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p' s . K? 4 *AGE TWO WHAT THE WA TO WOMEN nis appeal lor support 01 me ana inaivui .gue of Nations covenant is Dr. demand as! jWs last message to the women of that the g country, to whose service she do- by this des pd her life and by whom she was found it nei gularly revered. The revised man- of women I fipt was received from Dr. Shaw women?nc 4i^y before her death. I triotism bu ism; they .t are we women to do in this they did uc r of a League of Nations? What could best r ire we to play iu it? j the countrj . ..e time was when women were The govt considered as having any part in who organl concerns of government. When tee togetht as a little girl a woman could not medium in |le a will, she could not make a of the worn or transact any legal business What wa hout the consent of somebody women togi j; that is, if she were married. impulse wh n ^Philadelphia, the Woman's New man? It \\ ltury club decided to build a club You rem l.se and, after they secured the son was r< ns and had everything all ready United Stat 1 they undertook to make a con- of the paci ct with the builders, they were in- women of i * U 1,1 ? i 1 onn Knnunu mvjii mat UU7 vuuiu uui ruuurtii own ucvauo h them because tliey were married the war?tl men and could not contract. But,' campaign, these disabilities were removed the war," a I they were enabled to contract, | said womei men arose to their sovereignty. It if they had y not be a super-sovereignty, such they should 3ui' senate seeks to guard us from, have knowi it is a kind of sovereignty which of the war rery comfortable when you want ment enter na^e a contract. j this nation Jeoause of this newly found power society to < men, more than men, understand VVashingtor dignity that comes to a great na- entrance in i when it has the power to use its We called in deciding what it will and what national or not do. and the ability undername by hu <11 to make such contracts with a Plan of s peoples that it will bind itself was coming gnize in them the same obliga- pared. Am ^.nd the same rights which it preparation for itself. j work, as a Vomen never had such an oppor- fake, we o Ity in the world's affairs before as million wo had during the war just closed. At a,1(l declare beginning of the war very little eminent ca ?ntion was paid tortlic women but respond, filially, as the man power began to That was re for the front, andjis the greater declared in d for munition# and other neces- eminent di y equipment of .war demanded ready. I a eer bodies of yctftyle in the service, what it was the government. Wmre and larger man's coin lands wereinatle upf^i womon, un- ! "Wo want ; y?yjsie?U^mieh a pass that it is d<>- men's work Ml by every natioK which has been the war wo ar that the wai* could never have they will in won If it had not been for the J overlap am of the women." rarrying ou Women's War Work. government tnd so through this cooperative Council vice of the men and women we There wj e been able to reach this peace cause wont irh now is so very near and which through th trust the senate of the United world visio tes will not retard, as no other na- vision, not i save Germany lias any desire to vision. \V< so. educated to Hiring the war women were called then little n to serve and the response was wards?lirs versal. We wonven in America and then it tber sacrificed nor served as did "my societ; women of the other countries, it has alws were not called upon to do it: lationship i has far as the country needed our in women vices, as far as it made demands to forgt t tl m us for any particular line of Hut on the k, we were ready to do what our committee l nment asked. try seventyhave been able to count the est organiz: who died in the field. We are came to \V that five million men in this war a group ca d in battle and that two million tee of the \ re died from wounds received in oil of N'atit ii*- ami mm. two imiimii nmri- ii'cu strvtruiy-iiv? disease in the hospitals, making a up their ii t total of nine million men who their tndivi But when we speak of the cost been expect e in this war we enumerate only come toget en who died. We have made no out any pin aeration of the women. We have the govet e no enumeration of the children, while still i io not know the vast bodies of What ler en and children who have been j what led tl ihtered. women who have been . 0f the past, aged and who today are filling purpose? mad-houses of France and Bel-, \Vhen th n and Serbia and all the other J<e w. >s which have been overrun by (he wonien mies. We know nothing about | overlapping i horrible results which have come them to r the lives of the women or of the gecretary Hi t of this war in women as well as what was cost in men. . < thought >Vhile we were called upon to serve women ] n pr flip wqr u* h a t u-oo j * f O T ? W!?V . ?ns w*r, j always rem ? it that women responded as they ft8 lt hag , rospond? Why was It that as one but betng man we came together ana said to _011? , . ?