The weekly tribune and the Cape County herald. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1914-1918, 1915-09-17
Wife of Banker Asked to
Serve in WOman's Branch
Of Organization.
1000 LEADING WOMEN
ARE ON COMMITTEE
Appointment Made Through
Russell is Belief-She's in
Texas Now.


Deal of the Southeast Missouri Trust
Co., well known society woman, both
in many Southeast Missouri towns and
st. Louis, has been named as a mem
Der of national committee of the
Women's Section of the Navy League
of the United States, body encourag-
ing national defense.
1t is understood that Mrs. Deals APP
pOintment comes through the aid of
Congressman Joe Russell of Charles
ton. The Deal family formerly lived in
Charleston.
Mrs. Deal now is visiting with rela-
tives in Texas. Last night when the
announcement was made to Mr.. Deal,
he remarked that he had not heard
anything about it, and said he had not
known his wife was active in move
ment sof that character.
The WOmen's Section of the Navy
League is striving to get women in all
parts of the country interested in a
propaganda Of national preparedness
for war and it is the ultimate purpose
of the organization to present to Pres
ident Wilson and Congress a petition
of a half million women signers ask
ing for national defensive measures.
The order has been in existence but
a short time and it is said that it now
has more than 10000 active workers.
As a members of the National Com
mittee, Mrs. Deal will work with a
body of about 1000 women prominent
in their communities in all parts of the
country. Some of those named are:
Mrs. William Cumming Story, pres
ident general of the D. A A.; Mrs.
Daisy McLaurin Stevens, president
general of the Daughters of the Con-
federacy; Miss Anne Morgan, Mrs.
Phoebe A. Hearst, Mrs. A. p. Gardi-
ner, Mrs. George Dewey, Mrs. George
Lauder Carnegie, Mrs. Alexander Van
Rensselaer,, Mrs. Medill Mccormick,
Mrs. George Harvey and Mrs. Thomas
Edison.
The society was formed by the wives
of men who are members of the Navy
League in Washington. Many of the
women who have become actively in
terrSted in the movement have writ
ten stirring letters to the main Of
fees.
Miss Grace NJ. Pierce, registrar of
the ID. A. r., wrote:
at is time that the women of this
country freed themselves Of the stig-
ma of standing for peace at any price,
lack of preparedness and national cow
ardice, and rallied to the standard of
patriotism and Americanism, as did
their mothers and grandmothers in
1776 and 1912.
american women today are like the
women of every other country, the
fountain-head of true patriotism, true
courage and true natiOnalism. The
spirit vi ItOllN MdulSOily MdTlId w ASH
ington and Nancy Hanks still live in
the land. When the test comes Ameri-
can women will tell their husbands and
sons to go serve their country and
come back with their shields on them
Just as bravely and Just as cheerfully
as did the Spartan women years ago.
81 am with the new women's move
ment for patriotism and national de-
Tense, heart and soul, and | think that
such a movement should have been
started long ago"
The organization plans to give
pageant in Washington this fall. 1t is
expected that several hundreds of
women and children will take part and
the national organization plans to hold
similar pageants in other communities
where the organization becomes spe-
cially strong.