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EIGHTH ANNUAL SESSION CLOSES, GUTHRIE CHOSEN NEXT MEETING PLACE The eighth annual sesion of the Oklahoma State Federation of Negro Women’s clubs was held in Enid, Okla homa, August 29th and 30th. There vere twenty-four clubs repre sented by thirty-seven delegates from the various sections of the state. The reports from the clubs showed much success during the past year, financially and otherwise. Much inspiration was given to the ladies by the delegates who repre sented the state in the national meet ing in Denver, Colorado. At this meeting the mortgage on the Douglas v „ home in Washington, D. C.f was burned. To help sustain this home the state federation is to donate an nually $25. Throughout the session much stress was placed upon war work and war activities. In our midst were many mothers who had sons in France. Quite a tribute was naid them. A poem composed by Mrs. Josie Craig-Berry of Oklahoma City was adopted as the state club song set to the music of America. There was a beautiful display of art work sent in from the various cities. The demonstration of food conser vation in the form of drying of vege tables given by Mrs. H. V. Ashcraft, agent of Logan county, was very in teresting and helpful. Mrs. A. N. Southwick, (white), agent for Garfield county, was pres ent and expressed herself as being very much ftl eased with the work. Mrs. L. M. Gh'ens of Louisville. Ky., who has traveled extensively through •r'out Europe and America, was present and talked in the interest of Negro art and art museum. The next place of meeting will be Guthrie. Too much praise cannot be given the people of Enid for the very ex cellent way in which they cared for the federation. Every one expressed themselv3s as having had a very, very pleasant time. Mrs. Judith Horton, the president, deserves much credit for the very splendid way in which she conducted the meeting. Mrs. Horton is a wide awake president. V WAR WORD TO SORROWING MOTHERS, WIVES AND SISTERS (By Lydia Kelley in Indianapolis Freeman.) During the month of August and /September, when many of our young men will be called away to brave the perils of war, the Christian mother’s heart will be forced to feel, perhaps as never before, what our blessed Lord had to undergo in giving up his life for the salvation of man. We are told that nothing is stronger than a moth er’’- love, one test of which will be the anguish suffered by those whose sons shall soon take part in the fright ful carnage that is devastating the world. Now is the hour for testing. A crisis is at hand in your lives. Peace has gone. War is here. Your souls must change with this change, for better or worse. You have the choice. Will you be worthy of the women of the revolution and civil war, who gave their sons, husbands, brothers and lovers, weeping, yet smiling through their tedrs. broken-hearted, yet grand hearted. grieving to lose a man, yet proud of gaining a soldier? The an swer to this question rests with you. For instance will not our imperfect sense of nationality be made perfect by the trials of this war? Will any of our mothers hold back their sons from glory? You are a mother, and so am T. But so is Columbia, and she has rights to her sons. She has been I m labor with us all that we might see the light of liberty. Do we owe ner no return ? Besides a dead backer of his country is a greater comfort to his mother than a live slacker. (My son gave his young and beautiful life >n the Spanish-American war. and I am proud that he did.) The one, is a glorious memory for her, the other an inglorious reality. On the one hand she sees only a career of amusement, trouble, grief, perhaps, wrong-doing, ending in decrepit old age; on the other hand an oblation upon which “The Gods Themselves Throw In cense.” We have a right to course the seas. To maintain that right we eight to be willing to die. A barrier has be<'n raised to obstruct us. We Bhall break through it, or at least be broken in the attempt. Our honor requires this much of us. Our fellow country men have been sunk. They cry to us for reparation from the deep. They ask Columbia to clear the path. We \ must take the initiative now or prob ably rue our negligence later. If Eng ! land had waked up in time prospects would be better. 