The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1918-04-16
LAURA CLAY AMBULANCE
For Barrow Hospital Unit-Mrs. Z. L..
Hutchinson Makes Appeal For
Funds-Three Mason County
Boys In This Unit.

At call meeting OF the Mason
County Woman Suffrage League and
its friends at the Woman's Club Sat-
urday morning. Mrs. e. l.. Hutchin-
son of Lexington, First Vice President
of the Kentucky Equal Rights Asso-
citation made clear and forecufl ap-
peal for a contribution from Mason
county to fund to purchase an am
bulance for Dr. Barrow's Hospital
Unit, soon to go to France. Mrs.
Hutchinson received sympathetic
hearing and cordial response. A COM
mittee was appointed to take imme-
date action to secure a substantial
donation.
Two hospital units composed OF
Kentucky doctors and nurses and fl
nanced by Kentucky people have
been formed-one headed by DR.. Abel
of Louisville and one by DR.. Barrow
of Lexington. The Kentucky Fedora
ton of Women's Clubs secured the
funds to purchase an ambulance for
DR.. Abel's Hospital Unit and now the
Kentucky Equal Rights Association is
working to secure an ambulance for
DR.. Barrow's Hospital, naming the
ambulance in honor of Miss Laura
Clay who has done so much for the
cause of human liberty and human
betterment
The purpose of the ambulance
makes such strong appeal to our
hearts that no argument is necessary
to secure donations. No Mason coun-
ty woman or man could rest with the
knowledge that any boy, wounded in
the fight for our freedom should be
left lying on the battlefield one nc
ment longer than necessary - much
less that any should be left or over
looked. We can not all go in person.
but when we give money to furnish
an ambulance it is as If we lifted our
wounded defenders with our own
hands and carried them to medical
succor where their sufferings allin-
ated and their wounds healed. 1t Is
service we render with loving eager
gratitude.
Mason county people will take es-
pecial interest in DR.. Barrow's Unit
because of Mason county boys and
former residents of the county who
are in the Barrow Unit-John Robert
Marsh, Vaughn Joplin, George Jop-
lin, Jr., and Charles Asbury, Jr., both
of whose parents were born and rear
ed in Mason county of pioneer stock.
There may be others not known to
this writer. Many Mason county peo-
pie know DR.. Barrow well socially and
professionally, having had advantage
of his medical and surgical skill.
But aside from the personal inter-
est of kinship, friendship, and ac-
quaintance, is the larger, wider in
terest of a stake in the common
cause of human liberty. All the boys
"over there are our spiritual kin and
entitled to our care when they fall
fighting for us whether they be de-
seconded from the Bourbons or are AL
gerian blacks fighting under the lilies
of France, whether they be English
peers or brown, turbaned men from
India fighting under the English I'm
ion Jack whether they be descended
from the Pilgrim Father, the Vir-
ginia Cavaliers or from Americana
slaves, now freemen, fighting under
the Star Spangled Banner, they are
all our saviours and defenders. We
offer this loving grateful service to
them all
II enough people respond, II will
not be necessary for any one to give
more than FIVE dollars $3.50 and the
smallest sum will help. Let every
body have a part, whether we believe
In woman suffrage or not we do be-
lieve in taking care of these wounded
or sick boys.
Donations from men are quite as
appropriate as from women. Let US
think Of ourselves not as men or wo-
men but as citizens Of a common
country.
Any member Of Of the committee