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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-05-18
Two and Half Million Club Women Work to Help Win War

training camp activities. 1t is Presi-
dent Wilson's opinion that comfortable
rest and recreation houses can be pro-
vided in the south of France for the
men on furlough and If Mr.. Fosdick's S
Investigations on the ground prove that
this is feasible, ii is in that romantic
and beautiful section of France that the
main portion of the clubwomen's
"blighty" will be established "over
there"
Another question bearing to a large
degree upon wars necessity is the in
teresting movement for a standardized
form of dress for women, which will be
presented more urgently than it has
ever been presented before to the wom-
en- of this country at the coming BIZ
ennial. This advocates no uniform or
anything likened to uniform, but the
idea presented recommends a basic
dress pattern which will serve every
woman for every costume in her ward
robe, her originality and preference to
be given full scope in adapting the
standardized pattern to the various
modes in which 1t may be employed.
Clubwomen who have taken up the
standardized dress idea as a measure of
conservation of time, thought and
money are among the best gowned-
women in the country, according to the
federation idea. The scheme is present.
ed as measure of war and after war
economy, which the clubwomen advo-
eating IT are Introducing to their sisters
at this time
Referring to the measure. Mrs.
Cowles said; Has the time not come
for us to definitely proclaim and take
our stand in favor of standardization of
dress for women? This need not imply
a uniform, nor that we shall all look
exactly alike; rather that certain rules
must be obeyed. certain principles
known and followed, while individual
adaptation is made 1t ought to mean
more beauty as well as more freedom
for actual expression of ourselves. In
the solution or this problem 1t will be
necessary to have the mutual under
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-05-18

standing and cooperation of those who
design, make, sell and wear garments"
The question OF food production ana
conservation among women allied with
the General Federation Of Women's Clubs
is matter of pride with Mrs. Cowles.
when war was proclaimed year ago
we were holding a council meeting in
New Orleans" she says. "By April IL
we had war emergency food pledge
made and distributed and in many cases
signed" This pledge reads: ~
I'm view, of the military necessity of
conserving the food supply of the nation,
hereby pledge myself to do my bit
as follows: l will use only those amounts
of food required for adequate nourishment.
will endeavor to control waste in all
kinds of material in the household. and to
live simply. | will begin now"
Through the state federation chairmen
we had these pledges scattered all over
the country, and they served as a most
valuable conservation purpose in many
thousands of households before the food
administration was formed" continued
tablished by the government and issued
it's cards the federation relinuuished its
individual pledge to cooperate in the
national movement.
4
'It is an interesting fact, however, that
supplementary to our federation food
pledge our home economy department is
sued a mastery little bulletin. entitled
What Is Adequate Nourishment? In this
useful brochure our daily food supply is
treated briefly intellgently and in under
standable FORM,
"In my opinion the General Federation
of Womens Clubs is a more intensely ac-
tive organization than any other in the
world. and It stands as one of the strong
est moral forces our country possesses As
another instance of this activity as we'll
as its desire for the national welfare. was
t''e ,eeSsa re aent to the White House s-y
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-05-18
Special Correspondence
IVA SuINGTON n

WASHINGTON, ID. Cs 1919
70 7HEN the representatives of
NAV the 2,5OO,OOO women affiliated
\W\W with the General Federation
of Women's Clubs meet at
their fourteenth biennial convention at
Hot Springs. Ark, on April 29. it is
their hope to bring to that meeting the
quarter of a million dollars which it
has been the mission of a group of
their members to collect for a definite
war purpose.
The corps of women selected for this
work is known as the war victory COM
mission They represent every section
of the country. and the fund they are
raising is to be spent for military re-
creational houses, dispensaries and
other war relief work for the American
tion's project which loomed largest I'm
the mind of it's president, Mrs Josiah
Evans Cowles. at the board meeting
held recently at Hot Springs. Va.
Every member of the board present
at that record-making meeting was
deeply impressed with the opportunity
and necessity of making this supreme
effort for the men and boys so dear to
the hearts of American womanhood,"
said Mrs. Cowles in talking of this big
united project of all the women of all
the clubs in the general federation.
I'VE do not blind our eyes to the calls
upon calls, and yet more calls, that
have been made and will be made upon
our time. our talents and our pocket
books, but we Will not be excused for
failing to meet this great need which
has developed from the mobilization of
our Army and its work across the sea-"
Mrs. cowles explained that the plans
for the recreation houses in France will
be left to the judgment of Raymond D.
Fosdick. Chairman of the committee on
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-05-18
In Paris
lJT uMoRIsT RING IARpNER said OF

