Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-07-31

| tests will be discussed by the commit
tee on special arrangements for train
! ing youth in world amity.
Members of the General Federation
Of Women's Clubs will watch with par
| ticular interest the reports OF the
| world wide Illiteracy Commission, Of
which Mrs Cora Wilson Stewart OF
Washington Is chairman. The Gen
eral Federation has been carrying or
campaign against illiteracy during
the past year. and liz keenly interested
in any discussion OF the subject.
Posters on the subject OF illiteracy
are desired by the Federation of Edu
cation Associations, to be used at the
conference, and An award Of $50 has
been offered for the best poster sub
mitted. No restrictions are placed
upon the form, size and character of
the posters. They will be judged pri'
marily upon their originality.
Posters are to be sent to the Cana
dian committee of the federation, Sim
ooe Hall, Toronto, Canada, labeled for
the illiteracy division.
II X "
MRS. THOMAS G. WINTER of
AVA Minneapolis, former president of
the General Federation of Women s
Clubs and later chairman of the inter.
national relations department, in a
recent address before the general coun-
Gil of the federation, made strong
appeal to the women to recognize their
responsibility in the promotion OF in
irrational amity. Mrs. Winter said:
''If anything ought to be done, it is
never done until 1t is done. There is
no obsolete question Of the World
10 M OhgnIntn question
of anything that is going to substitute
law and craftsmanship for war. We
have that to do.
Suppose the suffragists had said
of their assure. 1t is a controversial
question: and backed down? They
worked for so years, defeated again
and again. Suppose the temperance
people had backed down when de-
feated. Where would we be?
Now. I think that every once in a
while there is an electric time in his
tory, a time when a great new move
ment comes into being, great new
time Of applied religion. and the next
step in religion, as applied to life for
the whole world, is how we shall live
together--we, OF all peoples-with JUS
tice and honor and with the POSSIBLE.
ity of every race and every individual
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without fear.
IF anything of that kind comes be-
fore us, it is the next step. The last
great step in applied religion was the
step which brought democracy before
the nations. The next great step Is
this of applied religion to the whole
world. democracy for the whole world.
And do not think for an instant that
our interest in this kind Of relation
with other people means any diminu-
ton Of our great love and our great
devotion to our own country. The
better Americans we are, the more
fair we shall be to every one else; the
better home women we are, the more
we care for our community and our
Nation; the better nationalists we are,
the better citizens, the more we are
going to care; and the same ideal that
we love for our own children and our
own home shall be spread over the
whole world. Can 1t die out? Can
you conceive of such body as ours
giving this up?
ITO my mind, one Of the dramatic
little things that happened lately is
mighty significant. Perhaps you no.
ticed when those French pilots were
in the air coming to this country that
that professional humorist and wise
man, Will Rogers, had a little item in
the paper in which he said that he
hoped the French would cross the