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VOLUME XXVIII
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C O TTA O E
OKOVE
LEADER
COTTAGE GROVE, LANK COUNTY, OREGON, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1918
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NUMBER 52
WORK. THE COT-
THE WORK ALREADY
A8SIONED FOR THIS MONTH WE MUST HAVE YOUR HELP. A FEW WOMEN OF COTTAOE OROVE ARE
WORKING THEMSELVES ALMOST TO A NERVOUS BREAKDOWN IN ORDER TO COMPLETE THE WORK, BUT
THEY CAN T KEEP IT UP MUCH LONGER.
<v4 not her Plea for
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ers for
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Red Cross
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in c e m a k i n g t h e a p p e a l t o y o u l a s t w e e k
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branch
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double
THERE IS A VERY UOLY WORD THAT HAS BEEN FREELY APPLIED TO THE MEN OF OUR COUNTRY
WHO HAVE REFUSED OR NEGLECTED TO DO THEIR DUTY AND I AM IN HOPES THAT THE SAME WORD
MAY NOT EVER BE APPLIED TO EVEN ONE WOMAN OF THIS CITY OR VICINITY—BUT THERE IS ONLY
ONE WAY TO AVOID IT AND THAT W AY IS FOR THE WOMEN TO COME AND WORK— UNLESS THEY HAVE
AS GOOD AN EXCUSE AS A MAN EXEMPTED FROM W AR DUTY.
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THIS IS NO TIME FOR JOY RIDES, FOR SOCIAL AFFAIRS OR ANY SUCH NON ESSENTIAL THINGS.
IS TIME FOR YOU—YOU INDIVIDUALLY—TO OET IN AND WORK. WON’T YOU HELP NOW?
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SHINN, CHAIRMAN COTTAOE OROVE BRANCH RED CROSS.
L O O K IN T O Y O U R H E A R T
O.MK.\, mol her», wive* and sisters!
You who ail' doing no Red ( ’roan work!
Can you look into your heart anil say you arc fully
km i iafii*iI that you are doing your part mm fully mm your ho » ,
your huahaud, your brother, or the non, huMhand or brother
of a neighbor is doing his?
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F your hoy h u h In ought home to you some day with a
great hole torn in Ins body und was in danger of dying
lor laek of rare, you wouldn't let your housework or
fruit canning, or your berry picking, or any other duty under
the huh keep you from rushing to his aid, would you?
If your physician asked you to make a pad with which to
m Iop the flow of blood, you Moiildu’t say you couldn’t do it
hccauMc some other task would have to be neglected, would
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If your boy should be brought home just after you had
dime a hard day's work, you wouldn’t tell the physician that
you were too tired, that you had to rest, would you?
You would forget ubout being tired, would drop your work
and do everything in your power to help him, wouldn’t you?
You would find some way to get your work done and still
do your duty by your boy, wouldn’t you?
If the physician should sav that he wanted you to prepare
more bandages and more pads and make him a helpless ease
shirt for the morrow, you wouldn’t say that you had planned
un automobile trip, or a week's outing, or a paity, and just
couldn't do it, would you?
You would drop your work or your pleasure plans and
attend to the needs of your boy, wouldn’t you?
You’d forget all about the week-end party or the automobile
trip, wouldn't you?
If it were your boy, yrtu wouldn’t think o f letting a neigh
bor attend to the things that might mean life or death for him
while you went about your household duties, or idly held your
hands, or went on an auto trip, would you?
If your neighbor called upon you to give up some pleasure
to help her wounded boy, you'll never hesitate, would you?
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l r \ ODAY your boy, or your husband, or your brother, or
J your neighbor’s boy, husband or brother is in France.
Tomorrow he may be in a hospital with a gaping
wound, or a leg or an arm gone.
thousands of men are going to die over there. And unless
someone prepares the Red Cross supplies, needless thousands
more will die of neglect and will be buried in foreign soil.
One of those may be your son, your husband, or your
brother.
If you have sent no pails for him, no surgical dressings,
and all the other women of America have done likewise, he
will die for lack of these things.
^ oil would not let him die at home for the lack of your
care, would you?
