The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-05-14
MEANEST WOMAN,
SHE WHO'S IDLE
ALL MUST BE GIVEN IN
SERVICE OF CAUSE, SAYS
OKLAHOMA CITY PASTOR.

The following synopsis OF ser
mon, published in yesterdays Okla
homan, is reprinted with a view to
influencing a larger number of Ard
more women to aid in the work OF
the Red Cross and other activities
in which women can be OF assist
ance:
That the worst woman in Okla
homa today IS not the scarlet woman,
but the woman of finest silken
raiment, if she be Indifferent to the
suffering of humanity and to her
opportunity to help relieve that suf-
fering, was the declaration Of Rev.
Phil {. Baird at the First Presby-
terian church Sunday night in an
swer to the question: "Who is the
wickedest woman in Oklahoma
City today" 1T is the woman who
can sit and see said the speaker,
'as there are women in this town
today, her sisters, already Wearied,
going to the work. 1t is the woman
who has help in her house, who has
two maids, who can see through the
window her neighbor who goes to
work YEARLY at 10 o'clock, having
dressed and fed her children, washed
her own dishes and sent the chill
dren to school, who then goes down
and bends over the Red Cross band
ages all the day, while the other
woman enters her limousine and
goes down town to shop.
Time to Give All.
"The worst woman is she who
goes about in silk and idleness while
her brothers wears khaki stained
with his hearts blood and with the
mud of the trenches for her free
dom and the freedom of the world;
it is she who can sing ragtime while
the death rattle is in the throats of
American boys across the sea. 1t is
the woman who is not in the service
heart and soul, who fails TO lend
her influence, her home, her time
her heart, her carriage, her all, to
the great cause of human liberty
and democracy"
Three Hard Questions" were dis
cussed by Mr.. Baird in his discourse.
The others were the questions
whether man or woman suffers most
from war, and what good woman
may expect from the war now i'll
progress.
Kaiser's First on Women.
! Answering the first, he said that
while human affairs, as generally ac-
cepted and as heretofore known, put |
the heavy physical burdens of life |
upon men, and shield woman to a
measure, this war has changed that
condition and subjected woman to
physical burdens in no degree
lighter than those of men. "Thc |
heavy first of the kSiser." said the
speaker, is resting as heavily upon
her slender shoulder as upon that
OF anyone, the battle-ax is over her
head in the home, in the market
place and elsewhere. To an extent
heretofore unknown woman is doing
mans work. They are driving
trucks and ambulances. More than
1000 are on day and night shift in
factories. In England 95 per cent of
theworkonshells is done by women.
There are now schools for training
women to do such work as welding
OF iron and steel. And while this is
going on there are thousands of
men doing light tasks,
many Of them non-esSential, or loaf
ing and idling their time away as
patrons or proprietors of pool-hallS.
These men should be in the war,
OF their age.
Women Bear Grief.
In addition. woman bears the
mental and spiritual grief in
keener sense than does man. Her
mind is necessarily more sensitive 10
such hardships. Man hears the ar
tllery that browns the sobs OF the
modern Rachels. To appreciate her
position one must be at the wharves,
At the stations. wherever the part
ings of mother. sister and wife from
son. brother and husband take
place. and then be with her when
She hears that he is missing and
knows not what his fate. Why ask
the question whether Jacob or
Rachel suffers the most from war :"