<? us" i no government, "What shall we do?" rjc,^^ j sft. (antxat i??i. Not Kntlitisinsni, you scorn Needed. will not co< ft"hen I was appointed by the pros- have been nt of the United States and the will give t: inoil of National Defense as chair- and put b; n of the woman's committee of the strong eno let! of National Defense, it was women of t ause the women needed to he "Mr. Hecrel to do patriotic service. It was fess I did I women from all over the said. I wj t States, in organized groups I wus not k THE LAN< R MEANT Dr. Anna How; lually, came with such a think we could not coo ting that they might serve ter what I thought ab< overnment was swamped To the honor of the sire; and the government nation, let it be said essary to organize a group beginning of the war i lo direct the war work of they maintained theii >t because they lacked pa- operation, t because of their patriot- "War to End all wanted to serve but Men told us that, if >t know in what way they quered peace, if we endor that service or what tarism and the militar r desired of them. Gem *y was inciting rnment called the women own country, but in t [zed the woman's commit- the world, it would he r and they made us the ever. "This is the wt directing all the war work It was that thought en of the United States. women together, "Th s the one cry that brought end war," and women ether? What was the one part in helping to en ich dre wthern, as one wo- j We know that men ; as this- j in war; but there arc ember that when Mr. Wil-i things harder than t selected president of the body must die sometll es they said it was because not make so much difl lists and women; that the as to the number of < the West elected Mr. Wit- it does to the manne e he had kept us out of live the days we do 1 tint was the cry during the, some things that are "lie has kept us out of! deal more than life, ind therefore many ocoplei which was worth mot 1 were pacifists; and yet.J the men who went out used their intelligence as their lives for their co' 1 have used it, they would to leave a dishonored i that from the beginning tion unworthy of the , long before our govern- our time, a nation whi< ed into it, the women of ; to feel and no underst began to organize. Thejize the conditions of in >\ iiH-ii i ueiongeu went in tion between nation ii i In February prior to our j the ohligatio which on to the war with Germany, i care for and sympathiz the women of our whole] Having grasped this ganization together; they] racy, this idea of the ndreda and we formulated | human family, we de tervioe. We saw the war would give everythinj and we wanted to he pre-] and sacrifice evervthir il after we had made our in the interests of ei , deciding what lines of'over. So our women society, we would under- j rifired and saved and t ffered ourselves, our twojui the war ended, men. to the government! Not I-mdeil <m Kiel d that whenever the gov-, Now. whether we at lied us we were ready to .part of that peace tri ! matter we agree v in February and war was there is in the Leagu* April, and when the gov-1 not. the ciuestlon ten d call upon us we were with the Germans, our sked thi> secretary of war, feated on the field of > that he expected the wo- the way to end war l mitten to do. He said, to defeat them on tit you to coordinate the wo-'tie? 1> there not so of the United States, all done afterwards?' Kv rk of the women, so that, that no war is ended ot duplicate, they will not field. The last word rl they will cooperate in! not spoken on the l>; t cverv i en 11 i remon I i;i tin* last word in war is j halls where the peoph *?r National Defense. to decide what shall 1 is a tremendous task, he- "1c war. what shall h on have been educated war, and how o centuries not to have m:,de. n, not to have a country It' President Wilson to have even a community before us today and have been trained and part of what he knows consider persons first and know, we would be t groups of persons after- ished people n all tl t, myself and my family?peace commission wit comes "my church," theno before them know; at y" and "my set" and so knowledge, out of wh ivs been the personal re-, stand of the relation .vhich has been developed each other, they liavt until they were not able League of Nations, as icir own narrow interests, tion they could pro first call sent out hy our about a just and lastii !o the women of the conn- is what we women h; five presidents of the larg- ing for from the bei itior.s in the I'nitcd States war. In a conversatl ashington and we formed dent Wilson just t?efc lied the advisory commit- Paris, he said, "The voman's committee. Conn- task I have had since mal Defense, all of these in dealing with foreif hoeieties agreeing to give been to convince the ldividual, identical work, not want any material dual service, as they had of the war. They ran ing to perform it, and to it. ever before did ai her and to unite to carry go into a war such a* m of united service which men and our treasure nment might demand.i nothing in return, etaining their Identity. mgike them believe til; I those women to do this? willing to come hem to forget the training bands; and yet,' he and combine for one solid beginning to unders ; cause our men over tli e secretary of war told me intereatedneM. and tl in ted us not only to get n*fieId have 8hown ' to cooperate and prevent r"f'1 ,hat ,f Wf> ran 81 t. etc.. he said. "We want ,n ,his ^"interested ? ooperate," and when the who arP at home ha lid that he smiled. I knew 8ame spirit' and 80 1 in