Are you going to let him die over there because you arc
too tired from your household work, or because you have some
thing you wish to get done, or because you wish to take an
auto ride, or go visiting, or even because you are doing some
thing to earn some extra money with which to buy savings
stamps?
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\\ hen your boy is wounded fighting to save you from vio
lation by the beast of Berlin, when he lies in that white cot
in the hospital behind the lines, can he look at his bedshirt,
or his bedsoeks, or Ids bandages and say to himself: “ 1 wonder
if these may happen to be ones mother helped to make? I
wonder if these might be ones wife or sister helped to mukc?
I wonder if these might be ones neighbors back home helped
to make?”
Or will the tears come into his eyes as he soliloquizes: ” 1
wonder why mother cares so little about me over here that
she doesn’t help to make any of these things? I wonder why
wife or sister doesn’t help in making these things that mean
life or death, comfort or neglect to us over here? I wonder
whether they really care very much whether I die or not?
What was the meaning of all that simulated love when 1 left
home if they do nothing to help me to come back to them
again? Is my life not worth ns much to them as fruit canning,
berry picking, auto rides, social afternoons anil other plea
sures? Is this my reward for giving up business, home com
forts and future, and perhaps my life, to save for them the
privilege of doing the very tilings for which they neglect me?
Is it harder for them to do a little lied Cross work than it is
for me to fight cooties, to sleep in mud, to offer my breast as
a target for German bullets, to drag my weary legs Imek from
a long vigil in the front line trench, to stand guard until I
feel ready to drop from exhaustion? Is it so much harder to
give a little time to Red Cross work than it is for me to he
way over here away from all friends, living under conditions
I detest, suffering as I have never suffered before?
"O h, God, HAVE THE WOMEN FOLK TURNED US
DOWN AT HOME WHILE WE FIGHT FOR THEM OVER
HERE?
"W hen I am ordered to go over the top I can’t make the
excuse that I am tired; I can’t say I ’ve got something else I
want to do; I can’t say I ’ve planned a little outing or a social
affair. Why should those who have none of the fighting,
who are safe at home bqpausr of the very fact that we are
here, get away with such excuses?”
These are some of the thoughts that some of the boys over
there must think when they learn that only a hanuful of
women ale doing the Red Cross work here, when they read
the list of the names of the Red Cross workers w hich the local
branch purposes to publish.
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Some day they may come home. We hope they ail may.
Those who do come back will know that those who did Red
Cross work were the ones who wanted them to come back.
Then they’ll be anxious to know what mother, wife or sister
did. What are they going to think il they find that the folks
at home neglected them? What are they going to think of the
mother, wile or sister who didn’t make any sacrifice of com
forts to furnish them the things that were necessary in the sav
ing of their lives? Are the excuses that satisiy you now going
to satisfy them then? Will they seem good excuses to you
when you learn what the boys who come back think?
When they tell you of what the women of France and
Belgium suffered; when thye tell you of thw mothers who
prayed daily that their daughters known to be in the hands
of the huiis might die; when they tell you of the daughters of
France and Belgium who can’t come home because they have
been forced to become mothers of German babes; when they
tell you of the indignities from which you have been saved
because of the deeds of the boys who have fought so bravely
overseas; wheu thye tell you of the line behind the trenches
formed by the women of France who thought no sacrifice too
great if physically possible; when they tell you how the women
of France and Belgium took the place of the horse at llie plow;
wheu they tell you of these and a thousand other things just
like them, are you going to be able to look into your heart and
honestly say that you gave up all the time you could spare,
that you did your duty just as fully ts any other American
woman, or are you going to wish that the boys wqpld stop
reminding you of the things you could have done but did
not do.
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#W A E know of one woman who has had but two Sundays
V|7 off during the entire summer because of the amount
of time she has given to Red Cross work. We have
heard the husband of this woman say she has to do her fruit
canning on Sundays, and we know the good Lord will forgive
her for that. She has had no chance to pick blackberries to
earn money with which to buy savings stamps, yet she will
be expected to do her duty in that respect just as well as
others. She has hail no time to pick even the berries on her
own Imsh. We know of a number of others who have given
almost as liberally of their time. So some women are doing
their duty nobly.
