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New-York tribune., 1918-05-26
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From the Woman Suffrage Party Weekly Bulletin

From the Woman Suffrage Party Weekly Bulletin
CITY:
Ten thousand women are to form a women's
police reserve, in accordance with the plan of
Special Deputy Rodman Wanamaker. Their
orders are: ITO carry on the auxiliary Red
Gross work now being done by the auxiliaries
attached to the different precincts; to discover
irregular and unlawful conditions and report
same to the Department.; to teach Americana
zation and civic duty, and aid in the Ameri-
canization of the alien element of the popula-
ton; to detect and report cases of disloyalty
and sedltlon, and set an example Of usefulness
and patriotic devotion"
1T IS announced that twelve women are to
serve on the force as regular police officers at
salary of $1,000, under the supervision of
Fifth Deputy Commissioner Ellen O'Grady.
:, Alderman Calman (Socialist), presented to
the Board of Aldermen a resolution to make
the old courthouse site into community gar
den This was referred to the COMMITTEES on
General Welfare.
This site, which is situated just north of
the Municipal Building was ACQUIRED for the
city by condemnation proceedings authorized
IN feDruary, 1872 at original expense of
$l2,O00,00O. 1t has been the theme of count
less political wrangles ever since, and sugges-
tlons Tor It's use have ranged all the way from
plan for making a parade ground Of it to-
the erection of model tenements and the pres
en-! scneme OF community garden. 1t is
GAINED that no monumental building ever can
be put up on this site because it has bot
tom OF ooze or quicksand. Estimates of the
cost to the city of maintaining this unsued
ground range from $1,000 to $4,000 a day.
without return.)
Bellevue Hospital makes the plea that its
budget is inadequate and asks the Board of
Estimate for $238,55O.
STATE:
The Governor has signed the Cowee bill. As
sembly Intro. -1O3, providing for the issuance of
summer vacation permits enabling minors of
from fourteen to sixteen years to be EMPLOYED
during July and August in mercantile estab-
lishments.
Among the bills which have been vetoed are
the wellington bill, repeating the plea of in
SANITY Sam as defence for crime; the Walters
Dill, classifying state employees among those
engaged in hazardous occupations; the Nc.
Laughlin bill, permitting the payment bv in
stalments Of fines for intoxication; the Martin
bill appointing commission to investigate
rural schools; the Meyer bill, making comnui.
sorry the school attendance of illiterar-. ~,
tween sixteen and twenty-cne
NATION:
The Senate has agreed to the appronrra... :.
o6ts60 0oo, 900 forthe housing of wSr purksrs.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-26

receive. He was told about ignorant midwives
Indifferent, underpaid physicians, crowded elm
les, where prospective mothers must sit long.
tlresome hours among sufferers from almost any
disease under the sun, to receive hurried, care
less advice from inexperienced students who
know little and perhaps care less whether the
home surroundings are such that the instruc-
tions can be carried out.
Few Doctors and No Money
This seemed inexcusable till he learned that
it is almost impossible to induce young physi-
clans to remain at this work any longer than is
necessary to complete their medical course, be-
cause they are not paid for it, and-a man
must live. And he was told how much money
it cost to keep the clinics going, and that since
the war began one hospital after another
is being forced to close its doors because
there are so many demands now on peoples
generosity-so many more exciting demands
than that which is made by the poor and help
less at their very doors-that money for home
welfare is cut off at time when the economic
pressure on those of little wealth is making it
more necessary than ever before.
Now, the employer of the little dead baby's
New-York tribune., 1918-05-26
Hoe Is Accomplished by the Maternity the Nv York Nursery
and ChiGS Hosbuu

show stillbirth occurring for every four
living births in the city.
But, said the employer, his wife had babies,
and his wife's friends were always having ba-
bies; he had thought there was no more risk
about it nowadays than there was in crossing
Fifth Avenue at Forty-second Street! Why,
the very obstetrician he was talking to had had
only two stillborn babies and one maternal
death in the $50 cases of his private practice.
And then he learned that it is the deaths
among the poor that bring the death rate up
to where it is; he shown the difference be-
tween the way the women of his class are taken
care of and the care the women of the poor
New-York tribune., 1918-05-26
A Guide to Our
Government
USE YOUR GOVERNMENT. By Alissa
Franc: Published by E. P. Dutton & Co.,

