The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1918-06-19
MESSAGE Of
APPEAL HEARD
BY AUO|E nee
Vital Talk of Mrs. John T.
Fuller Sincere and Full
of Meaning.
THRILLED
BY SINCERITY
Braxton Beacham, Federal Food
Administrators for Florida,
Also Makes Address.

The San Carlos auditorium was
taxed to its seating capacity yesterday
afternoon. and many stood throughout
the vital talk of Mrs. John T. Fuller, 0s
Orlando. who with wonderful forcSul-
ness and that appeal that only sin
cerity can make gave to The women
and men before her a message OF SER
vice, which thrilled her hearers with
a new sense of their responsibilities
and a keener realization of how i'm
measurably important ii is that each
and every one of us should make the
winning of this war the one great
issue
Very simply Mrs Fuller told her
story and no higher tribute could
have been paid her than the intense
silence which prevailed throughout her
talk, as she brought before her au-
dience vivid word pictures Of condi-
tlons at the front as tod at the two
great conferences which she had at
tended in Washington and Philadel-
phia.
one of the most remarkable gifts OF
this remarkable woman speaker is the
power of conveying not only the sense
of what others have told her, but of
words and with an eloquence which
at times brought the quick tears. as
she gave in their own words the i'm
pressions that-war leaders had gained
at the front. and conveyed these inn
pressions TO the minds and hearts OF
her hearers.
Mrs Fuller told Of the wonderful
tribute paid the American soldiers by
Secretary Baker. on his return from
the front. OF their high courage, their
devotion. their unselfish self -abnega-
tion. The "sanctification of sacrifice.
Secretary Baker declared, had given
these men an exaltation OF character
which we could not realize. unless we
had been among them, had seen them
at all times. in camp and trench, and
on the field. and had realized. as he
came to realize, what their sacrifice
meant There is no standard over
there, said Mrs Fuller, "but the
standard OF service" She spoke Of
what the English and French women
are doing for their countries-of the
way in which the English women are
working in factory and field. of the
quietness with which they go about
their work OF taking their own place
in the world, and the place that the
men at the front have left to them; OF
the French. all of whom have given
their men to the service of their coun-
try. OF the women and the children
in mourning for their dead going
about the business of living with such
high and unfaltering courage.
These women who have already
given three million of their men. and
who yet have asked, in their spirit OF
love and appreciation towards this ma
tion. that General Pershing allow the
French women the privilege OF enter
tanning the American soldiers in their
homes, when our men are on furlough.
that they may have brought home to
them a little of the home life that
otherwise they might miss.
IF only we might forget said the
speaker. that there is an Atlantic
ocean-thst ocean which has already
been bridged by our men in Khaki
and if we could more keenly realize
that this is our war-sacrihcial blood
is being split over there on the fields
OF France. Those men, our men, are
not considering the cost. These men
look upon their wounds as an honor
and to them the battle-ground rs a
sacred spot"
Speaking Of the story told by Mrs.
August Belmont. who afted FIVE
months spent with the Red Cross at
the front. she quoted Mrs. Belmont an
saying that the spirit over there was
something so indefinable that it could
not be expressed in words-an inen-
able spirit that had consecrated the
Red Cross zone The soldiers did not
seem to think about their wounds. ex-
cept as badges of honor-they gIoried
in them. She spoke of their wonderful
spirit, illustrating with story Of a
man whom she watched his face all
shot 10 pieces. with agony in her
heart, as the Red Cross nurse gave
him nourishment or how. when she
had fed her patient, his poor mutt
lated face. all bandages the nurse had
said: "Oh, you poor man I am afraid
have hurt you cruelty" And he had
answered: "Oh. no. am smiling,
only you cannot see the smile"
They are smiling, these men. in the
face of death; they are smiling IN
their pain. glad TO give their lives.
sIorying I'm their sacrifice'
And we, living here IN our plenty.
fare TO dignity conservation with the
name Of sacrifice. Think OF the sane
Lifcation of sacrifice over there;