Yet the appeal printed above and signed by the president
of the local branch of the Red Cross indicates that the women
of Cottage Grove as a whole ure not doing what is expected
of them. This uppeal indicates that mothers, wives and sisters
are leaving the care of their sons, their husbands and their
brothels to others. It indicates that a few women are working
until they are haggard and pale making Red Cross supplies
that will save the lives of sons, brothers and husbands of
others. It indicates that the few have neglected their house
hold work, their families, their fruit canning and other house
hold duties and have given up all pleasures in order that those
who should be dear to others should not be left to die neg
lected on the battlefields and in the hospitals of France.
Do you want your husband, your son or your brother to
come home?
Do you want the Cottage Grove boys, the sons, husbands
and brothers of your neighbors to come home?
If so, what are you doing to bring them back?
Are you showing by your actions that you want them back?
Do you think that your actions would convince them that
you want them back?
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F you have no one over there who is near and dear to
you, you have a still smaller excuse for not doing Red
Cross work, for in that ease you have given nothing,
while others have given of their own flesh and blood to fight
your fight against an enemy who would despoil you in a man
ner that would bring the tinge of shame to the cheek of an
uncivilized barbarian.
Those who have not given one held near and dear have a
double duty to perform in doing Red Cross work. If it is in
any way possible for them to do such work and yet they do
not feel such a duty, why should the sons of other mothers,
why should the husbands of other wives, why should the
brothers of other sisters shed their blood to save such slackers
from ravishment by the blood-thirsty, licentious him ? As Dr.
Lovejoy said in her address here, “ Such are no good to them
selves or to anyone else. Why fight for them? Why not let
the hulls have ’em?*”
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^ r ^ H K SENTINEL honestly believes that the reason there
is a shortage of workers is because the women do not
realize how urgent is the need for such workers.
The Sentinel has been informed that if 100 more women
would give one afternoon a week to Red ('.loss work that all
present quotas could be gotten out without overworking
anyone.
The Sentinel believes there are 100 more women in Cottage
Grove who care enough about their sons, husbands and brothers
over there, or the sons, husbands and brothers of others, so that
they will hurry forward to volunteer the time that will help in
bringing these boys back again. We do not believe that the
mothers, wives and sisters of Cottage Grove boys are going
to let our boys die over there because of neglect at home. We
believe that the women of Cottage Grove are going to find
that they can give up this little in time when it may mean
life or death to those over there who are so dear*to all of
them. We do not believe that they are going to leave an op
portunity for the boys over there to think that the folks at
home do not care whether they die or not.
The women folk at home are not going to turn them dow n!
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ERE are the boy's who are doing their duty in the service
at home and abroad. No one knows when any one of
them may be in need of the things which the Red
Cross provides.
Isn’t there one or more of these for whom you want to do
a loving act?
Isn’t there one or more in this list whose death on a bed
of pain would rend your heart?
Isn’t there one or more among these whom y’ ou earnestly
wish to see come home again?
Don’t you-want to see every one come home?
Y'our actions will speak louder than words.
They are doing their duty.
Are you doing yours?
Read the list and pandtr well.
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L. J. Ardite, Ross Awbrey, Robert Atkinson, Leon C. Arne,
Herbert Adams.
Otto Burcham, luster T. Brumfield, Chas. Billings, Arnold
C. Brown, Herbert E. Brown, Hosea C. Brown, Milton Burton,
Russell Bemis, Francis Beckstead, Dennis Bowman, L. C. Beebe.
Victor Chambers, Edmund O. Cudney, Kelly IL Cooper,
C. C. Cruson, Gray C. Clevenger, Bert Crouch, Sol Coffman,
Ernest Chitwood, 11. B. Conner, Robert Guy Conner, Howard
Cox, Rupert Coffman.
Grover F. Devine, John C. Devine, Maynor R. Devine, Reese
M. Devine, George Duerst, Lesion E. Dowens, Donald M. De-
Long, George Duncan, Judd E. Doolittle, Lake O. Davolt, Roy
DvsLarzes, Lester Doolittle, Harold Dugan, Stanley Damewood.
