The Prescott daily news., 1918-09-25
ST. LOUIS WOMAN
 SPEAKS ON HOME
 SERVICE YESTERDAY
Miss Katherine B. Monroe of St, Louis, District Supervisor of Home Service, Makes Impress sive Appeal to Women Here.

Anyone who for minute thinks that we have been doing all in our power to back our boys up in the present conflict by buying Liberty Bonds, subscribing literally to the Red Cross, helping the Y. M. C. A. with our money, will be glad to learn that these are only part of the duty imposed upon us in helping to win this war of freedom.
 Miss Katherine B. Monroe of St. Louis, district supervisor of the Home Service section of the Red Cross, who was the guest of the city yesterday afternoon and last night, delivered one of the most impressive addresses at the Red Cross work room at Scott's hail that has been our pleasure to listen to. Although there were only about forty present, these forty for tunate ones carried away lasting memory of what 1t means to fight our boys battles for them at home while they are fighting our battles in the l trenches and in the air. The Home Service section of the Red Cross is new side of war activity to people here and few were aware of its large and invaluable scope of work in rem dering assistance, both financially and morally to the boys in the service and to the boys folks at home.
 Miss Monroe recited an instance which occurred in Little Rock where a young woman was endeavoring to make a living herself after her sol
 dier-husband had been drafted, all
 though she had never known what it meant to earn a dollar. She was working bravely in millinery es- tablishment and earning a decent liv
 ing when she was taken down ser iouSly i'll with pneumonia and her husband not having left her a penny on which to exist, she was in desper- ate straits when the Home Service department took charge; no funds with which to have a physician nor even money enough to pay for her l board. The Home Service realizing 1 the situation sent for her husband as we'll as competent physician and saw to the many comforts necessary out of funds in the treasury of the | Home Service branch. When the hus- hand arrived he was very sullen and | indignant on account of the conditions which had arisen "after he had met all the demands of the government, as he expressed it, which would never have happened had he been left with his wife, he said. The result was, the young woman died and of course the husband having no money at hand and no immediate relatives, was complete lv discouraged and was on the verge of committing any kind of crime. The officers of the Home Service eX- plained it's workings to the despond- ent husband and ordered a competent undertaken and the deceased wife was given as appropriate burial as the husband could ask He went back to camp a better man and a better sol dier after realizing what the Home Service officers had meant to him. and the willingness with which his embar- rassing position was relieved by them.
 Miss Monroe gave numerous ln- stances to show the splendid work being done and to be done by this branch of the Red Cross and urged the local branch tog O into the work whole-hearted and many cases would come up before them that might mean matter of life and death, the rellev- ing of which might lay in their power.
 Miss Monroe, in her talk referred to the idle women of the country who are absolutely doing nothing to help in this war; such women, she said, will not be tolerated by the other pat riotic and hard working women and there is no place she said, for this class: they must be put to work in the work rooms of the Red Cross. ot hotel