Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-09-22
WOMANHOOD OF AMERICA RESPONDS
LOYALTY TO CALL FOR WAR NO

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Red Cross work, in patriotic teaching
in citizenship training, in thousand
kinds of soldier or sailor benefits.
Everywhere you see women and girls
knitting-in the theater, as they wait
in cars on the street, at the baseball
game, on the elevated" and in the
subway-they knit on socks, mittens,
muff1ers and a hundred other things,
SOME of them probably unknown In
shape as well as in name. Not only
is Sister Susie Sewing Shirts for
Soldiers" but knitting with the other
hand. Today at big golf match ]
saw one patriotic female walk around
the eighteen-hole course knitting on
a sock, and no matter how the crowd
cheered and the champions golfed, she
never dropped a stitch. She walked
in and out of hazards, up and down
deep bunkers, through all the traps,
with those knittins-nefdles flying In
and out, the yarn coming out OF big
bag slung across her shoulders. Can
you beat it! 49, -.
Some of this work may be misdi-
rected, some of it even foolish, but the
majority is substantial, sound and use
full. Instances of unusual things which
women are doing now to help the ma
ton at war are innumerable. Out in
Illinois a big movement has started
for simpler dressing of all school girls.
At Waukegan, ILL.,, the board of edu
cation has ordered that all high school
girls wear the school uniform" which
is a white MILDLY blouse, with skirt
of blue and white. The parents start
ed this movement and the shipper
school dress" slogan is becoming ma
tion-wide. In this way every girl can
do something to help the nation con
serve its energies.
In New York there are countless
leagues of one sort or another. One
which is gaining recruits fast is the
Green Cross Auxiliary of the Home
Defense League. This is a Hoover
league" which means that the mem
bers have pledged themselves to carry
out Food Administrator Herbert HooV
er's suggestions. They have adopted
HSdtISSS uoJ
plan, The Green Cross stands for
seltsa orificing and patriotic work at
home as the Red Cross stands FOR
seif-sacriFicing and patriotic wOI}. 4
tSe fTCHt. Green Cross wor1Cn T.. -.
Ell rency kits All learn fl
,..,-'; bat mainly their duty il il.
Tservation. The UNIFORM Is
active dress of blue chanbray
lite piqUe, with white caps
: ing like chefs cap, bearing
IL ,GTCen Cross. The organization
luoEs at c. needy families of drafted
untn, cares fc- babies, collects and
forwards relief supplies and promotes
lectures and instruction in home
The society columns of the papers
this week say that society will be sub
ordinated to war work this winter.
All sorts of bazaars and society stunts
are devoted to the raising of relief
funds. do not see that carnivais
and amusements are being greatly cul.
tailed. but they are being turned into
patriotic channels, just as has been
in the Star-Bulletin for the
Carnival. Everywhere yoc
urn there is a collection box-.-usually |
with a neatly uniformed and pretty |
girl holding it-for a war fund o:
some sort.
New York is the focus for the great |
activity all over the nation and mil
lions of dollars raised for relief-in |
which women have had an important |
1art-come here for use.