WAR AND PEACE

Press, Volume LXXII, Issue 21907, 7 October 1936, Page 13

WAR AND PEACE

TO TUX XOITOB OF TUB PJUBTJ. Sir, —In reply to “That's Me" I thought her letter very good. 1 really think if the women (or mothers, I should say) of the world were at the head of the peace conference, war would be no more. They would soon come to a decision, because women would not bring children Into the world to be slaughtered. I consider the bravest man to*day is the matt that says he will not kill his fellow man because really the men that go to fight are innocent. Why should they kill one another; it is all to keep filling the big man's pocket. In a case of self-defence it is Utterly different, as in Spain the big man got up against the worker, and of course the worker fought in self-defence. But the wars of to-day, like the last war, ere not self-defence, they are sheer slaughter. In most cases men Join with the forces because they, not . the courage -to island iirmi rpt most Courageous man is lie that laces the world and says “No." In the last war the w°men that, sent the white feathers—well, wicked was not the ncme lor them. I consider them lower than the lowest criminal. So “That’s Me” must tsach her children, as I teach mine, not to kill their fellow men to satisfy the big man. It is not a case of fight for your country; those days are gone.—Yours, etc., ANOTHER MOTHER. Waimate, October 8, 1836.