Show Carrie Chapman Catt Describes Womans Woman's Quest for World Peace fr w K Kr r r v 0 w t 4 t Z y Carrie Chapman Catt women are re t the a logical sex x By CARRIE CHAPMAN CATT Chairman of the National Com Committee Commit Commit- tee on the Cause and Cure of War Exclusively for NEA Service and The Tho Telegram v Men being the belligerent sex originated tho the delightful pastime of at killing each other as an a Q means of at settling their differences difference And governments man managed ed entirely by men have continued collective kill kill- killing InK ing called war in order to deter mine which nation had tho right ht en end 1 of or the quarrel Women being the lo logical cal sex never liked war tar nor regarded it asa as asa a a. reasonable solution o of difficulties between people or nations With rare exceptions they have havo been omitted from the tho war game They have been left on tho side lines to hold the coats of the tho fighters Mers or orto orto orto to bathe their wounds or cheer them on Not many of ot them have approved the game or have they wanted their men to engage in It Now that women are aro on equal basis with men in the conduct of or governments government they are determined to establish somo some more national l method of settling disputes between nations as has been done dono for quarrels between individuals This Thia Is not tho the Idea of or women of one country but a Q world-wide world movement move move- ment For instance I have Just returned tr from m a a. conference In lIol- lIol land and of or the tho women of at European European nations many of t them m members member of their heir own o national parliaments or holding other public offices all of them determined on finding a 8 safe sate practical definite way to peace ace As part of at this world movement mo the women of at the tho United States Statu are seeking a a. path which they may follow tollow toward better world under under- standing During the last lut few years women's o organizations In this country have ha heard thousands of at peace speeches and read thousands of peace Often otten they have not been enlightened by what they heard leard and saw MW for tor the reason that there ther has hu been no accepted definition definition defini tion of ot peace nor nOt has there been a a. plain road to peace To settle the confusion caused by the tho differing differing- opinions of ot speakers and writers on peace topics the national committee on the Cause and Cure of ot War Val has haa been organ organ- Its Ils membership Includes Include representatives of nine national women's organizations the American Ameri Amerl- can Association of or University Women Women Wo Wo- men the Council Council rot ot Women for tor Home Missions the Federation of at Women's Boards of ot Foreign Missions Mis Ms alons of North America General Federation a of Women's Clubs National Board of ot the Young Women Women's Women's Wo Wo- mens men's Christian Association National Nat Nat- lonal ional Council of Jewish Women National League of Women Voters National Women's Christian Temperance Tern Tern- perance Union and the National Women's Trade Union League Two national conferences have taken place In Washington and a third Is scheduled at which delegates from each of the cooperating cooperating cooperating cooper cooper- organizations will hear speeches peeches by experts on the economic causes of war and armaments and will discuss those national policies which lead to peace or war There will bo be radical and conservative opinions those who are for international International international int Int- int- int cooperation and those who are for isolation those who aro are for the United States going In Into Into Into In- In to Nicaragua Mexico and China and who are for the tho United States keeping out Out of ot the conference It Is ts ex- ex pouted that a definite program will willbe willbo willbe be bo evolved which can bo be used n na asa aa as aaa a basis of ot action by tho the cooperating organizations themselves and by other groups of men and women that Is Is that there will be a definition defini defini- definition tion which can be accepted as explaining explaining ex ex- peace and that i posts sign may be put up marking at least leant len t tone one road leading toward International International Inter national to prevent wa war |