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Woman’s Work During The War Address Made by Mrs. Harrolc Americus Woman Has Delioered Splendid Talk in This Subject Before Various Clubs and Gatherings About the State .Mrs. Frank Harrold, of Americus, has been the recipient of compliments from all parts of the state on the splendid address wh'ch she has deliv ered before various clubs, organlar tlons and gatherings—a helpful, n- spirfng address, setting forth woman's position and duty in these stirring limes. Mrs Harrold recently repeated this address before the Woman's Club of Americus, and it was enthusiastically received. Having had numerous re quests to publ'sh this address, so that all women of Americus may read it. The Times-Itecorder does so, here with: It has been said without contradic tion, that in all the ages of the world's history, women have met the test put upon them In any crisis. And now that our beloved country has taken up the gauntlet of war, thrown down by the central powers, victory or de feat for the United States will de pend as much upon the women as the men. Tho women of the world turned against Germany when tho ruthless cruelty with which she waged war was flrst disclosed. When tho Ger man attitude towards womon was re vealed, womanhood from London to Petrograd, from Copenhagen to Now York was completely, irrevocably an tagonized. Nothing could be finer than the response given everywhere by women in the United States to our entrance Into the war. The federal officers at Washington have been al most overwhelmed with offers of serv ice from Individual women and their organizations. Knowing, therefore, the capability and adaptability of our women, and ever holding in memory the wonderful self-sacrifice of the women of the Stifles "who bore all, suffored all, dared all. gave all,” lot us draw some lessons from the recent cchlevements of British and French women and make practical suggestions for thd women of America. There are four essentials required of a woman, as of a man, for compe tent national service. First, loyalty. Second, efficiency. Third, the ability to select and perform, unselfishly, tha work to which one is best suited. And lastly, practicing economy and ayohi- i 'T extravagance In all thingn. There Is no doubt whatever thut to day tho women In every country at war are fighting the battles back of the line» Just as bravely, loyally and fruitfully as are men in the long lines o. the trenches and across the deadly reaches of •' No Man's Land." Mr. As quith said In parliament. “Without the a'd of women England could not have carried on the war.” The man of America, like those tf» i Nothing could more forcibly Illus trate the faith, courage and patriotism of American women than the wonder ful work being done by them In the French hospitals at the present mom ent. Miss Rosalie Howell, of Atlanta, sis ter of Messrs, Clark, Albert and Evan Howell, was among the first of the first of tile volunteer American nurses. She has already given two years of active sorvice In the French hospitals. Learning that her two neprews, Clark Howell, Jr., and Howell Fore man, were In the officers' training camp at Fort McPherson, she wrote •‘No newB could give me greater de light than that they, too arc prepar ing to do their part to win the triumph of our country In this war, for we are going to win; wo must win!" Further, she writes: I have Just come in from seeing our troops march through tho 'Place do la Concorde.' Tho sight was thrilling to me beyond my de scription In words. If only my broth ers and nephews bad been In that .if of march, my Joy would have boon complete. My! but our soldier boys were splendid. Just as they passed whero I was, the band of our boys be gan playing 'Dixie.’ There had been cbcerlng before that, but to that tune one whole mass of people In the ‘Place’ broke Into a wild, continuous cheer, nnd I Into a flood of tears. “I cannot even tell you all the thrill ing Incidents of the occasion. All dec orations were in our flags, and I was so grateful to bo living to be an Amer ican woman, and to be rendering service.” The one outstanding achievement of women thus rar. Is In mechanical lines, particularly in munitions fac tories. in a munitions plant on the Hudson, women ure turning out vastly more work than the men. "Because," said tho efficiency engineer, “they can pick up a unit and put it into place, while a man, with his machine clum siness, Is groping for It." Then he added, *'wo couldn't get along without our girl assemblers—and inspectors At last nn Industry has found n place for the fussy old maid. As an Inspect or she Is perfecly happy In Beelug that absolutely nothing imperfect gets by her.” National registration for women Ib the latost feature of our war program. New York state has already takon s military census of her women, a3 well as-her men. On May 22, at the invitation of the Council Tor National Defense, ten of the leading women of the United States met In Washington. Dr. Anna Slmw was elected