GERMAN WOMEN AND PEACE

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2699, 19 February 1916, Page 13

GERMAN WOMEN AND PEACE

A letter in the "Berliner Tageblatt," under the caption "German Women and Peace," contains evidence of what Jane Addams calls the revolt against war. lillen Paasche sharply contradicts the assertion that the Germans had to break - with so many evil habits contracted by indulgence and luxury in time of peace, that a long war, as compared with a short one, had distinct compensations. "It is impossible for me," she exclaims, "to describe my feeling as I find that Dr. Schirmacher has no word for the horrors of war." :

"There arc people who held, and still hold, that it was entirely necessary, but it is to be hoped that all these, nevertheless, say to themselves: Never again,, never again, must there bo so much sorrow and so many tears in tho world. It is through my faith in this sentiment that 1 am convinced that the peace movement will grow tremendously in Germany after the war. And who are'more suited to carry on that work than the women? . . . Are those of us who have children playing around us to sacrifice them, too, •in twenty yfcars' time? Let us be done with all balf-way measures; let us reflect upon the fundamental causes of the war; and all who have soinothing to lose in anotHer twenty years, let them live not for tho moment alone, but help disseminate the conception of peace as something no more a fantasy than temperance, or housing reform. Let those others who have nothing moro to lose, frota whom tho war has taken everything, think of and help tho rest of us, so that we may be spared tho necessity over of experiencing their sorrow and grief." _ _ The sentiment is obvious enough, but there is no doubt of the feeling behind ft; a feeing that, Miss Addams tells us, she found in the women of every country visited, states the New York "Evening News." The Mayoress, Mrs. J. P. Luke, acknowledges the sum of £8 contributed by Mrs. W. E. Barton, of Hawera, to the Wounded Soldiers' Reception Committee, the sum being the result of the sale of cut flowers. Financial assistance of this kind is greatly appreciated by the Mayor , and the committee. Mis Estelle Beore, of the School of Dancing, 76 Hill Street, resumes her classes tbo first week in March. A children's class will bo held in the Masonic Uall.