Ogden Daily Standard | 1918-12-07 | Page 1 | Punish Teuton Brutes

i Women of America Will Ask That Assailants of Women Shall Pay. j i HONOR THE VICTIMS: Belgian and French Females Fe-males to Be Recognized Honorably Wounded. CHICAGO, Dec. 7 A demand that! officials of the Central powers respon- 1 slble for the mistreatment of French' and Belgian women and girls during' the war be punished and that the peace conferences at Paris recognize these victims as honorably wounded I in behalf of their country Instead of: social outcasts and that action be tak- en which will render such outrages impossible inn the future, was formulated formu-lated by the executive committee of the National Woman's Christian Tern-' perance Union which closed its annual , session here today. It is planned to have six million American women sign a petition to this effect for presentation to the peace conference through President Wilson. A committee consisting of Miss An- j na A. Gordon, Evanston, III., president; presi-dent; Mrs. Ella Boole, Brooklyn, vice-president, vice-president, and Mrs. Lenna Lewe Yost, Washington, was appointed to take the ' petition to President Wilson at Paris., oo