Rockingham post-dispatch., 1922-12-20
THE WOMAN'S FORUM.

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Richmond county was knitting.
Sweaters, helmets, scarfs, socks fell
from our willing fingers. Some en-
.husiastic souls can ed their knit
ting to church, many employed the
sabbath rest in furious effort. Sol
diers went forth with eight pairs
0I fine wool socks who never had
lad one before. Comfort bags !
v ere filled with every small article
that ever grew on notion counter
Then came the Armistice and
Peace" and Immediately the need
les rusted and cretonnG was once
more used for sofa pillows.
But, friends, UP yondcr at Otecn
and Waynesville there is an army
not yet mustered out, men WHO
made the great sacrifice, who offer
ed life as courageously as those
who laid it down in the muddy
trenches of France and who brough,
back shattered health to drag out
ii few years of hopeless invalidism
These soldiers are begging for caps
and socks Many OF them never go
in Il house to sleep and it is almost
impossible to keep them from freez-
ing in that keen climate, they are
sick men, their circulation is poor,
they can not keep warm and the
nurses say it is heart-rendering to
hear them begging for warm gar
ments, especially close-titting skull
caps" and heavy wool socks.
Sweaters and scarfs are also wei
come, hut it is the smaller articles
most in demand If these boys
were worth knitting for when flags
were flying and drums beating and
the whole world aflamc with patrl
| otic zeal, how much more now that
e they have come back broken, suf-
J, fering aud hopeless. Richmond
l county is soon to make an effort to
:. erect d monument to those Of her
+ sons who lie in Mother Earth $
4 bosom. A most fitting and noble eN-
} preston of our appreciation OF our
Il brave boys and our sympathy with
IIlOSt N1lO liltll 'CVis We
J. wish all success for the movement
c but in honoring those who are gone
:, lnt MS remember those who are with
e us still ard do our bit for thcst
If broken men at Otccn. The Rec
l. Cross at OtccnI will gladly supply
patterns on application.
S There are two or three places il'
Il North Carolina that every voter
+, should be compelled to visit. One is
o the Jackson Training school to see
T. what the State is doing to save thu
D. wreckagc OF onr youth. The othe
Ie is the top OF Mt. Mitchell to see will
le what majestic beauty the hand o
God has crowned our State. Scv
81 cral years ago We made the ascen
ne in July on the little logging trail
g, whose track has been utilized 70
the present meteor road. The tri
y, up was marvellous but the top wa
n veiled in sWirling mists and the dis
IL tant peaks appeared as islands il
III q grey and strong sea. Our recen
IL excursion was near the last of OF
tobcr when the autumn cOlors Wer
most brilliant, the air was clea
halmy and still, the road iii exec
lent condition and the two stran:
ers who occupied seats in the ca
with us developed into charmin
OF and congenial companions. TT
III trip takes about two hours frol
n. Park Square to Camp Alice, the
. ;, the time for the rest of the"way d
u pends on ones own lungs and leg
RS Words fail when we attempt
ay describe the glowing beauty of tn
- scene. The swelling slopes, Il
sheer precipiccs, the distant peal
were clothed in indcScribable color
IN. crimson, gold, bronze, green, pu
in. pie, yellow, wave upon wave, lii
after line, one peak croWding u
OH another until the eyes ach
J. with the radiant beauty. Even {
gaunt grey trunks that are st
A.. standing after the great fire of
" few years ago acCentuate the she
of the young wild cherries sprlr
ing at their feet The black-gum
, the balsams on the extreme
were gashed with clusters of I
lel- scarlet berries of the mountain
and over all arched the cloudl'
sky of October Involuntarily t
., stately language OF the Pslal
'io' sprang into ones mind: Lift
your heads, 0 We Gates and the XII
Irs. of Glory shall come in"
Before the mountains w
brought forth, or ever thou ha
formed the earth and the wo
even. from everlasting to everlast
Thou art God"
dule As we drove slowly down the
tuous road and along the banks
the rippling Swannanoa a satisf
silence fell upon our little pa
for we felt as those who had see
"The Glory of the Coming of