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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-06-23
Loyalty and Labor to Back
Their Mems COURAGE

I say Eat last" because for various reasons
it was extremely difficult at first to organize
these women for work, and great deal
Of credit is due to the women, both colored
and white, who finally accomplished this, for
theirs was a tedious and discouraging task
Their perseverance, however, finally won the
day, and it would be difficult to find a more
patriotic, loyal and hard working circle of
women than those who meet and work together
from morning until night, day after day, at
the tables in the four Red Cross auxiliaries in
Harlem.
In order to understand the conditions in the
Harlem colored district one must know little
of the character of the people who live there.
They are for the most part in very moderate
clrcumstances-many of them are really poor
There is small minority of what we might
term the "well-to-do,' and there is, so far as
| know, only one person who could be cassed
as rich the famous Nine Walker. of hair
tonic fame.
Their mental status is analogous to their
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-06-23
THE Coolies OF THE CA

1t may be sprayed on currants and goose
berries when the fruit is SMALL but must not
be used afterward, as it is poison. Hellebore
may then be used. Keep a close watch over
these bushes, as later crops of the "currant
worm,'' which attacks them appear, eating
the leaves and weakening the plant in regard
to the next years CROP
Most of the ordinary blights are overcome
by Bordeaux mixture, which may be purchased
or made at home as follows: Copper sulphatc.
three ounces; lump lime, or hydrated lima
fresh), three ounces; water, two and half
gallons.
Use containers of wood or earthenware
Mix the copper sulphate with two quarts Of
hot water and add one and one-fourth ouarts
CT cold water. Combine this with the slacked
or MIGRATED lime, mixed with one and one
fourth gallons more of water in another vessa1
pouring the copper solution slowly into the
LIME mixture and stirring constantly and vie-
orousy to mix thoroughly One should don
very old garden clothes" when both prenar;no
and using any of these sprays.
Arsenate of lead solution is made bv m;x;no
SIX quarts of water with one ounce of arsenate
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-06-23

truly, save We utilize what there is in the
house when it comes to meals and the chill
dren satisfied with substitutes and left
overs, because that meal is stunt, magic
word that throws a glamour over the common
place word save
"The first thing / did when I thought Of
these thrift stunts to go over the family
budget and my personal allowance and see
wherein I might save some precious quarters.
The family budget was hopeless. 1t had been
cut and recut until our living cost seemed
down to the minimum, but l discovered several
little extravagances in my personal expendi-
lures. Candy, Of course, for we are all dread
full sweet tooths,' and swearing off on that
meant So week for Thrift Stamps, which we
buy now instead
Then, there was custom of mine of buy
ing new pictures for the chdren's rooms
remember the weary hatred with which used
to gaze at the pictures that hung, year after
year, in my grlhood room. So, remembering,
got into the habit of purchasing cheap copies
of good pictures for the kiddes
"But when 1 began to Sfigger' discovered
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-06-23
Make Ere,y Dollar
SaUe a Dime

paste dries), and because they use their osa
ideas they are extremely proud and interested.
"The cost is in the plotting paper which
is 10 cents for piece one yard square. A
1o-cent bottle of library paste lasts for ages
Two posters can be made from each piece Of
blotting paper. We generally make eight pos.
ters, two apiece for each chld's room, and, fig.
uring that l used to pay 35 cents for each
picture, we conclude that we save at least
Is cents on each poster, and march down the
first clear day to invest So in Thrift Stamps
again."
"And while it happened to be pictures ia
your case, it might be ice cream sodas or
theatre tickets in some other woman's case,
| summed up. What are some other thrift
stunts, Ann?"
[fTo be continued" sTf you haze an
original thrift stunt of your owm, con-
fde 1t to the Director of the Tribuns
Institute, and you will get four Thrift
Stamps n, exchange, providing the idsd
IS faesv enough to print.1
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-06-23

