Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1919-04-08
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tective association.
The contention of these men is that
the coloners well-known interest in ma
ture throughout his life, both as one of
the keenest and most observant of
American field naturalists, and as a
hunter of big game, iustifies in full
measure memorial of the kind pro-
posed.
The project calls for the establish
ment at Washington of an institution
to be known as the Roosevelt foun-
dation for the conservation of wild
life" 1t is proposed that the founda-
ton be governed by a board of trus-
tees under whom there shall be di-
rector to control its activities. In a
general way the activities will include !:
Investigations necessary to supply
accurate information concerning wild
life; to secure data concerning valu-
able species threatened with eXtermi-
nation and to make the foundation a
central bureau from which conserva-
tionists can obtain the necessary facts
to work effectively.
Educational work would be under
taken to keep the public informed of
the Importance and value of the birds
and mammals. This part of the work,
of course, would be undertaken largely
through publication and by encourag-
ing the activities of organizations and
individuals.
Red Cross Service Stripes.
"Over there" if man was in the
front line of the hardest fighting, but
was in France for less than six
months, they gave him blue service
stripe, while the man who was at BOr-
deaux, or some other place miles re-
moved from the fighting, was given
six months. Somehow this does not
seem right.
In the United States today the Red
Cross officials are decorating the wOm-
en- who worked for the cause for a
fixed number of hours. Conditions of
health and opportunity being equal, it
seems perfectly right that there should
be a difference made between the
women who worked for short time
and those who worked for long time,
but also it seems possible that hard
ship and an injustice is worked if
woman who did all that there was in
her to do and broke down under the
strain, ''invalided out of the service"
as it were, should not be given the
same honors that go to a sturdy one
who passed through the ordeal.
Red Cross work has not stopped and
it never will stop, for the Red Cross
is an organization which must go on
in peace and in war. Many of the
wartime activities have ceased, espe-
cially knitting and the surgical dress
ing activities. Garments and some
kinds of dressings still are needed, and
so hundreds of Washington women
still ply their needles, their scissors
and their sewing machines.
Washington Society Reviving.
The capital always has loved to
plunge into the swift current Of the
social stream. The desire to jump
in several times a day was just as
strong on the eve of this war as 1t
had been at any time since Dolly Mad
ison kept open house. AS soon as the
stroke of war sounded from the war
department tower the social stream
stopped running. except on the occa-
sions when the flood gates of charity
were opened. Even when a ball was
given for the benefit of stricken sol
diers or civilians there was not the
same heart in the thing nor the same
spirit in the festivities that were man.
ifest before the day when our men
went to sea or into the field.
Washington was in way social
desert for three years, for the dam
ming of the upper waters of the social
stream began just about a year after
the European countries flew at one
another's threats. Today Washington
is trying to be jolly again and hostess
es are trying to gather enough peo-
pie together on numerous occasions
to make the jollification apparent.
Having the Experience of Paris.
Washington is experiencing, in
somewhat minor degree it is true, just
what happened in Paris when the Hun
let ravage loose on Belgium and on
the northern frontiers of France.
Paris is Paris, but it became some
thing very much different from the
ordinarily accepted Paris when war
doomed black. The Partisan women
of high degree turned to, to knit, to
sew, to work among the lowly, to scrub
floors and even to undertake the hard
ships of the field undeI at that time
a rather poorly regulated nursing sys-
TEN.
War has leveled social ranks in
Washington as 1t did in Paris. How
long they will remain leveled no. one
knows, but it is probably a goodly
and Cody thing that certain events
have happened. The women of this
town are broader minded, more kind
ly in their judgments and harder work
ing than ever they were before in their
lives. 1t is difficult for them today
to turn away from the work of three
years to give themselves over TO the
play of other years. They probably
will find work for their hands to do
even when the peace pact finally is
signed and the world settles back into
something like a semblGnce of the for
mer proprieties.