Evening star., 1944-12-31
Express New Year Wishes
d. Club Leaders Plead
For Greater Peace Effort
By Gretchen Smith,
Women's Club Editor,

A plea for greater effort toware
unself1sh service at home and abroac
In bringing and maintaining. worle
peace underlies the New Year wishe!
Of leading local organization presi.
dents, as expressed in statement!
released today.
Mrs. John Lucker. president o.
the Woman's City Club, declare.
her first wish for 1945 is the daw1
Of victorious and lasting peace
During the new year I hope fur.
therance of plans for postwar inter.
national agreements and co-opera.
ton will be wisely and sincerely
undertaken-that those genuinely
seeking to prevent future wars will
win the day." she states. II hope W.
may have the unselfishness, the
courage and the strength to do the
things each of us can do to aid in
the accomplishment of these desired
objectives. hope for more action
and less talk on the home front.
There must be discussion of the
peace to come in order to crystalize
public opinion. Nevertheless, I hope
we will put our energies for the
next year exclusively into winning
the war
For our own community. I hope
we may all get behind the housing
program and aid in getting our al
leys and slums cleaned up and also
that we will all assist in the plans
that are being made for an opera
house so that when materials are
available, work can begin without
delay
Il hope for my own club that it
will continue to grow and to serve
the purpose for which it was found
ed-namely. to aid in filling the So
cial and civic needs of the women
of Washington.
From the president of the Busi-
ness and Professional Womens
Club, Miss Marjorie Webster, we
hear the wish for "a broader vision
a deeper understanding, a greater
appreciation for values, stronger
faith in God and in humanity for
each individual of our Nation.
How can our Nation be great if
We are small?" Miss Webster asks.
How can our Allies be victors if
we do not aid in victory? How can
there be peace on earth if we do not
know peace among ourselves? How
can the world be taught love if we
do not love one another?
I'VE are of one mind in our desire
for victory This will never be
fulfilled merely by desire. 1t is
my wish for 1945 that through
wholehearted determination, by a
gallant and undaunted spirit,
through unselfish service. through
the nobility of mankind, that peace
will come.
When it does come God help
us to know how to use it, for as
Joseph F, Newton said, Our job is
to do our best. be our best and
bring out the best in others With
this philosophy we can and will
make a better world"
Mrs. Howard G.. Nichols, presi-
dent Of the Goth Century Club,
So2Ao oPoll illClllbClo VI llCl vi Sdlll~
zation to rededicate themselves to
the principles for which the club
has stood for so years-recognizine
the needs of the community and
then taking steps to see they are
adequately met.
This means an increasing aware
ness of our responsibilities assciti-
zens of world community" Mrs
Nichols declares. "A willingness to
study and understand and form
opinions on the various plans for
world cooperation and resolve
to make our views known. It is
the women especially who under
stand the utter waste of war in
damaged homes, in money, in ruined
treasure and, above all, in the blood
OF our sons and the loss of a gen.
Grafton of their unborn children.