St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1918-05-11
WONAN'S MEETING
sunday EVENING
LARGELY ATTENDED
Mrs. Lamb and Mrs. Wickliffe-
Holmes Were the Principal
Speakers of Occasion
FORMER FROM ENGLAND; HER
HUSBAND IN BRITISH NAVY
Tells How His Ship Was Saved by
Message Dropped from French
Airplane, Attached to
Floating Buoy

The meeting in the interest of the
Woman's War Savings Society, as
advertised, was held on the court
house square last Sunday evening.
Mrs. VIM. Lamb and Mrs. Wick
|liffe-Holmes were the speakers and
large and enthusiastic audience
greeted the distinguished speakers,
one from England, the other a gifted
'Louisianian.
A committee, composed of Mrs. w.
j. Sandoz, chairman of the Opelou-
sas branch, Mrs A. A. Anding, treas
urer, and Mesdames F. C. Shute, w.
B. Robert, e. L. Loeb, Mr.. and Mrs.
j. w. Lewis and Messrs. Frank Dim
mick, A. A. Anding and w. J. San
doz, met the distinguished guests at
the LaCombe Hotel and escorted
them to the speakers stand In the
pavilion.
The meeting was called to order
by w ]. Sandoz. A large crowd was
in attendance and the decorations
were fully up to the occasion. Mar
teps Band furnished the music and
played patriotic airs. In opening
the meeting Chairman Sandoz de-
liVered a few appropriate remarks,
paying especial tribute to the Red
Cross and the other war activities
of the women of st. Landry.
Mrs. Lydia Wickliffe Holmes was
introduced as the first speaker. She
said that she was the personal mes
senger Of the government and came
with an authentic message This
was not the time to discuss how nor
why we entered the var, said Mrs.
Holmes. Congress had declared war
and it was now the duty Of every
citizen to get behind congress and
do what taat body asks them to do..
1t Is the duty Of soldiers to take or
ders and In this contest we are all
soldiers.
There were two ways of raising
money-taxes and bonds. The nine
teen billions of dollars required for
previous wars staggered the natios.
The twenty-six billion three hundred
million million already spent In this
war gives US an idea Of the money
needed.
Woodrow Wilson, said the speak
er, was the greatest man in the
world to-day The German govern
ment's contentious Of their @part-
nership with God" had to be severed
by American arms. She cautioned
the women to stop their extrava-
ganee In home and in dress. Wom-
en-, said she, spend sixty per cent Of
the money, and when they go to
spend this money they should ask
Can Uncle Sam afford for me to
have this?' Save, economize. buy
Baby Bonds, to help the boys "over
there"
Mr.. E. NJ. Boagni, who was in
vited to deliver an address, was un-
able to do so and sent his regreats
and expressed his keenest interest
in the cause.
Mrs. Lamb of London, England,
the next speaker, stated that she had
not been here long before She found
out if you were not an American you
should be a Frenchman. Mrs.
Lambs husband is an officer in the
British navy and he was the man
whose ship conveyed General Perish
ings men across the sea. She re-
lated an incident which happened to
her husband. When his ship was
fifty miles from shore on certain
voyage. he saw an airplane; thought
it was an enemy flyer, but it proved
to be French. The aviator swooped
down and dropped a canvas cup buoy,
bearing this message in French:
stwo enemy submarines are In close
proximity. Advise you to change
your course This he did, and Mrs.
Lamb was convinced that this act
saved his ship from being q victim
of the submarines. She exhibited
the cup buoy which, she stated, she
priced very highly.
Declaring that while she would
not detract one bit from the work
done by the noble women of France,
yet she must tell what the women OF
England had accomplished for their
country and what they were doing
behind the lines. Each and everyone
has share in this war. declared the
speaker. She told how the govern
ment rationed the food so that the
gluttonous few would not make the
many go hungry. When Kitchener's
cali was making itself felt in the ag-
ricultural district, an English col
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