Fair play., 1918-06-15

Fifteen miles from St. Louis is of the great
All factories in the st. Louis district of them
have given good portion of their capacity to war;
production work.
male quartet TO France to sing for the soldiers.
The Y. Nj. C.. has trained 800 auto mechanic
recruits, and is training another class of 5OO In the
Railway Y. NJ. c. A. hut near Union Station than
$4,000 soldiers have been entertained their passage
ST. Louis was asked to get $50 900 Red Cross mem-
bes and responded with OOO. 1t has 900 Junior
The quota of Red Cross members for the South
western District, with headquarters in St. Louis, was
1,162,OO0 it gave 3,25O,00O members.
st. Louis and Missouri are leading all cities and
states in the sale of War Savings Stamps.
st. Louis had the first Food Conservation oreaniza-
ton in the United States. Due the efforts of this
Committee, there has been reduction of the city's
garbage, in six months, of 5000, 900 pounds.
In St. Louis $4,000 women signed the Hoover
pledge more than in any other city, regardless of
size.
Last year 700 acres of back yards and lots in st.
Louis were powed up for thrift gardens, from which
movement the ational thrift garden campaign
started resulting in the production of 600
worth of food in 1917.
More than 1000 st. Louis boys have enlisted in the
school for plastic surgery has been established in
st. Louis and $50 officers already trained.
St. Louis raised fund of S100 0G0 in onehalf day,
to finance two Home Guard Regiments, and in 60 days
recruited and equipped two regiments of 5000 men.
One of the first hospital units to land in France was
from st. Louis and outftted by the st. Louis
Chapter of the Red Cross at cost of 100000.
all or part Of their time to Government work, being
classified dollar year men.
Twenty EIGHT thousand St. Louis women are regis
tered to do knitting More than 5000 work daily ON
hospital garments and $4,000 surgical dressings.
These agencies have supplied 100000 articles
to the army in France, besides those to local
barracks.
One thousand women have been given a course in
nursing by st. Louis Red Cross chapters.
Twelve trained social workers, employed by the Red
Cross, have made more than 1000 calls dependent
families of soldiers.
The st. Louis Chapter of the Red Cross is spending
10000 month on service.
st. Louis is the headquarters of the largest Red
Cross division in the country which embraces Mis-
souri,, Kansas, Arkansas, Texas and Oklahoma, and
has under its jurisdiction 6S3 chapters $50 branches
diction the largest number of camps and cantonments
i'll the country and is serving $50 900 men.
ST. Louis is the center of the supply department.
which furnishes material to the entire division.
German born population of St. Louis is 6.95 per
cent; Cleveland, 7.3S; Cincinnati 7.S1; CHICAGO S34:
Detroit 9.59; Buffalo, 1884; Milwaukee,, 1873.
Foreign born population of ST. Louis per cent;
Detroit 80 per cent; Chicago, IS per cent; New York.
Al per cent.
st. Louis is American in heart and sympathes and
in all its activities.
Compare the wonderful record of st. Louis item
by item, with that of any other city, measure it's
patriotism and loyalty by the result.
st. Louis has not done than it should nor ali
that 1t expects to do. 1t will continue to respond
loyalty patriotiCaly and generously every povern-
mental and humanitarian demand made upon it
until PrusSan militarism is overthrown.
tatistics compiled and guaranteed
OF Commerce, and is paid for by
St. Louis, Mo.