Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-09-22
SOCIETY

y service of women in their country s
hour OF need. that needs no fresh tell
ing. But isn't il a beautiful story to
think aboutr You have heard your
grandmothers speak very gently of
some OF the things that they did with
,Sopt during the war, and YOU have
read. blazoned on the pages OF history.
the part that the Southern women
played during the War Between the
states. so service and sacrifice for the
Virginia women to their State and
nation is no sealed book.
Our country has need OF its women.
The word has gone forth in all the
land. Munition factories have been cs-
tablshed and the government asks for
our women--those who have not here
tofore engaged in work.
The women the nation is recruiting
for its service here in Richmond have
been active in all sorts of charity and
uplift work for years past. II is rather
hard matter to make people grasp
that the munition factories opened near
here don't want the women already en-
gagged in other forms OF occupation.
What they are seeking 10 do is to or
ganize and recruit for work the en-
ergetic, capable girls and women who
: have never until the present time done
work of any kind. besides their es
pecial charities and church work.
They want TO increase the supply Of
women who are able TO hold Jobs" 1t
. doesn't do u particle OF good TO send
ten women from store or tobacco
:. factory into another Kind Of business.
Let the women who are working stay
Where they are. provided always they
rare satisfied. but We must have other
,owomcn who are not engaged in any
particular sort of work TO increase the
ranks OF laboring women.
re- II is interesting 10 note the women
who have taken hold Of the work in
the United States Government Bag
Loading Plant recently established AT
Seven Pines. Mrs. Arthur w. LEROY is
a former president OF the Woman's
Club. and Mrs. Joseph Button and Mrs.
Robert Blankcnship are also prominent
Richmond women working in this plant.
The list of girls who are doing splendid
work. many OF whom have already re-
ceived promotions, reads like a guest
list from a midwinter ball Some few
of those who have signed up FOR the
Woman's Munition Reserve force in
clude: Misses Nicketti Johnston. kath-
loen Munford. Gene Heck. Emile Rog-
erson. Margaret Powers. Maria Adkins,
Martha Chambers. katherine Cabell,
Antoinette Thiermann. Anne ingram.
Eliza beth Knox Elizabeth Kelley,
Caroline Preston. Elizabeth Preston.
Mary a. Johnson. Inogen Gordon. Helen
and Susie Starkc. Florence Chaplin. Jen-
nei Price. Mary Nicholas Ainslic. Susie
Spicer, Mildred I.efcw. Dorothy White
hurst. Lucille relouze. Marie koiner.
Virginia Allen. Elizabeth Allen. Eliza
beth Bcveridce. Adelaide wilkins. Mrs.
y. r. Meclewski. and many others.
Mrs. Allyn Z Tunis. who is now a
foreWoman, a bride OF las, season: Miss
Alice Morson Meredith. daughter OF
Wyndham r, Meredith. and Miss Mar
raret Brown. daughter OF Bishop vii
liam Cahcll Brown. now assistant fore
women. were among the first con-
JinEent OF well-known Richmond WON
en- who b!azed the trail for the rest
10 follow.
Il is easy 10 sikh and desire with
ones whole hear, 10 help your coun-
try. but the way is open for the idle
women TO help in q work of real serv-
ice. and the call is a clarion one sound
ed from the rampartS. Il is most
necessary not TO depletc the ranks OF
women already engaged in work. on
the far horizon OF way arc visible the
first faint strcaks TO herald peace. but
the dawn is still unIisCerniblc. Every
shoulder TO the wheel, men and wom-
en- alike, the men on the battlefield. the
women at home in every possible serv-
ice that viii help 10 win. and then the
. marvellous golden sunshine Of peace
and happiness will food the land once
more.
II makes an ache in your heart when
you hear OF tGe- wopen OF France
p,oughlnr in ~he,. felds TO feed their
army, and they arc by no means all
peasant women doing this work; when
YOU are told OF the marvellous service
thai English women have rendered in
the munition factories OF Great Britain.
and now the call has come 10 !Amcr;-
can women. especially TO us in Nir-
elna, with the munition plants erect
ed almost Al our doors. 1t is long,
hard work. So is the work in the
trenches. /, Viii he no easy task TO
uphold through the winter. bat every
day the mon fam on the battle fields OF
France and FLANDERS in answer To the
. call o. duty. Service seems such a
simpIe thing. all ones time all day
long seems such a small Offering TO
your country in comparison with the
glorious Young lives in Jeopardy every
houv on, the battle line across the
seas.
oar women arc delicateiy nurtured;
so were the women Of England aud
France who left the seciusion OF castle
and chateau, old in soug and story.
surely. Virginia women ana girls who
boast OF gallant English cavaliers for
ancestors may do no less than the
women Of the Mother Country. The
y cali to the women and girls of our
land has been sounded and from every
part OF the state they answer with
2 their nation in peril OF war
BRENT WITT
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