the hack of his hea*dJ ninK to ,ru8t us a 11 it would be impossible to ,hey <,ld ln the bet?lni to cooperate, and. being What Women Want rty to defend women not. While Mr. Wilson ?een said, right or wrong, nothing out of the wj ready to defend them be- own heart?It may hi lieved thein to be in the nothing material out id to him, "Mr. Secretary, j oh, we want the hlggi to think that the women; this war that has ev operate that is because you world. We want peace dealing with men. If you forever, hem an object big enough If wo cannot get th ack of them an incentive. this war, what hope ugh you will find that the1 will ever come to hi his country will cooperate, 1 there ever such a ch lar.v." Now I frankly con-; the world before? V\ not quite believe what I i time when the people is bluffing a little bit, but looked towards Amer {olng to have the secretary looking today, becai vl, a jt&s ?M?S?kbvM X. . ) w v FASTER NEWS, LANCASTER, S. C. selfishness in our dealings with them'having during the war? having We have not always been unselfish, having but we have been in this war. Be- import nrd Shaw cause of this they are looking to us. that d with hope. There were never such have t* devastated countries as there are now order : over there where great nations were [about perate, no mat- destroyed. The war is over as far j thing )ut it. [as the fighting is concerned, but it is shaky women of this only begun as far as the life of thej attack that from the People is concerned. They have got i Nation to the end of it to come back, to build up a new life.somctl pledge of co-1 and a new hope and a new home. j though What would there be of inspiration Theie War." 'to these people to come back to their! things we made a con- ruined homes and build up again of us t subdued mill-, their cities, if. within a few years, the! There ist spirit which same thing could be repeated and! think not only in its homes destroyed and cities devastat-. anyboc he countries of od, the people outraged and made | to hav conquered for- slaves as thev have been- What hope had H ir to end war." would there be to these people? Why, us and which brought men and women, the yare looking toj But is is a war to as the hope of the world. And* are pe must play their whenever I look on our Mag, when-1 has be d war forever, ever I b>ok on those stars on their hut s a ire ready to die field of blue and those stripes of red best th a great many and white, I say to myself, "I do not 1 do o die. Every- wonder that when that tlag went over tions i me and it does the trenches and surmounted the bar- everyb tleuce ptTMUpx ? ?? lUU^"01 R" lays we live as heart of hope." , it Is n r in which we Security for the Future. for 1 11 re-reac ive. There are jf was then that they began to feel ^ worth a great they cou.d unite with us In some sort and one thing of security Tor the future. And that ^ 1 ^ re than life to fla gmeans so much to me. I never! * thcro t aid laid down iof)^ on its stars but that I bother untries was not every star the hope that must stiri '"^r nation, a na- tj,e people of the old world when they! , civilization of t)t,nvc of us and the power we havej u*rc" :h had no heart of helping to lead them up to a place Tro a tiding to real- where they may hope for their chil-j The itimate associa- ,iron and for their children's children( been ind nation and the things that have not come to think e nation has to them. I nient I e with another. jt js because we stand in such a wonde idea of democ- position before the world that we can- took tc oneness of the not afford to (juibble. We cannot put in dared that we eVen for political advantage, we can- says tl ; that we had not afford because of personal hatred, peace, ig that we had to take from them one hour of hope, fearful uling war for- one ray Qf light. And yet, a few tors h toiled and sac- weeks ago. 1 was in the cnpitol at becaus oiled again, un- Washington, talking to one of the all th? senators. I tried to talk to him upon ence li il of Battle. another subject; lie could not talk velous ;reo with every upon that subject, he was so full of aNoltn aty or n<>t, n>> _ esse mmmswsmRmMMSM. iains that now opponents, do- ftjjq in n-iii'iu. i lie jutjj spoken in the (U3? id out of their ^jfjl at they under- En ol nations to give,, us this 0, |H /-VM 3 9^^\( I* 1 ui 1 IIU< dure, to brine n? peace. That h?] ive been workginning of the ttji-i W on with Prosi- g ??& | J| ?re he went to ^ Mmji & % most difficult Sj^3 the war bega n. =y3j tn nations, has ah] m that we do ^ The owner-prestige won and hel advantage out Eg Lexington is due not alone to its e not understand jug j)ut ajso because it has sufficienc iy great nation qjp i this, with our j[p 'p^e cflicicnc-y of the Lexington i could"'hardly II of a never-to-be-doubted certaintj it we were per- ^ formance. In congested traffic, out with empty j|g through mud or sandy roads, th said, "they are wc never need worry about the abilit tand that, be- [jV Lexington to come through wit iere on the bat- Sf}u| . ley are able to ejcj CO ors* hem their dm- Lexington sufficiency reach and men to die gni ., .. M,y. tho?e oi u, ?5 vr than lts excellence of perf. ve perhaps the p* Kqual to all road demands, the L hiiU '1 I'll laiffln. StLH olw'A Qflonnofdltt f iilAllo nifA??tr n 11 v?r J ??" lyr IWOV C4V1VJ UMtVIJ 1 UII1IIO V VCi J |H'I } tile more than jjjp can required of a motor car. ninjf." an] out or war. ^5 The Lexington has ample powt said we want jp3 dant speed within reason, easy cot ii, I said in my he) usual flexibility, sturdy endure e that we want ^fj] addition it has sufficient size, wii of the war, but, tjS ? 