mes and as such they have the
right to the assurance that what they buy is free from adulteration
and has been produced under clean, wholesome and humane conditions.
For this right the Consumers' League persistently contends but it can
be only partially successful, in my opinion, so long as it depends
entirely upon moral suasion, while manufacturers and merchants have
the voting power to hold in terror over its administration."

Mrs. Lucia Ames Mead, president of the Massachusetts State Suffrage
Association and a leader in the movement for peace and arbitration,
was on the program to talk of Woman's Work for Peace. "I am not going
to speak of any philanthropy," she began, "but of something much more
far-reaching and radical, which will make three-fourths of our
philanthropy needless." She then made an impassioned plea for a world
organization of the forces that would conduce to peace. Representative
government was the first step, she said, and the establishment of a
World Court was the next. The achievement of an International Advisory
Congress might be the third. "A simultaneous effort must be made," she
declared, "to arrange arbitration treaties with every nation on earth,
referring all questions that cannot be settled by diplomacy to the
Hague Court. Questions of 'honor' must not be excluded. Carnegie well
said in his plea for this plan, 'No word has been so dishonored as the
word honor.' Such treaties and the use of the economic boycott upon
European enemies would be vastly more efficient than battleships to
keep the peace.... We need to convert the church. There are many of
our Christian ministers who believe they are living under the
dispensation of Joshua and not of Jesus."

At the conclusion of Mrs. Mead's address Mrs. Catt said: "Sometimes
the cause of peace and arbitration seems to me the greatest of all. To
help working women was the motive that determined me to devote my life
to obtaining woman suffrage. How hard it is that women must spend so
many years just to get the means with which to effect reforms! But we
who believe that behind them all is the ballot are chained to the work
for that until it is gained."

Religious services were conducted Sunday afternoon by the Rev. Mary A.
Safford of Des Moines, assisted by Dr. Shaw and the Rev. Marie Jenney
Howe. The subject of the sermon was The Goal of Life and the text:
"The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit that we are the
children of God, and, i