AN AMERICAN PACIFIST

Ladies' Mirror, Volume 3, Issue 4, 1 October 1924, Page 40

AN AMERICAN PACIFIST

A, unassuming yet truly notable Americaine lias touched our shores in the course of her world-journeyings: Miss Martha Root, great-grand-daughter of the United States celebrity, Elihu Root. Miss Root has visited all the leading cities of South America, she has spent a year in China, she has toured in Australia, and after visiting Wellington she will return to Sydney en route for South Africa. Her life is devoted to the betterment of our race. She pleads for universal peace, —on the basis of Bahaismshe shows that this ideal of the ages can and will be attained by civil and moral equalisation of the sexes, by the education of boys and girls as citizens of the world and progenitors of an ever-ascending humanity, and by the use of an international auxiliary language. Herself a fluent Esperantist, Miss Root has expoundel her lofty themes before the progressives of Japan and other countries, and must he regarded as an important factor in this rapidly developing period. It is to be regretted that her stay in New Zealand will be brief. Let us hope that such a visitor may come again !