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Show MVomen Patriots of Greece Flock to Battle Standards By ryjIKN' of Grecte are raiiyuig to me W battle standards of their nation in (:VV a manner which dims by comparison 3leTen tbo Jjcroism of the mothers and Sffleisters of ancient Athens aud Sparta. From America scores arc returning, to tlicir native country lo give their ser: vices, if need be their lives, in earing; for tbu wounded in. bailie, feuppljius thq needs )f soldiers in the lield and Jidtmig iu every way in which a woman can iu B times of war. j TLcre are three women in New York Pcity why arc organizing these groups into porps. of nuiHCe, who will be in re.idiuess ,3ro iltpurt on a moment s notice for the Riieat Of war and home of whom will de-iS)jimrt de-iS)jimrt immediately for Greece, certain that i'tliorc will be need for export nurses. 'Tfrf The three women who are most deeply interested in tbi- work arc Mrs. Marie pI'Eqoiioinid, Mss Johanna L.vberopulos m and Mrs, Miltiades Mclachnno. Nut oulj 3$iiu these tluee women giving their time Jgand mouvj to the cause, but if they me 0 needed or if they feci they may be of Rtfnoic use on the scene ol w.ir Uiej -riuoi bititate to go, J Women deplore war," said MM jiLybuiupulos, "but sometimes it does seem, fecial It is an evil which may not be avoid-'?cU. avoid-'?cU. Is it not o'; LJccaiise we are en-itiiTlbusiaAtic en-itiiTlbusiaAtic now that war lm come ii nnial iifljui be thougut t n.i i w weKomu war. i ei-Klliups ei-Klliups Hie ory lieaMesl uosi ot o.iitle lb f borne bv women who loie Iiiiso.unh. ijjibroilieif ami sons. tfjSh '"lbe 'lurks are our i-miiile, and ifMlboilgli ne wu.U to see ihi-ui driven 1.:ick Hfroui our native land it s not in any JWiyoniuii'tt uature to augment or bilng aboi: fiiifXcrlnK. -nr best elTorts shall be given MjrAo tbo airengtbenlug and aiding ol oiir Ht'owi. armies .mil I lie ?olilli;r ot our llo-j. TObut there will be wuik lo be done for both tffiflhl terrible conflict. Turkb, O recks, bul- ganaiib ail alike wi.i be biiccoreu, auu (there will be no question of iiutlouulltv I among the wounded. At the same lime anything wv tan do to aid or checi our soldiers shall be done though it cost on.' lives." "There is scarcely a Greek family In this country," baid Miss Lyberopulos, UM . :v I $ fi$! ' '. & " ' MI55 JOHANNA Ly&CROPULOS " !"fiine iiieinbfr f which did not take I pari in or Teel the bittcrueus of Hie last jcouHiel with Turkej. Our fathers aud aBHBE9SHJBBHH our uiomers suneren miring mat war anil ihej I ought for Greeee. imcIi in bis oilier oi-lier own best wii.i. That is what we are going tu do. It is not fair that the men bhould bear it all." Mrs Marie Kcoiiomidy, who is one of the rurouiorti in the movement to orgauixe the Creek women who are returning to (ileete, is the wife of one of the editors of the PauheHcnic. a New York Greek newspaper, and is herself a noted Jntir-iial:.st Jntir-iial:.st She ireeutly made a tour of rbo j Ciiin-d Suites. (Hiring which -she investt-gahil investt-gahil the conditions of Greeks all over tin eouiilr. l'V.- this reason sbe fn-iiiilior fn-iiiilior with ihe lender of her count rj men I in all the large '-ities ol Ameiiia and is especially lilted for the work of organization. organiza-tion. Mm. Keonomldy says that, although the work of oiganizatlou bun only just begun, scores of women have already volunteered and are only awaiting the call to the fatherland. , We are proud in the fact that ;h" Greek.s nre a tuition of patriots." said I Mrs. I!conoiuidy, "and cmt.v man and woman feels that it is a privilege and a duly to Inc up to the traditions of the rnc. Most of us have been brought up lo c.pccl war and have lived in an atmosphere atmos-phere of war. Moth no grandfathers add no father and uncle weie soldiers who i-aVrifd searh of many battley, and all my life I lime known that sometime war would ionic again and that I would be tailed upon to piny my part." I Mrs. Mililadew Melaebrino is intensely interested in the woik of organising .nurses. She is devoting all her lime to Ihe work and Is sharing Ihe expenses. !Mrs. Meluehrluo was in Kgynt iu 1SU7 when war broke out between Greece and Turkey, and she organized several corps ot nurses and furnished the money to forward 'ben lo the Gieck iirnij. The 1 en lee-l trouble ihe women organizer" or-ganizer" aie having is in keeping Hie ,uitliuslani of th" women volunteers m i wise chaniiclx. Many of the women wisb lo embark immediately and oirer (heir services ns Individual-. The lender ot the iiioicMiipni do not fee) thai Uiis U i lie most t If cell vi course lu follow. 'I hey believe ihat oigau'uatiou will multiply line useuiinass ot tile women wlo go to jGieeee lis liuieea. Whole families are olTeiing to return to the falheilund, lbe men to Ugbt. the I women to nuie, aud the older ilnldren to help. In I ho In.il Greco-Turkish war scores tf women were killed by ncn-len' on ihe bjltlelields where they went 10 ja-.sist the wounded and-Mlle iate tiun sufferings before the lighting was ami-ally ami-ally over and bolnry the wounded cuiilil be leinoxtd. Whole fauiilics weie wiped out during the conllitr, but ibis doe not deter the women of the present generation. What I heir countrywomen did before thorn they are determined to do, ami .shipping olllcos throughout the ci t aie t?N : Jiii-tl with orders lor p.iMivv to the fatherland fiom men aud women alike. . I . . |