The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-11-19

corresponding secretary general.
 Listen to her claims to eligibility in the U. D. C.:
 One fatheri
 Two grandfathers;
 Twelve uncles;
 All serving in the Confederate army, the grandfathers, Wiley $. Garner and Willis Carroll, fighting in Company D, Fifty-seventh Ala bama regiment
 "One of the things that I have accomplished" said Miss Garner, petite and youthful, although for 19 years she has held her membership in the U. D. C., during the time have been in office is the increase in prizes for the best essays on any subject concerning the Confederacy or anybody connected with 1t.
 "Two prizes formerly offered have been increased to 12, and from four essays being submitted, the number has gone to more than 600.
 It would appear from this that there won't be any ignorant people anywhere in the good old U. $. A. on the subject of the war of '6l If prizes are an incentive for study and research!
 From Far Away Finland
 Lots step for a moment from the convention halls at the Tutwller or the U. D. C.'s and talk with Miss Kvllikki Pohjala from Finland, who" is for the present resident of Blr- mingham.
 Soumi is the town she comes from. if that spells anything to you, if doesn't to me, because Finland is about as vague in my simple mind as neoiithic arrows and braehy- cephalic skulls.
 But, anyway,
 Miss Pohjala, who speaks very broken English, and is most exotc in both temperament and appear. ance. told me the other day or strange. racking, marvellous things fhat she had endured and eXpe- rienced during the late war, when she registered her serVlces as
 "When Finland and Roumania," ," Miss Pohjala said, entered war after the armistice had been signed, that was the occasion for me to serve my country; in Esthonla, where the brave Finnish soldiers needed me.
 .During that time the suffering was terrific" she continued, 1 did not sleep in bed for more than a wear. and when 1 got home and my mother spread the nice, clean sheets for me to rest upon, l couldn't lie down comfortably, so l asked her to let me remove every thinq but the slats of the bed and a single quilt, for that was more l like the hard ground that had been used to during the year of my war work.
 And. by the way, do you happen i to know that Finland was the flrst country in the world to grant sui | frage to women?
 aIn Finland women are paid for their work just the same salaries as men, which is more than i America can say, isn't it?
 Miss Pohjala is a wonderful lln- ouist. speaking six different Ian puages. and she comes of famlly of lawyers and teachers, as well as other professions.
 "In the Norwegian colleges TOT nerlv Russian was a compulsory Lanq,iage, but now, English has taken 1 it's place." said Miss PohJala, re- ] ferring to her college life.
 Miss Pohjala, besides the accom- plishments have mentioned, IS very clever with the needle, showing, me many wonderful patterns or lace which she has made; gathering the flax. spinning the thread and max ing the lace herself. I ssMany times during my work as i Q nurse on the frontier, where snow and ice clad the earth, 1 have lad l down at night beside my horse and slept close to him, just to keep rom | freezing.
 "You can imagine my feeling when the faithful animal who had been my close companion during all the days of struggling and depriva- ton and misery was shot py the Russians!
 "On the same night l nearly took my own life, fearing death for my self at their hands, too, but the deed was averted and here am still alive to tell the story" .u
 .sWhy did I come to America! Miss Pohjala repeated the question asked. "To forget" i,
 Alas, how many others, wounded and bleeding at heart, have come to this wonderful country of ours to forget!
 And by forgetting meaning work and freedom and liberty