TT UMoRIsT RING LARDNER said on
u u his return from Paris: ~
Restaurant prices in Paris are ter
rtble.. In the best restaurants a meal
will cost you quite S.. And at that you
WON'T get enough to eat. as
Everybody is always hungry. Imet
pretty girl In the Rue de la, Paix the
other morning. She was wearing one of
those new barrel-shape ped capes, and
com pplimented her on her. appearance.
enough to! eat
IT do eat she said eagerly. Where
shall we .go-Raillards or Larue's-or,
better still, both places?,"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-05-18

human efficiency. "The two great OBJ
jects in our departments of work In
this time of war are: First, to be of the
utmost service in time of need; second,
and quite as important, to keep alive
In every community the sense of law
and order, and to preserve the security
OF the permanent elements that must
rebuild society when the tumult of war
is past.
Whatever we do must be construc-
tive in purpose and help in reconstruc-
tion processes. The development and
conservation of human efficiency is
fundamentally concerned with food
conservation. The term conservation
as used in conjunction with the work
must in no way be limited to the de-
partment of our work termed 'conser-
vation, which up to this time has
dealt solely with the natural resources
of the country. -
"Our department of home economics
is defined as that group which deals
with the development and conservation
of human efficiency; public health
preserves IT; legislation protects it;
civil service reform provides the right
machinery for its protection; 'educa=
ton presents the means by which we
do things well; industrial and social
conditions seek to provide the right
environment or condition for the de-
velopment of human efficiency, and the
department of 'civlcs' applies and To-
calizes results.
Our department of literature and
library extension provides the medium
of communication, disseminates the re-
suits of study and Investigation, and
gives the inspiration; art and music
also lend inspiration, seeking to beau
tify the common deeds The 'conser-
vation' department has to do with the
preservation, and intelligent use of raw,
materials, the natural resources of the
land. .ft.. tN 7.
Food production and conservation,
as we cover the question in our various
departments, is not. merely narrow
agricultural project. 1T goes on to
erystion eresonS % SOL s .Wsse sgePso ssppo; p.ss d
drainage: Transportation ofsfood carr
ries up into the realm of road making,
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1918-09-25
About Saving Daylight.

Omaha, Sept. 21.-To the Editor
of The Bee: For one / think the
members Of congress made a mis-
take in compelling us to push our
clocks forward, and for one I think
the sooner that law is repealed the
better it will be for all of us
Where / have found ooe who IA
vors the very unnecessary change
have found more than 100 who OK
press disapproval of this law. 1t
makes most Of US lose sleep when it
is the most necessary, and what we
may possibly gain in time we lose
in lack Of sleep at the right time.
The only ones who gain by the
change so far as I can see are the
players Of golf, called irreverently
by some Cow pasture pool the
hammock loungers and the automo-
bile speeders.
Most people who have work to do
fer living do not like the new plan.
AS | stated some months ago, the
best time for garden work is in the
cool of the morning. In this hot
climate in the summertime garden
work in the middle of the afternoon
Is more harmful than beneficial. If
the members Of congress, who sit
on their easy seats and pass laws
sometimes that are not beneficial to
the great mass of the people, want to
monkey with the timetable, let them
amend the law by compelling us TO
push the clocks back an hour, so we
will have more time to do our gar
den work in the cool of the morn
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1918-09-25
Be Square With Uncle Sam.

