The Pickens sentinel. (Pickens, S.C.) 1911-2016, 1917-06-07
TO THE GIRLS AND WOMEN OF
PICkENS COUNTY:

1t is with an earnest to help wake
up the girls and women of our coun-
ty and State that / am writing these
words, because I know from person.
al experience that few Of us realize
what crisis our country is facing /
and what serious question is be- i
fore each Of us. want to do my part |
in waking up Pickens county to the !
fact that we must work, we must |
cconomize in every way. We must |!
prepare for the future to which every |
one who knows the facts as they !
really are looks forward to with a
heavy heart
England walked up too late to the |
necessity of saving every bit Of food |
stuffs possible and today her people !
are hungry. Her little children have |
not had enough to eat in two years,
and because their little bodies are
so poorly nourished, tuberculosis
and other diseases are taking their
hold upon them. At the food stations
where each day one food card is
brought for family; where each
day when the food is distributed
and the card is punched for the days
supplies, perhaps only bit Of bread,
the card IS often taken homo with
out |, punch because there is no
food to give, and there is no food
that day and the starving millions go
hungry. That is across the ocean
you think-but will this be the case
in America? Yes, it will be and it is
just ahead Of us now and we do not
half realize the situation in its seri-
BUSINESS. The thousands Of dollars
worth of food stuffs that have annu-
ally been shipped into South Carolina
are cut off--and authorities tell us
that should anything happen to that
which we are receiving now that
there is only enough in the State to
last ten weeks.
Women and girls, we must wake
up, we must wake others up. This is
not a time now to put off until to-
morrow-not time to devote our
selves to pleasures and things that
really do not count. We have great
and necessary work to do. We have
as much to do as our soldiers have
perhaps moro. Our country is need
ing us. On us depends the welfare of
our country and our boys. We must
|
We must knit, sew, make pillow slips
for our soldiers.
The soldiers at the front are need
ing pillows. When they are wounded
they have no support for their heads
or wounded limbs and our boys arc
among them at the front South Car.
olina has been asked to give fifty
thousand pillow slips made of un-
bleached cotton 1924 when finish
ed. These slips are sent to the front
where women fill them with sea weed
They are used once, then the sea
weed is taken out put in vats where
the blood is washed out, the sea weed
is dried and used again. Surely, Pick
ems county girls and women, we can
make these and help that much.
The Red Cross takes care of the
sick and wounded. The National Ser
vice League Tor Women takes care
of their welfare and trains girls and
women in q Social and Welfare
Work; (2) Home Economics; (3)
Agriculture; (4) Industry; (5) Mo-
tor Driving; (G) Medical and Nur-
sing; (O General; (8) Health; (0
Civics; I0) Signalling: UD Camp
ing. This league is recognized by the
United States Government. We must
be prepared for all Of these things
now so when the time Genes we will
be trained and ready The war is
not nearly over as so many think.
Perhaps it has only begun. The Uni.
ted States Government is preparing
for from three to five years at the
least. Authorities tell us th:t it may
last for years.
Then the colored women must be
made to know that if they do not
wake up to facts this coming winter
they will be hungry. We insist on
their planting COW peas and colards
on every inch Of ground they have.
They can't depend on the white pco-
pie to help them because the white
people won't have it to give The Ma
tional Service League for Women
also organize the colorcd women
and trains them to be prepared
Women and girls of Pickens and
Pickcns county appeal to you 70,
the sake of humanity, for the sake
of yuor brothers and friends and al
of those dear to you, for country's
sake, for your own sake and that OF
your home, line up in this Ssrvic,
League or the Red Cross or both. l.
is as important for you to do so a
it is foar. our boys to enlist. Dom
be Stacker in times like these: w
must wake up to the real situation
| We must prepare.
In about week Miss Jane b. Ey
| ans, of the National League for Wo
| mans Service will be in Pickens t
organize leagues and speak Of thes