Arizona republican., 1917-10-09

virtually mistress of the seas, and from the very beginning of the war she has kept all the fighting off German soil
 But I firmly believe that the advent of the United States into the conflict means the turning point. With a speed and an efficiency that are nothing less than marvellous the war department is building an American army-a gi- gantic colossal fighting machine-that must be trained, equipped fed and clothed. This takes money. and still more money. What are We going to do about it? What are you, the women of America, of Arizona, of Phoenix, of the first ward, going to do about it?
 No one realizes better than we law yers that in the complexities, crimes and calamitieS to which society and it's members are subject the real suf- ferer is always some unfortunate. inno- cent woman. As in the individual case, so in larger sense-I might say, in d national sense. When catastrophe strikes nation, it's women are the real victims. And history has proven that woman, the precious anxiety of the American home is the real strength and bulwark of the American home,
  to indulge in fulsome flattery or vapid encomium of the fair sex, but I say with all sincerity that while the Amer jean people as a nation have been anil mated with the confidence that the entrance of Uncle Sam into the worlds war will end the conflict, and as such put quietus on international warfare for all time to come, the active CO., operation, the sterling, practical asss- tance being rendered the country by American Womanhood is proving the greatest inspiration to our young men who have joined the colors, and fur nishes the most promising assurance that America will win out in this war which, when sifted to it's elementals. is simply a war of resources and eco- monies.
 God bless those silver haired moth CTS and those sweet though sad-faced young wives of ours who are sending their sons and husbands out to fight for the Old Flag and all that it stands for-the maintenance of justice be- tween an outraged humanity and brutal autocracy,
 Anc God bless them for the sacrifices they will make in other ways, We know that when it comes to the matter
 
 stuffs and necessaries the good women of America will render the real service.
 It is man who has ever been the wastrel. He is obstinate and unthink- ing. He must be enlightened He must be curbed. The American wife and mother will furnish him the example and the assistance to save everything and to waste nothing
 Every ounce of food. every scrap of fuel every remnant of cloth, every watt of electricity, yes, every quart of gasoline. which is saved means that much more, not only in the resources of the individual home, but also in the supplies that. will be available for AmerIca in the needful days that con- front us.
 Our economics must be real and practical. The woman who feeds her pet poodle pound of macaroons and burns up two gallons of gasoline col lccting 50 cents to buy bread for the starving babies in Belgium is a great CT detriment to her country than the presence of five Hungarian spies or a German submarine off Sandy Hook.
 In concluding, let me repeat the as- surance that in this crisis of our coun- try the American woman will not be tound wanting. She will bear con- stantly in mind that in one hour she can throw away more in teaspoon than her soldier son or husband can earn in d day on his S30 salary And if her son or husband is not among those drafted she will furnish him such constant example for economy that eventually through the primordial ranium of that thick -brained individ- ual will trickle an impulse to do like wlse, and you'll find him discarding rerfectos for stogies. He'll be digging up and renovating last years sensible model of an overcoat instead of in- vesting in this years travesty, and he'll save thereby several golden eagles which he can be persuaded to imme- diately invest in Liberty loan bonds the best and safest investment on earth and lay aside the same as a nest egg for the proverbial f,rainy- day" fund, not forgetting, of course. to "ac- cept' his regular 4%o interest on the same as Uncle Sam pays it to him.
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