New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1918-12-20

Miss MARY Parsons, of Dallas, has
gone to Silver City, to meet with
a local committee. Of which Mrs,
F.. II. KENYON is chairman, relative
20 establishing a permanent y w.
c. A., for the girls and young wom-
en- of Silver City and surrounding
towns. She will be there looking
over the situation for several weeks.
Miss Parsons is an expert on re-
creation work. having been special
wal worker for the Y. w. c. A. in
Tarrant County and Fort Worth,
where she helped provide recreation
for the many girls and soldiers in
that locality. Mrs. Theodore Cat
chell, special worker for the Y. w.
c. A. has also been sent from Dallas
to help organize a recreation hall
for the girls Of Silver City. Miss
Parsons will help organize girls
clubs. a cafeteria, and whatever else
the Silver City girls demand. Silver
City is the first New Mexico town
to benefit by the enlarged program
Of the Y. w. c. A. in the south
west. Since the war, girls and wom-
en- everywhere are asking to have
a definite share in community life.
to help bring about the ideal dem
ocracy of the future. The girls of
Silver City will find the Y. w. c. A.
ready to help them accomplish this.
Heretofore the Y. w. c. A. has bene-
fitted only the girls of large cities.
Now the town girls are to have
their opportunity.
Inspiring Character
A Brooklyn woman of whom I
have personal knowledge had a son
who enlisted in the army. He was
a big, strapping lad but under Age
for the draft. and, not finding army
life all the beer and skittles he had
imagined It to be. he wrote to his
mother that he thought she could
get him discharged on account of
his age. and that, anyway, he be-
licved that he was beginning to de-
velop flat feet.
To this his mother replied that she
thought that what wa the matter
with him was that he was beginning
to develop a yellow streak and that
no son of hers would ever have feet
flat enough to come back to her
when he ran away from his duty to
his country.
Now comes the story of another
Brooklyn mother who promptly tele-
phoned the police and had her son
arrested as a deserter when he ran
away from camp and came home.
These are the kind of women who
are the mothers of men. who turn
the weakness of their children into
strength and give to the world the
heroes who do and dare. A monu-
mcnt should be built in their honor,
not only to commemorate their vir-
tues, but to stand as an inspiration
to all other ENTHUSIASTICALLY Dix.
Fine Chicken Pie Supper
A real honest to goodness chicken
pie supper was served by the ladies
of the Lead Avenue Methodist church
on last Friday night. Talk about
good chicken pie! Whoever made
that pie last Friday is past master
Of the art of pie baking! One hun
bred and sixty-five persons were
fortunate enough and had sufficient
foresight to possess themselves OF
tickets which entitled them to sup
per in the church parlors. ard not
one of them hut was more than de-
lighted will, the delicious supper
Albuquerque Journal
Delightful Dance
A delightful subscription dance
was given last FRIDAY night at the
Colombo hall in Albuquerque. under
the direction of Messers Ralph Rog-
ers and Lawrence Levitt. The
dance was planned primarily to honor
the departing S. A. T. c. boys, and
secondarily that other university and
high school students might have a
jolly good time. About thirty couples
participated.