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MEMORIES OF THE GREAT FLOOD (Continued from Page 2) Red Cross has assisted everywhere. Profesor T. W. Atkinson has been in charge of Labdr Division, and local physicians have given services free. Plans have been made by the Ex ecutive Committee and everything has been done in accord with this plan. Mr. Holmes is in charge of Com missary and Mr. Hunter and commit tee of Ministers has had charge of re ceiving and providing shelter. From all over the south we have had a goodly supply of second hand cloth ing and bedding. Mrs. T. P. Single tary is Chairman of the Clothing De partment. Mrs. L. U. Babin Chairman Camp Committee. Miss Caroline Farrn bacher, Mrs. Henry Cohn, Mrs. Joe Gottlieb and others. Miss Morrow, Secretary at the Deaf and Dumb. Miss Esther Dupree, Shipping Depart ment, and Rev. Mr. and Mrs. Hunter are every where at once, doing every thing. Each camp has two lady Captains and four lady lieutenants. On Wed nesday afternoon the clothes had giv en out, and women that never brought a pair of shoes home from the stores in their lives, went through the streets begging and carrying old clothes. The Red Cross man came with boxes of clothes, others were received from dis tant cities, as well as Louisiana towns, and soon the room was full again. A receiving station for colored do nations was made at Mt. Zion church, and two colored women appointed to dispense them. They clothed one hun dred and fifty people, and with one trained nurse took care of the sick and saw that everybody had a bath and clean cothes. Dr. Singletary said it was the first camp to get in perfect order. Mrs. General Ogden and Mrs. Allen were in charge. I was at Ajax, the largest camp, the best part of four days. Ajax eon sists of Ajax. The pavillion a favor Ite resort of the negroes, a "knock up" of ten bed rooms, five hospital tents, the commissary depot, one hun dred and fifty tents occupied by Ital fans. On May 8th there were nine hundred people, not including Dr. Dowling, President of the State Board of Health. The Red Cross men, colored trained nurses and the Militia who took charge of every, thing xxept building, ete. refering orders to Mrs. Prof. Stum berg, Captain of the Pavillion, and Mrs. Prof. Walter Bynum, Captain of Ajax--cooking, shower baths, build ing shower baths, building, putting up tents, etc., and keeping order every where. In three hours a tremendous ditch and cess lgol was dug in the night and rain; in less than twenty-four hours something like two hundred tents. Electric lights strung across the grounds, telephones, a kitchen with five stoves, that proved not enough, now they have a perfect cooking and washing place. The place is clean, the floors scrub bed once a day, and everyone requir ed to take a bath and put on clean clothes. here was not such a large percent of sickness considering the awful circumstances. These were put into temporary hospital or the Sani tarium. I have heard tales of thefts and dis order and do not disbelieve them for an instant. In such a crowd what else could be expected. Government clothes and rations were also a terrible temp tation to the poor. By the middle and end of the week splendid donations begun to come in, and many Church Societies begun to sew, although ac tivities at the Board of Trade has nev er relaxed, and still they come, and still the rain pours down without much intermission. The sad tales of ruin, death and de struction are on every tongue. The exclaims "My God, my senses are leaving me. Our plantation is under and my husband and sons are in the water trying to get the cattle out." It is not to be compared to the wail ing mother who cries: "I saw four of my children drown." "My husband and my daughter and her little baby tare lost, I do'n no if dey is drowned or not." Another said "Oh, Miss, we i had to leave all de goats, hogs and chickens to be drownded, but my ole man he saved de mules." One woman came over on the ferry with all her earthly treasure strapped to her back --the sack contained four little live pigs. More just yet, and while we try to "smile a while" the hot tears come when a bundle is opened at Board of Trade and in it a layette all dainty and sweet that "Somebody's Darling" has never wdrn, and now it is for a desolate mother and an unknown babe. And babies: Teddy Roosevelt never saw the like in his life, if he had his I smile would widen like a southern crevasse. There are - now at the Deaf and Dumb, and the stork has simply lit on the house top too:tired to bring any. There are glad things among many, many sad ones. One woman at Ajax said "Thank God it ain't cold, or we would freeze, and ain't we had trou - ble enough." Friday the 11th of May. No one ever remembered