SPEECH TO BE DELIVERED
BEFORE WOMEN'S CLUB

x waht to talk to you today, not as members of this
organization but as the mothers and wives and relatives of men
who are serving in the Armed Forces;

I think this community ig doing its part in the war
effort. I think the women of this community are doing their
part in the war effort. We are buying War Bonds, working in
the Red Cross, giving blood to the Blood Donor Center, doing
all the things we are called upon to do, and doing them well.

But at times we have felt, and still feel, I think,
that we would like to do more, something bigger, more direct,
If you feel that, and I believe you do, you will be glad to
hear that we now have a chance to do that something more and ©
bigger - to do something that can be of great help, in 4 sense,
a direct help, toward making the war end sooner - toward bring=
ing our men back not only sooner, but safe, and Alivescecerecs

I don't know whether most of you know much about the
technical side of fighting a war - I am sure I don't. But last
Tuesday at a meeting in the office of our Mayor, I learned a few
things about that technical side which I think you will want to
hsar. The meeting was called at the request of Lt. Col. Donald
R. Hyde, Commanding Officer of the Sunflower Ordnance Works.

‘What Col. Hyde said added up to something that I never
realized before = that long range artillery is not just some-
thing that destroys and kills; it is also something that saves
lives, something that is saving, right now, the lives of thou-
sands of American boys.

Here are just two examples, both from the Battle of
Cassino in the Italian campaign.

Our infantry was preparing to attack the town of Fondi,

which was strongly held by the Germans. For the infantry to
attack with only their rifles and light artillery would have