Arizona republican., 1917-11-28
PATRIOTIC IS
 GATHERING AT
 WOMAN' SCLUb

OIEIEtIE v S@ A - ts Pleading for patience with Russia, Dean Scarlett in patriotic address att the Woman's club yesterday declared that according to the democratic prin- riples of the United States it should be the wish of this country to see a democracy established there. A demo- cratic Russia even without furnishing war aid, is more desirable than an inn perial Russia, an ally in the great world war, said the speaker
 Dean SCarlett spoke of the begin ming of the fourth year of the war; re- viewing the internal situation of all countries involved in the great strife. Unless peace comes from the heart sof the German people, it will not be lasting peace. declared the speaker. A group of high school girls under the leadership of Miss Walsh sang the national anthem and during the after noon a war cake sale was conducted by Mrs. A. c. Utley. with the result that S17 will be added to the fund for the purchase of wool for knitting gar ments for the boys on the battleship Arizona.
 The program under the auspices of the civics education department Mrs R. C. Dryer, chairman, was supple mented by Mrs. II. C. Lockett. who read a particularly timely poem, writ ten by Eleanor A. Hunter in 1876 for the tooth anniversary Of the declara- ton of independence The poem is particularly fitting when so many women throughout the country are knitting for soldiers and sailors just as they did during the bleak season for the Continental army, What Rhoda Farrand accomplished, other women are attempting to duplicate today eager and willing to make the same sacrifices.
 In the last of these Centennial days. Let me sing a song Co a woman's
 praise;
 How she proved herself in that time
 of strife.
 Worthy of being a patriots wife A lite woman she Was-not young But ready of wit and quick of tongue: One of the kind of which solomon
 told.
 Setting their prcB aoove ru6ies and A memory brave cInss around her Twas Rhoda FAr,enI, and worthy of
 fame.
 Though scarce she dreamed it would
 be woven in rhymes In these-her anddaughter's dugh-
 ter's times. Just out of the clamor of wars alarms, Lay in tranquil quiet the Jersey farms And all O4 the produce in barn and
 shed
 By the lads and girls was harvested. For the winds of winter with storm
 and chill
 Swept bitterly over each field and hill. Her husband was with the army, and
 she
 Was left on the farm at Parsippany. When she heard the sound of @ horses
 feet,
 And Marshall Doty rode up the street; ' He paused but moment. aad handed
 down
 A letter for Rhoda from Morristown. In her husbands hand-how she seized
 the sheet,
 The children came running with eager
 feet:
 There were Nate and Betty, Hannah
 and Dan
 To list to the letter. and thus it ran. After best greeting to children and wife:
 Heart of his heart, and the life of
 his life"
 read from the paper wrinIded and
 brown,
 We are here for the winter-in Nor
 ristoWn. 4 And a sorry sight are our men today. In tatters and rags with no sign of
 pay,
 As we marched 1o camp. if. a man
 looked back.
 By the dropping blood he could trace
 our track:
 For scarcely a man has a decent shoe And there's not a stocking the army
 through:
 So send us stockings as quick as you
 can,
 My company needs them. every man. And every man is a neighbor's lad; Tell this to their mothers; they. need
 them bad"
 Then. if never before. beat Rhoda S
 heart
 Twas time to be doing a woman's
 part.
 She turned to her daughters, Hannah
 and Bet
 Girls, each on your needles a stock
 ing set,
 Get my cloak and hood; as for you
 son Dan
 Yoke up the steers just as quick as
 you can;
 Put a chair in the wagon, as you're
 alive.
 I will sit and knit, while you go and
 drive
 They started at once on Whippany
 road,
 She knitting away while he held the