The courier-index., 1918-09-20

that if should be annihilated by the curse of the Hun and the blight of Prussianism.
 Already more than 75,000 Arkan- sas boys have answered the summons l to the colors, and the daily casualty | lists bring back the sad story ol many who are now sleeping their last sleep on the shell torn slopes Of the yesIe and the Aisne, and within the last few days have made the su-
 preme sacrifice on the eastward
 s,opes of the French Lorraine, over
 looking the Rhenish provinces ol | Germany.
 As time passes there is scarcely home in the state that will not nave l in it's window the mute protest or l service star against the war lust ol the Hohenzollerns, and the color ol
 many of these stars will turn to | gold. announcing that the great sac rifice has been made complete. | But Arkansas is not faltering. IL
 is ready for any call, and prepared for any emergency. Just as IL mas
 responded to every call that has
 heen made. has answered every re- | quest for cooperative effort, anu
 "gone over the top' in every drive l for funds to support civilian war
 activities, so will they continue untii the end of the chapter
 It is no time for partisan or de-
 nominational prejudices of bickerings | or petty fault findings. The Republican leaders of the state sounded the key note when they an
 nounced politics is adjourned" Denominationalism is the same ln it's relation to the world struggle. It is no time for jealousies of creed or religious dissentions. and fortu- nately those things are very rare. The nation is confronting grand campaign for the raising Of 1unds | for the conduct of war activities, In
 which seven organizations will partic- mate Seven is a sacred number, and | it presages i'll for the kaiser ana l his hordes of barbarians. The campaign will win, just as the
 campaign of Pershing for the limit
 ed objective'' of the St. Mihiel sector
 brought undying glory to American
 arms. and another significance to 1 us for Friday the 18th Arkansas will be called upon to invest sS97 7.00O in the Y. M. c. A., | the Y. w. c. A.. the Jewish Welfare | League. the Knights of Columbus, the | War Camp Community Service, the | American Library Association and the Salvation Army.
 Observe that the word invest IS l used, rather than give" For 1t IS
 an investment in the truest sense or 1 the word, and the returns that Will | come from it will be much greater than the few dollars that will come | hack to us from our Liberty Bonds
 and War Savings Stamps. | If is a wise plan to prevent dupli- | cation of effort and to reduce the | heavy drain of overhead expense. | The campaign will not come until
 November II to IS, after the Liberty | Loan drive is over, and then all will
 feel more like investing in these
 other things.
 Wanted-Colored girls of neat ap- pearance for elevator and waltor | service"
 That ad is common these days. | Back of it is a story of the reduc'
 tion in man power that is most s1g-
 nificant
 | More and more every day women
 are doing the work that was formerly | done by men, because the men nave
 either gone to war, or engaged in
 industries in some way related to the | war.
 All over the city old men and negro girls and in some cases white glrls
 are running the elevators. Some oi
 the larger hotels are breaking III l .1<~.1 ax;,lo uaftprc fOr every