Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 20, Number 197, Decatur, Adams County, 22 August 1922 — Page 22

THE WOMEN OF FRATERNALISM TO HAVE PART Orphan Children Have Need for the Guiding Hand of a Mother TEACH TRUTH ALONE — Yeomen Plan to Eliminate Family Prejudices in Rearing Children Editor "Yeoman Shield" The women of frateruulism const! J tute a force that is more potential ; than commerce, that is stronger than armies and navies. Orphan chijdren have need of the tongues of advocates | rather than the iron weapons ol j knights. 1 do not know how many of j the thirty million members of l'rater Bities are women, but I do know there j are sufficient numbers to leaven the

Welcome — Jewelry Bargains in Our 30 DAY SALE \\ e are forced to move our stock to make room for our new supply and extend a cordial invitation to everybody in this city and vicinity to take advantage of the wonderful Jewelry bargains we have to offer. No odds and ends—This is our regular stock and affords a wonderful selection. Our prices are shattered. Never were you offered an opportunity as we are offering at this time. A few of our many bargains LADIES AND GENTS WATCHES 1, Jewel Hamilton Watch, 1.0 year gold filled Ladies Wrist Watches, yellow white gold; ’«S: $25.00 15 Jewel Helbros Watch, 20 year gold case. Regular pnee *30.00; rt»-| r? r LaU,cs Wrist " fttches - re S ul » r <£l Special Sale ... $17.50 ,3500 value; Sl ’ eCial Sale .Oil i’atria Watches, nicff l ease, regu- d»Q aa I,adies Wrist Watches, regular AA lar price $13.00; Spec ial Sale tPi/.UU $28.00 value; Special Sale SILVERWARE Sugar, (Team and Tea Trays, four piece set, Silver Teaspoons, Roger Bros., d»-| AA regular price sl2 and sl3; /I Special Sale ipA-.UU Silver*‘salts a*ad Pcp^' “Si of Silver Spoons, Roger Bros.. 25 price $2.00; Sp. : ,a! Sale $1.05 Special sale Kruit Stands, regular price $10.50 to $6.50; _ „ _ , , _ , Special r/| r>«> rft IJorry ‘ s P oons > Salad Fo, ' ks * Cold Meat Porks. Sale V* sDU.and Complete that silver set or fill in that exSilver Knives and Forks, /t»»- rirv tra piece of silverware. A large and varied Roger Bras., special sale vO.UU assortment to select from. Cut Glass Rings Water Pitchers with set of glasses, regular Ladies White Saphires, genuine, regular price $18.50 to $35.00; (jjlA o*l QCA price up to $35; to C Sperj.il Sale V-ttrU) JpAOsOAr Special Sale 2)0 Cut Glass Bowls, 8 and 11 inches, extra heavy regular price $3.50 to (PrY rfv &rj frfk Ladies and Gents Ruby, Saphire, Pearl, Sigsl2; Special sale.... vD.DUto v/.OU net ami all kin(| R of precious stones at equal Single Glass, reductions. A wide and varied assortment to Special Sale 75C select £rom - Diamond Rings, valued at d»'| QK HA Beautiful Mahogany Clocks, ,20 °' 0 ° : . nOW J&J-OD.UU Regular price S3O; now JbIO.UU hi-tnond Rings, valued at AA Enamel Parlor Clocks, ’ /n— $100.00; now (JJUu.Utf ri gular price sl2; now . Diamond Rings, valued at Other Parlor. Clocks that soid mn $75.00; how ...' h l , " t ' , 1 * ,F ’ : now JpOto Diamond Rings, valued at A»QC A|~| utner Clocks at greatly reduced prices. $50.00; now tpODiUU MW... tt..,.

