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The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-08-15

A RANY women are wondering why lWlI the government is calling on 0V0 them to register for service through the woman's council for na- tional defense. This is particularly true of the woman who stays at home and the woman who is untrained ins any special line of industry. The question is also be- ing asked, Must l leave home if sign this card and is the service compulsory
 The service is not compulsory and no woman will be asked to desert her fam fly anu friends, and take her abode in strange places and do unheard of things unless she wishes to. What the govern ment wants is accurate knowledge of the woman power of the country in order that it may be developed and used in the most intelligent way. They want to knew what women have done, are doing, or can be prepared to do. The following is an outline of the plan to be used in carrying on the work:
 First-To gather up through the state chairman reports of work already on foot and being successfully done by women.
 Second-To send reports in brief to Washington where each state and organ ization in that state will be given credit for work performed or projected.
 Third-To receive and place through the state chairman any work that the government wishes the women of the country to assist in putting through.
 Tourth-To interfere in no way with or ganizations already existing, to duplicate no work which has already been done, but, on the other hand, to assist every where possible by interchange of infor- nation and by drawing together the heads of various organizations as to be of mutual help.
 Fifth-To register the woman's strength at the time appointed by the state coun- cil of national defense not only for the benefit of the government, but also for the benefit of trained workers who may thereby be able to secure more remunera- tive occupation.
 Sixth-To impress the men who fight with the idea that the women are willing to do their part and to serve to the best of their ability wherever there is need.
 The local committee believes that the Montgomery women are as patriotic as the women in any other part of the coun- try and they believe that the committee in the different wards on Wednesday will be kept busy all day enrolling those who are trained for some kind of useful work you cannot be q stenographer or trained
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-08-15
Ole Miss, you wouldn't call CT Man CT Hive Wire" ies' bercause everything he buys is-"C Charged" would yer? Oar now.

people regarded the commercial econ omy boards work as more or less inci- dental to war preparations, because it seems as though reduction of delivery service by retail stores has little direct bearing on the big work of war like the training of an army or the making Of aircraft But the contribution to war is most direct, and this board is further more pointing out to the business world one of the greatest opportunities it has ever enjoyed. There is something favor able in the public mind today which, if understood and utilized, will enable ev- cry retail merchant in the United Sta ties, large or small, to rid himself of business handicaps with which he has struggled helplessly for years"
 "As a direct contribution to the army, consider a few figures Mir Irwin said.
 There are at least 100000 men engaged In the delivery of dry goods, groceries, meats, milk, ice coal and other retail commodities over the whole country. For nearly every man there is team or automobile If the expense per man were $10 a day the total cost runs up to $600,- eco, 900 a year, or almost one-thrd as much as we pay for hauling all the freight carried by our railroads. Sup pose that service were cut in half by wise economics. It would release 100000 men for the. army. Most of these de- liYerymen are of the army age, and their knowledge of horses and motors makes them excellent material for soldiers am- bulance drivers and other helpers behind the lines. Besides the men, such a re- duction in delivery service would re- lease an enormous amount of equipment for war purposes should it be needed
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-08-15
Ouer $5OOO in Cash and Prizes Are Offered to
 Local Organizations
Every Religious, Charitable, Benevolent, Social, Fraternal, Union, Etc, Organization of Greater Birmingham Is Eligible to
 Compete in Big Campaign

