Evening star., 1939-12-12
Club Hears
Of OfWOrld
Told Collaboration
Continues Despite
Turmoil of War

In spite OF the war, 1nternat1ona
collaboration will carry on as much
today as ever, members Of the
Woman's National Democratic Clut
were told yesterday at luncheon by
Mrs. Howell Moorhead, member Of
the Board of Directors of the For
eign Policy Association and secre-
tary of the Opium Research Com
mittee.
Mrs. Moorhead, who has been
closely associated with the League
of Nations and international ques-
tions for many years through work
with international opium and dan
gerous drug problems, declared that
health, labor and traffic in narcotics
had been and would continue to be
closely affected by the war and that
such questions must be settled
through means Of international CO.
operation, regardless of national
prejudice.
Enumerating many international
conferences which have been held
in the past. Mrs. Moorhead par
ticularly mentioned one on locust
control. "Locusts," she said, know
no international boundaries and
must therefore be dealt with inter-
nationally. Other questions are
like locusts," she added, "and also
know no international boundaries.
The pressure of war, she con-
tinued, must not wipe out such ques-
tions as health, which war has seri-
ously complicated by moving popu-
lations to temporary shelters, men
in armies, and restricted food and
water supplies.
New War Problems.
War also produced new problems
affecting narcotics and its traffic
said Mrs. Moorhead, and added that
more than ever at such a time, an
international tribunal for handling
the question is essential. Abuses of
prevailing legislation applying to
legal trade in dangerous drugs, for
use by the medical profession, has
already been attempted by one small
nation since the European war crisis,
but the attempt was frustrated
through application of the interna-
tional legal machinery, which still
operated to the surprise and disap-
pointment of this nation, she said.
International conferences, said
Mrs. Moorhead, are threads which,
when wound together, make a great
cable, too strong for even the sword
Of war to cut.
Summarizing events in Europe in
the past few months, she concluded
with a brief analysis of Finland's
position and her invocation of the
League to assemble for considera-
ton of the Russian invasion.
Club Heads Are Guests.
"Finland's determination to bring
into the situation the activities of
the League, brings the realization
that treaty obligations, though
written on paper, are signed with
the hopes OF mankind" said Mrs.
Moorhead.
Heads of neighboring Democratic
clubs were guests at luncheon Of
the national club yesterday, includ-
ing Mrs. Ethel r. Lorenitz, presi-
dent of the Democratic Women's
Luncheon Club of Baltimore; Mrs.
P. J. Fischer. president of the Le-
land Women's Democratic Club of
Bethesda, Md; Mrs. Ralph A. Wells.
president of the Women's Demo-
cratic Club of Montgomery County
Md; Mrs. Floyd L. Cook, president
of the Democratic Council of the
District of Columbia; Mrs. Goss,
president of the Women's Demo-
cratic Club of Arlington County. and
Mrs. Alfred Steffen, president of the
Women's Democratic Club of Chevy
Chase.
Mrs. D. Tucker Brown presided
and Miss Minnie Mae Fleming in
troduced the speaker.