Evening star., 1928-04-08

tcTnAUonal propletnS auectlng nuHlail
progress and world hetterment for
/ have always felt that I could not dc
better than follow the example Of Glad
stone, who gathered his cruSades and
watchworciS, as IL were. from the winds
| of the time. ! love beautiful pictures,
! colorful landscapes and pictures of birds
and animals rejecting life and action
/ EtchingS and engravings lack the
/ warmth that picture must have II II
appeals 10 me. ! take great pleasure
also in inspiring music, and / am di-
verted and refreshed by an entertaining
play.
"THE modern woman realizes that the
most dangerous and deadly thing
Z in the world is leisure, and so she Is up
/ and doing, with the result that the
/ woman who 20 years ago was fat, fair
and 40 Is today slim. sleek and so. To
me- the most interesting thing in the
world is woman. Be she rich or poor
I exalted or humble. Scintillating or dull
/ literate or unlettered. she enricheS. in
spires. stimulates encourages and with
I al helps me in my efforts TO master the
/ fine art of living I have tried to do my
4 bit IN the women'S organization of the
church. the Daughters Of the American
Revolution and in women's clubs, and
J III this latter work my interest was
/ drawn to the rural woman. and after
attending the rural womens short
! course offered by our State College and
4 spending considerable time with the ru-
I raj women Of my State I have come to
/ feel that the rural woman'S club is
nothing less than q dynamo. and you
/ know how Aunt Liza explained a dy-
nano to her small nephew:
/ A die-no-mo? Why, shore, chile.
/ knows what a die-no-mo is. It's like
/ dis: When yer Uncle Zak's fiivver goes
! dead and won't chug ner nothin'. he
/ runs 1t into de shop an dey connects it
/ up with a machine what's all full o
/ sparkle and kick, and dis takes wild de
/ fiivver, Just like vaccination, an arter
I dat it's chuck full o life an don't die
/ no-mo. Well. de machine what does
/ dat stunt is named de die-no-mo.
/ THAT is what the club does to the
/ secluded woman OF the country. Life
/ is likely 10 grow a bit humdrum and
monotonous with few changes of scene
4 The long hours are likely to reduce II
/ TO drudgery unless new interests are In
/ jected into it. The club connects the
woman who lives remote with the
women of the city, and the interchange
1 Of viewpoint and ideas never fats tc
/ be mutually helpful.
Ever youthful in spirit. my close aSSo-
/ citation with my daughter constitutes 8
| dominant factor IN my great interest
and belief in the Importance and pos
| sibilities of junior club work. Strong
| character is only developed when en-
| phasis is laid on the thought of per-
Sonsl responsibility. I think the early
/ placing Of some responsibility on the
| shoulders of the younger generation is
q service to them that we should not
overlook
"Unselfsh as is our work, I for one
know that Barrie spoke truly when he
| said that those who bring sunshine
| into the lives of others cannot keep II
1 from themselves so am not alto
I gether unselfish IN my efforts to scat
/ ter a little sunshine as ! pass along
life's pathway. for know from ex-
/ perience thst l somehow manage TO
{ keep some of II for myself
/ IS
/ "WHAT encouragement viii tht
movement for international peace
! receive from the present Congress-" is
| the question being asked by nine ma
/ tionai club organizations as their men,
bers plan for forty-eight State confer
ences TO be held between now and the
! opening Of the next session OF Con-
gress for the purpose Of helping the
United States Senate make up its mind
in favor Of anti-war treaties with
other countries. according TO word re-
ceived yesterday from the headquarters
/ OF the national committee on the Cause
/ and Cure Of War In New York City.
Twelve million women are In the nine
! national organizations which are max.
1 ing this little adventure in the field oi
| diplomacy, and 1t is their intention tc
| show the Senate in general and the
Senate foreign relations committee IN
| particular that public sentiment favors
treaties renouncing war, such as Frank
| B. Kellogg, Secretary of State, has rec
commended between the United States
and all nations following the BRAND
proposal for one between the United
States and France.
The conferences will be followed by
meetings in many communities and q
national campaign OF education In
| which 1t is expected TO enlist the sup
/ port OF other organizations of both men
and women.
The undertaking has become interna-
tional. the women of other countries
having been encouraged to inin by the
| success Of the National Conference on
the Cause and Cure Of War last jan
uary in Washington and the several
! hundred echo" meetings following
Twenty-one British organizations al
ready have started work leading toward
q mass meeting in the autumn In
Albert Hall. London, TO which the
United States committee has been asked
TO send representatives. and the move
nent Is under way In Paris and Berlin
/ GIT h not yet possible TO tell which
State viii have the honor of IN.
ittatiDg the conferences" !" said Mrs. Car.
RE Chapman Gait. chairman Of the
committee, in an interview. "It
looks as though Connecticut might VIII,
out, because the representatives Of the
nine cooperating organizations alread,
have begun work on a meeting, but
New York women are destrous of beina
first. and they may succeed in securing
an earlier date. In many States pre-.
iirainary meetings have been held and
everywhere there is distinct gratinca-
ton that the United States is again
assuming leadership in peace"
Mrs. Gait called attention 10 the fact
that the United States always hat
been q leader Ia arbitration" and stated
that the treaties now proposed are thf
logical step forward 70 eliminate war
The national committee has put itself
on record as pledging earnest anc
active support 10 the negotiations foi
g nultilaterai treaty between the greai
powers renouncing war and urging "this
and succeeding administrations 10 pros.