The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1918-05-03
ORGANIZATION OF PARENTS
OF OUR SOLDIER BOYS
To Form State Wide Organization
Object to Safeguard Soldier Boys
interests While at the Front

According to an article in a recent
number of the Wenatchee World the
organization of an association COM
posed of the parents of the boys in
the ranks is to be formed to look after
and protect their interests while they
are on the firing lin.
The new organization takes in all
the boys from the state of Washing
ton and it's purpose is to look after
their interests here while they are
away, to have an organization In
France to look after them there and to
see that they have the preferences
that are due them.
While it is called "The Association
of the Parents it will take IL any
relatives of boy in uniform. The
government has passed n.orator-
inn statute which is that no judg-
ments shall be entered in the courts
against any man in the service and
We want to see that such law is strict
ly observed. Some of the mea called
have businese affairs that cann,t b.
closed up iii day. We arr to help
them. When they get to France or
elsewhere, we are to see that they
needs are met and when they return
home that it will not be necessary
for those who may be crippled to have
to sit around on the street corners
selling shoe strings for living.
"By order of the board of reg MS
of the University and the consent
of the governor. Dean Pres. of
the University faculty is in France
now, the state paying his salary, and
this organization paying the expcne IS
of his mission. Dean Priest has
special authority to represent us both
from the department of war and the
department of state and will keep Il
line on all the boys from this state,
advising them, see that if they are
sick or wounded whether in American,
French or English hospitals, the best
of care is given them.
"This organization is flesh and
blood is fighting for my freedom and
trenches, on the warships and with
our boys in the training camps. We
want every parent, every sister or
brother to say "my flesh and blo3d. is
in this war, must see that my flesh
and blood is protected at home as
well as away and since that flesh and
blood is fightingfor my freedom and
will continue to fight as long as ne
cessary which is that when that flesh
and blood returns home, if it does, it
has the preference in all things justly
due it, because of its sacrifices.
eve have incorporated with head
quarters in Seattle and will organize
in Olympia next Tuesday. We ex-
pect every county in the state to or
ganize. Already other states are
patterning after US and Wisconsin is
quite fully organized but we deemed
best to wait until after the third Ii
berty loan drive was over before we
tried to organize the state. Each
county will be unit in the state or
ganization and possibly there will be
smaller units in each county. At
present r. C. Saunders of Seattle, who
has just been appointed United States
District Attorney, is the president and
Herbert Condor, bursar of the Univer-
sity of Washington, is secretary and
treasurer. These officers will hold
until the first annual meeting of del
egates from the various units.
"Mr. Skinner of the great ship
building firm of Skinner & Eddy, is
one of the enthusiastic boosters of
where the payroll is over $50,00G a
day, and where they turn out a COM
pleted steel leviathian every week,
where they launch one of those huge
vessels in less than two months from
the day the keel is laid and deliver
it to the government ready for load
ing in less than 80 days thereafter,
vet Mr.. Skinner finds time to give
to this organization.
"Mayor w. w. Gray of Wenatchee
has been asked to head committee
in this county to get a sufficient
number of those interested to meet
sometime probably week after next,
when someone or more of those al
ready in the organization will come
to Wenatchee and help organize. 1t
is hoped those who may read this and
who are eligible will communicate with
Mr.. Gray, Guy c. Browne or C. A.
Nutley.