being bound by
them, without imposing them upon
those Of our national councils who feel
that their countries are not ready for
them.
I'VE who have belonged to the In
ternational Council for many years
know the truth of the power that
unites US, although we may net be
able TO explain it. Ii is of the spirit,
and we cannot tell whence it cometh
or whittier it goeth, but we know that
its presence is ever manifest among
US, and that we can thankfully recall
the testimonies of countless members
and workers to the fact that they have
gathered quite special inspira ton. q
new insight and added impetus for
their work not only at our gatherings.
but through fellowships formed at
such times.
Golden Rule as Guide.
I'VE hear the cry in all lands for
leaders, for inspired personalities-and
we believe that leaders and outstand-
ing personalities are produced by peo-
pie being set on fire and consecrated
to service by being possessed of an
motive touching every
part of their lives such as is demand
ed of those who accept the Golden
Rule as their guide and marching
order, to be applied to all work, to all
causes, to all relations of life, whether
in the affairs of the home, the com
the nation or the world.
How it changes our attitude toward
all the great movements represented
in our national councils when we think
of them as impelled by this motive.
Permanent peace and good will
among all nations
Equal political, educational, legal
and industrial privileges, and oppor-
tunities Of service for men and women
alike.
"An equal moral standard for men
and women.
The total suppression of the terri
BILE traffic in women and children and
of all exploitation of the weaker mem
bers of the race for pleasure or profit.
THE championship Of the rights of
all children born into the world to
have equal opportunities for full physi-
cal, mental and spiritual development.
New Hope Seen.
I'VE see struggling for mastery
new hope for the world in the inter
national cooperation brought about
through the League Of Nations, the
international Court of Justice, the
International Labor Office, the many
enterprises in which all
nations have joined during recent
years, and in which the United States
have been so eminent, saving mil
lions of lives, restoring prisoners and
to their homes, preventing the
spread Of epidemics, enabling starving
students and professors to preserve
the intellectual life of Europe, feeding
and giving new hope to famishing
children and mothers.
I'VE see these blessed signs of the
reality of human brotherhood as peo-
pie Of all countries respond to the
call for help, and in responding learn
to know and trust one another.
But, on the other hand, we are all
too conscious of the old forces lust
ing for power and wealth, who see in
the new international understanding
emerging. fatal dangers for their own
supremacy and gain. The art of
spreading untruthful propaganda still
persists, school books and newspapers
still keep alive racial animosities, the
long held belief in the necessity of
war dies hard, and the fears and
sense of insecurity felt by countries,
whose boundaries seem so artificial,