whole lump- Start this movement right, and of our wofnen alone will successfully carry it through. Time wua when we did not rely on the women to help solve our problems outside the home. We were perfectly 'willing that the mothers should mould 'the characters of our chlltdron, but Iwe denied them the right to help make the environments that, lie just beyond the shadow of the home. Time was when we were willing that women should educate our chit dren; thut women should teach our I children the science of government, i hut we denied these same women the the right to help apply the science they taught. We have learned, however, that the j greatest force for righteousness in [the world is woman, and that by special endowment she is the glory of fratcrnalism. Woman has matched man's endeavor in every avenue of life. No man ever gained greater military renown than Joan of Arc. Rosa was man's equal with the painter's brush on canvas. Harriet Hosmer made the marble live with all the skill of man, George Eliot, and many others, in fiction. Mrs. Browning in poetry. Ma-

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dam Hetshell in science, wrought with all the power of man. Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote a novel that reversed u decision of the supreme court, brought on the Civil war, anil freed a race of slaves. Julia Ward Howe wrote a battle hymn that stirred men's souls to the deepest depths, and will continue to stir them so long as life lasts. He has sounded the trumpet that shall never call retreat, He is sifting out the hearts of men before His jtulgment seat. Be swift my soul to answer Him, be jubilant my feet, Our God is marching on. Miss J. IjanthroD initiated the feu oral Children's Welfare Bureau, and Miss Grace Abbott is now chief of that bureau. We are just learning the power and influence of women. The American army overseas was the best behaved army ever mobilised. The reason was that every boy over there knew that back here in the dear homeland, somewhere there was a women—a mother, a sister, a wife, a sweet heart —who believed in him, who loved him and who was praying for him. They lived up to the standards their women folk set for them.

t 1 believe the one thing that holds the average man true longer and i stronger than all else —perhups than ' the sum of all other things thut iufluI euce him is the knowledge thut some good woman believes in him. ) Boon utter the armistice, 1 wen' » with un American officer, Colonel » (’lark, into southern Germany, to Frankfort-on-the-Mulii. After dinner I he asked me to take the tram car anil go with him to the river Danube - which run near the city. We entered a forest through which the river ' ran. The colonel told me the reason why he wished to see the river. He said his mother, who had been dead thirty years, was always singing "The Blue Danube.” It was her favorite song. The colonel, who was a man of the world, became reminiscent. H* | told of the days of his youth, and how Ilia Christian mother was wont to I nestle her little brood übout her knee i for evening prayer. Presently he was humming the tune us the old song, and 1 asked him to sing it. In a beau- , tiful, low, baritone voice ho sang the i song: 1 And-oft since then I've watched the moon, But never, love, no never, Upon the Danube river. Shall I forget that night in Juno. When he had finished, overwhelmed with the memory of his Christian j mother, he was sobbing. Some way, 1 felt that a human soul was being weighed in the balance, and 1 said, “Colonel, let’s pray.” He was inime diately on his knees beside the log on which we were seated. In a few short sentences I thanked God for the mothers of the world, and particularly for the mother of my companion. When I had finished there was stlence between us. 1 think that under some circumstances stlence is the most powerful force in the world Fresently I said, "Colonel, 1 am waiting for you to pray.” And he said, "O God, have mercy on me, and teach me the way in which my mother walked.” No longer was this hero of Chateau Thierry, St. Mihiel and the Argonue thinking of the glories of war —but of the way in which his mother walked. And there on the banks of that historic river, in a foreign land, Colonel Clark found his God, all through the memory of a Christian mother who had been dead over thirty years! O, woman, you do not know your power. If the women who are mem-

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bers of fraternal societies will act their hand to the work, they can save the wastage of child life in America. Trouble on Main Street We dwell on the submurged, the homeless element of our youth. The

We Want Just wKm One More Customer ▼ —And you’re the one vve want, if you’re not already. If you will give us the chance to show you how careful we are, what good merchandise we sell, and how much satisfaction there is in trading with us, we are sure you will become a regular customer. Everything In Hardware Lee Hardware Company 236 W. Monroe St. -’Phone 41

trouble With the submurged Is hut the result of trouble higher up. The Indigent, the weak, the sub normal, are not indigent, weak antsubnormal through their own volition, or any act of their own. Their status

t 1» due to conditions they did not /?■ and over which they have no Our charities, our endeavor/ °' , devoted to the submurgad, wio*’' | thought of those responses so , (Continued on Page 5,