Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 184, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 August 1919 — Wouldn’t Stand for It. [ARTICLE]

Wouldn’t Stand for It.

I’.y way of providing a little exercise for its hundreds of girl employees, officers of the ordnance corps in Washington-arranged last summer a series of daily military drills for the fair- young war workers. It was a great success until a girl, who hadn't left her dignity behind when she went to the capital from Peoria, protested to a group of her mates that she hadn’t given all to the government when it needed her, just to be Insulted. “I'm a lady,” she said, “and I don’t propose to stand in line out there and have anybody —even if he is an otli< er ami has a gold bar on his shouldercall me fresh names. I'm surprised that you girls stand it.” “Why. what’s • he_jimt ter. Fthel ?” one of her surprised friends demanded. “I was with you all afternoon, and I didn’t see a Thing out of the way. Everything was perfectly lovely." “Lovely!" Ethel cried. “Lovely.! Didn’t you hear that lieutenant stand there and yell ‘Squabs right . and ‘Squabs left!’ every few minutes? Nobody can call me a squab and get away with it'.”—San Francisco C hronicle.