The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1918-05-02
CAN THIS BE SAID OF
YOU, WOMAN or HEAVIER?


The following from the Daily Okla
homan should be read with profit by
those women of Beaver county who
are not doing their duty in Red
Cross work. l.. II. Knight, wounded
French soldier. who spoke here last
week, denounced the women who
neglected or refused to do Red Cross
work and told them they were re-
sponsible and guilty of the death of
those brave boys who fall wounded
and die because of the lack of sur
gical dressings and bar ydages. Are
you guilty of the death of that boy
at the front who Is lighting for you?
Better think about it, The Red
Cross workrooms everywhere are
shamefully vacant while AMERICAN
WOMEN--be II said to their shame
have time to dilly-dally away at
social frivolities. Read what Edith
stir you to action II your heart is
not too calloused and hardened to
be stirred.
want to know why, after working all
day, they should be expected to do
war work after night, particularly in
lot of lazy women in Oklahoma City
who have no ambition above keeping
their noses we'll powdered and play
ing game of bridge.
Mrs. Claude B. Mccartney, to
whom this question was put by the
indignant wage-earners, gave the an
swer when she said that two wrongs
do not make q right II all of us
otaad ornnnd xvifh nur ho nd fAIdni
and waited for the lazy. Indifferent.
selfish unpatriotic woman to do her
share of war work and carry her
share of the burden, we would wait
until the war would be over, and in
tho meantime Germany would have
the United States nailed to the mast.
A lazy, Indifferent. selfish woman
is always lazy, Indifferent and selfish
whether her country is at war or not
Her soul is dead beyond all resur-
recting. She has no ambition to be
anything or to do anything She is
made of that heavy clay that no
event, no emergency can possibly
galvanize into life. So. you find her
now, following her accustomed rou-
tine of selfish living. thinking about
what she will wear as IL It we're a
life and death matter. where she will
go, who will make up that next table
of bridge. This type Of woman sell
dom glances at the war news. II is
too painful for her to read. She has
no interest in the Liberty bond issue.
She does not care whether or not
Red Cross supplies are sent to our
bleeding and dying soldiers. II is the
| very least of her troubles whether or
not food is produced or saved in this
country, whether or not she or any
body also buys thrift stamps.
| The only thing that does interest
her is the cheap gossip Of her neigh
borhood. She is right up to the
minute on the rumor that Mrs. AS
| husband is untrue to her, that the b
family has a new motor that 1t can
not afford, that Mrs. c. is wearing
that dreadful old gown she wore ev-
| erywhere last season. 1t makes very
little difference to her whether or
not the German forces take Paris or
even march on to Calais, SO long as
she can enjoy her late morning nap
and spend the rest OF the day in
pleasant, carefree leisure. Anyway,
her nervous system is too delicate to
undergo the strain OF anything that
looks like work, though for some
unaccountable reason she bears up
very well under a strenuous program
| of amusement. She can sit at the
card table from early morning until
midnight without turning single
hair, though she would be nervous
wreck, ready for a sanitarium, II she
knitted or rolled bandages three or
four hours day.
l 10 1ot n xpybV y "A m
and determined faces are seen among
the war workers day after day, week
after week, month after month. This
explains why the same loyal, indus
| trious, dependable women are being
called to do every kind Of war work,
why one woman Is compelled to do
four times as much as she has the
| time and strength for, while three
| others take their ease. The few
must bear the burdens and RESPONSE
bilities Of the many. It always has
taeen so in the life of many families.
1t is so nationally in this war.
| Certain women who do not want
to do their duty are wonderfully in
| genious in finding excuses. Some OF
I'them try to justify themselves by
saying that when they have gone to
| Jn6 Reu OTOSp -uuitp, hOuouy noo
shown them any attention. They seem
to feel that they should be placed
upon a pedestal and propitiated by
much fattery and many offerings.
They want somebody to burn incense
before them and call them heroines
| of the hour. Yes, women are sim
gularly resourceful when they want
somebody else to do all the giving
while they do all the taking them
selves.
Madam-you who are directing all
| your time and energy to selfish pur-
poses, social, commercial or political
aren't you ashamed to be such
Stacker? Won't you quit thinking
about yourself for little while and
turn your unmistakable talents TO
ward doing something worth while
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