ordinary course of events nothing for you to do except to save the sales slips wrappers, cans, cartons coupons, etc. on your cash purchase for a short time.l doing this yourself and inducing your friends to do so and voting them for your favorite organization
 Over $5000 in actual cash and prizes of intrinsic worth will be absolutely given away at the end of the campaign. First prize, $500 in cash; second prize.
 $l9So Studebaker baker scpsassenger auto fifth prize, $500 Columbia Grand Graf onola outfit; sixth and seventh prizes. respectively, a $500 and s2oo Edison talking machine outfits. These with other prizes to be announced later will make grand total of over $5O0o. Nomination Blanks A nomination blank for the purpose of nomination of organization is print l ed below. Fill it in for your favorite orgalO ation, either bring, send or mail it to lne National Promotion O.. -21o7 | Third Avenue, or you can call Main 166 and nomination will be taken in that manner.
 Now is the time to join-so go to work this very day.
 1 Remember, you are all wanted to compete-a warm invitation is hereby extended you-and understand it's all fair and square. for we have nothing prize. Read what the pastor of the church in Augusta, Ga, who won the first prize of $500 in cash in the cam paign there, has to say:
 National Promotion Co.,.
 Augusta, Ga.
 Gentlemen: It is with great pleasure that we attest to the unfailing court esies extended to us during the entire twenty aweeks of your campaign and that in every way and manner we be- lieve same was conducted in an ebso- lutely straightforward, fair. square way and we are entirely pleased and satis- fled it was a clean cut. honest cam paign. Yours very truly,
 WOODLAWN BAPTIST CHURCH. (Signed) by C. R. HUTCHINS, Pastor.
 It is suggested that the various or ganizations which desire to win the s5000 send in >their 25.o0o free vote Nomination Certificate printed below without delay and get in touch in per son or by phone 1Main 1G6) with the managers of the campaign at 2107 Third Avenue, where. full details and plans will be cheerfully given. | Only one free vote certificate.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-08-15

Miss Helen Haney of Louisville, Ky, is the guest of Mrs John W. Altman on Twenty sixth street, south.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-08-15
RANDOM NOTES

MISS Jess Weissinger, who is the guest of her sister, Mrs. Horace Wilkinson, will leave this week for her home in Eleanor
 Miss Edith Whatley returned yesterday from Selma, where she was the guest of Mrs. Edward Keeble.
 MT. Eldridge Reese is spending a few days with friends in Selma.
 Mrs. J. s. Carroll and two sons are the guests of MT. and Mrs. William Mon crief in Selma.
 Miss Margaret Cameron of Selma ar rived yesterday to be the guest of Miss Lottie Evans at her home on South Thirteenth street.
 Miss Elmer Maxey is the guest of Mrs. C.. J. Jones in Selma.
 Miss Margaret Nelson and her guest, Miss Elizabeth Williams of Charleston, $. C., who are the guests of Mrs. Eugene Turner in Anniston, will return home. to- morrow.
 MT. Windham Mason and his daughter, Mrs. George B. Crockett, will leave today for Tate Springs.
 MT. Jonh P Crockctt IS spenulng lew days in St. Louis.
 MT. and Mrs, John l.. Sims have named their little son, born on the 18th instant, at Huntsville, John Lewis Sims, Jr.
  Mrs. M. A. Vaughan of Woodlawn and her daughter-in-law, Mns. George E. Nixon of Greenville, Miss, and Mrs. J. Fall Roberson and little son. Fall, Jr., of .Cropwell, who have been viisting MT. and Mrs. w. L. Thompson, have returned home,--Selma Journal. Mir and Mrs. John A. Fender of Florida arrived in Huntsville on yesterday morn 1 ing, coming up from Birmingham with MT. and Mrs. Roy F. Ott, who had made the trip to the Magic City in their car.- Huntsville Mercury, The friends of MT. Jack F. Cozine, formerly Of Birmingham but recently student cA Ia University os Alabama.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-08-15
News of Society and
 Activities of Women

accountant you can do plain sewing or nursing of young children. Anyway, show your willingness and come out and register
 MT. and Mrs. M. H. Pearson announces the engagement of their sister, Laura Collins, to Mr. J. M. Johnson, IT,, of Bir- mingham, the wedding to take place in the early falL-Montgomer Advertiser.
 
