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Show WOMEN GREAT ENERGY FOR WORLD PEACE '- The vt'Oiiefi'of the' --world are to become i a ft'Cmeildous1 -force' favoring favor-ing continual peace amdng nations,' .Mrs. jKuth'l' Bryan ' Owens, ' noted' lyoeum .'lecturer; andi worhl:'"war nurse in the Near' East declared in her lecture . Tuesday night before the student body and patrons, of the Brighnm Young-university. -' ."As the snowflakes 'Itatherod cn. the roof of the theater in Washington Washing-ton until they weighed enough to wreck the building, so will people and especially the women rally to the cause of peace," Mrs. Owen declared de-clared in effect. "The time to build fire escapes is before there is a fire. After the conflagration has commenced there is nothing left to do but fight the fire. So it must be with war nnd peace : the time to make peace is while the nations are at peace.. . "Our statesmen are to be com-' mended for the stand favoring pence that they have,- taken." - ; !'The Modern Arabian Knights" Was the announced subject of Mrs, Owen's talk. "She, as in ieffectJan eye witness, While in visitor' and ' nurse' In' the armies of the Near East located in Egypt, reviewed the modern crusade cru-sade of General Allenby and his army that wrested the Holy City from the hands of tho Turk and placed it in Christian hands for the first time in centuries. Mrs. Owen bad many of the gifts of her illustrious father William Jennings Bryan, the silver-tongued orator. Her voice was full and pleasing nnd was always under perfect per-fect control. She practiced no artifice arti-fice but was perfectly at home and made the audience share in her poise. Her language was perfect and her illustrations were satisfying. satisfy-ing. She had the same gift as her father in regard to humorous stories: they were telling and yet elegant in their appropriateness. The description of the great army as it crawled across the wilderness of Sinia in the wake of Moses and the Children 'of Israel wns classic. One could actually see the miles and miles of chicken-wire roads, the slow creeping railroad and the water line that followed the army into the desert. The description of the climbing of the hills of Juden and the utilizing of the wells of Pilate was equally effective. The description of entrance of the reverent troops into the Holy citv wms thrilling in its vividness, ami the personal touches she was aide to give to Colonel Lawrence, the 21-year-old youth who gathered the Arabs to battle made the colonel col-onel as roinntic as some old character char-acter from the Arabian Nights. After the lecture a number of people went upon the stage to meet Mrs. Owen. She was as gracious, is kindly, as democratic in her reception re-ception as her,, father has always been. When Dr. llnmbnll told her that 27 years ago her father recited the "star-Spaugled Banner from that platform and then delivered 0119 o Ms upwcrrul speeches, , |