chase extra jelly glasses to replace the
ones which have been broken during the Win
ter, when the canning season comes along"
"But why do you care, Ann?" l laughed
"She won't ask you for the money for her
extra jelly glasses"
but she told me this morning that because
living was so high she could not save enough
for Liberty bonds. Why she said, 4 can't
even save enough for Thrift Stamp And
look at all the Thrift Stamps that are being
thrown away in the form of those glass jars!"
And Ann drew a long breath.
But come>and find comfy chair while
tell you of our thrift stunt days." she went
on. "To begin with, we have decided to turn
all the rainy days that come along into thrift
stunt days. On rainy days there is less chance
of spending money and more of saving it,
Then, too, stunts of any kind help to break
the monotony and answer the eternal What
shall | dc next, mother?' that always seems
to come with the rain.
1.-The idea is, literally, not to spend one cent,
not to order from the butcher or grocer, not
to have pay call the telephone-really,
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-06-23

disagreeably as to put them out of commission
so far any pleasure is to be derived from
picking them. The color of the aphis is at.
fected by the different plants it infests and is
sometimes green, red or black The best pre-
vention and cure for these pests is this nico.
tine solution: Nicotine sulphate one-half
ounce; laundry soap, one-half ounce; water,
two gallons.
Dissolve the soap in little of the water,
boiling hot, and combine with other ingre-
dients. Spray very thoroughly being sure to
hit the under side of the leaves, where the lice
usually collect. Pick off the worst leaves and
burn. Bordeaux mixture may be used instead
of the water, thus killing the proverbial two
BIRDS 1t may be applied with whisk broom.
Nicotine powder is sometimes effective, busted
on when the leaves are damp.
Midew is often troublesome, in wet season
especially. Dust powdered sulphur or flowers
of sulphur on the affected plants with sitter
tin can with holes punched in the bottom
with small NALL
Cabbage worms always attack all the cab
bage family. Pyrethrum is the best remedy.
Il will repeat that the poison sprays must
never be used after the heads begin to FORM
Dust with bellows or sitter as a powder or
make into spray, using one ounce of pyretl-
rum to two gallons of water. An unscienti1c
but usually effective remedy is to sprinkle salt
thickly over the heads, repeating If necessary.
Hand-Picked Bugs
Flea beetle" attacks tomato. potato. esg.
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Washington Deliberates
While ''Mammy" Prays

The feeling Of the entire feminine no,,;..
of the Harlem colony on this subject was J.
pressed by an old nanny, who when 81.
if she were not proud Of her boy who i, a.
ing in France, replied:
Honey, Use proud, sho' 'noueh. br+ ;.
mighty worritted, too. was glad tn Gin.
Abram, but when thinks O. that bow ,,,.s,
out on the bare ground in pain an suffr;r,
jes natchully loses nah mind, cause L,...
mighty we'll that no white nurse that's co,.;.,
along lookin' fer the wounded amt nav.
goin' ter see that boy. You see. honev 4.
face amt gwine ter shine out Nv that mnd H.
white boys I'D do, an so she'll jes' natebulh
pass him by, an he'll lay there an suffer j,
die maybe on that foreign sho, with nohod,
to ease his pain. I jes' can't sleep in nah =,
thinkin' Nv it, honey, an l prays to C..s
night an mohnin' ter put it in the heart. :
the white folks that's runnin' this ERE uoh ).
send our own colored nurses over there !.
watch out fer that boy"
And let us hope that mammy's praver NH
soon be heard. The prospects are that Il v;l
Tor Emmett Scott, who was the late boossr
7. Washington's confidential secretary. b,,
been in Washington for some time mast MIA
this one object in his mind, the recognition !,
the colored nurses and the acceptance Of fhe,
by the War Department for service with H.
colored troops.
There are already two colored women serv;ns
as canteen workers in France, and four oth.,,
are ready and awaiting transportation. They
are all women of mature age. particulars
efficient in their own line of work, and thew
speak French fiuently. It is a matter of pr;da
with the colored people to send only thosa
whom they are quite sure will be above crit.
cism Of any kind. They realize that great
deal is at stake, and they are going to be very
particular about the kind of women who rem.
resent the race in any capacity both here and
overseas.
And so little by little the negro women era
gaining recognition among the real war work.
ers, little by little because of race preiudics
and fear of social complications, and little bv
little the authorities are beginning to undsn
stand that the colored woman is not seeking
social equality; she does not wish to hob-nob
with the white woman; she is merely begging
to be allowed to do for her men in the service
what the white woman is doing for hers. Il
there any earthly reason why she shouldnF
be allowed to do it?
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-06-23
RENCHES