chairman. For fous days these women discussed the ways and means of conserving the work of the patriot!: womon all over Hie coun- Eurore, are being "wrought to an I e l™ of etpei," Are the woman Of j try America to bo a “line of flame behind them " Men here, ns In Europe, are flocking to the colors. Are the wom en to sit and welt, db in the wars of i Id? Are the women to lag behind the heroines of England. France and Bel gium who have won an Immortality? Then what can Amer'can women do' Now. let us sec. what even a few have done and aro planning to do. Mins Loretta Welch, of Philadel phia, wen the first woman to enter the navy. A New York corporation has offerel the services of a bureau, of which Miss Katherine Hentherton Is the chief, to assist all employers In Ailing with women, clerical places mado va cant by the call to arms. "I estimate,” M's« Heatberton said, “that fully one hundred thousand men will be thus re- 'leved for service In New York city alone.” ,.Iany of the colleges and universi ties arc offering special work to train women. At Hunter College, New York's slate normal school, women ore learning wireless telegraphy, in order to be or service on freight, pass, c-nger or navy boats—along the coast, tn camps, or wherever they are Mrs, ttnmuol iunian is the appointed ‘•sorglft and at a meet something. The fact that this war la to be fought wltb food as mucb, if not more, than wltb guns and men, Is becoming plain to us. I have wondered why the call for wheat has been stressed more than the call for other food products and until I read what former Ambassador Cerard said on the subject I was still puzzled. He says: It docs not seem clear to the aver, age American woman why we should send our wheat to our allies. This Is imply because fifty per cent of a Frenchman's food In peace time con sisted of wh'te bread. It Is not ea3y lo change the diet of a nation, even In normal times; It becomes almost im possible to change It when that nation Is engaged In a life-and-deatb strugll It certainly Is no time then to try ex periments with new flours. Hence It Is that every woman should, where she can, conserve wheat, so that we may send It to the French who aro fighting so valiantly." Some ask; Why not send some of cur corn abroad for corn bread? The answer Is afaln that the men and women abroad are not used to corn meal. They do not understand Its preparation; they regard It with dis trust. It Is again not the time, In the midst of the terrific war upon them to teach these people across the sea American cookery) Two million American women have signed pledges to follow the food con servation directions of the food admin istration. They have promised to have one wheatless meal a day; to serve beef, mutton or pork not more than once dally; to make their own soap at home out of the saved fats anti to help relieve the coal situation by burning fewer fires and using wood wherever possible. Secretary Houston of the Depart ment of Agriculture, says “the house keepers control eighty per cent of the food expenditures of the nation. In eliminating waste thoy perform a dis tinct - service. All American women can serve the government In conserv ing and utilizing to the best advantage existing food supplies. At this Junc ture, no service that women can per form Is more Important or necessary." Thus, the government makes a direct appeal to the women to help the men to produce more, to eltmlnato waste, to substitute cheaper foods for those that have .crown costly, to conserre ell fruits and vegetables that are pro- uced this summer, for we shall not feel tho brunt of war price till cold weather comes. Our grandmothers knew how to pre serve fruit for winter by use by drying and canning it but they did not know how to can vegetables. Modern science has made thiB discovery and now the girls In tho domestic science depart ment o our country aro taking advan tage of this knowlerge and are send ing It out to others. Every pound of food treated In this way Is a con? tributlon of Just that amount to the great mass or supplies that wo must {.ass on to the front. Every farmers wife and daughter a whole, But the everlasting team-work ef every bloomin' soul. Under tho head ol woman’s work, Red Cross takes flrst place. Never In any land has there been a move ment In which the world of woman kind Joined so spontaneously. It Is a tremendous power for good that is now reaching Into every hamlet and in to every crosB roads In tho country. This great cause has been likened to a net of mercy over an ocean of un speakable pain— and to the cross of Christ In Its burden of service and love. The words "America has de- 141,000 SPENT FOR FARMS HERE SEVERAL IMPORTANT PIECES OF PROPERTY IN THIS SECTION RAVE CHANCED HANDS BE- CENTLY. FULL DETAILS T TO F. L. Allison has Just closed two or the real estate deals. The J. S. Batts place, known as some of the best Lee clared war" seemed to start every 'county lands, a tract of five hundred needle In the world. The knitting ! acres, was sold to R. S. Pryor, by