1 e * ! i2Qj roominess, luxurious comfort, est thin* out of EE er come to the foP *niart appearance, rich appoinm now and peaee jny lat peace out of F"1 \ J A TVT C & is there that it Jg & < V AllJ umanity? Was L:' JB?* T * ^ VWu' ance offered to ?j'c* 'as there ever a [fP LAI s of all nations |jQj ? 2 our" r \^m2iMmffliSm La TUESDAY, wmmmmmwwwmwmmwmmbbmmwmwmbmm????????? been slighted, so full of not'tlons of all Eu: been consulted, so full of not1 It a pact that been recognized as a great and' gress was not t ant and dignified member of prlation bill, so (Knitted body. When senators into debt bocuu ? tell how dignified they are In' to pay bills, for people to And it out. It is attending to time they rested upon some- would not have else because that is a very much in Paris kind of dignity. This senator's would have be? was not upon the League of, This is the t s at all. It was all because this country, dug was not done which he among a group it ought to have been done. ( One, howevei is no doubt that a great many his dishonestyhave not been done which all not know what hink ought to have been done. ?he has been 1 Is not one of us who does not to say that he he can do things better than League of Nati ly else. Most of us would like a lot of other e been set upon a pedestal and nation to go al( r. Wilson sit down in front of, the time has gc I ask us our opinion. j try can stand still, notwithstanding that, we gone by when a rfectly willing to accept what an individual c en evolved by those men who to itself. II the facts before them, as the Heaven o ing which can be done now. j We have co i not think the League of Na- where we can s perfect. 1 say that because. country to any ody else says it. I really do earth, almost, a ow why it is not perfect. And closel yinteralli ot because I have not read it. e?ts merge the lave read it and re-read it and in such a mam 1 it. A particular friend of alone. We nil after we had been reading it, v together, said to me. "Now.! (Cont\nu ould you put into it that is not j V And I said, "The thins that I'I '1^^ b tne is how they found so things to put into it that are Wash surface hold mi aty a Marvelous Document. warm Salt water; Treaty of Peace which has ^JL. submitted to the Germans I ICBLS Is the most marvelous docu- "YOUR BODYGl In the world, and I have been ? ring how many hundred men it #? d ? think up all the demands they PROFESS to that peaci^pact. Congress d le league covenant has delayed DK. J. KKK Congress has been feeling Dent lly because of that. The sena- Office Hours: ave been blaming Mr. Wilson 8:80 t? e of the League of ations. and 2:00 to j time that the peace confer- And by as been working up this mar- Office P peace pact on this League of Resldi s and investigating th econdi- Office over 1 E MAN Sl>i g - .? . se Who W leable Car I \ d bv the is fittingly correct for all sc fticiency, pleasingly suitable in any ei v* meets all deuiands at all tim consists Economy of fuel and pr< ? ,^,r crease of horsepower are ef on hills, e driver Moore Multiple Exhaus ,y of the noying squeaks and rattles :h flying by the construction of the f 100 separate parts are eliir es furth- greater strength and lightei ormance. of control is promoted by tl exington ing, one finger emergency >ose that It is the sum of these many others, all in harmo ?r, abun- that constitute the sufhcicnc itrol, un- the Lexington a truly liveat mce. In th ample Carload shipped from fac reflnedly See us and get a demonstra ents. It your car. They won't stay WILSON, De NCASTER, S. C. d *" 4fctt AUGUST 5, 1919. ||| rope In order to make is fair and juat. Con- Jfl7 ible to pass ail appro- I V we have been running 9^B ' ise we have no money If congress had been its Job, Mr. Wilson ' been fretted quite so and perhaps bis job $n ended long ago. htng we are facing In It is a sort of quibble of men, for what? r. Is honest enough in ?Mr. Reed, who does honor is and never did honest enough at least does not want any ons at all. There are people who want this >ne in this world. Rut me by when any counalone. The time has country no more than an live to itself or die : ?Which? me to the place now tly in a day from this other country on the nd we have become so ed that national inter! one with the other, ler that we cannot go ist look facts in the A,1 T)a?A O \ cu uu x ?* * 5-STINGS thk affected wit? housed WM > 4 4 HONAL CARDS UK PUKDKIUil'HK, ul surgeon. 12:30 A. M. 6:00 P. M. Appointment, hone 160. ence Phone 52. Lancaftter Pharmacy 3HaSHSH|j ' 1 IDC Ill I art ant 1 [Jc* art m SS 35 art De art cial needs and ivironment. It sm #?? !nn1 >portionate inrected through ap t System. An- i~Q! 5 are banished qj^ rame, in which jfe linated to give ?5 r weight. Ease a? le positive act- |p brake. jjp features with Sffl nious relation, 3g :y which makes >le car. tory August 1. ?gj tion, and select with us long. alers | ?if