The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-09-28
Dr. Kate Barrett, National Chairman on Camp Activi-
 ties Visits Birmingham
SOUTH HAS CHANGE
 TO PROVE GRATITUDE"
Northern Men in Alabama Camps May Be "Educated'' Now,
 She Says


 more right to be proud of them. What we women want to do is to law the foundation of great international patriotic organization which will mean more to us than the Daughter $ 'o1 the Revolution and the Daughters of the Confederacy-the Mothers of ths Army of Freedom"
 pr. Kate Waller Barrett. viciferoue,v nlcknamed Mother Barrett" by the thousands of soldiers she has addressed Tn American army camps, thus summed up her work for the American Congress or Mothers. She was in Birmingham yes- terday, after having paid visits to Camp Mcclellan at Annston and Camp Sherf- dan at Monte emery.
 First and foremost we want to organ lze the mothers of the men who are going forth to fight for the ideal of human lib- erty," continued Dr. Barrett we don't want to wait until they are dead. and or- ganlzc another society of Daughters We want to get in touch with every sons mother of them in Birmingham, and get them to do as much for the Ohio and New Jersey and Maryland boys at Camp Sheridan and Camp Mcclellan, as the mothers over in Tennessee and Arkansas and Georgia will do for the Birmingham boys who are encamped in those states"
 VISITING ALL CAMPS
 As chairman of the national committee on camp activities of the National Mothers congress- Dr. Barrett has been engaged in tour of all the cantonments and tent camps in the United States. Her job is to interest the mothers in all com munities where soldiers are in camp. in the welfare of the troops.
 You haven't an idea how lonely they are, how they appreciate the touch of a woman-es especially an older woman," said Mrs. Barrett. They don't care so much about young women. for fellow can get a girl almost any time he wants one, but they yearn for just little of the atmos- phere of home. The little city of Annis- ton entertained 300 soldiers in private homes at dinner last Sunday, and that is an example of what the mothers of the pig city of Birmingham can do for the Mcclellan boys and the Sheridan boys, if they will. The Birmingham wom- en could send their cars over to Am niston and Montgomery and invite some of the soldiers for weekend visits. The Little Rock women will do the same for the Birmingham boys at Camp Pike-that sort of national cooperation Is what we are striving for"
 SOUTH OWES GRATITUDE
 pr. Barrett pointed out that the south is getting most of the benefits from mo- bilizati and paying the least in war tolls, both in money and men.
 Tt is up to the south now to prove it's gratitude and also to engage in little profitable advertising by showing the boys fl om the north they were all wrong in their old conception of the south," she said. T talked to the New Jersey boys at Seagirt before they left for Anniston, and they overwhelmed me with their gloomy anticipations of what they were going to encounter in the south. They conceived of Alabama as a land of merci- less sun and jungles and rattlesnakes and illiteracy. When I told them often spent vacations at the summer resort of Piedmont, near Anniston, they hardly would believe me.
 Now the south has the chance to ed- ucate the youth of the north, who have thrived and grown up on sectional preju- dice Southern mothers have the chance to show, northern mothers that there Is but one nation, indivisible, with liberty and justice.' and little love, too. for all"
 SEEKS BIRMINGHAM MOTHERS
 The Mothers congress numbers over 50.000 members, and there are 10 centers in Birmingham, organized in connection with the school organization. the Parent Teachers association. Mrs. J. P. Levvy, who is chairman of the Alabama state committee on camp activities is seeking the names of the mothers of all the Bir- boys in camp, and will further the work locally which pr. Barrett is nationally.
 Dr. Barrett calls Alexandria, Va. her home, and makes Washington her head quarters. She is the only woman on committee of seven appointed by the governor of Virginia to take charge of civic activities at Virginia camps. She is the sole woman member of a Rotary club in the world. having been made an honorary member of the Minneapolis club at the same time Colonel Roosevelt was so honored.
 She will leave today for Chicago. and later will return south to visit the camp at Hattiesburg, Miss.