F. needlo, the sewing needle, the machine L. Allison, the consideration said to needle—speedily became the weapon be about (30,000. of womankind. Further impetus, to Another valuable farm of 172 acres, the development of Red Cross work owned by Thos. B. Hooks, on the Dixie in this state, Is given by the appotnl- Htlhway, was sold by Mr. Allison to meat of a Georgia woman, Mrs. Pres ton Arkwright o* Atlanta, as one of the ten mmbrs of th National Wo man's Advisory Council to tho Red Cross. All over the country, as In my homo town, Americus, the women are working under Red Cross directions with patriotism and intensity. To see these numerous classes of twenty wo men each, dressed In the reequlred Red Cross Uniform, making bandages by the thousands, never tiring of the!' good work. Is an inspiration and el osuently attests the undaunted loy alty of the American woman. To give you a small instance of ono phase of this work, shortly be fore the sailing of our flrBt troops to France the call was sent to the wo men of Richmond for five hundred comfort kite to be shipped to Wash ington next day. There was not a comfort bag in Hchmond at that hour, but scores of women immedi ately responded and by working un til two o'clock In the morning the five hundred kits were in the hands of Pershing’s men on the day they sail ed. That Is the way women do things. A force of twelve thousand Amer ican engineers aro rebuilding the railroads of France. Twenty-five thou sand American men are now on the battle fields of Europe, fighting as vol unteers In the Allied armies. Forty thousand of our regulars have been added to this number. Within a few months we will have In service an army of a million and a half and a navy of two hundred thousand men. And for overyone o' these soldiers there must be an American woman, ready to think, ready to plan, and equipped to do. In this crisis of our national life we should grant the last man and the farthing demanded by our country. Many said that women would pre fer peace at any price to the sacrifice of their sons. That would vote en- maco against war, because they hate terror and cruelty and war Is a terrible nnd cruel thing. But war Is here, the most cruel war In history, and the women arc of ono mind about ll with the men. Their part In It has been called sacrifice when the right name for it Is service. They want should proceed, at once, to mastor tho nothing but tho right to servo, nnd elements of scientific forming. With-j who shall say thaht the war has not ut going beyond their own door yards, given it them. millions of American women can ren der real sorvice to tho nation this sum- chairman foi _ . Ing held recently, forty-five women, l, by piantlne and canning. Mak- rcprescntlng as many state orgnnlza- |j n ^ enough f 0r home consumption tlon, responded to tho call, and the wou j j not on )y make for real economy James E. Yeomans, for (6,000, Mr. Allison also sold the J. E. Yeomans lace to George Deariso, the considera tion said to be about 12,000. All of these deals wero made during the past week, and cash consideration Is said to have been made for all. These plantations are some of the best lands In Leo and Sumter coun ties, and the activity this week in tho real estate market goes to show that people are in the market for good forma. Prevent Hog Cholera. The D. A. Thomas Hog Powder has a record of 95% cures of Hog Cholera. If you feed your hogs as directed, you need never fear hog cholera, nor any other hog disease. And the directions are very simple. Just about what you are doing, pins few cents worth of B. A Thomas Hog Powder in the feed twice a week. Usually, though, Cholera gets In before we know It. Then It requires close attention tP each hog—each hog must be dosed—and If you will dose them as directed, you will save better than 90 per cent. If you don't, the B. A. Thomas Mcdiclno costs yep nothing, 'Wo—not some distant manufacturer — pay your money back. G. E. Buchanan. Military System In Local School Brings Visitors ONE HUNDRED AND SIXTY-SEVKN SURVIVORS RESCUED—NEITHER SUBMARINE NOR THE TORPEDO WAS SEEN. HAWKINSVULE AND QUITMAN IN TERESTED IN THIS FEATURE AND SEND OFFICIALS TO MAKE INSPECTION. Bystem will gradually be perfected. I know an American woman who has shown what an immense national hut would relieve the railroads of car- hylnj millions of pounds of freight thus releasing thousands of cars an t service may be rendered through tho j enslno3 for hauIln6 men nnd mua- power of a single compelling Idea, tinns such an Idea as may come to any one | The na(lonal nccea8 | ty for thrl , t ani! of us, no matter how simple or con- { f nod our lives may he. economy will be an experience for us. ard now that the duty exists, it Is for “No easy hopes or lies Shall bring us to our goal, But Iron sacrifice Of body, will and soul. There's but ono task for all, For each, ono life to give; Who stands If freedom falls? Who dies If Justice lives?" I witnessed a scene a week ago that made a lasting Impression on me At a little country