plant, rhubarb, etc. It is a tiny jumping
black beetle, which eats small holes in the
leaves Spray with arsenate of lead or pyroz
when the beetles are first seen. If not abun-
dant, knock them off into water and kerosene.
Cucumbers and squashes have many en-.
emies. Watch closely for squash bugs, which
increase rapidly. Pick or shake into kerosene
and water. Destroy the eggs. The striped
beetle not only eats the leaves, but also car.
ries the fatal wilt" disease, and must be care
fully controlled. Dust the leaves three times
at intervals of five days with tobacco dust rt.
peating when necessary, or spray with Bot
deaux and arsenate Of lead. Frames OF mos
quito netting are often used while the plans
are small. Plants affected with wilt should %
at once pulled up and burned to prevens
spreading the disease.
Borers are great enemy to all Of tne~
vines. Sometimes they can be found by cuF
ting lengthwise slit in the vine where ~
trouble appears. A small grub is seen, wh'ea
may be removed and killed. Throw earth ose
the joint that new roots may form.
The potato bug is the worst enemy OF n g
potato and is controlled by spraving VIE
arsenate of lead and Bordeaux mixture as soon
as the beetles appear. repeating as ol.snn
necessary. They may also be hand plckss1s
appears at intervals of some years, ana : :
controlled by spraying with the nicotine SOW ~
ton. Be careful that the under side OF ~
leaves is hit with the spray. :, -
Do not let any odds and ends Of old c a,se,
remain in the ground to feed or afford snear
to insects. "Clean up week" should be ess"
week in the garden calendar.
If there are bugs In gour garden te@
this article does not c3ver, send w
cent stamp to the National Var GGraI
Commission, Maryland Buildin9, Wesg
issgton. D. c., and they sciu send yossa ~
complete manual on first aid tor
amateur gardener.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-06-23
BY FLORENCE SPRING

IT is not light and unconsidered state
ment but stern, hard truth, that each
year sees an addition to the variety and
number of garden pests. Here, again, eternal
vigilance is the only price of safety and pre-
ventlon rather than cure is the watchword
Tempting the Cutworm
To Its Destruction
The first enemy to be overcome is the cut.
worm, which not only appears bright and
early in the garden season. but works for
discouraging number of weeks generally dis
appearing the latter part of July. Its pres
eace is indicated by loose leaves on the ground
around young, succulent plant or by the cut
ting off of the entire plant. Taken all in all.
there Is nothing more to be dreaded than this
pest, and great pains should be taken to exter
inmate it. Clean culture is great helm. as
the moth deposits the eggs in loose waste.
which should never be allowed to accumulate
ANY plants having a single stocky stem. as
tomatoes, eggplant, etc, may be absolutely
protected by inclosing the stem with STIFF
paper or thin cardboard.
Lettuce, Swiss chard, ETC., must be carefully
watched, and if any loose leaves are seen on
the ground dig around the plant to the depth
of an inch or The whtey-gray, inch-long
worm is easily distinguished and destroyed.
Never omit making this search when traces
are seen OF this greedy pest. If very destruc-
tive, trap it and kill it in the following way:
Make mash compound Of bran, one pound
powdered white arsenic, one-half ounce; cheap
syrup, one or two ounces, and water to make
thick mash.
The National War Garden Commission rec
ommends adding to this lemon or an orapgc
chopped fine. Place little of this bait around
those plants most tempting to the cutworm.
The best way to dispose of many plant en-.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-06-23

