Arizona republican., 1918-10-06

conference with Miss Taft, head of the | knitting department of the national Red Cross. who recently left for over seas to investigate the mems needs. | Miss Taft assured Mrs. Heard that there was no truth in the report that knitting was to he abandoned. She saiG, that the new directions for knitted garments were to be issued after her return-by January first in all proba- bility. Mrs. Heard was informed that the knitted garments belonging to the men in the cantonments that were packed away for the summer were to be returned in the autumn and that those collected in the warehouses were to be shipped to France before cold weather. Every man going overseas is allowed. one each of knitted articles in addition to a comfort kit, says Mrs. Heard. He is permitted to take his own, but if he has none he is supplied. The government is supplying a woolen trench cap which is fastened inside the helmet, but the muffler used last year is one of the articles the manu- facture of which is being discouraged.
 The young folk will extend their ac- tivities in the Red Cross this year and will receive their directions from Mrs Garrett Schullar, who has been named as chairman of the Junior auxiliary. Every one is agreed that in the selec- ton of Mrs. Schullar the Red Cross has made an excellent choice Her ex-
 ecutive ability. tact and good judg- ment will unquestionably bring the
 junior work up to the standard of the variaus other branches of the chapter
 which has been so successful under the chairmanship of Mrs. James.
 The edict has gone forth that there
 will be no society events this year save
 of the most informal character. The
 Country club round which gayety has
 centered for the past few years has
 placed the ban of disapproval on any
 but the most informal entertaining
 and will confine it's own affairs ex- l clusively to club members. The sports
 will, of course, continue. There will
 be tennis and golf which recalls the
 fact that the government recognizes
 golf as one of the best of exercises and
 is putting in links al the different can comments throughout the country.
 There isn't any doubt but that with the
 club open the members will gather
 often for an occasional dinner after an afternoon on the links and tennis lunCHeOuS WILL no uOuDL IGdluTe Il1e calendar. Strenuous war work can not be kept up necessarily for the best | interests of the work and the workers and maids and matrons will eagerly
 welcome a bit of recreation in the way ! of sports and an occasional dinner fol- | loweG by bridge. A dance seems rather 1 out of the question where the younger | set is concerned because there is prac- ] tically not one young man left in the | city There will be benefit events given by the different clubs and or | ganizations for various war causes 1 there will be the Red Cross tea room
 with it's inviting tables of bridge and
 there will be a thousand and one things ! that will tend to make the winter a | busy one enjoyable and at the same | time worth while.
 A booking agency where local so- cety amateurs will register for wal benefit service Is the patriotic pre- | pareGness plan of William Wickersham
 which will unquestionably meet with | the cooperation of every clever anna
 teur in the city. Mir. Wickersham was
 more than generous in offering him. self and the Wickersham ballet foI every entertainment given last season
 that was for a war cause. Not sat isfied with doing his bit in this manner | he has now conceived the very clever