The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1914-10-17
DOING
FINE RELIEF WORK
voTEs-FoR-WoMEN PROPAGANDA
ABANDONED COMPLETELY
FOR PRESENT.

LONDON, sept. rs correspondence
of The Associated Press) The wom-
en- suffragists are doing fine work in
relieving distress caused by the war.
The votes-for-women propaganda
has been abandoned completely for
the present and many Of the organiza-
tions are placing all of their resources
at the service of needy women. In
London alone there are some $4,000
women who were earning their own
living before the war but who have
since become destitute, many facing
starvation.
The Active Service League of the
| National Union of Womens Suffrage
Societies, which includes in it's ranks
over COO societies which have been
working for suffrage by constitutional
means, has an organized relief bu-
reau in it's offices in shop on Parlia
ment street, and the branch offices
throughout the country are also filed
with suffragists working for their
country. The workers distinguish
themselves by wearing a uniform con-
slsting of dark green coat and skirt,
green felt hats, with badges and ties
of red and green-the Unions colors.
The assistance of German women
and girls stranded in London is in.
l s-e
Hospitality to BeIgians.
The Union has had many offers OF
hospitality for stranded people, and
many private school mistresses have
offered free education for daughters OF
men killed in action. Several work
, rooms have been started where out-of
work women are paid 10 shillings g
: week of 40 hours-the Trade Unior
/ rate-for making garments which are
: given to destitute people.
t Many pathetic cases have been aid
q ed. A British girl, children's nurse
in Paris, arrived there after a fou
years engagement in Chile. She lef
Paris when siege was threatened
!, leaving her luggage behind, and be
fore the Union found her she had beel
living for three days in London o.
Bread and butter and tea.
One woman offered hospitality to
Belgian for 'one month certain" e>
Il planning that her small income ha
II dropped one-third and she did no
o know whether at the end Of one mont
y it would drop altogether or not Sh
r was anxious while she could afford
g to have so great privilege as. tina
/ of giving shelter to Belgian
L. Families Reunited.
u Another woman who was at sma
e inn received two Belgian children
who were taken to her by a suffragis
Re in a motorcar. Suddenly the childre
a began to shout for joy for they recoi
1t nized in the hostess of the inn the
1t mother from whom they had been Sc
T. arated during the war.
T. An Englishwoman doctor, ,narrie
q to a German doctor, has suddenly ha
+ the whole of her income cut off as hi
le husband, having to live under tn
,e restrictions for aliens, has lost all h
" practice.
A journalist, who had been earnin
Il $4,000 a year and was discharged b
NJ his paper, enlisted, as he was penn
'r less. If the wife gets all his pay an
In her War Office allowance she wi
'r only have about $500 week.
lie At Manchester work is being foun
in a warehouse for 500 women an
penny dinners are provided Al
Southampton the Art Gallery has bee
~ turned into a women's workroom.
- Dublin the suffragists by getting q
army contract for jam factor
% where a lot of girls are employt
saved it from closing down.