Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-05-17

Military History and Pol1cy ID
| being discussed at the woman's pre-
paredness camp. Chevy Chase, today
by Frederic Huidekoper.
Lieut.. Col. Grow of the Russian
army. who Is in charge of a field hos
pital at the front, and who Is in Wash
ington for a few days on government
business, Is delivering an address on
What the Russian Woman Did at the
Outbreak of the War
Col Robert M. Thompson, president
of the Navy League. opened the lecture
course yesterday afternoon with an ad-
dress of welcome. The Marine Band
was in attendance and played patriotic
airs between the numbers on the
speaking program. The other speak
ers were Mai. Gen. George Barnett,
Prof E. A Grosvenor Of Amherst Col
lege.
Should Live for Country.
That the ambition of Americans
should be not to die for their country,
but so to live that it will be unneces-
sary for any one to die, was the
thought presented by Col. Thompson.
He said, in part:
II assume that you are coming here
not for two weeks. pleasurable ex-
citement, to live under canvas and to
go back and tell your friends OF what
you have done, but really to consecrate
yourselves to national service. Oh
course, you cannot in two weeks ex-
pect to acquire that expert skill which
fits the trained nurse to wrestle with
death on a battlefield, but remember, in
a great war are countless thousands
Of convalescents, of wounded men
slowly recovering or crippled men who
can be done and it is the province of
woman to heal the sick. lift the fallen
and bind up the broken
Our older poets thought of you and
you are and so you may be, but we
have learned and our modern poets
must learn to express something else
about you. You have within you a
Along the ages where the cross of the
household has fallen upon you and your
mothers before you, you have learned
to do and do well many little things,
but the universe is merely an assem-
blage of many little things.
Objects of Camp Life.
Let me urge upon you, then; this That
you come here prepared to accept life
in the camp with all it's obligations, to
obey. and to obey cheerfully. the rules
and the orders that are given YOU to
understand. or try to understand, the
| spirit Of discipline. Of order, Of helpful
ness that undeslies everything that is
within this camp.
The ladies' who have given up so
| much of their time. the officers who
have come to help and to assist you
| the friends who have contributed to
the creation and the makings of this
camp all look to you to carry on the
spirit that Is here exemplified. Remem-
| Der, you are the pioneers: remember
| that this work which you are begin
| ming is one that is sure to grow; the
standard that you set up will mark
you and perhaps put its stamp upon
the entire work.
Remember that what you are going
| to learn here in this two weeks is not
| the important thing nor the perfect
| way in which you carry out the de-
| tails of the camp. but the teaching you
do by your example when you go home
is the important thing. Live for your
| country, teach others to live for your
country, impress upon them how much
more it is important that all should
| 50 live and should now make the lit
| tie sacrifices as to make it impossible
to have the horrors of war come to our
country or to make 1t necessary to
| pay the last great sacrifice of all, tC
die for ones country"
Saws Histories Are Misleading.