The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-10-04
The Liberty Loan Torchlgh Procession Saturday Night Is the Direct Outcome of Request From Mr. McAdoo For Women to Celebrate Their Part in the War Work
Ry DOLLY DALRYMpLE


 i Talk about your five-ring circuses and lightning change artists, none of them
 has anything on Birmingham these days
 In less than two weeks we have en- l tertained Gypsy Smith and the members I of the United War Workers campaign. enjoyed Rihgling's circus, started the big fourth Liberty Loan drive, continued ths
 War Savings Stamps campaign, had sev-
 eral cases of Spanish influenza, like James Whitcomb Rileys adorable little
 ''bitty" who said
 I've got the hives and new straw hat,
 Now I'm going back home where my beau lives at"
 1 And now tomorrow (Saturdat) night
 we are going to have an old-fashioned,
 genuine, torch light procession-all of est abatement of routine
 ! It keeps even a casual on-looker twist | ms his head till it is a wonder he doesn't wiring his neck off in the effort to keep l an eye on all of it. while those who are taking part in any or every part of it fairly run around in circles trying Ito
 neep up with the tea party
 1 Now let me tell you friends and fellow
 citizens, when Mrs. Angus Taylor, city chairman of the woman committee of
 the fourth Liberty Loan, and her two
 able assistants, Mrs. John D. McNeel and Mrs. w. D, Nesbltt, co-cha irnan for fthe torchlight procession, start anything, I It going to be a success peradventure, without doubt, and these nice women are just as busy as switch engines get ting everything into line, and arrang 1 ing the biggest sort of "hullabalee'' for tomorrow night
 | Won't it be nice to be "all dressed up and somewhere to go' of a Satur- l day night? Somehow Saturday night | is sort of might off, as it were and
 everybody wants to go somewhere or do something and the torchlight procession solves the problem; besides it's such a splendid big patriotic thing to do-to celebrate wemans work in the war and | the parade is the direct outcome of a 1 request from the secretary of the treas ' ury, MT. William G. McAdoo, in which ! he stat
 l Millions of women in the United States
 ttre engaged in war work. Seven hun dred thousand women serve as active ! workers in the organization of the Ma 1 tional Womans Liberty Loan commit l tees. Seventy thousand women are em- ployed on the railroads. Hundreds of 1 thousands of women are laboring in the intuition factories. Other hundreds of l thousands serve in clerical work direct 1 y related to the war. As many more are engaged in the Red Cross and other activities for the ameioration of war conditions. The women of America are doirg their share in the winning of the 1 WET. both by actual hard work and by l the tremendous force of their moral in- 1 flrence. It is fitting that their service 1 should be memorialized and Saturday, l October 5, has been designated for ob l cat,ty ya tA, |, ha fn1trt n Icampaign as women in war work day. l The above announcement was followed l by request to the state executive com mittees from Mrs. William G. McAdoo l which is as follows
 l Will you, if it is possible in your gen.
 eral campaign plans, arrange that this 1 day be observed as widely as possible? l We believe that the celebration of wom-
 en in war work day by the officers and i workers of the national women's Liberty LoaM committee will have a real moral l effect as well as a large publicity value I in the fourth Loan"
 1 "As soon as these announcements came to us," Mrs. Taylor said yesterday, look | ing as lovely ever and as sweet and gentle as if the trying duties of city chairman did not ruffle her looks or her disposition for one brief moment, stren- uous as the duties are, We immediately began to make our preparations for cel- ebration. I asked Mrs. McNeel and Mrs. Nesbitt to take charge of the parade, knowing their ability in this line of work, and I am also asking that all women and all womens divisions doing war work directly or indirectly, SOW their patriot ism by taking part in the parade.
 Already we have had the most encour- aging and splendid reponse," said Mrs. Taylor. Among the organizations which have signified their intention of joining the woman's Liberty Loan are the Rain