When l walked into her little house that
morning l found Ann at kitchen window,
staring through the rain at can of refuse
in her neighbours backyard.
DO you see all those glass jars that are
beng thrown out?" she demanded Indignantly.
They were containers of ready made mayon-
nalse, no doubt, Oh some other condiment, the
Smiths being fond of those things. AS thew
are wlde-necked and not too large, they are
exactly right for jelly glasses. And yet Mrs.
Smith is throwing them away and will pur-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-06-23
Make Every Dime
SdUe q Penny
By EDITH BISHOP SHERMAN
y OW many young mothers there are, in
moderate circumstances, with the con-

3 moderate circumstances, with the con-
slant of little children denying
them any leisure. who shrug their shoulders
in utter encouragement when asked if they
have invested in War Savings Stamps.
How can / buy Thrift Stamps?" exclaimed
one mother to whom l mentioned the subject
the other day, adding what an opportunity I
thought it was to save for the children "Why,
it takes all my husband can make, and more.
just to provide clothes and food and shelter
for the children. cannot save a cent with
living so high, and while the babies are small
certainly can not go out to earn any extra
money"
Fortunately, during these war days of soar
ing prices, there mothers more resourceful
than she. Take my friend, Ann Brown, for
instance. learned from her one rainy spring
day that, if one is sincere about saving, pennies
soon mount into the mighty dollars that are
backing our men across seas, and with original
ity one need not go from home to earn money!.
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that even the cheap copies at from IS cents to
SO cents apiece, when the expenditure was re-
peated very often, amounted to a sum total
that was surprising. So l hustled off and
purchased some brown plotting paper, some
library paste, and begged some very old maya
zines away from friend, and now the rainy
morning is spent in the stunt of making pos
ters. I cut out the figures on the magazine
covers, the children paste them onto piece
of blotting paper (blotting paper because it
does not curl as cardboard does when the
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-06-23
SdCHuSeftS Infantry, CO
of Civil War fame

"The Circle is buying ambulances, making
knitted garments for the soldiers at home and
overseas, sending entertainers to the camps
and doing all the hundred and one things that
add to the comfort and happiness of the COL
ored troops. And beside all this, it is making
special effort to care for the families of
these fighting men, and this, assure you, is
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emes is to "hand pick them. Of this nature
are the large green tomato worm, which does
not appear in great numbers and is easily
seen; the rose bug, the rather large black
ants which infest peony buds, etc. Carry with
you little can of kerosene and knock off
the insects into this. If the operation is to
be extensive larger pan may be partly filled
with water, with little kerosene floating on
top. Destroy such collected insects imme-
diately.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-06-23
By ELENE FOSTER

r. --------e,, fifteen minutes from Times
| Square" ana we are in the
Il. midst of the largest negro set
ifxGg Element in the world, town
l of over 10000 inhabitants, ~
Ii EWAT Il ing in the district between
NMEM&Jt 125th and 145th streets on the
east side of the city; town
with its own social and club life, it's own
churches (and it rivals Brooklyn in the num-
Der of theseD its theatres, it's newspapers, it's
doctors and dentists, lawyers and architects,
its own armory for colored troops and it's own
corps of women workers who are looking after
the comfort and welfare of these troops.
1t has already sent to France it's crack regi-
nlent, the 18th, which became the seth In
fantry in the National Army, and those of us
who saw these men as they marched down
Fifth Avenue to the strains of Professor Eu-
ropes famous "jazz" band will not soon for
get the spectacle.
Judging from the glowing reports that are
coming daily from the Western front of the
work that these colored troops are doing in
the great drive, it would seem that they are
keeping up to the splendid standard set by the
men who fought so CALAMITY under Colonel
Shaw, in the of the rebellion, and I'M
der Colonel Roosevelt, at San Juan Hill. Small
wonder that Harlem swells with pride at the
mention of the gallant 18th! And small won
der. too, that the women of Harlem are thor
oughly aroused, at last, and are bending every
energy to stand in solid phalanx behind
those men.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-06-23
5GRO WOMEN ORGANIZE FOR WAR WORK