 Last evening at the hospitable home of Mir and Mrs J. F. Fuller on Franklin street Melville Fuller, Marion Ezell and Joe Holland entertained in compliment to Miss Dorothy Butler of Birmingham, says the Huntsville Mercury.
 The honoree is a guest in the Fuller home and has been the recipient of great deal of social attention among the young boys and girls.
 DuriHg the evening hours, Daisy punch" was served and a jolly good time was had. The music was furnished by Mrs. Edwin Hall, who always presldes gracefully at the piano.
 The out-of-town guests were Misses Dorothy Bell of Gladstone, and Florence Shreve, aside from the honoree.
 
 MT and Mrs Samuels entertained in formally but very pleasantly Thursday ey ening in honor of their young guest, Miss Warren, of Birmingham, says the Selma Journal A number of friends were invited to accompany the hosts and honoree to the Academy of Music and later to Swift's where ices were en- loved. Included in this delightful party were: Misses Margaret, Mildred and Bes- lin, and Messrs. Jesse and William Wat lin, and Messrs. Jessie and William Wat son. After a very enjoyable visit Miss Warren left for her home in Birmingham today.
 In the Sundays Rotogravure Section of The Age-Herald a beautiful picture of Miss Maude Wrye, one of Tuscaloosa's s most attractive young women, appeared and was appreciated by. her countless friends in this city, says the Tuscaloosa News Miss Wrye recently returned from an extended and delightful trip with Mrs. William Roses party to Wash ington, New York and other points of interest in the east where she at once became a faverite with those whom she met and just now Miss Wrye is the feted house guest of Dr. and Mrs. Waits in Jacksonville.
 The Montgomery Journal of Sunday contained a very lovely picture of Mrs. Willis Harris, who will be remembered as Miss Margaret Newman of Hunts vile, who was the guest of Mrs. Rich ard Bowron Carrie Yates) last spring. and was delightfully."- entertained. With the picture were the following lines: Mrs Willis Harris, lovely bride of several months, who is residing in Mont gomery, where her husband, Lieutenant Harris of Company c, Fourth regiment, is stationed. Mrs. Harris is a handsome young woman of blonde type, and is vii acious and attractive. She was formerly Miss Margaret Newman of Huntsville. Miss Louise Ellis, a lovely and attrac- tive debutante of Fayetteville, Tenn, and Miss Mary Byron Frazier of Bir- mingham, who are the charming visitors of Miss Alice Adams at the home of her parents, Dr. and Mrs. F. L. Adams,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-08-15

Announcement is made of the in- auguration of Merchants and Manu- facturers Selling Campaign, to be con ducted in Greater Birmingham by the National Promotion Company, in which is offered to the various organizatons of the Birmingham territory over rive thousand ($5000) dollars in cash and prizes.
 This great Merchants and Manufac- turers' Selling Campaign is one of the most pretentious prize Iss ghsinsg fhs ssrt6 6am the $5000 in prizes, the publicity and exhibit exposition make total propa,, ganda of exceeding ten thousand (s1o OO0) dollars.
 organizations of Greater Birmingham the easiest. quickest. most pleasant with only the usual routine duties of every household simply done the cam paign way, the method through which these great prizes can be won.
 A commodious store at 2107 Third Avenue has been leased for the tearm of the campaign, where all products and participating firms will have exhibits and where all prizes will be on dis. play This will be the headquarters of the National Promotion Co. during the campaign.
 Purpose of the Campaign
 The purpose of this big campaign. involving as it does. many thousands of dollars in money and space. is pri- marily to introduce, push, exploit and sell meritorious articles to the public, to popularize the retail concerns par ticipating. but more especially to help worthy organizations financially. All the prizes are to go to organization in she Birmingham district, and are to be given in their rotation to those organi- kations securing the largest volume of votes. the next largest and so on.
 Any organization in this city or ter ritory is cordially invited to .partici- pate and win one of the several valua- ble prizes. It does not cost the organiza- ton one cent to enter, to compete or to win. It simply means that you buy and trade for the things you need from day to day, as you have in the past, and Tn fhe campaign wav and with inc pa re ticular firms and manufacturers there in.
 There are to be no strings" to this except what you spend anyway in the
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-08-15

