Show RAY COX BILLY SUNDAY OF STAGE GIVES UP LUXURIES TO AID SOLDIERS New ew v e York July 14 14 Mrs rs Harvey J. J Flint nationally known through h her stage work as Ita Ray Hay COY Cox 1 Is I leaving her two model farms her husband of or a afew few fw months his racing yachts and a score of or well earned luxuries of ot lIeto life lIe to aM all the tho soldiers She he expects to go o overseas with the overseas entertainment entertainment entertain entertain- ment bureaus bureau's first unit Miss Coxs Cox's forceful way a of oC- talking and her Chris Chrls- spirit have earned her the title of oC the o of tho the Billy Sunday Sunda Stage e. e Miss Iss Cox engineered the campaign campan which made the booth of or the thc stage women's war relief reller committee In front of or the pu public library the banner booth of ct the city and she sho broke the time record for Individual sales Into that booth and the tue committees committee's traveling theatre the tidy sum of was raked rake from roni the time street Asked how she managed to accomplish accomplish such tremendous results In the Liberty loan campaign campal n she said When hen you ou are ale a as I T am and find yourself confronted with a aJob aJob Job joh V you rou go o ahead and do It It Of or myself myself my my- self I couldn't have ha done lone what I did Gods God's power Is always there for the time asking askins and I believe In appropriating it It I think we ought to put Into Ills His worl every atom of or our ability Now of or all things we ought to give gl our best Then Thon she explained that a tary reason for or her tier success as a Liberty Liberty Liberty Lib Lib- erty loan campaigner was because tho work afforded the first complete and absolutely a congenial con role she ever er had All 11 With One AimI tim Aim timI ImI I got Jot m my first big personal sense of or country and of ot humanity with that sea of ot faces In front o of me and no footlights between she t taid There we e were welo all together with a tremendous dous Job between us I for forgot ot to be afraid because I wasn't an orator I Ineer never ne dreamed that I could hold a street crowd clowd The experience became so fascinating ng- ng that I r used to be embarrassed em em- when someone would scold me for or not going to lunchI lunch I I feel teel tremendously grateful about the whole thing Another could have done lone what I did but nothing else could have ha done lone BO so much for tor me Tho The work worl brought me closer to God to country to humanity and to the splendid splendid did women In m my own profession 4 If I hadn't believed in immortality before the war would have given me inc faith We are at tho the primal and we have ha to go o back to God I cant can't Ima Imagine Imag imag- Inc ine what people will be saying saying- years ears from froni rom now We e dont don't realize how big biJ this thing thing- I the thc the best people on ott onearth onearth earth offering er e everything they the have to make tIle the world beautiful and the future free tree Miss Cox was ivas born orn III In Louisiana Into what hat looked like the thc lap of ot luxury But the luxury didn't last long The pride of or an aristocratic old Virginia family shines In her bet eyes It was ns there when her parents patents owned some of or the most valuable property prop rt in the heart of or Chicago an and although she was only a little girl at the time It t t took ok on on a a. brighter low q-low at t er- er erst st the family tort fortune fortin n and aiM died cd V Never for a moment did Tiny Ray Cox feel sorry for herself But she dl did feel sorry for rOl her mother who was not accustomed to the buffeting of oC fate tate V i V V V V 1 V V E V. V i V V V v Ij Ij'S S 'S r I 1111 d 1 I Mrs Harvey J. J Flint formerly Ray Cox and she sIte was solicitous about t her hOI little sister For their sakes akes' she Just lad bad to succeed S Took rook Care of or All Ray nay Cox hall hail the satisfaction of oC seeIng seeing see see- ing lug her mother spend her last fast years ears earsIn In n R New Nc York apartment that compared compared com corn pared favora favorably l with the the V ancestral Virginia home She saw her bet little sister sister sister sis sis- V ter through school and onto the theand stage stae and once In a a. while she goes to the Winter inter Garden to see Hazel Cox Cox Cox- V who no lon longer cr needs a a big lg sisters sister's care And th then n t to cat cap the the climax alt after r h her ci- ci task ya ori S married l llast ast last December e ember b it a wealthy wealth young sportsman ll Harvey J J II Flint The They have n a acre C farm lm at at Hope Valley Valle- R n. n 3 1 There are 50 cattle hO hogs 8 and I 1200 OO he liens hens s there This Tills and another farm farm- arm arc are being run at top lop speed for the government o Much luch of or ortho I tho farm arm aim work Is done dono by oxen and when TIa Ray flay Cox was in a mood for or di diversion diversion diversion di- di version before she volunteered for overseas wor work she he hc would put In a ten- ten hour day Ilay driving an ox team and gathering eggs or swimming and running running running run run- ning one o of her husbands husband's racing boats at t Shelter Island Going to Europe in the thc overseas unit meant the thc biggest est problem Miss Cox ever e had to face ace She thought ht a bride shouldn't leave her husband But they are are pl pledged not to oppose each other in anything and after he ha realized that she was especially qualified the question question ques ques- tion was settled She hopes to ba be G. G back In time to pitch Into the thc next Liberty oan oan campaign |