USE YOUR GOVERNMENT. BY Alissa
Franc. Published by E. P. Dutton & Co., :.
OIL Fifth Avenue, New York. Price, $500.
The government seems rather remote
'nmg to most of us-or rather it did until the
war came. Wheatless days, lightless even
angs, the draft, Federal control of railroads,
all the war measures that have been enacted
IN the last year have brought it close
now to the everyday lives Of TIE people-but
THIS has been mainly from the point of view
OF the governments authority.
). Alissa Francs book reveals the other part
u plays-not what it makes you do, but what
u u does for you. And "YOU means man Of
bbus'ness farmer, exporter, home maker, school
ment helps each one of you. This book tells
{vu now. The government needs your help.
lou cannot give it unless you know how the
government operates. This book tells you
Part depicts in detail the service rem
70 The crop estimates.
Fart II takes up the problems of the
,woud-be settler-the disposition of public
snds, irrigation, forestry and the geological
survey Part III is devoted to the man in bust
ness, and discusses in detail special work done
ior various industries.
Fart ~ describes the purpose of the De-
pAr,ment Of Labor and what it does for the
working man, whether he is a miner, factory
~auu, stoker, seaman or is just plain out OF
work. Part Y analyses the special work that
Soes tos on for the benefit of the negro-educa-
ssohai, economic, agricultural and home help
ior the negro woman. Part vi tells what is
oone e with the immigrant, from his examination
an x landing to finding him job and making an
& american Of him.
Part VII tells the relation of the govern
Y ;ment j to the woman in her home-the advice
II = = gives IN her practical problems, the nspec-
s M uon OF food and drugs and water, the service
.sndsred mother and baby, and Federal aid in
oceaining employment. Part VIII winds up
nth the affairs of girls and boys-their edu-
sSncn, their protection, their play.
4-,l ,Dld you know that the government would
sen you, what to put in the children's lunch
ss.s Doxes when they start for school, how to re-
mIOye Is9e stains from clothing, what to put on the
.iscnen floor, how to get rid Of water bugs,
WAT TO do to amuse the baby?
There is no one Miss Franc has not thought
s. except the Indian and the convict. So un-
Z ~ ~. your skin is red or you are confined in
s3sn n and expect never to get out, you cannot
zzsh g profit by reading this useful, well writ
sAd cpsnptehensiye little volume.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-26


that food for children is just as necessary as
food for the Allies-that saving the lives Of
babies is not charity philanthropy, but
as vital necessity for the existence of this
nation as saving the lives of soldiers-in brief,
that children are the Second Line Of Defence.
For what is the use in fighting for democracy
if we let the babies die while we are dong IT!
Why preserve civilization for the race If the
race must die, or even be weakened and de-
pleted for generations?
The cry of the children is weak and faint.
Europe did not hear it at first above the roar
of her great guns. She forgot her children. In
1915 nine soldiers of the whole British Empire
were killed every hour on the battlefield-and
every hour twelve infants under one year gave
up their lives in Great Britain and Ireland
alone and twenty-eight in the United States
But no headlines were printed, no service flags
hung out for them
Yet when England saw what happening
she made one of those Incompatible efforts that
nations are making nowadays, and the result
was that during the second year of the war her
infant mortality was brought down to point
lower than it had ever reached before.
For the past ten years our infant mortality
in New York City has steadily decned-until
recently. For from January to March 81,
1918, there were 266 more infant deaths than
there were for the same period last year This
was largely due to the coal famine during
which babies suffered not only from exposure,
but from the fact that all the rules OF ventla-
Are we, then, already beginning to make the
same mistakes that Europe's experience should
have taught to avoid?
There Is No Greater Work Than This
We are facing the inevitable results of di-
verting all money to the prosecution of the
war Yet there never time when money
was so desperately needed here for those whom
this war is being fought to protect and save;
for the high cost of necessities is seriously
affecting not only the vitality of prospective
mothers, and thus draining the very Ifeblood
of their unborn babies, but it is disorganizing
their home life by forcing them to go out to
work at times when ordinarily they would be
able to remain with their little ones and give
them the proper care.
1t is to be hoped that in October, when the
city budget is made up for 1919, the voice
Of the woman citizen will have been heard loudly
enough to secure adequate appropriation for
free prenatal work throughout the city. Mean
time you mothers who can afford such care
that childbirth means more risk to you than
crossing Fifth Avenue at Forty-second Street,
think of the woman west of Tenth Avenue
whose baby is dead because it's mother was un-
dernourished and could not give it enough vi
tality to make it live-think of her and give the
Nursery and Child's Hospital a few of the
dollars that have saved you and your little ones.
For without money the work of this hospital
cannot go Even it is turning away
sick children for lack of accommodations.
Remember: # soe do not heed the cry Of
babies our day of victory wiu daaon in vain!
New-York tribune., 1918-05-26
What the Law All0ws-Unnatural Guardians