A wholesome sermon may be extracted from
the experience OF the Los Angeles family whose
men folks sought to evade the draft, and whose
women folks sought to aid them in so doing
Brought back from Venezuela as prisoners, after
series of adventures with the law and other
wise that makes movie plot seem insipid, these
recalcitrant and unworthy citizens find them
selves now confronted by the government they
undertook to defraud. Whatever the outcome
of the case, they have only their trouble for
their pains. Uncle Sam asked the services of
the three sons in return for all the advantages
they and their relatives had enjoyed as citizens
of the United States. Instead of settling the
claim, as did millions of others, this outfit tried
to dodge it, and disaster has now overtaken
them. Worse, it is accompanied by dishonor
The plain moral is that it pays to be on the
square with the government
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1918-09-25
Both Ends to the Middle.

The Omaha Hyphenated on Friday Of last
week attacked S. R. McKeve because of his
criticism of democratic tax methods and ex-
travagance in management of the state govern
ment. To explain the great increase in appro-
priations under democratic days, the wobbly Or
gan jubilantly pointed out that 100000 year
for six years had been set apart as special levy
for the University of Nebraska. All right Four
days later the same organ devotes portion of
its front page to abusing Mr.. McKelvie because
he tried in 1911 to get through the legislature
an appropriation for the university. The differ
ence was that Mr.. McKeve wanted to put the
institution on land owned by the state, while
the democrats finally made deal to buy several
blocks of unproductive and unattractive ground
in the city of Lincoln. And McKevie's plan
had the endorsement of commission Of heads
of great schools, such as the Universities of
Minnesota, Iowa. Wisconsin, Illinois and Ohio
as we'll as the Nebraska regents, while the plan
finally adopted by the democrats was enthusi-
asticay backed by group of interested citi-
zens. Perhaps the Hyphenated will abandon
this line of attack, but the approach shows how
it is wrigglng in its efforts to detract the at
tention of the voters from state issues.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1918-09-25
Trade Competition adjourned

In the nature of things the United States
and England must be, and ought to be, COM
pettors, after the war, for the trade of South
America and of the orient. Their rivalry will
be genuine, earnest, uncompromising. Yet the
arrangement Washington has entered into with
England to adjourn such competition while hos
tilities are going on, though it may be unwel
come to some interests, is so manifestly fair
that it will have almost universal approval.
England has lent its ships to carry our troops
and provisions and munitions for those tr >ops
to France. 1t has hampered its own foreign
trade to do this. Now that the immediate stress
is over, that the tide seems to be turning in
favor of the allies its own exporters are COM
planning hercely that ships should be restored
to the uses of commerce But any movement
of that sort would be equally injurious to Eng
land, to France, to the United States and to the
allies cause.
The assurance that we will not seek to profit
by England's magnanimity will smooth things
over for the British government will silence
many protests, will make all protests easy to
ignore. But in the long years that are to come
England will have to reckon in the South Amer
lean and in the oriental markets with new
America, unhampered as in the past by lack OF
shipping, realizing as it has never before real
lied the need of banking facilities, able to pro-
tect its merchants and its concessionaires every
where, and inviting battle without bitterness
for the trade of the world-Brooklyn Eagle.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1918-09-25
Words and Deeds Compared.

The New York World publishes compila-
ton of utterances ascribed to German leaders,
showing how their hopes sweed to food tide
and ebbed in disappointment. On January 10
Hindenburg told delegation of German edi-
tors: "By next April shall be in Paris" On
March q the kaiser said: "We are at the de-
cisive moment of the war and one of the great
est moments in German history. The prize Of
victory must not and will not fail u.s." But the
prize of victory did slip through his grasp. Day
by day the official expressions change in tone,
until on September 5 the kaiser reminded his
people: "The German people understand the
difficulty of the present decisive battles against
an enemy filled with jealous hatred and a will
to destroy, but have unanimously determined to
devote all its strength to defend against the en-
emy's assaults upon its sacred soil and kultur."
From exultaton of anticipated victory to the
despair of recognized defeat, the spokesman for
the German cause have run the gamut Their
words as we'll as their deeds convict them. In
stead of marching in triumph over Paris and
France, they now resolve to defend German soil
from INVASION And Pershing is shelling the
Notifications at Metz!
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1918-09-25
Savings in Railroad Operation.

