UNITY AGAINST WAR IS URGED ON WOMEN
Speakers at Dinner of Trade and Professional Leaders Ask Peace Agitation.
DR. ALFRED ADLER HEARD
Opposition to Strife Instinctive in Women, He Tells 200 in International Group.
Women of all nations were urged to stand together for peace by three speakers at the international dinner of the New York League of Business and Professional Women at the Hotel Pennsylvania last night.
The three who urged women to unite for peace were Dr. Elsa La Roe, chairman of the dinner committee; Dr. Elaine Elmore of France and Hettie Dyhrenfurht of Switzerland. Nearly all the other speakers touched on the subject of war.
Dr. Alfred Adler, the principal speaker, said that instinctively women were always against war, and rightly so, because "the undervaluation of women" began when man invented war and found that women were not available for military service.
Lena Madesin Phillips, president of the International Federation of Business and Professional Women, chided women in general on their attitude toward war.
"I do not want to say," she declared, "that women don't want peace. But I do say they do not want it enough. They have the education and the opportunity; what they need is the determination for peace."
The dinner was attended by 200 women. Other speakers included Miss Vera McCrea, president of the league; Victoria Powell of England, Countess Jackowska of Poland and Margarete Kaiser of Germany.
The United States is in danger of developing a purely feminine culture, Miss Phillips told a group of business men and their secretaries earlier in the day at a "secretaries' day" luncheon of the Sales Executives Club at the Hotel Roosevelt.
"Women are paying more attention today than men as a group to the educational, cultural, idealistic and spiritual phases of life," she said. "You men seem to be willing simply to make money and to permit a feminine culture to be developed."
Fuente: «Unity Against War Is Urged on Women. Speakers at Dinner of Trade and Professional Leaders Ask Peace Agitation. Dr. Alfred Adler Heard. Opposition to Strife Instinctive in Women, He Tells 200 in International Group», The New York Times, Nueva York, 14 de enero de 1936, p. 19, sin firma. Transcripción hecha sobre el PDF del recorte en TimesMachine (artículo 1936-01-14_p19_88624509), cotejada con el OCR del archivo. Se transcribe la crónica entera, aunque solo un párrafo se refiere a Adler. Se conserva «Dyhrenfurht» tal como se imprimió. Las palabras partidas a final de línea se unen.