WHERE IS MISS LA PERLE?

White Ribbon, Volume 35, Issue 409, 18 August 1929, Page 4

WHERE IS MISS LA PERLE?

A DREAM VISION. Written by the dn aaaer of the dream. the ener of the vision, ■ «on who has worked witn women hoover five and tenant) yearn The central Agure of the ■ was Miss La I'erle, | line-looking woman, tif>m 16 to IS, who conceived the idea tint the outlawr) of war could be effected onlj by theaacriflcc of women that the sacrifice Of women was the only means h\ which pormtnont peace could ' • ired. The sacrifice demanded that even woman who was capable ihould peak every da] for two coneecntlvc hours on the advantages of peace and the outlawry of war, and egmii in all 1U form-, including : lanufacture of poiaoa • and Ihe i.it• st diabolical war lmpl< menta. i'lie original idea was that they should speak for four houra, hut it r eiHeed that that would be ■ phyalcal Impoaelbtllty, ao the time reduced to two hours.

America, the Britiah Isles. Continent of Europe, Auetralii and New Beolamfl, were all included In the icheme. la every ettj and town ; n t lief e count lies t h» se add.i < ss- .- were to he delivered continuously from eight o'clock in the morning ht (iV'H h in the evening. At em eer of ev< rj street in i \» r) town, ami e ban the st i wen long, also in the middle of them, - were to be i rooted for protection from the sun and rain. Under i of these shelter; six women, chosen for their physical endurance* and their mental ahility. were to speak, one after the other, every day until the people generally were thoroughly Influenced and arouood The women were all chosen from the neighbourhood in which they were to ipeak, ao la to prevent waste of time and energy. The magnitude of the s< heme makes it look as if it would be an impossibility to carry it out. but under Miss La IVrle's skilful management and with the aid of h*r hundredi of helpera, all the arrangements wet at last completed, and the da) ail I real when the experiment was to be made. One of the women remarked that very few people would be likely to pass her stand, but the answer came, clear and

distinct: "Oh* that do. n't matter; tiapi the t' w thai piss you will do more work than the nian> who in, of the othera. Tin One Qreat [< whole moephere wttb the thought ol

Bo perf< ctl) iaa the en( Ire aeheme carrtod ant, that ti■•• not i le hitch not even thi sllgl •iciori of confusion. All the weaneo took their pmcoa ii rotation, and did tlnir work faithfully. At the end of the second i\,\\ . §o wonderful, ao extiaordinar) was the reault, - -lit forth to the et thai It the women would < ontinue but o rory short time lot war would be an impoe Ibility, and th< manufacture of poison gnaea and diabolii - Implement!) would Our men would at ashamed to deal a th such thlagi no man would be found who would dam to ! UC. | ||. Ml The dn .'.m wa i ended Ihe \ laioa passed away. Hut the Interpretation of tin dream lies very mar to the surface. The posalbiHtii s of combined concentrated thought w • abliahed, ala i the difficulty of ■uataining such con centrated thought, speech beinf i" oded to hold the mind steady. Where, oh where hi Miss Li Perle? Until her n appenraace, would it not be worthwhile for every woman and \ man who roadl this little sketch to devote a little time each day to such concentrated thOUghti Ofl Teac . Huadn di nre to be seen ■baking their heads and aajrlng: "There is no lime for sucli thought la this work-a-da\ world." Yet. th.se same hundreds would spend an> amount of time in removing their transient worldly possessions from | risin- tlood on to higher land for sa'-ty. and thir.k nothing Of it Would it not be more worthwhile to carry our thought! to the higheel level possible in an effort to save Civilisation— to save a eYotW from vdestruction? —0 EH.