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S I X T E E N T H A N N U A L C O N V E N T I ON 59 of Austria and Hungary was an achievement difficult to imagine before it happened; it has put over a programme of health and social endeavor, of trade and transit which ten years ago would have been considered impossible. Under the wing of the League, the International Labor Organization was established, " to secure and maintain fair and humane conditions of labor for men, women and children and the well being, physical, moral and intellectual, of industrial wage earners." A glance at the latest list of agreements and conventions concluded under the League auspices would afford some idea of the number and range of projects which have already been written into treaties. Intermingled with these successful ventures have been some failures, for the League has its limitations. However, if one more decade brings an equal degree of success such vistas of progress will open up as to make glad the heart of mankind. The one great force upon which the League relies for support, probably the greatest force in the world, is public opinion. It has no army or navy to enforce its w i l l ; it attempts only to establish and make permanent the new hope, the new spirit, the modern international law of mutual consent. Surely this phase appeals to the women of the world, and we find our place in this unsurpassed movement to promote and establish permanent peace in the opportunity to assist in forming public opinion. The channels through which this can be done most effectively are the minds of the young. A popular magazine recently arranged a symposium on what women can do to promote permanent peace among the nations, to which seven prominent women from as many different countries contributed. It is interesting and significant that of these seven writers, five place the greatest emphasis on the need for the reform of Education in the spirit of peace. This, then, is our objective; to strip war of all its romantic glamour and to present it only as the tragedy it i s ; to recognize the importance of training a citizenship for the future that shall be imbued with the spirit of peace; to urge that the stories glorifying war be eliminated from text books; to replace m i l i t a r y training w i t h physical exercises; to have a copy of the Kellogg Peace Pact displayed on the walls of every school room; to present a programme or in other ways commemorate Goodwill Day, May 18th, and Armistice Day. In short, to educate for the new patriotism. As one writer says: " There is nothing unpatriotic in the thought that children must be trained to hate war and to love peace. The nations of the world have renounced war, solemnly, officially, and without equivocation, in a general pact, and have pledged to seek the solution of their disputes only by pacific means." If this means anything, it must mean re- education on the presumption of peace. It must mean that we must do away with all militarism in our schools, with all drills which keep before children the expectation of war. It is natural that a generation, trained as ours has been, to think of war as a legal weapon of a sovereign state, and as something inevitable, however deplorable, should be unable, as our generation has been, to create an adequate mechanism for preventing war. But a new generation, trained to think the preservation of world peace to be a first duty of citizenship, w i l l work out and perfect the world organization which we have only faultily begun.
Object Description
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Title | 1930 - Annual Convention Report |
Subject | Convention;Report; AWI |
Description | Report of the Sixteenth Annual Convention held May 20-23, 1930 |
Language | en |
Format | application/pdf |
Type | text |
Source | Alberta Women's Institutes |
Identifier | awi0811099 |
Date | 1930 |
Collection | Alberta Women's Institutes - Collective Memory |
Repository | AU Digital Library |
Copyright | For Private Study and Research Use Only |
Description
Title | Page 57 |
Format | application/pdf |
Source | AWI Collection |
Collection | Alberta Women's Institutes - Collective Memory |
Repository | AU Digital Library |
Copyright | For Private Study and Research Use Only |
Transcript | S I X T E E N T H A N N U A L C O N V E N T I ON 59 of Austria and Hungary was an achievement difficult to imagine before it happened; it has put over a programme of health and social endeavor, of trade and transit which ten years ago would have been considered impossible. Under the wing of the League, the International Labor Organization was established, " to secure and maintain fair and humane conditions of labor for men, women and children and the well being, physical, moral and intellectual, of industrial wage earners." A glance at the latest list of agreements and conventions concluded under the League auspices would afford some idea of the number and range of projects which have already been written into treaties. Intermingled with these successful ventures have been some failures, for the League has its limitations. However, if one more decade brings an equal degree of success such vistas of progress will open up as to make glad the heart of mankind. The one great force upon which the League relies for support, probably the greatest force in the world, is public opinion. It has no army or navy to enforce its w i l l ; it attempts only to establish and make permanent the new hope, the new spirit, the modern international law of mutual consent. Surely this phase appeals to the women of the world, and we find our place in this unsurpassed movement to promote and establish permanent peace in the opportunity to assist in forming public opinion. The channels through which this can be done most effectively are the minds of the young. A popular magazine recently arranged a symposium on what women can do to promote permanent peace among the nations, to which seven prominent women from as many different countries contributed. It is interesting and significant that of these seven writers, five place the greatest emphasis on the need for the reform of Education in the spirit of peace. This, then, is our objective; to strip war of all its romantic glamour and to present it only as the tragedy it i s ; to recognize the importance of training a citizenship for the future that shall be imbued with the spirit of peace; to urge that the stories glorifying war be eliminated from text books; to replace m i l i t a r y training w i t h physical exercises; to have a copy of the Kellogg Peace Pact displayed on the walls of every school room; to present a programme or in other ways commemorate Goodwill Day, May 18th, and Armistice Day. In short, to educate for the new patriotism. As one writer says: " There is nothing unpatriotic in the thought that children must be trained to hate war and to love peace. The nations of the world have renounced war, solemnly, officially, and without equivocation, in a general pact, and have pledged to seek the solution of their disputes only by pacific means." If this means anything, it must mean re- education on the presumption of peace. It must mean that we must do away with all militarism in our schools, with all drills which keep before children the expectation of war. It is natural that a generation, trained as ours has been, to think of war as a legal weapon of a sovereign state, and as something inevitable, however deplorable, should be unable, as our generation has been, to create an adequate mechanism for preventing war. But a new generation, trained to think the preservation of world peace to be a first duty of citizenship, w i l l work out and perfect the world organization which we have only faultily begun. |
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