Regional Director Smith has made report
to Director McAdoo, showing saving of $751;
100000 in the expense of operating railroads in
the Eastern region. This is, of course, very
gratifying, but is not to be at all marveled at
and perhaps will be duplicated i, each of the
other regional divisions of the railroad service
1t would be occasion for wonder were it not
true. This may be said with no reflection on
private management. The government has
been able to do many things that were expressly
forbidden to the companies, and most of all to
effect consultations and arrangements for rout-
ing of and operation of trains that could not
have been achieved without violating the law
or some of the orders Of the Interstate Com
merce commission. One of the greatest lessons
we are learning from the government control of
transportation is that the industry had been
regulated almost to extinction.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1918-09-25
THE GERMAN LANGUAGE QUESTION.

Frank J. Taylor wrote the other day from
the American front in France: The dough-
boys are finding that knowledge OF the Ger.
man language is useful up in front. Several
Americans, advancing up communication
trench, were challenged by sentry. A
doughboy who spoke German talked with the
sentry, gradually edging closer. Then he
Jumped the boche" 1t has always been OBJ
vous that knowledge of German would be
valuable Cup in front" 1t might be the means
of saving life, as in this case it was means
of overcoming an enemy. The army authori-
ties have recognized from the first that this
would be So While people whose zeal out
ran their judgment were calling for the out
having OF the German language in schools
and everywhere else, the government has been
advising its soldiers to study German.-Lin
coin Journal.
Everyone will admit that knowledge Of
German may be valuable at the front and in the
rear just as would be knowledge OF French or
Italian, or Russian, or Bohemian. A knowledge
of the German language to the extent OF fluent
conversational familiarity with it may be as use
full to Americans as to English or French or
Italians, but that is wholly different and distinct
from the German language question that has
been presented to us by our entrance into The
war.
What is Objectionable, and what must be
stopped is the cultivation of the German Ian
guage in this country as means OF propaganda
for kultur, the teaching Of it in the public
schools, the preaching of it in churches, the
speaking of it in societies and clubs the printing
of it in newspapers and periodicals, not for the
purpose of Strengthening America, but for the
purpose of maintaining little Germany over
here.
Speaking the German language is one thing.
but thinking German, aspiring German ideals,
subscribing German ambitions, dividing with
Germany loyalty due wholly to America, is
quite another thing. The German language
must be treated in this country henceforth just
the same as any other foreign ianguage-cer-
tainy no better.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1918-09-25
A Modern Munchausen

To thank God that others are worse off than
we are is form of gratitude to which the war
has given new aspects. A German named Voss
has been trying to cheer his countrymen By tell
ing them, in the Keller Zeitung that their suffer
ings nothing to those of the English. He
found this out in travelling all over England"
after escaping from the Isle of Man. where he
had been interned Some of the things which
he reports are credible enough but they serve
only as an introduction to his tall talk Thus
he observed that Waterloo bridge had been so
shattered by German bombs that "hardly sny-
thing was left" He also saw groups of Gurk-
has. under black officers, patrolling the streets
of London in order to ntimidate the starving
people. These hordes," he added, "have at
tackled whole villages in Lincolnshire and ut
terly wiped them out | have seen these places
with my own eyes, Whether these stories
tighten the spirits of Germans or not they viii,
professionally add to the gayety of the English
These veracious tales by Herr Voss ought to
be included in the comic weekly which the
Germans are printing in English and dropping
over the American lines.-New York Post.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1918-09-25
LONELINESS.

