Jasper County Democrat, Volume 23, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 September 1920 — GENERAL AND STATE NEWS [ARTICLE]

GENERAL AND STATE NEWS

Telegraphic Reports From Many Parts ot the Country. SHORT BITS OF THE UNUSUAL Happening* In the Nearby Cltlea and Town* — Matter* of Minor Mention From Many Looalitle*. GOLD STAR MOTHERS DEMAND LEAGUE OF NATIONS Cincinnati, 0., Sept. 20. —Gold star mothers demand the league of nations, according to one of them, Mrs. Mary Virginia Galway of Cincinnati. She appealed today to Senator Pat Harrison, head of the Democratic national committee speakers' bureau, to allow her to speak for the mothers whose sons made the supreme sacrifice, says a New York dispatch to the Enquirer. “Two of my boys were overseas,” said Mrs. Galway, a gold star gleaming on her black coat. "My son David, who was in the tank corps, is alive. My son Thomas lies in France. Who best can visualize those white crosses—the women whose sons aro at home or those whose sons sleep under them? When I hear • Republican women scoff at the league of nations I look for their gold stars —they have none. "I desire the leaguo of nations, for I resent other women having torn hearts. We may be braver than men, when it is a matter of physical suffering, but we are 'mere women’ when it is war or peace. This is not politics; this is humanity. It is not ‘expediency,’ but decency. “It is not a man-made theory; it is the cry oX. a woman. Surely those parents who cheerfully gave their sons and daughters that America’s glory might be untarnished will insist that the United States enter the league with colors flying.” Mrs. Galway, whose husband was a veteran of the civil war, having been in the Bth Ohio volunteer Infantry, received her son Thomas’s citation for bravery In the 107th Infantry after he had fallen. Another son is First Lieutenant George Fred Galway ot the sth cavalry.