town in Georgia tho train stopped and a company of khaki clad hoys began to say their Tills woman heard that thro waj a eacb an( j a || of ua t0 80 | vei intelligent- i lust good-bye, before thoy went on terrible lack of chloroform for the re-, ^ tbe problem of waste In our homes ! board. As I stepped near tbch tram lief of wounded soldiers on the Luro-,,j ur 8er pe n t’ 8 pocket book Is never pean battlefields. She so resolved to touched by the prlce of ?ood and for raise money for chloroform and, bav- roBlon th( , y havc become thc m08t ing no organization to help hor, she . waRteru , cla83 la tho use of food In started one of those chaln-lcttors j ba world. Any woman who euta off which are familiar to all of us, and j lb | 8 wa8 t c . Increases the available that have been, I regret to say, very , aa p p i y Q f food and thus does most largely misused. j effective war work. Mrs. Mathew In this caso tho appeal was amat- j ScoM> p roaI( i cn t General of thc D. A. Ingly auccessful. Twenty-fpur cents ^ jj Slimmer up the present duty of wo- to buy chloroform for wounded sol- j roea | aat mon t b at 0 meeting when dlers! Each .person was supposod to' be aa | d; -gt op passing resolutions forward the letter to four other per- l and go home and plant something." sons, which, through the amazing mut-1 To ,, uole from Gifford PInchot: The tlplicatlon of figures, would have ex- j c j ear duty of the nation Is to guaran- hausted thc entire population of the f ea the farmers a fair price for their ^ earth before the fifteenth link was j c rops when grown and a reasonably needed. The tra'nlng camp for worn-1 reached, If they had all responded. BU pply of labor at the harvest. The day as she gave her son In answer to en at rhevy Chse- Ensland. was or-‘This lady was not worrying ahtmt clear duty of the farmer Is to raise I America's cull, nnd you will bear mo gantzed to supply special kind of * ‘.nathematlcs, however, she wanted j f 00 j enough to win this war for demo-! witness that she Is only one of myr- mltltnry training for women. The chloroform. -Jersey against kaisoriem. No such | (ad women who will give their all committee in charge consists of prom- ] Letters begun to pour In from all I reaponslbilty has ever rested on any | t'.int liberty and justice may yet reign Inent men and women. Two of the ! parts of the country. Hundreds of Jclns s of men sfnee the world began as f supreme upon Iho earth. to seo the fine fellows file in a wo man of years, whose face told all too well that she know nil too well the grim realities of war, stepped from the crowd for ono more word with her boy. Her Ups wero white with anguish, and niy heart thrilled within me as 1 heard her say; "Goodbye, my son, be a good boy, obey your or ders and do your duty.” I do not know her name, but I. too, hare a son, and this I know, that no woman, no man. ever laid or ever will lay upon theh altar of Ills country n greater gift, a gift moro hallowed, or h gif', more patiently wrought, than did this little Woman of Georgia that The system of military training for high school students, as taught In the Americus school Is attracting stato-wldo attention. J. F. Lambert, superintendent of tho schools at Hawklnsvlllc, and his nt'litary instructor, Capt. Spencer, were here yesterday as the guests of Prof. J. E. Mathis, and Inspected the various features of the local system. Prof. Lambert was formerly princi pal of tho Americus High school and has many friends hero, who aro glad to again wclcomo him. Next Friday, Prof. H. D. Knowles, superintendent of schools at Quit- man, will rnako Americus a similar visit. Americus was the first to Introduce military training in the High school, and has brought the system to an un usual degree of efficiency. WASHINGTON, D. C., Oct. 20.- More details of the disaster resulting from a German submarine's first suc cessful attack against an American vessel In war service are anxiously awaited here. Late today officials had little more news than they bad last night when It was announced that the transport Antilles had been sent t o the bottom by a well-directed torpedo striking her amidships, sending her to tho bottom within a few minutes with a loss of about seventy lives. There were no reports to indicate that anyone saw the submarine, which presumably lurked beneath the surface to escape the patrol ships, discharged a torpedo while sub merged, and slipped away while tho patrols were doing rescue work. The casualty list cannot be com pleted until the survivors are checked with the muster roll at the French port from which thc Antilles sailed. All of the army and navy officers aboard and tho ship’s master were among the 167 survivors. The mlss- inp are members of the crew, three civilian engineers, some enlisted men of the navy and 17 and 33 soldiers returning home for various reasons. Neither the submarine nor the torpedo was seen and the transport, hit squarely amldsblp, sank in five min utes. All the navay officers and officers or tho army who wero on board the ship