Evening star., 1925-01-04
WOMEN TO CONFER
HERE ON WAR CURE
Mrs. Carrie Chapman Gait
Expects Moderate Course
Will Be Mapped.

The Conference on the Cause and
Cure of War" to be held at the WASH
ington Hotel, January Is to "a, is
supreme effort to attain the last
of four objectives laid down at the
close of the War of 1S12-anti- slav-
cry, temperance, the right of women
10 equal rights and permanent peace
according to Mrs. Carrie Chapman
Gait, general chairman of the forth
coming conference, who is in Wash
ington arranging for the meeting.
Having seen success follow the
movements to achieve the first three
goals, Mrs. Gait points out that she
Will not be content until the final
and supreme" objective of peace is
realized
Reviewing the history of the move
ment and considering the plans of the
present conference to review the causes
of war and to originate and to weigh
methods by which some forward steps
toward establishment of permanent
peace may be taken, Mrs. Gait con-
tinued:
Plan Not New One.
The plan for organization Of move
ment toward nArnaneut peace is not
new one. 1t came into being more than
hundred years ago. when the first
peace society was founded in New York
in August Of 1872 That first was fol-
lowed by two others in 1915. one in Ohio
and the other in Massachusetts. Eng
land saw the beginning of a similar So
ciety in 1916. Gathering new adherents
during the following year a great ma
tional peace conference was held in
1928. Frenchmen caught the drift of
thought and organized in 1910, and
three years later France, in 1S43, en-
tertained the first international peace
conference in Paris
Feeling against slavery, woman's
desire for educational opportunities,
instruction of the people in the harm
resulting from the use of alcohol-all
these waves of thought grew in
strength the peace movement had
grown. man from Mars dropped
suddenly on our planet could not
have known which of the Great Four
was going to lead the others. He
would have been justified in believ-
ing, however. that the desire for
permanent peace was closer to the
hearts of the American people than
any of the other three.
But slavery, representing, as II
did a vested property interest, soon
took the lead. Unlike the period fol-
lowing the War of 1872, no wave OF
popular demand for peace followed
the Civil War. 1t was not until 1874
that even a ripple of peace thought
passed over the nation. In that year
Congress adopted resolutions in favor
of arbitration. More than a decade
passed before another significant step
was taken. The second International
Peace Congress gathered in Paris in
1889
Fourth Objective Left.
"Three amendm ents to the Constitu
tfon in the iutrim between that Cong
ress and the present day have freed
the negro. given woman her full right
as a citizen. and prohibited the barter
of alcoholic beverages in the United
States. That trend which appeared in
the early days to have the greatest
momentum is left still for our solution.
In our nation there are today I5,
possibly more. organizations for the
promotion of world peace which have
p more or less nationa! scope. The
desire for neace is nation wide. There
appear to be very few people who like
war Doubtless there are some, but
their mum ber is small. without eX-
ception they are people who proht by
war or by the maintenance OF large
Army and Navy or they are people
who engage in war as a profession.
For even in times Of peace you know,
armies must be clothed and fed and
munitions must be manufactured. even
though they be used only for target
practice. Even among those men
whose profe ssion war is, the members
of the fighting forces of the country.
there is desire for world peace-for
the discontinuance of war.
"The quarrel is not whether war is
or is not desirable. It's acknowl-
edgedly undesirable. The quarrel is
concerning the method by which war