The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1920-10-27
WIDOW WHO GAVE
HER FOUR SONS
WOULD END WARS
Mrs. Mary Davidson Looks
to the League of Ma
tons for a World
Peace
TWO OF HER BOYS
SKILLED; l GASSED
GOLD STAR MOTHER, UNSPAIRING
IN SACRIFICE. HOPES OTHERS
MAY BE SPARED LIKE
LOSS

New York, Oct. 27--Mrs. Marie A.
Davidson of Elizabeth, New Jersey.
gave to the service of her country in
me world war her four elder sons.
All of shem were stalwart boys in the
pride of their young manhood
"twenty-four feet of Davidsons,"
Elizabeth called them. Two Of them
never returned to their mothers arms
but have joined the deathless COM
pany Of 10000 American youths who
made the supreme sacrifice. OF the
other two, one came back unharmed,
and the other, after months of fever
ish illness in foreign hospitals. re-
turned an invalid from the effects Of
being gassed.
Mrs. Davidson is widow When
the United States entered the war her
husband, Edward Crawford Davidson,
a patent attorney, had been dead two
years leaving her with family of ten
children. the eldest OF whom, Delo-
zier, was "A years old. Upon the
death of his father he became prin-
cipal breadwinner of the family. The
three other sons had just completed
their college courses and We're at the
outset Of their business careers.
How willingly and uncomplainingly
Mrs. Davidson yielded her sons ,to the
service of their country is matter of
pride and common knowledge TO Eiiz-
abeth. where the family is well known.
Nnat ii cost her in the anguish to her
mothers soul to endure the long sepa-
ration while they We're undergoing the
hardshps of life in camp and battle
field can only be surmised, for she is
made of the stern stuff OF hardy Amer
lean womanhood and her fears and
anxieties were not paraded. What 1t
meant TO her when the word came
that two Of her boys would never re-
turn TO her until that day OF the
bivouac OF the dead, and that one
might return only a wreck Of his for
mer lusty manhood, any parent can
realize.
How Fundamentally Mrs. Davidson
gave her four sons in the war upon
war anyone may realize who has read
her letter with which she accompanied
her contribution, literally her wild
ow's mite" as she termed it., to the
Democratic national committee to
aid in the work of disseminating the
truth about the league of nations
Mrs. Davidson's Letter
This Is the letter Mrs. Davidson
wrote
"P'ease accept the enclosed small
contribution To the fund for the dis
semination of truth about the league
os nations. 1t is literally a widows
mite, but 1t comes from q mother who
sent four greatly needed sons to the
world war Two of these sons, with
almost unlimited possibilities FOR fu-
ture usefulness, Were killed. third
was III in hospitals in France for five
months. due to gassIng in action, and
is SUN Classified as unit and a fourth
rlsked his precious young lie in the
air.
When an honest an concerted eff
fort is being made by the nations of
The earth TO save. IL possible. future
mothers and sons from these sacri- !
fees, It is hard TO realize that there
are those who oppose such an effort !
feel sure that among those who paid !
for the war there can b. but one opin- |
ion and that Is to try the league OF |
nations. even IL Il L. no, perfect. Il |
is the best that has been proposed, |
ana all objection being weighed. Is .
manlrestly the most feasible Please I
God, 1t win not iail."
In the pleasant library ot the large /
old fashioned Davidson home ut NO |
Gi7 North Broad street. Elizabeth, /
photographs Of the four boys In their /
uniforms are framed In place of |
honor. Their mother pointed out each |
as she gave their names and ages and |
their ranks in the service Delozier,
-, ensign In the naval aviation serv-
Ice, killed in Flanders; Hartley c..
%. lieutenant In the field artillery.
sassed in France EdwarS c.. n, lieu.
tenant In the aviation service. killed
in the fa'l OF his aeroplane In Texas;
and Bordley 20, naval aviator. the
o1ly one of the four to return un-
scathed
II had never been a suffraglst."
said Mrs. Davidson, In discussing her
ardent hopes for the success of the
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