Milford chronicle., 1931-02-13

MAKES REPLY TO
MRS. REYNOLDS
Organization Says State
mentS Made At Dover
We're In Error

The following letter was receive
by the publishers of the MilfOr
Chronicle concerning a report of
recent meeting held in Dover. 1t /
self explanatory and speaks for ii
self.
February 4, 1913
The Editor.
Milford Chronicle"
Milford, Delaware.
Dear SIR
The WOmen's InternatiOna
League has been very much disturb
ed to read the account in your ISSUE
Of January 3Oth Of our meeting il
Dover on January 22nd.
You recount only the charges
made by Mrs. Reynolds, and imply
that we had sought an underhand
way of bringing Miss Balch to the
luncheon platform. In view of the
seriously erroneous statements
made by Mrs. Reynolds, we must ask
you to give complete publicity to our
reply.
The Women's international
League exists in % countries of the
world, composed of some 10000 loyal
women who love their native lands,
and who seek to increase the secur-
ity and happiness of the whole
world. In America, as elsewhere,
they work to remove the curse of
war, feeling that instead of this
worst method of solving difficulties
there should be built international
machinery which will arrive at more
Just and less costly decisions. Their
meetings are public. They court in
TcstigatiOn, for investigation only
proves that their patriotism is de-
voted to an America that shall be
nation loving liberty, justice and
courage. Their funds are derived
from dues and contributions of Ordi-
nary people everywhere who hold
these ideals. They have no slight
est connection with Soviet Russia or
its propaganda, as would seem OBJ
vious from the fact that the League
is diametrically opposed to every
form of dictatorship, class war, tyr
amy and violence.
= The statement of ex-senator
Thomas f. Bayard in the Congress
siOnal Record. for July 3rd, 1926, has
long since been exposed as untrue
by Carrie Chapman Gait in An Open
letter to the D. A. r. published as
an illustrated feature article in the
Woman Citizen (now the Woman's !
Jourhal) for July, 1927. The Federal
Gouncil of the Churches of Christ in /
America prints in its Information /
Service of the Department of Re- I
search and Education for Nav S. /
1928, a study in patriotic propagan- /
ia, in which an article eleven pages /
long answers charges against many |
peace organizations, and the Wo-
mems International League in par
tieular, And if the Congressional
Record is the arbiter, the Honorable
Hubert d. Stephens of Mississippi on
May 28th, 1880, inserted the message
Of the Third Study Conference (Feb-
ruary 1930), representing 81 COM
which recommends that
there be appointed in each church a
to secure and distribute
throughout the membership the ex-
oellent printed material put forth on
Inc issues of world peace by
he WOmen's International League
or Peace and Freedom, and kindred
organizations having for their OBJ (
ect education for the preservation ]
If peace. j
1t is noteworthy that the Hamil-
ON Fish Committee to investigate !
Rcd activities, in spite of the oft re-
leated charges of such groups as tho !
National SOjOurners, did not include
he Women's International League 6
IS under the slightest suspicion. |
Finally, to heed the voice of a for /
1er Secretary Of State and Ambas- C
ador to Great Britain, a letter from o
he Honorable Frank B. kellogg Z
ent directly to us on January oath. II
931, states: II am deeply interested D
4 your association and l value the a
rork of the WOmen's International y
'eaGue for Peace and Freedom very y
ighly. In these days when so many ~
re talking about preparation for o.
ar and increase of armament the :,
'Ork of your League is invaluable" ~
Such is the organization of which -,
Iiss Emily Greene Balch is National g,
resident. She did come directly to " v,
lc meeting in Dover from the Con- y,
'rence on the Cause and Cure of =,
FAR. Her announced subject of m
Modern Conceptions of Peace Poll.
es" was neither dangerous, COM &C
unistic, nor subversive to Amori- fo
IN honor. n
Sincerely yours. b
EMILY COOPER JOHNSON.
GnnnnA., IL,