with him wanted child to adopt and pre-
ferred to take one who was related to her.
The grandfather won the suit, the little
boy was removed from the only home he had
ever known and taken to a Western state,
and ''the grandmother in New Orleans became
a pathetic figure, her mentality rapidly weak
ening under the great grief of her loss as she
New-York tribune., 1918-05-26

wandered about lawyers Offices seeking if
there was not some way to get back her
baby"
Pennsylvania provides that if mother
helps to support her children she may have
equal rights with the father as a guardian
In Rhode Island only married woman who
has come from another state may control her
New-York tribune., 1918-05-26

during the first year of our participation in
the war 800, 900 children under the age of five
!, died in this country, half of whom could easily
have been saved; and it was found that of the
children who had grown to manhood and were
called for the country's defence from 80 to 70
uer cent of those rejected were unfit to serve
because of physical defects that could have
been avoided by proper care in childhood.
OF the deaths among children during the first
year of life 81 per cent occur in the first month;
and the majority of them can be directly traced
TO the condition of the mother before and at the
time the child was born. This death rate of
early infancy has remained. unchanged for
years, although the total mortality rate among
children has steadily declined
Safety First for Mothers
Obviously, then, the first step in the pro-
eramme of Baby Year is to begin taking better
care Of prospective mothers. And foremost in
the ranks of those who realize the great need
Of this work is the New York Nursery and
Childs Hospital, at Sixty-frst Street and
Tenth Avenue-the first hospital founded in
tFe United States for the care of young chill
dren, and now the first to extend this care
effectively to mothers in their own homes be-
fore the children are born. And it was the
death of little baby that started it.
1t was one of those babies whose parents
have not enough money to pay for the services
Of good physician, yet are not of the type
that takes kindly to the idea of free institu-
tiona treatment; so the young mother received
the Indifferent, sometimes fatally careless, at
tention that is only too often accorded to those
who cannot afford the best-and when at last
her little one was born there was scant hope
that either of them would live.
But her husbands employer heard of it, sent
for specialist, and had the mother and baby
taken to the maternity department of the Nur-
sery and Child's Hospital There the mothers
life was saved-it was too late to do anything
for the child. But the flight of it's baby spirit
before it knew what life was like has been the
means of saving many another baby since.
For it taught the employer of the babys
father things he had never known before He
learned that, although New York City has the
lowest maternity death rate of any city in the
United States even here there are more deaths
traced to the dangers of pregnancy than to any
ether one cause except tuberculosis and organic
heart trouble. And he was told that figures
New-York tribune., 1918-05-26

able to summon ambulance or a physician
before the case became too serious
After the baby is born, if it is born at home,
nurse makes daily visits to give after-care as
long as it is needed, under the direction of the
physician; and she teaches the mother how to
bathe and dress the infant. When artificial
food must be given the nearest milk station is
recommended and the correct formula pre-
scribed.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-26
px MARIE DE MONTALVO

The second year of the war
has been declared Baby Year
by the Children's Bureau at
w a s h ington; and it's pro-
gramme is to save 100000
baby lives that otherwise
would be sacrificed through
ignorance and neglect.
We build the structure of
our nation on the foundation
of o,,x Oh. Jx1,.s. l~zIxL ..A
New-York tribune., 1918-05-26
Every Child Needs "Mothering"

Even then the work is not ended for if the
mother is chronically i'll she must be sent where
she will be cared for, and the baby taken into
the hospital until boarding home is found for
New-York tribune., 1918-05-26
Where Livimg Things Grozv Free
BY BEATRICE WASHBURN

