Arizona republican., 1917-06-17

| tation for membership brought grafo- l flying results and the many who have ! participated in the perpetual sewing party will be pleased to know that they have accomplished more in pro- | portion to the population of the com munity than any of the western chap 1 teTs. There will be no Monday meet l ing this week. Due to the wonderful efforts of the workers, the coming of summer and the large shipment now ready, in few weeks, the Red Cross will discontinue it's work until early 1 fall.
 i But there is more serious work 1 ahead for the women as well as the men Of the community. The week Of June 1925, Red Cross week the nation ! over, is to be devoted to the raising of a special war fund of s100,000,000 for the relief of the American armies in France. 1t should be understood by all that the Red Cross is now the only official agency for doing this work; that 1t IS not only as heretofore, recognized by the government but that It has been dralted by congress to do this work. That a large snare 1 or 1t will fall on the shoulders of the women of the land goes without say i ing and they are urged at this time to scan the daily papers diligently
 
 tofore the women have never failed 1 when the nation called and full con- ilucnce is placed in them now. ] Speaking of What Women Can Do, Mrs. F. H. Aboot, a prominent club woman and matron of the muni- cipal rest room has contributed the following interesting article:
 'ftise to your Duty
 fIhtG is 10
 Lord Byron 'I slept and dreamt that life was
 Beauty;
 l woke and found that life was Duty"
 Duty is a thing that is due and must be paid by everyone, it is an obligation, a debt. Duty embraces mans whole existence. It begins in the home. where there is the duty children owe the parents on the one hand, and the duty the parents owe to their children on the other.
 Duty" says Mrs. Jameson, lis the cement which binds the whole moral edifice together, without which all power goodness, intellect, truth, hap piness, love itself, can have no per manence; but all fabric of existence crumbles away from under us, and leaves us at last sitting in the midst of ruin, astonished al our own deso- lation."
 The sense of duty is a sustaining power even to courageous man. Prooably no commander of any nation i ever went into action with such a signal flying as Nelson at Trafalgar rot Glory" or Victory or Honor. or Country but simply Duty" How lew are the nations willing to rally to such battle cry. It is a grand thing this pervading spirit of Duty in na- ton among nf so long as it survives, no one need despair of it's future.
 The world owes much to it's men and women of courage. Courage is active fortitude; it meets dangers and at tempts to repel them.
 Presence of mind and courage in
 distress,
 Are more than armies to nrocure s,lc-
 cess"
 The heroic example of other days IS in the great part the source of the courage of each generation. and men walk I'D composedly to the most peril ous enterprises, beckoned onward by the shades of the braves that were.
 Presence of mind is equally desir- able. We need to rid ourselves of fear or nervousness and fill our heads and minds with hope and of thought of life and victory"
 
 l could cite innumerable instances in which the courag age-presence of mind and the thought of duty together with the absence of fear or overcoming of fear in women led to the final victory. or comnort in defeat of battle
 In extraordinary times. as are those in which we live, she may be placed in situat tions of difficulty. if not danger; let her now prepare herself to encounter whatever may come, by studying examples of others in previ- oUs ages of history
 Loyalty is still the same, Whether it win or lose the game" In momentOus times like the present when each day affords fresh proof of the increasing disregard if mankind for all constituted authorities. the study of some examples of the en- tnuslastic reverence for regal dignity. which formed one of the most dis tnguished features of other ages. may not be ill-timed, such records being well calculated to inspire in the mind q sentiment for respect and awe to- , ward that authority which we are comma nded not only Inv the Script1Ires