The weekly tribune and the Cape County herald. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1914-1918, 1917-09-21
WHOLE FAMILIES
ENLIST FOR WAR
All Sons of These American Par.
ents Serve With the
CoIors.
ELDERS DOING THEIR SHARE
Mother Gives Four Sons to Army Then
Offers Herself to Red Cross and
Is Accepted-Patriotic
Women Give All.

Savannah, Ga.-After contributing
her share to the military establish
ment of the United States and doing
her full part in the Liberty bond pur-
chases and contributing to the Red
Cross fund, Savannah now offers the
country two families Of four sons each,
all Of whom are serving with the
cOlOrs.
Bernard L. Mcdonald Of the city
health department. past sixty years
of age, towers above all his sons. He
is the father Of "a feet of men in Bat
terry A, Chatham artillery. His four
boys" are Bill, Bob, Alex and Bee
Bee Mcdonald. Each is more than
six feet in height and strong in pro-
portion. They are all good soldiers.
All four are nOncommissiOned officers.
Bob is the youngest and the short
est, being scant six feet. Bill, next
In youth, is the tallest, exceeding Bob
in height by an inch and half. Alex,
the eldest, and Bee-Bee are just an
inch shorter than Bill. Their fathers
height is six feet two inches, and the
only reason that he Is not with them
is that they will not let him enlist.
Besides the disadvantage of his age
he has only one arm. All of these boys
will accompany their battery to
France.
Spartan Saceihee.
The story of Mrs. A. w. Cook is
that of Spartan sacrifice. Mrs. Cook
has given four sons to her country,
and she is proud, not sad, at this OPP
pOrtunity for service. even though she
is dependent upon them for her sup
port. The sons range in age from
seventeen to twenty-five. They are
Hurley, Frank, lie Roy and Calhoun
Cook, all Of whom are at the training
camp at Fort Mcpherson. Frank and
Hurley are privates in the First
Georgia infantry and LIE Roy and Cal
hOun are enlisted men in Battery A,
Chatham artillery.
Scarcely had the call to the colors
been made when the four elder sons
offered their services. A fifth son.
Wallace Cook, aged fourteen years, is
eager for the time to come when he.
too, may serve. Mrs. Cook says she
hopes to be able to get along very well
without her boys during their absence.
At any rate. she is happy to make this
sacrifice for the sake of her country.
She has offered her personal services
to the Savannah branch of the Amer
lean Red Cross.
Another noteworthy example Of
Georgia patriotism is that of Mrs. Es-
Their Gaddis of Atlanta, who, after Civ
ing three sons to the colOrs and her
daughter to the Red Cross, is prepar-
ing herself to 60 to the Charleston
Is. c. navy yard to run sewing ma
chine for Uncle Sam. Mrs. Caddis
is nearly sixty.
Offers Herself.
Several weeks ago her youngest son,
Dewey, nineteen. enlisted in the ma
rines. and is now in training at Paris
Island, S. c. Shortly thereafter Elmer
Perkins, aged thirty-twO, son of Mrs.
Gaddis by her first husband, enlisted
as O shipwright and now is in train
ing at Portland, Ore. Joe Perkins,
aged twenty-eight, has been in the
navy four years. When Mrs. Gaddis
wrote her daughter, Dorothy, vaude-
vile actress, the girl did not take time
to answer by mail, but telegraphed her
mother Immediately:
sit seems to run in the family, so
applied today for enlistment in the
American Red Cross"