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Show SEEKS WAYS TO ABOLISH WAR Baroness Bertha von Suttner of Vienna, famous among other things because it was she who inspired the founding of the Nobel prizes, is in America on a mission unique among those undertaken by women of the Old World among the women of the New. She is here to tell her sisters what she knows of the horrors of war and to appeal to the women of the United States to do their utmost toward the aboilition of war. The campaign for peace undertaken last spring by Baron d'Estournelles de Constant of France was noteworthy. For three months Baron d'Estournelles, d'Estour-nelles, himself a Nobel prize winner, went through the country, and everywhere every-where his arguments were heard with interest.. So also in the case of Count Albert Apponyi people crowded to hear what the Hungarian parliamentarian parliamen-tarian bad to say about the cost oi armed peace now prevailing in Europe. But,, much as these advocates for A - f"l r peace accomplished here, there stood arrayed against them continually the plea of necessity, the plea that ever increasing armaments were an absolut essential. Neither the Frenchman nor the Hungarian cared to depart front parliamentary usages, and for this reason they permitted their arguments tc go before the people exactly for what they were worth. The Baroness von Suttner comes to this country to try different tactics She may agree with her fellow workers in Europe that the nations are burdened bur-dened with armaments to the breaking point, that the patience of the people themselves is well nigh exhausted, that the times portend that conditions cannot continue as at present; but she has something more effective at hei command than international law and parliamentary argument. Her most effective ef-fective appeal will be to sentiment. As one who knows from experience th horrors of war, the Baroness von Suttner will be able to make this appeal effectively. |