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MRS. HERMAN H. HIRSCH. 661

but was afraid to resent them, as I ahould have done, on aceount of
the sutomobile raifle. He kissed me and put his arms around me;
he pulled me down on his jap, and he made every advance that a
man eould make to show a woman that he wanted to'do things
that he shouldn’t do, ¥ finally got loose from him, went to the
door and started out, and said, “Mr. Candler, don’t ask me to do
something that I shouldn’t do and don’t want to do, because I am
under obligations to you,” and I left the offiee ov those terms, after
promising him that P would come back to seo him again. I didn’t
go back, but on that visit he told me that he eouldn’t call me, that
T mnt call him; that he was a publie man, and when snybody
‘wanted him on the phone everybody knew who he was talking to,
and what it was all about.

The Woman’s Club was working es hard as they eould to try
to dispose of those tickets, but it seemed that $1,000 was awfully
hard for us to raise, It was suggested at one of our meetings that
wo try to get introduced at the Rotary Club at one of their Innch-
eons.” Mr. H. P, Hermance was approached on the subject, and he
said he would try to get us introduced, Mrs, Atkinson and myself,
to the Rotary Club, and ask them to take up this sale. On the
morning of the 5th of September, when the Atlanta quota was sent
to Camp Gordon, which was the day of thia Innebeon, on that mora-
ing Mr. Hermance called me up and asked me if I had best not
put off my visit to the club until the following two weeks’ banquet,
Because they expected to have General Swift and these soldiers
there, possibly two or three hundred of Aflanta’s people there, and
that it wonld interfere seriously with the business of the Rotary
Club, and they didn’t think they could consider it that day, but he
said, “Ti's just up to you, if you want to come today—why, do 0”;
and T said, “Suppose you wait until I eall Mrs. Atkinson and ask
her what she thinks about it?” which he did, and I called Mrs.
Atkinson, and she said, ‘I think that today is the best time to go,
because if the soldiers are there they would be thinking about the
Red Cross, and they would most likely he interested in the Red
Gross work by the soldiers being present.”

T called up Mr. Hermance and told him Mrs, Aikinson’s decision,
and he said, “That would be a very good thing, too, if you had
someone with some prestige to introduce you and get the attention
of those men in that way.” I eaid, “How about Mr. Candler?” and
he said, “Well, he would be a good one.”

T ealled up Mr. Candler and asked him if he would be willing to
introduce us at the end of his speech to the Rotary Club—no, I
didn’t, I said, “Will you introduce Mas. Atkinson? She's going to
make a speech.” His answer was, “I would rather introdnee you.”
T said, “You go on, Mr. Candler, and do what I told you, and I'll
give you a big hug the next time I seo you.” That was the only
advance T ever made to Mr. Candler. He immediately agreed to

lo that,

‘We went down to the luncheon and were placed near General
Swift, General Dunham and Mr, Candler and Mr. Timmons, the

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