NUR nations need for the co-opera- 1t J ton of American women in the
 enforcement of the maxim of economy is keenly realized hy the com mercial economy board of the national council of defense, and today in Bir- mngham a large number of the retail merchants will inaugurate the new econ omy system by asking their patrons to adopt the war time slogan, Garry home your bundles and keep what you buy"
 Our government needs men for it's ar- mics ana the men released from un- necessary service in the department stores will greatly increase it's ranks.
 When the commercial economy board a few weeks ago addressed q letter to the retail dry goods and department stores of the country, calling on these stores to restrict the free delivery of small packages, to eliminate special de- liveries, to reduce the acceptance of re- turn goods to an absolute minimum, and to limit regular deliveries if possible to one day over each route it was met with a storm of protest, the merchants declaring that it was Impractical"
 However, after the board explained that such economies in delivery service were necessary on account of the war; that they must be put into effect if the men withdrawn from delivery service and other store activities by voluntary enlistment in the army and by the draft were not to be replaced from agricul- ture, shipbuilding, transportation, min ing, manufacturing and other work that l.. x.-I e., 4t1 try, it assumed a very different phase and on July 10 conference of nearly 100 merchants from all parts of the. United States was held in Washington on the call of the National Retail Dry Goods association. Retail grocers and clothiers as we'll as dry goods and department store owners were represented. This conference voted unanimously to co-oper- ate with the recommendations.
 Birmingham was represented by MT E. B. Irwin, the efficient and capable head of the credit department of Ca- heen Brothers, and upon his return from the conference he immediately began to put into effect the ideas and principles concerning commercial economy, which had been drafted at Washington by the commercial economy board of the na- tional council of defense
 "A bundle in the hand" said Mir Irwin yesterday in speaking or the lnaugura- ton today in Birmingham of the new economy activity lis a badge of pa triotism. Self-sacrifice and saving are the two essential clements for success in the war and the customer who is not willing to suffer a little personal incon- venience for the sake of his country Is indeed lacking in true patriotism. It really does not mean a hardship after all, for the customer, but life for our country"
 For time" Mir. Irwin continues,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-08-15

plantation in south Alabama, will re- turn home today.
 Friends of Mrs. Sidney J. Bowie, who is i'll at St. Vincent's hospital will be glad to learn that she is improving, and will be carried to her home this week. Mrs. E. B. Vaughn is the guest of her sister, Mrs. Christian, in Greensboro, who will be pleasantly remembered as Miss Rennie Lee Head of this city.
 Mrs Charles Flynn and baby and Miss Lula Flynn of Tuscaloosa are the guests of Dr. and Mrs. Earle Drennen at their home on Twentieth street, south.
 Miss Ida McMullen of Greenville will arrive next week to be the guest of Mrs. ZelI Gaston for few weeks.
 Mrs. Perry Mccormack, who has spent the past 10 days in the city with rela- tives, has returned to her home at New castle.
 MT and Mrs Gordon c. Elliott have re- turned from their wedding trip, and are at home with the brides parents, MT. and Mrs. J. L. Barker on Avenue G.
 
 MISS f1eleH T1dLey Ol I4uuiSVtllS, hy.i is the guest of Mrs. John w. Altman on Twenty sixth street, south
 Miss Camille Dowell of Montgomery who is the guest of Miss Gladys Wat lington, is being delightfully."- entertained, several informal affairs being given in her honor.
 Miss Helen Rubel is the guest of Mrs Howard Loeb in Montgomery
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-08-15
Carry Home Your Bundles and Keep What You Buy" is the War Time Slogan of the Commercial
 Economy Board of the National Council of Defense

