Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 303, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 December 1920 — TAKES STEPS TO PREVENT WAR [ARTICLE]

TAKES STEPS TO PREVENT WAR

Indianapolis, Dec. 17. —An international league of mothers, to prevent war for all time, is the goal of the National American War Mothers, as announced here today by Alice M. French, president of the organization, who also announced a plan whereby 500 or more war mothers throughout the nation will voyage on a special ship to visit the battlefields of the world war and the cemeteries where lie American war dead. “Our idea is to enlist the efforts of the brilliant women of the world, and particularly the mothers who suffered in the world war, to produce a league that will continue peace forever,” Mrs. French said today. “We feel that as long as men lead the affairs of the world we will have war, because they will fight. But we mothers will agree on Mrs. French said nothing approaching a definite plan for the holding of a congress of the countries of the world so far has been formulated, but that between now and the first week in June, when the “mothers’ ship” is scheduled to sail for Europe, much effort will be expended looking toward the calling of such a congress. That the mothers of German soldiers in the world war would be invited to attend such a congress, probably to be held in France, is the plan of Mrs. French and her associates, she said. ,