Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 144, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 July 1917 — Three Months of Coaxing Brought Tearful Spouse to Hubby’s Side. [ARTICLE]

Three Months of Coaxing Brought Tearful Spouse to Hubby’s Side.

“We must get the ladies on our side,” said Capt. Cromwell Stacey, at a meeting of Chicago applicants to the Second Officers’ Training Camps yesterday afternoon at the University Club, Chicago. “Too many wives are hanging to their husband’s necks aftd the government is losing out on good officers. We all can appreciate the fine feminine sentiment which prompts this attitude, but this is no time for women to play the role of clinging vines.” , Then a big Chicago businessman got up. His name is withheld by the censor in the interest of harmonious domestic relations. “It took me three months of coaxing, of playing possum, before I brought my wife around to my point of view—before I could make her realize that it was my plain, honest duty, to apply~for the next officers* reserve training camp. “Then, just last night, as she came up to me with tears in her eyes, putting her arms around my neck and laying her head against my shoulder, she sobbed, “Go, John, Go! and I am proud of you’.” Capt. Stacey arose again. • “The experience of the European armies has shown that some of the very best officers are made from business men between 25 and 35 years of age. Mapy of these men married. To all such Americans, I would say: Tell your wives that just because you apply for these officers’ training camps, you do not sail for France next week. It may be a year before you leave this country and it is practically certain you will be here for at least ten months. “The women are standing in the way of much good material for officers. We must get them on our side before July 15th, the last date upon which applications for the second officers’ training camps will be received.