+ was lonely In the city,
Though the busy, teeming street
Echoed with the din of voices,
And the tramp of many feet.
Not hand was stretched in greeting:
No one spoke the word that cheers,
Though my heart was filled with longing
And my eyes were full Of tears.
For the toilers of the city.
In their narrow grooves confined
Each his selfish end pursuing
To all other lives were blind.
So ] stood apart a stranger.
Hardening to the city's song,
For the ioneliest kind of loneliness
Is that found amidst the throng.
Then I left the busy city,
And I turned my weary feet
To the distant shady hillside,
Where the woods and river meet.
There the sun sent rays to greet me;
Flowers nodded as ! passed;
Every tree gave blessed shelter
In the shadow that 1t cast:
Thirst was quenched by purling brooklet;
Breezes famed my aching head;
While the soft and fragrant grasses
Offered me kindly bed.
And the birds called joyous welcome,
Welcome Homer on every hand.
There's no loneliness in nature
For the souls that understand.
Omaha. DAVID RICHIE.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1918-09-25
The Yankee Tanks

4 The whole United States has been awaiting
somewhat anxiously, but also with large de-
gree of expectancy, for war-front reports that
tell about the actual performances of the Yam
kee tanks. The information given out about
the American tank brigades has been meager.
1t is known that there are two camps where
men for the tank service are in training, and it
has for some time been matter of common
knowledge that several big plants are making
tanks of an American desi gn-two designs, &C
cording to the reports-a whippet one-gun, two
men tank and larger and much more power
July armed and armored kind
We are learning from the later reports that
the American tanks were mixed up in the bust
ness of cleaning out the St. Mihiel salient. AS
to how many tanks participated in the drive at
St. Mihiel the allied reports fail to mention.
From German sources comes the estimate that
there were at least 1000 armored American cars
OF various sizes and models engaged in the
cleanup of the German salient The CORE
spondent of the the Frankfort Zeitung attributes
the great loss in prisoners of the German army
10 the> advance doings of the American tank
brigade
Some thrill stories are now coming in from
American correspondents about the dongS of
the Yankee tanks. The tanks are getting across
they are beginning to demonstrate. This
country is the home of the tank-the land
where il was born. A feet of the air-the bomb
planes! Al feet on the land--the tanksl The
worst for the Huns is yet to come!- baltimore
American.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1918-09-25
Seed Grain Loom

The seed-grain loans to farmers in the
drouth-strcken areas of the United States are
likely to fail utterly in their purpose because OF
overregulaton-an evil that has brought dsas-
ter to much well-considered legislation in the
past; The Departments of the Treasury and
Agriculture, which have joint jurisdiction over
the loans have just issued several pages of rules
under which they will be granted Anybody but
lawyer would be appalled, at the restrictions
imposed. The maximum loan that will be made
is $500, and it is safe to say that much of that
sum will be exhausted in attorneys fees for
drawing up the application and other necessary
documents. The most heartbreaking of the
rules provides that mo loan will be made to any
farmer who has unencumbered real or personal
property sufficient to secure loan of $780," 1t
is safe to say that man reduced to that ex-
tremity is not going to stay on the farm to
await the results of new crop. He will move
to the nearest city and endeavor to get employ
ment that will bring him an immediate income.
That is precisely what was sought to be avoided
by the federal purchase of seed Ito keep the
farmers on the tarm-but under the severe reg
ulations imposed that will be the result naturally
to follow.--F airbury lNeb.) News.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1918-09-25
Center Shots

st. Louis Globe-Democrat: The
Americans sang the "Marseillaise'
as they advanced, doubtless remem-
bering that it was composed in
Strassburg, which must be redeemed.
Washington Post: The Germans
have no America" says Mr.. Lloyd
George, land as result of their
despair they are turning to Aus tria."
Austria is turning, TOTO see how
much farther Italy will chase her.
Minneapolis Tribune: The Burleson
telephone management is trying to
popularize itself by charging SO for
a change Of name in the telephone
book without new installment of a
telephone. Seems as if it ought to
succeed.
Louisville Courier-J Journal: There
now appears upon the war map in
the path Of the advancing troops Of
the allies the frontier Of Germany.
The troops of the allies are giving
the view halloo. The hunt of the
beast is in full swing. The war is
not yet won, but the beginning of
the end is at hand.