The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1918-09-17
PROMINENT WOMEN
BEHIND THE GUNS
Coming United War Work Cam
paign Will Feel Influence
of Their Work.
MEETING IN COLUMBIA
Conference of Y. w. G.. A. Lead
erS to BE Held Wednesday and
Thursday Jointly With Other
War Workers..

The women :: "---N Carolina
who are the women behind the guns
in the Young Women's Christian as
sOciation' organization in the COM
ing United War Work Campaign are
something in the way of being big
guns themselves.
The governors wife, Mrs. Richard
Manning, is state chairman-not
merely honorary chairman, but ac-
tive chairman for South Carolina
and she is already working hard
every day at her job. Long before
she was the wife OF the governor of
South Caroli-a, she had done more
than her share in active philanthrop-
ic work of all kinds, and since the
war she has either been at the head
or on the executive board OF every
war organization in which women
shared the responsibilities in the
State. Every one knows and con-
gratulates her on the TACT that she
has six sons in the army. and every
one who knows her knows how
bravely and cheerfully she bears the
anxiety of having five of them in ac-
tive overseas service. Just this last
week the governors mansion was
further decorated by new overseas
flag with five stars which was hung
by the already time-faded six-starred
service flag.
Mrs. Manning will preside at the
coming state conference of the Y. w.
c. A. leaders in the United War
Work campaign. This conference
will be held in Columbia, Sept, 1S-
10. and will have joint meetings
with the United War Work campaign
leaders in South Carolina. who will
also hold a conference in Columbia
at that time.
Another big gun behind the guns
organization will be the wife OF the
young United States senator. Mrs
Christie Benet who will be the fifth
district chairman. Like Mrs Man
lively at work in doing for others.
! even when she was a girl, Alice Has
kell, the daughter OF Judge Haskell.
She has fine and sympathetic So
vice OF those In sorrow and in jov,
and she sings for the soldiers con
stantly She drives her car in the
Red Cross motor corps. but since it's
more than she did before the Red
Cross. as that would hardly be possi-
| BILE. For the Y. w. G. A. she has
worked for years in any capacity
where most needed and she has been
keenly interested in the rapid growth
: OF the Columbia organization. In all
the war drives she has always been
most successful as a captain and an
organizer. even when she had the
hardest OF all quarters to cover. "the
street that led from the lunatic asy-
lum to the cemetery" She Is a
prize gardener and housekeeper and
i 1850 ''N'' % i'"ih WI NC' ipi lOOu COn-
servation. In other words, as wife.
mother. housekeeper. and public
spirited worker, she is an all-round
woman of the best modern type
Mrs. Robert Moorman. another
fine modern type. Is the vice chair
man, and she has borne the brunt OF
the organization OF the campaign in
Its earliest stages as she has been
specializing-if such could be said
ofra woman who seems to be special
ist In every line OF patriotic or char
table work she undertakes-in Y.
Wa c. A. work for years. She has
attended Blue Ridge and other con
ferences and has studied all the
technical as well as the religious part
ofsthe national organization besides
doing more than her share for the
Columbia Y. w. G. A., church work.
Red Cross and other war work. Both
her husband and herself have all
been most successful and prominent
fp the Liberty loan, Red Cross. and
esrscialIy the. X M C. a: and Y. w,
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