BY BEATRICE WASHBURN
M Y MOTHER said when she
I'VE There city streets
And where she lived the country air
Was all about her everywhere.
LI7HEN in among the fields she'd play
- Flowers blooming every day.
And, do know, for child
Thered be a violet growing wild!
n ND there trees f0O thick dark,
Just like the aIders in the
And Hfe winding paths show
Where happy child might go,
N/HILE overhead the birds hy
- Across the tree tops toward sky.
And oh, how happy should be
Where all the living things grow free!
New-York tribune., 1918-05-26
~ II1E NEW CITIZENS POINT OF VIEW
SAVING THE RACE FOR DEMOCRACY is WAR WORK

to everything from shoes to
ships, from food to free trade,
from guns to gasolene, accord
ing to the personal bias Of the
speaker. But DR.. S. Josephine
Baker. head of the Bureau OF
Child Hygiene Of the Health
Department, not long ago made
the startling statement that
b a bies are just as impor-
tant in this war as soldiers
Omaha daily bee., 1918-12-22

ships, and were used for various
purposes, but chiefly for supplying
naval vessels and army transports
with fuel oil from Mexico.
1t was further announced that
Mr.. Walker, Henry H. Little, ad-
miralty counsel, and Frank S. Mar
tin, chairman OF the board OF
supervising engineers of the ship
ping board, had been named a COM
Omaha daily bee., 1918-12-22

weight tons, were announced here
today by the United States ship
ring board. Only those required
for supplying the army and navy OF
the United States with fuel oil, it
was stated, will be retained by the
government. >
The ia tank steamships were re-
QUESTIONED by the government in
October, 1917, with other American
Omaha daily bee., 1918-12-22

gun by the Commercial Cable COM
pSny and the Commercial Pacific
Cable company against Postmaster
General Burleson and Newcomb
Carlton to prevent government own
ership of the cables owned by these
companies.
Harold Harper, an assistant fed
eral attorney, filed a motion attack
ing the jurisdiction of the court be-
Omaha daily bee., 1918-12-22

shevist forces near Revel, on the
Gulf of Finland, a Swedish fleet
occupied Esthonian waters, accord-
irg to the Lokal Anzeiger of Ber-
In. Berlin advices to the National
Tidende say that the British war
ships have not landed troops. but
have supplied Esthonian forces with
AIMS and ammunition.
Omaha daily bee., 1918-12-22

Main Floor
G HAVING Accessories, such as
~ Safety Razors, in all well known makes;
Shaving Mirrors, Lather Brushes, Pipes,
Thermos Lunch Kits and Rttles; Military
Brushes. AT All Prices
Main Floor
I UNIVERSAL Lunch Kits with vac
~ uum Bottles, metallic cases. Bottle holds
pint 400
Basement
TOOL Boxes, containing high grade
1 tools of standard make. Boxes in two
sizes, 26-inch and 33-inch, ranging in
price from 1000 to $500
Basement
DOCKET KNIVES in good assort-
ment, small and large sizes. Stag, ebony,
cocobola, bone handles, each 100
Pearl Handled Knives $50 to $50
Basement
STERLING Silver Enamel Links for
- Men 75c to 200
Sterling Silver and Gold Filled Belt
Buckles 1893, 2.9s, 1898
Main Floor
GOLD Gold Scarf Pins, beautiful de-
- signs, Genuine Canoes, Real Pearls, and
other beautiful designs. Special at 2.es
Main Floor
IMPORTED Silk Neckwear, heavy
silk taffeta and Italian silks, narrow;
also wide, flowing ends, in smart designs
and colorings. Specially priced $50, 1893
M EMS Dress Gloves, exceptional val
AVA ues, warm lined or unlined, in silk and
fur street Gloves, at ZOO to 500
WooIHined Gloves ESQ to $50
Fur Lined Gloves, from 7.50 to 1000
And Fur Gloves, at $50 to 1900
A BOX of Silk Hosiery for chin" is
"A sure of welcome and they can be de-
pended upon as to satisfaction; those in
silk, in black and plain colors, prices, per
pair 75c to 1.50
elk Knit Mufflers, and here is
- splendid thought for the gift shoppers
to buy them at below regular value Many
of these are samples and worth to 1000
Choice $50 to 49S
Main Floor-Men's Building
Omaha daily bee., 1918-12-22
Requisitioned -.ank Steamers
to Be Returned to Owners

New York, Dec. 2l.-Plans for the
prompt release from government re-
QUESTION of part of the feet of Ia
tank steamships, IS of them Pacific
coast vessels, with an pproximate
aggregate tonnage of 10000 dead
Omaha daily bee., 1918-12-22
U. S. Court Asked to Dismiss,
Cable Company'S Injunction

New York. Dec. 2l,-The govern
ment resorted to the federal court
here today to bring about a dismis-
sal of the injunction proceedings be-
Omaha daily bee., 1918-12-22

cause the cables were taken over by
President Wilson in furtherance Of
the war power conferred on him by
congress.
Argument on Mr.. Harper's mo-
ton was set for December n.
Omaha daily bee., 1918-12-22

mittee to take the required steps to
release the ships.
Omaha daily bee., 1918-12-22

