The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-08-25

10 days thereafter the regiment was mobilized, uniformed and equipped Little Rhody has several thousand men 1 fighting in France. Massachusetts and Vermont are giving each of their vol unteer soldiers $10 a month in addi- ion to his regular pay. Massachusetts has raised a fund to protect the health and morals of it's troops in the state camps.
 All over New England the women are enlisting as well as the men. In addi- tion to their work for the Liberty Loan and Red Cross drive they have public safety organizations and food saving movements. Many of these are headed by society leaders, and both rich and poor are employed. In Massachusetts the war work is managed by the woman's g committee of the council of national de- fense. It is devoted to food conservation, Americanization, boosting the Liberty Loan and to general relief for soldiers and sailors. Connected with it is spe- cial aid society for American prepared ness which has 100 branches, the members of which are ready to do anything from saving food to running automobiles and making sweaters. The state committee on public safety of Maine has subordi- nate divisions for cities and towns, con- nected with which are women's divisions headed by leading club members. In Connecticut there is a Home Defense league, known as Minute Women, and there are associations of farmerettes working in the agricultural sections Many of the latter are wellto-do girls who have enlisted to increase the food supply. They are assigned in groups by state committee. Everywhere there is strong movement to help out the merchants The women carry home their own purchases. and the motto, "Tote your own bundle and release soldier" $ to be seen in the towns.
 As to woman's work in making SUD- plies for the war, this is going on in ev- cry section. The Rhode Island shopgirls are leaving the dry goods counters to go into the munitions factories They receive from s11 to $50 a week. In some of the Connecticut plants the school teachers do war work at the machines
 after school hours. They receive high wages and materially add to their in-
 comes thereby. There are B, 600 men and
 women engaged in the woolen mills If
 Rhode Island and in addition to these
 200o girls.
 I have visited the industrial sections
 of the several states, and everywher. the women and girls are doing more than
 their bit. They are making speeches in
 support of war movements. In Rhode
 Island the wife of the governor has been
 talking from one of the tanks, and in
 Maine. Vermont and New Hampshire the
 women have mobilzed the children for
 various kinds of war work. In Maine
 they are eliminating the less essential
 school work to give the boys and girls
 more time in the home gardens. ThS
 children workers have been enrolled as
 the Green Mountain Guard;" and the
 boys have camps where they train for
 farm work in preparation for their em
 ployment on the farms. Vermont is con
 sidered a poor agricultural section. but
 the children produced last year 65,0On
 bushels of potatoes and 75,000 bushels of
 other vegetables. They raised 1000 bush
 els of beans and put up canned stuff 10
 the amount of 5000 quarts That lit
 tie state has 5000 boys and girls en-
 rolled in its campaign for food produc-
 tion and conservation.
 This matter of the food supply is be
 ing pushed all over New England. The
 country has been damaged by the story
 af it's rocks and abandoned farms. It
 has rocks, it is true. but there is no
 where on earth richer soil than that in
 it's valleys. am told that every acre
 of improved sarm land in this section
 produces annually product worth q
 more than any other similar acres in H.
 linois or Iowa. The value of the farm
 cent within 10 years and the increase
 7c"tirres According to the 1910 census
 the farm crops of New England werc
 worth S14l ,000. coo. and 1t excelled all oth
 CT divisions in it's average yield per acre
 of corn. wheat, vegetables and tobacco
 Much of the -tobaccq crop. of Connection. sssaissfor $s:ee . poundss tftllee pfo6bStf