such a storm. I was at Ajax, the only lady at the hall with about three hundred negroes, and three boys of the Militia. About two o'clock I told the people to get their clothes in quickly, it was going to rain. They could hardly run in with them before the heavens opened. Ajax is situated beautifully on a wide spreading hill, with many pecan trees. Suddenly a green glow ovespread the scene, at first I thought it was reflec tion from the pecan trees. The brown " tents were brought out in strong re lief, as well as several horsemen and I flying autos, already up to their hubs in water. The lightning played over I everything, now green now vivid yel low. The face of the earth looked like i a lake-poor refugess-I got scared. A company of brawny, wet giants came in from the levee. hTere was no hope for supper in such a downpour. I found out afterwards that no such ' rain had fallen in forty-seven years, or since the weather bureau was es tablished. And no way to get dry clothes for those men, it continued four hours. Out of the wild waters ' and lurid sky came the sound of a I hymn, voice after voice took it up un til its sweet san cadence seemed like the spirit of the storm, as Jack Tur a ner, Militia man who says everyone a knows him, played the old melodian, and I cut about one hundred paper a dolls for the pickaninnies. BED ROOM SPECIAL For Thanksgivig $1 5 Seven Piece Suite Walnut and Mahogany---excellent work manship, distinctive design---a value worthy of the occasion Join Our Christmas Phonograph Club $1.00 insures your getting the Talking Machine you want for Christmas. We carry only the very best standard Inakes, the Sonora, the highest class Talk ing Machine in the world and The Columbia Graf anola. Now is the time to make your Christmas selection. Mayer Furniture Co. 324-328 Third Street "WE SELL FOR LESS" NATIONAL WOMANS PARTY WILL WORK TO SECURE RIGHTS (Continued from Page 3) states and territorial possessions. This, the leaders of the movement think is the logical next step now that the right of suffrage has been secur ed, to give women full political, legal, civil, economic, educational and social freedom. In the carrying out of this purpose, a proposed amendment to the Consti tution of the United States has been prepared under the advice of leading legal authorities, and will be present ed to the Congress in December. This amendments reads: Sec. 1. No political, civil or legal disabilities of inequalities on account of sex, or on account L of marriage unless applying alike to both sexes, shall exist within the United States or any subject to their jurisdiction. Sec. 2. Congress shall have it power to enforce this article by Lt appropriate legislation. In conformity with the intent of this amendment bills will be inti~duc 1, ed into the legislatures of the various states as these bodies assemble. The suggested bill which will be adapted to conform to the needs of the indi ;idual state will take the following form: g Wisconsin, the first of the states to pass the Woman's Bill of Rights, adopted the measure on June 21 in blanket form, as follows: "Women shall have the same rights and privileges under the law as men in the exercise of suffrage, freedom |of contract, choice of residence for d voting purposes, jury service, holding office, holding and conveying proper ty, care and custody of children and in all other respects. The various e courts, executive and administrative officers shall construe the statutes; where the masculine gender is used to e include the feminine gender unless s such construction will deny to females 1I the special protection and privileges; d which they now enjoy for the general o welfare. The courts, eyecutive and r administrative officers shall make all o necessary rules and provisions to car ry out the intent and purposes of this; contract." e For the brining about of these re-' i. forms that will so change the status e of woman as to revolutionize eleven centuries of discrimination and ine quality, prominent women from ev ery state in the Union have banded d themselves together and are working s with the same zeal and singleness ofj r purpose that characterized the mili tant suffragists in their history-mak e ing activities. The chairman of the National Wom S an's Party is Miss Elsie Hill, daughter 0 of the late Ebenezer Hill, for 21 years a member of Congress from Connecti h cut; the temporary secretary is Miss I, Anita Pollitzer of South Carolina, whose activities in various states dur r ing the ratification campaign, placed d her in the fore of the feminist move s ment. The legislative chairman, Miss a Maud Younger of California, whose - card index on the representatives to e Congress is internationally known and constitutes the last