A woman’s Department of the International Peace Forum, under the
leadership of Mrs. Alice Gitchell Kirk, with headquarters at Cleveland,
Ohio, has been organized. This Department will have a Bureau in the WORLD
COURT magazine, conducted by Mrs. Kirk, who is a well known writer and
lecturer who has been prominent in many activities for the promotion of
the welfare of her sex and of the rising generation. The purpose of the
Department is to promote the cause of National and International Amity
by the application of safe and sane principles to world problems; to set
clearly before the American people the ideals at issue between American
thought and life as compared with the economic, social and political
theories which spell revolution and ruin; to exemplify and reinforce the
faith of the people in personal initiative as the mainspring of all real
social, industrial, political and moral well-being; to encourage the
study of the laws of hygiene and so conserve life and promote happiness
and usefulness; to promote a loyal adherence to the institutions by
which America has come to be a land of peace, liberty, and progress under
law; to uphold the American ideal of home; the dignity of womanhood, and
the rights of childhood; the love of country, the supremacy of the flag,
and to maintain the everlasting reality of religion as the foundation of
civilization.