The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1918-03-30
Scores Turned Away From Baptist Church
Where Miss FrOOks and Sergeant
Edwards Address Crowd
PRECINCT CHAIRMEN
BRING DELEGATIONS
Slusher Outlines War Work; DOnahue
Goes Over Duties Of Campaigners;
Session Scores Hit

With the First Baptist church
crowded absolutely to its capacity
and with scores of people who we're
unable even to get standing room
turned away, the final broadside in
the perfecting of the Liberty loan or
ganization in Grady county was fired
yesterday afternoon The two big
guns in the battery were Admiral"
Dorothy Frooks, charming New York
society girl and aviatrix, and Ser
geant Edward Edwards. one OF the
few survivors of the famous Princess
Pats the Canadian regiment that was
practically annihilated in the charge
up Vimy Ridge.
Both speakers brought wonderful
war messages. Sergeant Edwards
told of life in the trenches, touched
..pon the famous charge oil the Prin
cess Pats, of his capture by the Ger
mans at the second battle of Ypres
Of his life in German prison camp
for Is months and of his ultimate es-
cape. He made two attempts, being |
captured the first time by German |
guards as he was about to cross into |
Holland. His second attempt was |
successful, however, and he returned |
to the British army through Holland |
At one point, he stated he was fore
ed to jump into a canal and immerse |
himself with the exception of his
Hun guards searching for him passed.
Sergeant Edwards told of the hor.
rible arocities of the prison camps,
stating that the Hun physicians used
any pretext whatever to amputate an
arm or a leg Of a prisoner, in order
to MAIN them. He said that life in
a German prison camp is worse than
death, the prisoners being given bare
ly enough food to sustain life and
being forced at times to watch Ger
man officers partake of sumptuous
/
repasts. He stated that the prison
ers we're forced to ride for days in
trains without water to drink, being
met at the stations by crowds of wo-
men who poured water from bottles
and drank it, often dashing it upon
the prisoners, but at no time offer.
ing them swallow.
Miss Frooks lived up to her ad.
vance billing as the "child orator.
except that the sound sense that she
sounded distinctly like
the reasonings of mature mind.
Her talk was based along the needs
of America in preparing for war by
6evoting all time to war work.
III you are an able bodied man,
you have no business sitting in this
audience" said Miss Frooks. "Uncle
Sam has a uniform that will just fit
you. You should be in it and fight
ing If you are a woman and are not
doing everything in your power for
Red Cross work, you are a Stacker"
1t is probable that Miss Frooks
struck her subject as hard or a little
harder, and as near the hearts of thu
Chiokasha people, or little nearer
than in any war talk that has been
made here. 1t is said of her that she
is considered nearly 100 per cent
perfect as recruiting officer, which
statement can well be believed by the
hundreds of people in her audience
yesterday.
In introducing the speakers, f. L.
Slusher, chairman of Grady county in
the third Liberty loan campaign, sum.
married. the causes that led up to !
the entrance of America into the |
world war, stating that before the |
conclusion America would be called |
upon to give and give until it hurt
to Liberty loans, Red Cross, Thrift |
Stamps, etc.
Practically every precinct in the