PEACE DEPARTMENT

White Ribbon, Volume 40, Issue 476, 18 May 1935, Page 7

PEACE DEPARTMENT

Dear Madame Editor and FellowMembers, — 1 am sorry that it was impossible to send a message to you through the April “White Ribbon" about our work for Peace. This should have been done m time for your May meetings, which, as you all know, are set aside tor the study ot world affairs and the furtherance of the spirit towards Peace. However, 1 am taking it for grange i that everywhere Unions are holding such meetings this month. If for any reason this has not been done, will you please plan to set aside one day in November, us rear to Armistice 1 >uy as possible, for a meeting of prayer and study ot tins uigent question. 1 will endeavoui, as youi Dominion Superintendent, to prepaie a suitable paper or some notes from time to time, keeping you informed up-to-date on what is happening in the world, for use in your l nions. It is essential that we women shall face honestly what is going on in the world that will frustrate our efforts for peace. We must do our utmost to train our children and young people in ideals of goodwill and understanding, and the use of means to bring this about. We must, too, make an effort to do away with militarism in our public secondary' schools. We have only o watch the dail> press each morning in order to realise that the leaders of all the great Power'* are deserting the ways that lead to peace and security. Within tlie last two weeks they have all started a fresh armaments race. They are each and all appropriating hundreds of millions of pound sterling of the taxpayers' money to build engines of destruction, battleships, submarines, air craft, and possible gas factories, to destroy once more th youth of the world, and in their path modern civilisation as well will have to go. Fear and destruction are again to lav waste the land. They trust in thes. and not in the God of Peace, the Rule* of the Universe, and His Christ. The arm of flesh has failed, and vvi i again fail. We must work for understanding an co-operation between the nations basis of justice and mercy. i'°' “mutual assistance and security' b > co-operation. There is a tremendous urge towards peace in the world to-day. The ordinary men and women do not want war they want to get on with the essential and constructive things of life, to be free from the wasteful economic burden of war and armaments, and it is our duty and privilege to help them. ELIZA RUTH B. TAYLOR. Supt. for Peace.