1 ,et us learn from her that safety lies -in immediate ac tion. Your sense of honor urges you. 1 The actual suffering endured by the I young men may well be considered ; light in comparison with what a lov i ing mother will endure at home. The son will have every encouragement to ! cheer him on. He will have excite ment to distract him from the danger tlr*t confronts him; he will be urged on by hope of the glory of success; but the mother will suffer a continual agony of anxiety and expectancy. (Yet she must be brave.) The papers may bring some fatal news. What poor consolation will it be for her in scan ning the casualty list to assure her self that her son is not among the dead or missing. Truly the sorrows should be the devotion of every Chris tion mother while her son is on the fighting line. May our prayer be ur gent, earnest and sincere. Do not sayi “War is terrible.” Lost honor is worse. Therefore give your sons. Their fu ture has deeds of glory, of honor (God grant it may). But their arm will never be stronger, or the deed so great as today. Nineteen hundred years ago one died for you. When he marched to the battle field of Calvary, this mother, though broken-hearted, did not say: “Stay with me.” Your son goes today, probably to die for his country. Can you summon enough courage to say “Go?” WEST VIRGINI AN has two inventions Charleston, W. Va., Sept. 28.—Chas. B. Guthrie resident of this city is the inventor of the two inventions, one of which is destined to prove a de cided success and a boon to coal and coke shippers and manufacturers throughout the country. The invention comprises a railway car of a removable top or convert ible cover adapted for use in connec tion with cars that are loaded with | bulging commodities especially coal and coke, so the cars may have a cover that is movable and access may be had to the 'nterior for bulk load ing and at the same time afford pro tection from the weather and from theft. This invention is said to be espe ! cially desired by prominent coal oper | atois and will revolutionize the .-hip : ment of through shipments of coal eliminating the enormous losses and needless expense heretofore entailed. The second invention is a collap sible box and crate combined which can be used in chipping various kinds : of merchandise and which will col 1 lapse to a space of six inches. ' | Great i SALEH! it :t >V » n r wT\ | ! \ a\/^^ « 2 Kcrdft l/Liuil 2 X K X :i X X a v X :: 1 * I . 2 i i $20,000 Worth of I Ladies’ High Class \ Samples of | Cloaks, Suits, s I Dresses and I Furs At 1-3 Off and Less Don’t buy till you price ” our garments. Most reason- ” able Cloak Store in Omaha. | A. Bonoff | 1109 Douglas Street. $15,000 F. 0. B. FRANCE! ‘‘F.eady for the Hun.” Une of our airmen in his fight.ng clothes. This boy—for most of our best air fighters are nothing more—cost, trained and delivered F. O. B. the Front, the proceeds of $15,000 in Liberty Bonds. The air fight was almost over the American aerodrome. Kar above, ten i thousand feet it seemed, two tiny specks were whirling and looping iround each other. One of them was American, the other German, but so tigli were they that the inexperienced eye could not tell which was which. One of them dropped out of the fight. Whirling and dipping, for all of the world like a leaf dropping from a tree, it idled toward the earth. The other came diving down In pursuit. Suddenly the falling plane straight •ned out, the other just behind it. With a beautiful loop the first one turned backward and down again, the trick putting it Just above and be hind Its pursuer. A slight sound could be heard from below, much like the tearing of a bit of cloth the rat tle of its machine gun. The fight was ( over in a second. A burst of flame. uud the second plane came crashing earthward, falling in a field nearby | A moment later the victor swooped down in a perfect landing. It was the buyer of $15,000 In Lib erty Bonds that enabled Uncle Sam to train this victor in that morning's fight—a battle which saved an artil lery observation plane from destruc tion by the Hun. The tiny scout plane which the boy piloted was bought with the proceeds of $10,000 in bonds. These boys need the co-operation of big brothers over here who will send their fighting dollars to aid them in their battles. They need machine guns, each costing $200 in bonds. They need ammunition for which a $50 bond pays for only two minutes of firing, and they need more planes and pilots which will be paid for with the fighting dollars of the “righting Fourth" Liberty Loan. kLBFRT W. JEFFERIS, Republican Candidate for Congress. MRS. N. STEELE I ' i Graduate South & Johnson's l Magic Hair Growing System For beautiful Hair. I For appointments phone Web ster 7034 before 8 a. m. or after ■ :30 p. m. Residence 2202 Clark 4— f.— m • ».,«■« , , • » « ... Hill-Williams Drug Co. 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