financial position, for while there are highly
educated intelligent people among them. the
great majority are the negroes whom we know
in our kitchens and laundres, who serve as
porters on Pullman cars and in the various
mental positions in our hotels and office build
ings. simple, emotional people, with an in
herited suspicion of the motives Of white
folks" and, until recently, very little sympathy
or interest in what they considered white
folks war" Old injustices have been insidious-
ly revived and new ones invented or magn-
fed, with the object of intensifying this
feeling.
With this feeling in the atmosphere one can
easily understand that it was no easy task
to organize the negro women of Harlem for
war work. To Mrs. Genet, of the National
League for Women's Service, is due the credit
of establishing the first Red Cross auxiliary.
She got together the little handful of women
who formed the nucleus of this group, and
taught them to roll bandages and make surgi-
cal dressings
The workers were faithful in their attend
ance, but there was no great enthusiasm and
very few new members until the first coored
regiments left the Harlem armory for the
training camp. Then change came over the
of Harlem; they woke up to the fact
that this was not white folks war" that
their own boys were about to play part in
it, and there was no longer any need to beg
for workers for the Red Cross.
There are to-day four workrooms in Harlem,
one of which is pointed out with pride by the
Red Cross as of their model auxilaries.
1t has $50 members, with more coming in
every day.
Three canteen units have been formed al
ready, one Of which served the colored troops
for the first time at the armory, after the
parade on Memorial Day.
The Circle For Negro
War Relief, Inc.
But the largest and what promises to bs
the most helpful of the negro war relief or
CARNATIONS is national association which was
formed last January by Mrs. Norman Hap
good, called "The Circle for Negro War Re-
lief, Inc" Mrs. Hapgood is the president Of
this society, and Harrison Rhodes is it's treas
ernor Whitman, Dr.. W. E. B. Dubois, the edi-
tor of 1.-THE Crisis; Colonel Charles Young,
Ray Stannard Baker, Mrs. Amos Pinchot,
George Foster Peabody and Arthur B. Spin
garn.
Although only six months old "The Circle"
has already units in almost every state in the
unon-ffty in all-and many more are in
process of organization. The membership at
present numbers 1000 women.
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apartment or the Baltimore tenement, but the
wife and children Of the man from the loneliest
little cabin in the depths Of the cotton belt.
1t proposes, also, to interest the teachers
in the public schools and to organize through
them little bands Of "Junior Colored Patriots"
who will do all sorts of war work. But all
these plans call for funds, and money is very
hard to raise in community composed almost
entirely of working people Wouldn't you like
to help? Think Of what those black soldiers
are doing for us on the Western front and
send substantial token Of your gratitude to
Harrison Rhodes, 222 West Fifty-ninth Street.
With the help Of the War Camp Community
tho women Of Harlem hope soon to open a
service club for their soldiers Two houses
will be thrown into one and fitted up with
reading and writing rooms, hall for dances
and entertainments, sleeping rooms for the
men and large dining room where a can
teen will be established.
Colored Women as
Nurses-Why Not?
All this work is very necessary and very
useful, but the one branch Of service for which
the colored woman yearns and for which to
those of us, at least, who have known the care
OF Southern nanny she seems unqueston-
ably best fitted, has thus far been closed to
her. For while the Red Cross has enrolled
colored nurses for the last year and has re-
peatedly declared its intention of sending them
to the hospitals, as yet not one Of these women
has actually been called to the service.
The colored women cannot understand this
situation. They cannot understand why when
their men are sent to fight on the battlefields
of France their women are not sent to nurse
them. confess can't comprehend it, either;
can you? It can't be that there is any uues-
ton Of their competency, for the graduates of
the training schools Of the colored hospitals
are required to pass the selfsame examina-
tions those of the white schools, and added
to this is their natural aptitude for the work.
for colored woman is "born nurse" just
as she is "born COOK
There are between 5000 and 5000 graduates
Of colored training schools all ready and anx-
ious for war service-nearly quarter of the
$4,000 for whom the Red Cross is calling.
What in the world is the answer?
The superintendent of the training school
for nurses Of the Lincoln Hospital, which is
graduating this month twenty three nurses, all
of whom have volunteered for war service. in
discussing the question the other day, said
to me:
eve are not looking for social equality with
the white women; we don't care for social
position; we are merely asking to be allowed
to do our share as women and as nurses to