at the time were saved, as were the officers of the ship, with the exception of the following: — Walker, third engineer officer; — Boyle, junior engineer officer, and — O'Rourke, junior englneei officer. The following enlisted naval person nel were last; E. L. Klnzey, seaman second class, next of kin, Thomas M. Klnzey, father. Water Valley. Miss.; J. W. Hunt, seaman second class. Mountain Grove, Mo., R. No. 2, Box 44; C. L. Ashburn, radio electrician, flrst cluss. next of kin, 1{. Ashliurn, brother, New Orleans, La.; and H. F. Watson, radio electrician, third class, next of kin Mrs. W. L. Scger, mother, Rutland, Mass. There were about thirty-three of tho Army enlisted personnel on board, of whom seventeen were saved. The names of the army enlisted personnel and of the merchant crew of the ship cannot be given until the muster roll In France of those on board has been consulted. As soon as the department Is In receipt of further details con cerning thc casualties they will be made public Immediately. ROBINSON’ 10 BIG SHOWS Writes a letter Read what they _ H. O. Jones Medicine oj Americus, Ga. Gentlemen: \\ e h and are using your £ Benzoin for cun, bruises, wire cuts, jai^T ers and sores of varloo among our stock and T| , hesitancy in recommends, largo horso and mule c and dealers. JOHN ROBINSONg ( By Claud Orton, Bosi's Large stock owneri uj ers should not be utbgg valuable remedy. ^Equally good lor : household purposes, {gu by name, JONES BALSu BENZOIN. For sale by druggRtz dealers everywhere. $1,000 Saleo Hogs at P A, IV. HURRAY SELLS BIG 11008 TO MACON SACSA61 UFACTURER—1IE PR£Hi RAISING TO COTTOX. One thousand dollars’ worth, ter-ralsed hog 8 are going some very fine sausage for 1 pie to eat. W. Murray, at Plains, t to the ash Sausage Company, con, an Immense drove of hog* one destined for a sausage exit This was the largest sale reported In Sumter county thii; Mr, Murray figures that then as much money in hogs as then cotton, with the advantage needn’t worry about the boll A Nervous Woman Finds Relief From Suffering. Women who suffer frotn extreme nervousness, often endure much' suffering before finding any relief. Mrs. Joseph Snyder, of Tiffin, O., had such an experience, regarding which she says: ••Six mouths I was bedfast with nervous prostra tion. 1 had sink ing spells, a cold, clammy feeling,—* could not stand the slightest noise. At times I would almost fly to pieces; stomach very weak. My hut- hand insisted on my taking Dr. ENTIRE RUSSIAN am gets ii MAKE ESCAPE FROM MOON SOUNO ELUDING THE GERMANS—OFFIC IALLY ADMITTED BY BERLIN WAR OFFICE. RUB OUT PAIS with good oil liniment TV the surest way to stop I The best rubbing MUSTAN LINIMEN Good for the A ilmtrii tj Horses, Mules, Cattle, I Good for your ou'n Aclvt Pains, Rheumatism, Spn Cuts, Burns, Etc. 25c. 50c. $1. At all Ddo PETROGRAD, Oct. 22.—All RuBsian units there,-except certain observation elements, Imva succeeded In getting out of Moon Sound without mishap, although it was believed the Germans had them bottled up there. Now Well honorary commandants are Mrs. Get. Dewey, wife of the late Admiral Dew. ov. of tho navy, and Mrs. Hugh L Scott, wife of the chief of staff of the I'nltcl States army. Father Cleveland, daughter of our rx-nresident, has worked uncens'nglv In nursing the blind. In a convales cent hospital In Europe. Eleanor Wilson, now Mrs. McAdoa. nlded the government materially tn the Liberty Bond sals. It Is said that let’ers! Thousands of. letters! And rests today on the farmers of America, j Is American womanhood to shrink each letter brought twenty-four ctnts. j How did tho American rarmer show from her duty? Not If I know women. Scon her mail was so enormous that b | 8 patriotism? A billion bushels In- We can think and act as well os feel, tho postofflee assigned special men to crease over last year’s production In land It Is my belief that our kind of handle tho sacks that accumulated ( bo principal food crops, is the re- j courage, w hich must so often bo that every day. In fact, when I was an- 1 8 ponse American farmers have mado ©f j u8 t endurance.' Is as great If not nexed to ono of the numfcArless ; t„ President Wilson's appeal. I greater than that which sends men strands of the cha'n (on link J591, j Ir. the language of Kipling, wo have ! marching Into battle and we ran send this lady had been receiving over flv? learned: jour men out to the day's work, what- liundred dollars a day for chloroform. j-R ain't the suns of armament nor - ever It may be. w'th the feeling that which of course, necessitated an elab orate organization for bookkeeping, In- she sold ten million dollars worth ol spection and Ttrillcatlon of funds. funds that they can pay. I we. too, are making ready with that But tho closest co-operation that high courage which has been wo- makos them win the day. | man' enduring characteristic since tbs these bonds to women alone. All becauto one woman started n ain’t the Individual hor the army ** world began. 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