ADDRESS ON PEACE

Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 6, 7 July 1938, Page 5

ADDRESS ON PEACE

MISS ANDREWS AT Y.W.C.A.

Iceland poppies and green foliage were used to decorate one of the upstairs lecture rooms at the Y.W.C.A. yesterday, when the Business and Professional Women's Round Table Club gave a luncheon at which Miss Elsie Andrews was guest of honour. The room was filled to capacity with a representative gathering of women who listened with interest to what Miss Andrews had to say. The speaker, in outlining her ideas on the basis of peace (which was the title of her address), spoke on the text "Bear ye one another's burdens," which, she maintained, was the fundamental basis of peace. Peace, said Miss Andrews, did not mean merely not fighting—it meant a co-operative asso i ciation. The phrase she had quoted | could have a very real application in j the daily lives of the people. A second ! adage, "Do as you would be done by," I was quoted, and Miss Andrews stressed that it meant that the people should set an example and not be led by the actions of others. People said it was human nature to fight and compared: I humanity with the chickens. "If we! are going to set our standard of conduct by the chickens," the speaker j averred, "we might as well eat like the chickens and roost like they do." [ Maintaining that individuals were most important in the world today, Miss Andrews pointed out that the! world was made up of nations which, in turn, were made up of families, which were groups of individuals, so that every problem in the world came j right back to the individual. ' People who asked "What can I do?" were approaching peace work from the wrong angle. Rather should they say "What am I doing?" for their atti-j tude towards the matter would have an effect on at least some of those with j whom they came into contact. I Miss E. Harper, president of the club, | welcomed Miss Andrews, and spoke of j her fine work for women. Dr. Champtaloup was welcomed as | ia-new member of the club. Among those present were Mrs. Maslen,*Miss Mary Seaton, Mrs. Graham, Miss McAndrew, Mrs. Elsie Freeman, J Miss R. Nicholls, Mrs. B. Burns, Mrs. i A. de Muth, Miss H. Bath am, Miss Nad-! sen, Miss McConchie.. and Miss L. I Bridgman. j