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In the summer of 1918, the eight leading war-work agencies, excepting the Red Cross, were merged, for the purpose of one drive for funds, into the United War Work Campaign, and Bok was made chairman for Pennsylvania. In November a country-wide campaign was launched, the quota for Pennsylvania being twenty millions of dollars the largest amount ever asked of the commonwealth.
Prohack indeed was somewhat intimidated by it. Mrs. Mr. Prohack knew of her as a woman credited with great feats of war-work, and also with a certain real talent for organisation; further, he had heard that she had a gift for high finance, and exercised it not without profit. The whole Daily Picture world was aware that of late she had lived at the Grand Babylon Hotel in permanence.
Dec. 26, 1861. The foul weather cleared off bright and cool in time for Christmas. There is a midwinter lull in the movement of troops. In the evening we went to the grand bazaar in the St. Louis Hotel, got up to clothe the soldiers. This bazaar has furnished the gayest, most fashionable war-work yet, and has kept social circles in a flutter of pleasant, heroic excitement all through December. Everything beautiful or rare garnered in the homes of the rich was given for exhibition, and in some cases for raffle and sale. There were many fine paintings, statues, bronzes, engravings, gems, laces in fact, heirlooms, and bric-
For two years she has been nursing really nursing in France, and yet, though she belongs to a well-known family, her photograph has never appeared in the illustrated papers that boom war-work patriots.
As an American officer of high rank said to Bok at Chaumont headquarters: "The mind cannot take in what the war would have been without the 'Y." And that, in time, will be the universal American opinion, extended, in proportion to their work, to all the war-work agencies and the men and women who endured, suffered, and were killed in their service. XXXV. At the Battle-Fronts in the Great War
The magazine had thus practically become the semiofficial mouthpiece of all the various government war bureaus and war-work bodies. James A. Flaherty, supreme knight of the Knights of Columbus, explained the proposed work of that body; Commander Evangeline Booth presented the plans of the Salvation Army, and Mrs.
During her holiday the only form of war-work which she allowed herself to do, except the mechanical one of knitting, was to help at a railway-station canteen, which supplied free meals to all the soldiers and sailors who passed through.
'You have been doing them. Taking an interest in the farms, I mean and all that. 'Well, but Elizabeth's brow puckered. Then she broke into a frank laugh 'After all, that wasn't what I was engaged for, was it? 'No but you seemed to like to do it. And it's war-work, said Pamela, inexorably. Elizabeth was dismally conscious of her own apparent inconsistencies. It seemed best to be frank.
If you will only take up some war-work and I know you will, for every able-bodied woman in England is working at something; every superfluous woman has become a thing of value life will be completely changed. There is only one idea, one aim for us all to win the war. You must do your bit. It is just our 'bit' that keeps us sane, for without it we should have time to think.
'Don't, please, go away again! Everybody in the county who was at all responsible for its war-work felt the same. Her example, during the winter, had been invaluable, and the skill with which she had brought the Squire into line, and set the Squire's neglected estate on the road to food-production, had been in Sir Henry's view nothing short of a miracle.
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