PEACE PROPAGANDA IN PICTURES
Richard, Livy S.
Peace Propaganda in Pictures A Unique Campaign Against War—-"What to DO About It" By UVY S. RICHARD THROUGHOUT a state where munition makers have been reaping war profits and preparedness...
...One picture especially tells...
...If there is an explosion who is to blame...
...And who stirs up the trouble in Mexico, anyway...
...John Sturgis Codman, Mrs...
...Profits, a fat-jowled capitalist obsessed with greed...
...no audience sees It without shivering...
...The novelty of the proceedings, the promise of entertainment, quickly assembles an audience...
...Edwin D. Mead, Mrs...
...This is what the Peace movement stands for tho world over...
...Arthur Augustus Hibbard, Mrs...
...George William Nasmyth, Miss Rose Standish Nichols, Mrs...
...THIS CAMPAIGN being made by Mrs...
...Of course nations will have quarrels to the end of time, just as individuals do...
...Why am I showing you these pictures of desolated towns, starving women and children and dead men rotting upon battlefields...
...Do I imagine that I have to make out a case that General Sherman knew what he was talking about when he said, 'War is Hell...
...Imprisoning them within its own frontiers...
...Following a glimpse at the torpedoed flwsex we see slides showing the Fisheries Arbitration and the undefended Canadian border with its hundred year proof that suspicion and fear can be replaced by neighborliness...
...And our soldier boys Who leave their bones in Mexico, will die, not for the country which we all love and are proud to serve, but to make dividends for predatory millionaires...
...at 600 fourteen months later...
...Don't think that the audience dispersed without something concrete to think about...
...It makes clear at a glance how very small is the part of the world not ablaze...
...The cylinders contain gas...
...Elizabeth Tilton and Miss Sarah Wambaugh...
...Evans ' says: "Keeping our soldiers down there is like burning a candle in a powder magazine...
...Raemaeker's cartoon is shown of dead men dangling on barbed wire like scarecrows In a storm...
...I am here to advocate our all taking a hand in making a world in which disputes between nations shall no longer be settled by war...
...Evans was planned by the Massachusetts branch of the Woman's Peace Party and directed by committees which included Mrs...
...At the end of each meeting there is an offer of literature to those who desire it, and anr eager throng surges round the automobile...
...held spell-bound...
...Too often the cry of patriotism is used as a red herring to lead the citizens of a country on the devil's trail...
...In place of the corpses on the barbed wire we see the A. B. C. mediators at work...
...A woman arises...
...The word peace is derived from the Latin word pact, which means a contract...
...Then comes a chart, showing Bethlehem Steel common, at 42 before the war...
...It is greedy capital that is out to own the earth and which, having gobbled up $1,000,000,000 worth of Mexican concessions, wants Uncle Sam to validate its claims...
...Any evening during the past summer, at a corner near the business center of a Massachusetts city, you might have seen this curious proceeding: An auto drives up, a seven-seater, carrying both passengers and freight...
...held by the spirit of the Italian shoe worker at Lynn who edged timidly toward Mrs...
...Norwood P. Hallowell, Mrs...
...It reads: THE GREAT WAR And What to DO About It That, then, is what the meeting is to be...
...And here is the significant thing: Jangling trolley cars pass and repass, clamor is intermittent, street meetings have usually their turbulent fringe—but here is no restlessness, no disorder...
...And everyone agrees that true statesmanship demands that nations should take proper steps to safeguard their people from its horrors...
...There are scenes showing how, while the men go to bloody "glory" in rat-ridden, vermin-infested trenches, their bereaved families are left to become victims of want, "the poor to become poorer...
...It Is to be a pictured story of what war is and a challenge to the man on the street, to the free American, to use his freedom of thought and of the ballot to find a better way...
...Evans...
...It is law against war...
...AS A FIRST STEP toward substituting law for war Mrs...
...That is what happened in Europe...
...I am here to advocate another kind of preparedness...
...She asks him: "Daddy, are you going to kill some Other little girl's father...
...Conspicuous among the freight are three metal cylinders—not shells for a 16-inch howitzer, but an explosive far more powerful...
...It is a civil process as against a lawless process...
...Then comes the Militarists' Ladder of Progress—lowest rung the cave man's bludgeon...
