The Washington times., 1925-12-17

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Court. according to the Harding.
Hughes-C Coolidge plan and most
earnestly urge you to indorse the
resolution to that effect when Il
comes before the Senate for Il vote
on the seventeenth OF December,,
are now pouring In on the mem.
particularly the members OF The
Foreign Relations COMMITTEES.
The letters are carefully typed,
on letter heads Of prominent firms
and organizations, sometimes are
marked dictated. " to make them
appear more formidable, and are
scrawIed 81 writer's who evidently
are having q rather difficult time
% I'LL the order of the American
Peace Award Committee. All carry
the identical text.
Organizing Teachers
That the school teachers of the
country are being organized Tor d
last minute drive on the Senate II
evidenced BY the hundreds of letters
that have reached the Senate dur
ing the past few weeks. Not 3
line has been changed ii the
appeal Of the teachers, though 1T
comes typed, written In the clear
hand Of the younger teachers. or
II the more 0r less sElaky hand of
the teGchers Of the older generation.
The letters are eloquent testimony
Of the fact that the school teachers.
a. q whole. have MT the renof NJ
idea of the Anp0rtance of the osies.
ton at issue, a. III not 4 single
instance has teacher varied from
the sign here formula Of the
arguments which read hundreds 81
them:
AS q teacher III the public
schools. / am stressing the ideals
Of world peace.
Recognizing the mission of
America toward the fuIfiiluent az
universal understanding, and reaIfz.
ing that she must not fail In this.
her supreme opportunity TO prove
70 the world that she continues true
70 the principles laid down by the
founders Of this Government, I urg.
emily petition your unqualified sup
port for the entrance of the
United States into the World Court
under the Harding. Hughes reserve
TONS"
Appeal Is Identical.
from New York, Florida, Mime.
sofa. Iowa, from every-<corner OF
the United States comes the iden.
teal appeal. from professional
mems clubs, from women'a clubs.
from housewives, the stereotyped
petition, disguised at times b.
copying the printed form as sent
out by the World Court advocates.
Reading in one or two letters
that 1.-THE delayed action on this
measure has created widespread
disapproval; ali political parties
favor the measure and we ask i'm.
mediate action on it," one can I'M
derstand the righteous indignation
or the over'wrought writer. But
after reading three or four hundred
similar letters. the Eunor of the
situation becomes apparent.
The women who are interested in
the future Of the children of the
mothers of the world" too, come
in troops I'm the Senator's mails.
Some are scrawled with difficulty,
evidently the laborious work of the
mothers of the "uplift" schools:
others are in the firm and COM
placent hand of the college woman,
but all read exactly alike:
Mother Somewhat Mixed
"As a citizen Of the United States
and member Of q civics4 class,
urge the entrance of the United
States into the World Court at this
session of Congress, to safeguard
not only the future of my own chill.
dren, but the children of the moth.
ers Of the world
One Of these earnest mothers had
SO much difficulty copying tn
made to order letter that she wrote:
LAS a citizen of the United States
and a member Of a civics class,
urge the entrance of session of
not only my children but the chill
dren of the mothers Of the world.
AS with the school teachers, it Is
clearly apparent that this woman
had not the slightest idea Of what
1t is all about.
The head of a Western State
University, blandly concludes his
appeal with the words: This let |
ter is written at the request of the
American peace award Of New York
city," as though to give force to
his words!
One woman's club writes because
"the General Federation OF Won |
ans Clubs urged 1t 30 to do; 9
club woman, Having just been read
ing the letters OF Walter H. Page
United States Ambassador to tn
Court of st. James," decided Il
throw the weight OF her letter =
the World Court; the lady secretar'
of a village improvement associa
ton, duly urged by the Wor.
Court "propagandists," writes Of
stVunr1d H1inraW