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Show 2:2 253 that are unmothcred and it is for us who are mothers to mother those too, and our work is for all the children. One of the aims of our congre s which I always love to repeat because I think it is so beautitul, is this: "To surround all childhood with that loving and wise care in the impressionable years of life that shall make for good citizenship." Mothers of that kind, mothers with that aim, must welcome such a movement as this conference stands for, and I can assure the members and delegates of the Peace Conference that the mothen of lllinois. and I feel safe in sayingr the mothers of the whole country, will be glad to aid in this movement. (Applause) This very meeting, wi h representatives from women's organizations; of all sorts, shows that at last women are learning to pull together, to pull in bodies. We may call those bodies MRS. Hr: 'RU'I‘INZ Miss Addams has just come in and has to leave very early, so I will ask Miss Addams to speak now. ti‘\pplause.) Woman's Special Training for Peacemaking Miss JANE Anmns. n H‘MAJ w nit/ti. It is rather diffirult to find new things to say concerning ihi incessity for peace in a large conference of peace people gathered from all over the nation but perhaps there are some special things which might he said to an audience of women that would not he so applicable to an audience of men. illit' of thew things is. l stttttittst‘. that men very early learned to do things together: lit'CiltZ-t' the? were obliged to tight together; that one of the things which war bequeathed to mankind and to the Ht.'tl( portion of mankind was this ability to go out together, to .L't' in tubes. to no in phantoms. to go in regiments, to go in uhatewr l:'r(l_\' of men was the saltst to those who were fighting, and to htitw' the most (lestrizctir n to those whom they were st. llut we women new t' had this training, It is m'vl th. I in n whtn women were l"""i as beasts of burden, which lugan \tvt (wily. one woman al s nut-n! by herself or went \\llll (lilttllitl' beast. but two women \‘\'h<'ther that :,._ true or not. 1 third new!" pulled . together. rertaiztlv true that the thing: which is laapprnitw now to tlvi~ sp- rta' gent ration oi women is tln ability and the lt.t.iiit‘.:: him to r." it \L'llli'v. clubs or we may call them benefit societies, or we may call them this, that and the other, but they are all bodies of women as such, and they are goingr out to do away with such evil as they see and to bring about such good as they may be able to perform. There is one thingr which the theory of evolution has given to us. It is very hard for use to detach ourselves from the past. That is whether we call ourselves evolutionists or not, whether we think much about it or not, it has so changed our point of view that unconsciously we realize we are. children of the past. The things which we are now are the results of the things which have gone before us, If at last in the fullness of time it has come about that Anglo-Saxon women have received a larger measure of freedom, if they can go to clubs without being accused by the men of their family, or by the newspapers, which are often much worse, of neglecting their children at home, in their cradles; if various things have happened so that we can without detaching ourselves too much from the past, organize into these clubs and movements, it is now up to us-if I may use that phrase-t0 see what we are going to do with this power of organization and with this new ability to act together. If men learned it in fighting. it may be harder for them to forget the method by which they learned it. It may always be harder for a body of men to go out to do thing's, to reform, than it will be for women. They are not quite free from the fighting instinct yet. It is said that one of the charms of political life-of course we will have to speak of that entirely by hearsay; we cannot even have any reminiscences in our blood. I suppose, of that-- is the lightingr element that still remains; the consciousness that you are One of a large body of men goingr out to battle against your enemy of the other party. If we lack all of that training and have now come into this new movement with the power of acting: together, we ought to bring a distinct factor into the peace of the world. We ought to make it clear that bodies of people can act together without this fight spirit, without the spirit of competition, without the spirit of rivalry; simply moved by a |