Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1932-11-12
BUSINESS OF WAR"
BARRIER TO PEACE |
Mrs. Gait Tells Good Will
Congress Apparent Cause
of Delay.
By the Associated Press.

i 6y Tic hccOClatSO EICSS.
NEW YORK, November 12-Carrie
Chapman Gait, pioneer woman suffra-
gist, told the International Goodwill
Congress yesterday that "many women
believe the hesitation to act promptly
in accordance with agreements" for dis
ornaments is due to "a revival Of mems
loyalty to the business of war"
Women who think these things"
she declared, ARE losing faith in the
Disarmament Conference. in the new
peace machinery, in the leaders Of the
nation who make eloquent peace
speeches, but whose representatives are
silent and inactive We are invited to
be patient. Why? Patient with the
return of men to the business of war?
Women voters are not mighty fac
tor in elections. Yet in all nations I
find women hold an astonishing faith
that eventually they may exercise a
powerful influence upon their countries
institutions. At present, women in Al
countries are bound together IN world
understanding, which seems to be more
definite, and to rise higher than any
type of union for world understanding
among men.
Democracy and Promise.
Democracy has promised disarma-
ment. Now 1t timidly hesitates while
militarism lures the pledged nations to
follow a new trail and thus forget the
one-time promise solemnly made to
disarm."
The Congress stood in silent prayer
today for Col Raymond Robins, the
prohibition leader and social worker
who disappeared two months ago. He
was q prominent member of the World
Alliance for International Friendship,
which is sponsoring the goodwill
congress.
II think we should pay tribute" said
Fred B, Smith, chairman of the EXecu-
tive Committee and friend of Robins,
ito a man who worked for many years
with this alliance and who walked out
of the City Club on the afternoon OF
September 8, into oblivion. God alone
knows whether he is alive or dead. 1t
is one of the greatest mysteries OF the
| Autumn"
DR.. Charles Clayton Morrison, editor,
was applauded when he predicted even
tual cooperation between the United
States and the League Of Nations.
Change Among People.
There will be changes in the struc-
ture of the League to conform to the
new international law which the peace
uact created" he said. There will be
a changed temper among the American
people. 1t will be a more cooperative,
less suspicious, a more responsible
temper"
He told the congress that peace adj
vocates must learn to make place In
| their philosophy for crisis such as
that which still persists in the Far
East" Such crises, he said, strengthen
the machinery for peace.
DR.. julius Curtius, former German
| foreign minister, told the congress that
Europe is slowly feeling its way toward
| cooperation and that Germany GER
| tainly will be In the first rank OF such
constructive endeavors."
To speak at an international Armi-
| stice day celebration, he said, was "dif-
| ficult for a German, doubly difficult for
| a former German minister, and still
| more difficult for an old German SOL
der"
eve took to arms,p he continued,
"solemnly convinced that we were
| called to fight a Just war of defense.
We resent the thesis Of Germanys sole
war guilt as discrimination, which has
to be eliminated from the annals OF
world history"
| Strawn Another Speaker.
Another speaker was SilasiH H. Strawn
| Of Chicago, who said that while
would not minimize our present diff
| culties. submit that we are emphasiz-
! ing too much the evil factors and that
we are overlooking the great natural re-
! sources of our country and the splendid
courage and enterprise of our people"
He called for "a campaign of educa-
ton for support Of our Government,
the stability of our institutions and the
improvement of our material and spirit
| ual welfare"