The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-05-23
Women Urged
to Organize
Against War
Writer Says Mothers Have
Right to Determine
Sons Future.
BY HELEN WELsHIMER


Whether or not the Veterans OF
Future Wars" will some day wait
IN alien trenches for a signal to
empty their guns and scatter their
gas bombs that the world may
change the contours Of its maps Is
a question that must be decided
Immediately.
The throb of the drums comes
nearer, the music is faster and
faster. When its tempo swings into
marching time, the lads will be of
again. down weary road to bleed
ing Calvary, whose idealism holds
no counterpart with that of the hill
outside Jerusalem.
Up to People
There will be war, the military
scientists are telling us, unless the
people take action. War, unless we
realize that as citizens of govern
ment founded "for the people, by
the people and of the people" VIC
can prevent it,
In an analytical article, William
Frederick Bigelow, editor of Good
Housekeeping gazine, says:
There is now pending before the
House of Representatives a bill pro-
posing Peace Amendment. At d
hearing on the bill its author Rep.
Louis Ludlow Of Indiana, said: "The
decision as to whether there shall
be war or peace should be made by
the 125,000,000 people who comprise
the American nation"
Peoples Rights
Commenting further, Mr.. Bige-
low continues: 1.-The whole thing is
not a question of whether power
should be taken from Congress, but
whether there should not be given
back to the people the right to de-
eide whether or not they are will
ing to have their sons killed in battle
or die Of wounds or disease or spend
a lifetime in pain"
What can we do to end WARP"
women have asked for years. Ever
since the dawn of civilization in thai
southwest corner of the Euphratcs
valley, women have wished that men
might settle their differences in
some amicable manner.
What did they care who had the
most tents, the choicest wells, or the
valleys that were most fertile if their
husbands and sons were a martial
sacrifice for the coveted treasure?
Women do not want land and
power. They want homes and fires
and flower gardens and the men
they love beside them.
Job for Women
If women would unite for peace
as men have united for war, the
echo of the last bugle call would be
gone before spring comes again, We
have searched for many years for
some method of keeping a universal
peace.
Now, at least, we have TIE pro-
posed amendment. 1t may not b.
perfect, but no amendment ever is
At least, it is better than any other
sword of peace that has been
proffered.
If women bear sons, surely they
have a right to determining vote
in the future of those boys. MOI
do the fathers of those lads want
war. 1.-THE people of America" Mr.
Bigelow says, will not vote for
America to take war to another ma
ton. And if we give no cause for
war-and keep our powder dry-we
will not be attacked"
Advises Dignity
1t is time that the world grew up,
melted its swords into pIowshares
and settled its disputes with dignity
and quietude. Ten-year-old boys
wage flstic battles in the alley, but
when those boys are 10 years older.
they go to jail for following the
same tactics. They are men, then.
the judge will tell them, and should
come to a decision through verbal
procedure. Nations grow up, too.
Let us keep the Veterans of Flu
ture Wars" the mythical organiza-
ton that it is today.
Copyright. 1886. by NEA Service, Incl