PEACE AND ARBITRATION DEPARTMENT, W.C.T.U.

White Ribbon, Volume 32, Issue 373, 18 July 1926, Page 7

PEACE AND ARBITRATION DEPARTMENT, W.C.T.U.

TO PEACE SUPERINTENDENTS AND DISTRICT SECRETARIES. Dear Sisters, The following resolutions were pa«?ed at the Christchurch Convention last March; will you kindly bring them forward at your District Convention, and ask each Union to confirm them at their next meeting, and to report the same to the Superintendent of the Department. (1) “This Convention affirms its belief in Total Disarmament as the only sure road to Peace, and urges its members to w T ork for Its adoption by all who desire and w’ho are working for Peace.” (2) “That In view of the fact that the Nevy League has free access to the public schools for the purpose of military propaganda, especially in the interests of Naval Defence, while the promotors of Peace are denied that privilege, a strong representation should be made to the Education Department of the need for bringing to bear upon the minds of the children some counteracting influence, which shall arouse in them a hatred

of war and an enthusiasm for the principles of Peace." As has many times been pointed out, tlie resolutions passed in full Convention represent the accept'd policy of the whole Union; it therefore becomes the duty of every itranch Union to consider such resolutions, and to endeavour as far as possible to work along the lines suggested therein. I would therefore appeal to all Union Officers and Peace Superintendents to arrange for half-an-hour each month, if possible, or if not, at least every two months, to be given to the study of Disarmament, or of any other subject bearing upon the Abolition of War, and also (2> to ascertain whether teaching concerning the League of Nations or any other subject connected with the Peace Movement is being given in their schools, and if not. to lay the matter before their School Committee, anti endeavour to get this omission rectified.

The most crying need of the world to-day is Peace-—perfect freedom from the possibility and dread of war; let each of us. therefore, ever bear in mind our own responsibility in this matter, remembering the supreme power of thought which we all possess, that every thought sent out into the world to carry its silent message into the hearts and lives of others, shall be a thought of peace, and that every word and every act sL:« 11 be such as may help to spread around an atmosphere of Peace, Love, and Harmony. MARIAN JUIJSON. Superintendent.