cry in detail and e in efdiel*cy; research chairman, Miss ý, Sue White of Tennessee; political r chairman, Mrs. Izetta Jewell Brown of West Virginia; chairman of Fi nance Committee, Mrs. James Rector of Ohio; chairman Permanent Head quarters Committee, Miss Mary Win sor of Pennsylvania, all nationally known figures in the cause of woman. The most zealous and active member of the organization, is Miss Alice [ Paul of New Jersey, former chairman - of the old National Woman's Party, s under whose leadership women fought prison to the polls. The governing body of the organiz ation is the National Council, con sisting of 38 members, of which 15 constitute the Executive Committee. In addition, there is an advisory coun i cil of 150 members. For the carrying on of its work the National Woman's Party has es tablished permanent headquarters at 25 First Street, N. E. The purchase of this property, so admirably adapt td to its purposes, and so strategical ly located on Capitol Hill directly fac ing the east front of the Capitol it self, was made possible through the generosity of Mrs. O. H. P. Belmont, the well-known feminist leader, whose activities as well as whose contribu tions for the cause of women have been continuous and notable, who has given the sum of $150,000, the entire purchase price of the property, so far as is known, the largest gift made to the cause of women during the life time of the donor. The house is one of the most his coric buildings in Washington, known as the "Old Brick Capitol," the house was built by a stock company of Washington citizens to afford a meet ing place for the Congress after the iCapitol was destroyed by the British Iin 1814. The Congress met here from 1815 to 1819. James Monroe's in auguration took place here on the ter race in front of the house. After the destruction of the Capi tol No. 25 First Street reverted to its owners, and experienced the vicissi tudes of fortune that marked the fol lowing days of the nation's history. As a private residence, it was the home, in turn, of many prominent people. John C. Calhoun lived and died here. As an hotel, it became one of the historic hostelries of the early days of the National Copitol. In the dark days of 1863-68, No. 25 First Street became a Federal prison known in history as the "Old Capitol Pris on" where many prominent men and women, Southern sympathizers, were i incarcerated. Mrs. Surrat spent the i last night of her life here before be ing led away to her execution. Belle Boyd, the famous Confederate spy was imprisoned here. As headquarters of the National Woman's Party, this old house will be restored, refurnished, rejuvenated, re-born. It will contribute to history in a new and not less vigorus and unique way. As a club house for its members, it will become an embassy for women, a center of feminist thought, an international gathering point for women who are working for the advancement and development of" women under the new era of awak ened consciousness and, universal cit. izenship. Some valuable information to buy ers in the ads in this issue. SAVE THE COUPONS GET THE IDEA? YOUR GROCER HAS IT ROASTED DAILY Ret. U. S. Patent Office March 24, 1916, No. 19520 CAPITOL COFFEE CO. Baton Rouge, La. YOUNG FOLK'S DEPARTMENT (Continued from Page 8,) Johnnie and mother with th, bait, a tempting lunch, waited under the shade of a big tree till Jimmie and his gang came along. Johnnie called Jimmie to come over mnd mother seconded the invitation; the others thinking Jimmie was in for a lecture took to their heels, but Jim mie reluctantly came over. Mrs. Benton invited him to sit down, and in her nice way insisted he have some lunch with them. Jimmie was ravenously hungry, just as Mrs. Benton knew he would be, so to save him any embarrassment she walked away. While Jimmie ate, Johnnie talked about the pleasant morning he had, told Jimmie the interesting story his teacher had told him, and giving him a card with verses on it, he also of fered Jimmie a Sunday School paper with the lesson on it for next Sun day; he also extracted a promise from him to come to his home on Saturday evening and study the lesson with him, adding that mother had promised them a treat if they would study together. Summer gradually faded away and Johnnie and Jimmie became good friends under his mother's wise guid ance. Two fish were caught, for she ,y realized her own boy had only been nibbling at the bait. With the ring leader interested in higher things than breaking the Sab bath day, the gang soon got tired of each other, and Johnie, with Jimmie's help br6ught many boys into the fold of the church, and Johnnie, even when a man, useful and saved into the King dom of his Lord, laid it all to the day he went fishing on Sunday.