...A little girl is shown bidding Father good-bye...
...The very business interests which in present conditions make big money out of war, would find that this kind of war spelt ruin to high as well as low...
...FIRST we see a map of the world, with the countries at war shaded black...
...Peace Propaganda in Pictures A Unique Campaign Against War—-"What to DO About It" By UVY S. RICHARD THROUGHOUT a state where munition makers have been reaping war profits and preparedness parades have been bulling their market, an unusual campaign for Peace has been going on...
...Evans explains the plan, "under discussion now-a-days by thinkers the world over, of a League of Nations which should each agree to submit Its disputes with any nation in the League to courts of arbitration and conciliation, with the penalty of a boycott upon any nation which resorts to war in defiance of its agreement, cutting off its trade and financial loans, stopping its mail and telegraph service, refusing passports to its citizens, and, in fact...
...If war breaks out between our country and that much wronged people—wronged by neighbors whose duty as Christians it was to help them toward freedom and civilization instead of devouring the natural resources of their land—it will be a deed that will brand our name forever...
...Ernest Amory Codman, Mrs...
...J. Malcolm Forbes, Mrs...
...There are other leave-takings,—men are seen marching away, leaving an old mother, an agonized young wife and a little child...
...Panic, a timid soul, a victim of manufactured fear...
...It is unique in the history of propaganda...
...Let us take warning...
...Evans has been talking, though the pictures really tell their own story...
...It is right against might...
...but the quarrels of nations should be settled as private quarrels are settled, not by a trial by battle, but by a rule of reason, a process of Judgment, an Investigation of the offense and a sifting of the evidence before an impartial tribunal, and by some form of compulsion to enforce a decree and prevent its being flouted...
...In quick succession come Zeppelins, gas masks, samples of trenches— one with French soldiers living like rabbits in burrows during a bombardment...
...Can the Mexicans be expected to regard without suspicion and resentment the establishment of an army post in their country by a troop of soldiers who left their own land singing 'We take the border with us when we cross the Rio Grande...
...asks Mrs...
...the topmost, a can of chlorine gas...
...Power is a helmeted militarist lusty for conquest...
...If such a boycott were drastically enforced (as it could be if it were backed up by the public opinion in the various nations) a treaty-breaking nation itself would not stand for it...
...The gas feeds light for a stereopticon which, from the rear seat, throws pictures on a screen quickly rigged above the auto's front guards...
...Quincy A. Shaw, Mrs...
...But before we come to the pictures let's look at the banner hanging from the back of the car...
...The screen lights up, a picture appears, the meeting has begun...
...Finally come pictures showing substitutes for war...
...But the trouble is that the 'preparedness' which a good many people advocate is the very thing which went far to launch the European war, the preparedness which built up great navies and great armies ready to mobilize at the drop of a hat...
...ALL THIS TIME Mrs...
...Glendower Evans...
...a woman long known to the readers of La Foixette's—Mrs...
...It is an act of the mind instead of an act of violence, of theft, and arson, and murder...
...It lasts from June 22 to August 19, covers forty-five cities and towns, carrying its appeal to a total of many thousand voters...
...And such pictures...
...Everywhere, a very positive accord is evinced by the audience, especially when Mexico is under discussion...
...She is to interpret the pictures...
...John Richardson Jr., Mrs...
...the hungry, more hungry...
...and they could be trusted to enforce upon their own government the homely maxim that 'Honesty is the best policy.' "A great change is coming over the world," the speaker continues: "Men and women who have all their lives believed that war is inevitable and moreover who have seen in it the supreme service to their country, are now coming to understand that it is not only unnecessary, but that it is wrong...
...Everyone agrees with that sentiment now-a-days, even those who were formerly fire-eaters...
...It shows a train of slowly moving baggage vans with the blood of wounded soldiers oozing from beneath the doors and dripping, dripping...
...The crowd is held...
...Evans when she had finished, and said fervently: "If only there were more women to be doing what you are doing, wouldn't it be great...
...There la a picture of the "Three Apostles of Preparedness"—Power, Panic and Profits...
...SPEAKING of the Mexican situation Mrs...
Vol. 8 • August 1916 • No. 8
