DGHM 110: Introduction to Digital Humanities

Women Favor Prohibition During War Newpaper Article_1917

Newspaper article with the headline 'Women Favor Prohibition During War/ Speakers Urge Federal Action at Meeting of Peace Party Here.' In pencil next to the article is 'Bost(?)'. Article is as follows: "Members of the Woman's Peace Party in annual meeting yesterday at 421 Boylston street, unanimously indorsed war prohibition after several speakers, including Mrs. Edwin D. Mead, had urged such action. Mrs. Ernest Amory Codman reported marked and increasing success in teaching braod ideals and an international outlook to boys and girls, more than 100 of whom have been meeting at the headquarters every Sunday afternoon since Dec. 10 to listen to appropriate stories and sing folksongs. She said that she would be glad to have help in finding stories. 'It is to the children's receptive minds,' she said, 'that we can turn most hopefully in developing internationalism.' Praises the Newspapers. Other reports included a tribute from Mrs. George Nasmyth to the newspapers, 'an unrivalled instrument of democracy.' The publicity committee has found the foreign press in Boston a particularly satisfactory field. Mrs. Augustus Hemenway is to bie the use of her home at 273 Clarendon street to the peace party for a food conservation headquarters, with a canning kitchen that will begin work June 15. The party will use the surplus from gardens throughout the state, and sell the output for the benefit of civilian relief. It has the approval in the procedure of the public safety committee and the backing of both the suffrage and the anti-suffrage associations. A $50 prize for a statue of 'Peace resting on industrial law' went to Miss Rose A. Garrity, a pupil of Roger Noble Burnham; a $25 prize to Mrs. Meta V. W. Fuller, a pupil of Rodin, for a statue of 'Peace halting the ruthlessness of war.' Mrs. J. Malcolm Forbes was re-elected president. Other officers are: Vice-president, Mrs. Norwood P. Hallowell, Mrs. Edwin D. Mead, Mrs. Fannie Fern Andrews, Mrs. Robert Gould Shaw, treasurer, Mrs. John Richardson, Jr. directors, Mrs. Ernest Amory Codman, Mrs. John Sturgis Codman, Mrs. Elizabeth Glendower Evans; also as honorary vice-presidents. Owing to the war, the party omitted its annual luncheon. The attendance crowded the rooms, however. An increase of 295 has brought the membership to 1200."

Eph1.41.129

Boston

c.1917