The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1921-03-01
foIING WOMEN OFFER
CWN LIVES FOR LEPERS
.r1oN ARMY GROUP AC-
kL 1ars YEAR EXILE TO
CbFLIo THE AFFLICTED.

Work, n. Y.-This is a
NJ" beroines call it common
Fry group OF big, husky earn
e''- -,.og women who have volunteer
y', 1--WE up what the world calls the
10 Wv accent an exile OF seven
p .monp the lepers OF Java
Er:.r ''. are young, they are healthy alt,
@ o, -, fun is in their eyes. They
" Hl..,,;on army girls from Eng
'1 France and Holland and Nor
a. ,d sweden. They are officers
at. ar and lieutenants. Most OF them
''-' 1.ord. OF devoted service in the
~ I1lo or. ali OF them are embarked
prIQ "a adventure i'll service. hey
a n'f ianily ties to hold them back
RE- are many thus tree IN Europe
Rce the war
Answer Call for Volunteers.
ill., Spanish liner Leon Xii
nc e. hem to New York and with
4 1 IL, or two they will be travelling
IN GGy 70 San Francisco, whence they
d, all 9oain Ask them why they are
.Eertaki6g a task so sacrlhclal, ana
u s; rr' answer comes IN two parts:
.T St,nF salvation army is needed III
~ Cen, Booth asked for volun-
NJ r...,oh o;rl is a captain, Ger
ie miller Il years old. She was
' e. n lII GIRL when the war swept INTO
II (r nornTy She helped French farm
ond their wives to re-eStaDl1sh
H. homes whenever the Germans re-
.ted far enough, helped them ind
,0a when the Germans advanced
;SIdid that kind of work alternate
d d. the long years OF the war
,yb;rb she was growing to young
,manbood Paradoxically, her hands
So roughened with tenderness. She
III do her work and she has decided
.bq !, more needed in Java now
IN in France, for France is getting
h. Young woman who does most
,ha talking Tor the group, because
!. Fng1iSh, is Capt. Elizabeth
boks round-iaced, roly-poly pleas
little person who, when her coun-
bcaE was against the wall IN
great war. held a position OF the
bb.est rank and the greatest import
1t was her duty to see that the
H. son4 from England to the artil-
in France were so made that they
4 bid explode in enemy territory and
at home. But ii you asked her
st she did she would answer, with
IL he embarrassment, Munitions
hanl-inspector OF shells"
he sums up her present mission
h the same Caesarlike brevity-
Ea, Salvation army, lepers.
Helped; Now to Help Others.
he only other Englishwoman in the
aup is Capt Alice Riggs, and the
@ photographed line obtainable
b her is Munitions, Sheffield"
But there is general fact about
'Aein all. They are women who once
I'D helped by the Salvation army,
md who are now determined, in fair
NeSs, to do as much for others.
lieut. Thekcla Englund, of Sweden,
s the tallest and most athletic of
lem all. If the call had been for SER
|5lee among the ESkimoS or the natives
81 central Africa it would have meant
difference to her. She does not
Apw the language of the people
7Hpng who she is to live, but she is
dying it, Capt Ian Loois and his
f, who are also going along, know
language and are teaching it to
Others
gapt Maria Olsvik, of Norway, and
srt. Ingrld Anderson, of Sweden,
kady have learned enough of the
guage to carry on a broken con-
Patton with their teachers.
= hey may not all find an oppor-
ty to work directly for the lepers
KIND OF work that calls for some
Clal training -but three of them al
~ believe themselves virtually as
~ OF such work, and the others
expected to achieve it before their
~ years enlistment expires. Those
expect to go Immediately among
'epers as nurses and general well
workers are Capt. Olsvik, Capt.
\ NS and Capt Muller.
rms 1898 years ago comet called