Swedes in Esthonia. y
Copenhagen, Dec. 2l.-While the
British fleet was bombarding boil
Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1918-06-28

strictiye plans as effective as
possible no manufacturer or
wholesaler of sugar will be al
lowed after July | to sell any
sugar except to buyers who
secure a certificate from the
Food Administration indicating
the quantity they may buy.
ALLOWANCES FOR HOUSEHOLD
Frs
A retailer is expected to sell
not more than three pounds per
person per month to household
ers. All householders are re-
quested and expected to purchase
all sugar supplies from the same
grocer insofar as possible.
Households canning and pre-
serving fruits for home use will
be allowed only Is pounds OF
sugar for such purposes for the
entire season except upon specific
authorization from their County
Food Administrator to purchase
an additional amount. Canning
club girls and others canning
and preserving fruits for the
market can secure certificates
from the Sugar Division of the
Food Administration upon filing
a statement of their requirements
upon blankswhich will be furnish
led for their purpose.
1t will be seen by this plan
that there is no direct rationing
Of the householder. 1t would
cost the Government SIS, 900, 900
to put the householder on a
ration car and would take the
services of 100000 people to
carry it out. We cannot afford
the labor or money and if house.
holders will cooperate it can be
avoided.
Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1918-06-28
TRUSTEES SALE OF LAND.

Under and by virture of the power
conferred on the undersigned in Ger.
tain deed of trust dated the 10th day
of February 1915. from H. R. Kiser and
Mamie z. Kiser, his wife, to Geo. c.
Green, Trustee, recorded in book 262,
page 70, Halifax County Registry, the
undersigned will, on the 9th day Of
July, 1918, at IL o'clock M. at the Post
Office Door in Rosemary, N. c., sell for
cash to the highest bidder, the follow.
ng described land:-
BLOCKS NOS. l920-2l as shown by
map of Horner and Patterson property
recorded in book PAT, at page 346,
Registers Office for Halifax County.
Geo. C. Green, Trustee.
Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1918-06-28
CAUSES FOR RATI0NING

The extension of the rationing
plan for the distribution Of sugar
is the result of a number of
causes that have cumulated to
make the sugar situation more
difficult than could have been
anticipated even a few weeks
ago, according to statement is
sued by State Food Administra-
tor Henry A, Page to-day.
On account of the shipping
situation it is impossible to Sc
cure the sugar which is available
in remote markets and there has
been a smaller yield of sugar in
the West Indies. The domestic
beet and the Louisiana crops
have fallen below anticipation.
In addition to this, a considerable
quantity of sugar has been lost
by submarines.
As close an estimate as can be
made indicated a reasonable eX.
pectation from all sources of
about 800, 600 tons of sugar for
United States consumption dur
ing the last half of the present
year. This is based upon the
mainten ance of the present
meagre Allied ration.
This supply of 1000, 900 ton;
necessitates a considerable re-
duction in our consumption. To
provide three pounds of sugar
per person for household use, to
take care of our Army and Navy
and to provide for the necessary
preservation on fruit, milk, etc.,
will require about l, 800, 900 tons
of sugar for the six months. A
household consumption of three
pounds per month per person,
together with the special allow
ance for home canning, means a
reduction of some ESQ in these
branches Of consumption from
normal but it is still nearly
double the ration in the Allied
countries and is ample for every
economical use.
In the plan of distribution
which will now go into force, the
less ESSENTIAL users of sugar, =
that is confectioners, soft drink
manufacturers, tobacco manu-
facturers, etc., will be hit the
hardest. There are a number of
substitutes available to the con-
fectioners upon which no restric-
tions are placed.
MUSTN'T SELL WITHOUT CERTIFI-
GATES
In order to secure justice in
distribution and to make the re.
Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1918-06-28
An Earlier Civilization

The discovery Of a community house
probably a thousand years old In the
prehistoric settlement 80 miles west
Of Santa Fe, New Mexico, has been an
nounced by Mrs. L. l. Wilson. She
has charge Of an archaeological expe-
dition Of the Philadelphia museum. A
hinge sacriHcial altar Ii among the
ruins.
Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1918-06-28
More 70 the PURPOSE.

why In the world did yc' iid:Tse q
check for that fellow, when you didn't
know who he was7" "He hypnotized
me with questions from Shakespeare
"Well, the next time a chap comes
along with a bogus check ask him to
quote something from Dun and Brad
street"