Clay England, William Edwards, Warren Edwards, Her
man Edwards, Arthur Elledge, Lemuel Elam, Robert Earle,
Charles F. Elliott, Urton England, Roy Ewing.
Kelse Fisher, Dr. C. E. Frost, George D. Foster, Charles
Führer, Charles Ferguson.
Albert Griffin, Marion E. Garoutte, George W. Gibson, Paul
A. Gibson, Leslie Groat, Abner H. Gilcrist, J. J. Gildersleve,
Melvin Grubbe, John Garoutte, Harlow Garetson, lrl Groves,
Everett Garoutte, Eitiery Goodridge, Antonio Goseya, Everett
C. Groat.
Jesse Hodges, Waldo Hull, Oscar M. Hubbard, Earl Hayes,
Ross E. Haynes, Floyd F. llartzcll, Harold R. llartzell, Willis
1'. Henderson, Carroll Harlow, Charles Harlow, Robert Lee
Hubbard, Ellis Harding, William Hakleman, Glen Hankins,
Norman Hawley, Roy Hands, J. 11. Hatton, Charles S. llall,
Hailey Harms, Roy liazelrigg, Gilliert lloge.
Elmer Isaacs.
Oliver James, A. W. Jones, Cleve Jones, Thomas S. Jackson,
Floyd Johnson.
Sam Keene, Victor Kem, Ray Kerr, Ben C. King, Carl J.
King, Harry W. Kirk, Will A. Kelly.
B. K. Lawson, William l.andess, Walter Landwehr, Charles
Lackey, Wade LeRoy, William Lunau, George Lammers, James
llenry Lancaster, Ira Larson.
W. S. McCaleb, Anson Morgan, Kenneth Mills, Clarence
S. Milne, Kelly B. Moody, Elwyn McCargar, Harold AlcCargar,
Wendell McCargar, Ralph Milne, Leonard Morgan, Angelo
Martinelli, George Matthews, Dorris Medley, John W. McDan
iel, Horatio Mosby, Clay Mosby.
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Ray Nelson.
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Wiley 11. Olcott, Olaf Olson.
Clarence Peterson, Wilber Pitcher, W. B. Patten, Dan
Parker, Norval H. Powell, Robin Powell, Virgil Powell, Earl
D. l’izer, H. R. Phillips, Homer Patten, Thomas Patten.
E. H. (Jueener, Thomas J. Quecner.
Walter H. Rasch, Herman K. Rasch, Marvel Randall, Vintl
Randall, Daniel Rentle, James A. Rentle, Raymond llinard,
Reuben Rissue, Bird Rissue, Arthur Kissue, Alby Ritchey, liar-
ley Ross, Luther Rogers, Dugal Rankin, Charles Robison.
Joe T. Smith, Harold Sams, Elmer Spencer, Carlton Spen
cer, Hollis Slagle, Carl Slagle, Lawson Slagle, La Sells Stewart,
Lester Sanford, William Skidmore, Charles Sharon, William
Southward, Robert C. Shields, Claud Silkwood, Robt. E. Simp
son, Frank Sears, James Sutherland, Andrew Sears, Harold E.
Shepherd, John Souci.
Murray Trunnell, Lee C. Tennis, Ralph Teeters, L. E. Til-
lotson, Gusae Turner, Harry Tennis, John Tullo.
Sam Veatch, W. G. Van Riper, William A. Vaughn, Eddie
Valentine, Chester VanDenburg.
Charles Warnock, Otis White, Albert Woodard, Lee Roy
Woods, Jr., Daniel L. Woods, Hiram W. Wheeler, Hally A.
Witherwox, Fred Warbington, Ray Williams, Leslie Wicks,
Alvis Wicks, Charles Whipps, Ernest Wyatt, Cecil Woolley,
Millard Wallace, (¡lend R. Williams, (¡illicit Wiseman, Dale
Wyatt, Ffnnk \1. Willis, Wade Watts, Delbert Wills, Nelson
Whipps.
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William Yancey,