and great factory facilities that make and repair this equipment could be di- verted to war supplies"
 The commercial economy board, ike the national council of defense, of which it is a part, assumes no authority to order anybody to do anything, but it's mission Is to gather facts, diagnose conditions and make suggestions. Each community must be guided by local conditions so far as war time economies are concerned, and the four general subjects now under fire with the retail merchants are these;
 First-Reduce deliveries to one per day.
 Second-Charge customers for special deliveries.
 Third-Abolish the returned goods priv ilege wherever possible.
 Fourth-Eueourage the carrying of par cels by customers
 The women of Birmingham are asked today to cooperate with the suggestions made by the commercial economy board in behalf of our country whiIe at war; the merchants have been most kind and most accommodating, always complying with every request of a customer, by sending out special" deliveries, exchanging goods, and all other convenienees, and 1t would seem now when they make a re- quest of their customers that the least that can be done to show any apprecia ton whatsoever of former courtesies and kindnesses, is to try to do "our bit'' and more especially since it is for our coun- try and not for the individual firm or person who owns and operates store.
 The cooperation of the women of this country in this war time activity is merely patriotism which takes the form of consideration for others.
 Today the government feels that it has gone far enough in advising. The spirit of American business men and the gen. eral public has made advice productive of results. It is only necessary at this stage of our war preparations to make the situation clear and indicate how methods may be improved.
 The time may be coming when the gov ernment will have to go further in mak- Ing war adjustments of men, material food, transportation, fuel and other es- sentials. Then, instead of advisers in Washington, who study a given situa t1on and suggest that business men do this or that, there might be a board with au- thority to order that this or that be done for the public welfare.
 This all depends on the course of the war and the severity of the war pinch which may come to use in the months ahead.
 Today, however, there is no disposition at Washington to dictate, because there has thus far been no need of dctation. The cooperation of both business men and the public has been too ready. It is eager, and even splendid. The business world has sent it's committees to Wash ington to get. not merely facts about each situation. whether it was stale bread returns or what not, but to get the human enthusiasm of the situation that sent them back to their trade or industry ready to make others enthusiastic and bring them together to do whatever was neces- sary
 Then this situation has been explained to the public, and the pubiic's response has been magnificent.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-08-15

on Adams avenue, were the honorees at one of the prettiest dances ever ten dered visitors to Huntsville, says the Huntsville Mercury. The ball was held in the dining room at Twickenham ho
 tel, and the spacious room and parlor were never filled with more beautiful girls and matrons, and gallant young men. Dr. and Mrs. Adams, together with Miss Adams, Miss Ellis and Miss Frazier, received the guests. The grand march was led by MT. James Adams and Miss Ellis. Miss Ellis wore hand some dancing frock in black lace and tulle which was extremely becoming to
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-08-15

MT and Mrs. Gordon c. Elliott have re- turned from their wedding trip, and are at home with the brides parents MT. and Mrs. J. l.. Barker, on Avenue G.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-08-15

one piece trock ot plald
 question of clothes plus the question of serving the nation.
 However, the winter must develop as it will in fashions and so will the situa ton confronting thousands of women who have crept into public life for the first time and are therefore bit con- fused. The rumor that is well substan- tiated is that the one-piece frock and the separate skirt will have full swing this season, as the designers will give us good looking wraps
 With this fact comes the everyday question: Will the cape be a success?
 A CURIOUS COMBINATION
 The sketch shows a new kind of wrap that is part cape, part tunic. It was sug- gested by an old costume which was in- tended to serve for protection, a quality which the majority of women seem to have forgotten was the basis and reason for clothing Not that morals were in- cluded in this mandate, for history shows, quaintiy enough that the female only puts on clothes to attract the at tention of the male by coquetry.
 This wrap shown is of dull colored cloth edged with the same kind of plaid that goes into the making of the skirt. 1t is gathered at the waistline and falls over the figure like an overskirt then the top part is turned into an exagger- ated muffler
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