The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1917-05-25
LOCAL WOMEN TO
Do RELIEF WORK
Organization Being Formed to
Send Supplies For Wounded
in France
MEETING TONIGHT TO MAKE PLANS
Miss Hazel Bower of Great Falls is
Doing Organization Work.
All Ladies Urged to
do Their Bit"

The women of Glasgow expect to
"Do Their Bit" during the present
war.
A local organization is being form
ed as branch Of the American Fund
for the French Wounded. Miss Anne
Morgan of New York founded this
society, and while it has no connec-
ton with the Red Cross it has done
wonderful work.
The organization of the local soci-
ETY. was started by Miss Hazel Bower
of Great Falls at meeting Monday
afternoon. She explained the work of
the society and the method Of FORM
ing a local body. ....
Those present were very enthusias-
tic, and meeting will be held tonight
(Friday), to perfect the organization.
One feature of the work is that
the bandages and other things made
go direct to the front in France.
To stimulate enthusiasm among the
local ladies, the following has been
prepared:
"How can we women do our bit
By economizing and conserving our
food supplies. By utilizing the back
yard space for gardening. BY eating
what we can and canning what we
can't. BY urging thrift and economy
by precept and example. Yes, by all
means, yes. But, what else? By
doing something for the soldiers at
the front. What comfort can be
afforded to the men if we women
would use our spare time usually
spent in crocheting or other fancy
work, pretty though it is, in making
things sorely needed, somewhere in
France" This very instant a wounded
citizen of our sister country, Canada,
may be dying for want of a bandage
or compress, which you or l could
make in our spare moments or in the
time devoted to unnecessary work or
light reading.
"Do we realize that only 80 per
cent of the seriously wounded are
saved because of lack of necessary
gauze congresses or bandages? Do
we realize that right now straw, sand
or hay is stuffed in the fresh wounds
to staunch the flow of blood? Can
we sit comfortably in our homes
knowing that our Allies and maybe
later, our own boys, are facing these
hardships which we might alleviate =?
Women have always risen to the occa-
sion wonderfully, and why not now ?
There is no time like the present
to begin.
Miss Bower of Great Falls is in
Glasgow and her heart is in this work
of relief. She has spoken to one
group of women in the city and all
were deeply stirred. Again on Fri
day evening at the Chamber of Com
merce and Agriculture she will give
talk and demonstration of bandage
making, compress making, ETC., and
show samples of knitting. Every
woman and girl in Glasgow and vici-
nifty should hear her and see her work.
Her instructions conform to those of
the Red Cross and are accurate in
every detail.
every woman and girl can surely
spare few minutes each day to
stitch up sling or something else
equally useful. Every woman can
contribute of her substance and so can
her husband, in any amount from
ten cents to hundred dollars, or
more, either now or at some future
time. The work is urgent, the cause
is the same as that for which women
have labored in every age, that is, to
bring aid and comfort to those men
who are giving their time, their
strength and their very lives for free
dom. Some among US remember the
days of '61 when women worked for
their men. How much greater cause
in this practically world war, when
the battle of the Somme alone claimed
more victims than the losses of the
entire Civil War on both sides.
"Let none of US miss the FRIDAY
evening meeting. No subscriptions
will be taken, for the meeting will be
purely educational and inspirational,
and we all, as patriotic women and
girls must neglect no opportunity to
learn about this vital work. Then
after we have heard Miss Bower and
seen her work and have gained the
inspiration she is sure to impart, let
US all go home and think out carefully
and prayerfully what we can do indi.
vidually, how much time, how much
work, how much money we can give,
that our men may be aided and com.
forted in this great struggle for that