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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-24

she will be very glad to be of service
TO the various state divisions in giving
Counsel and assistance whenever 1t is
desired. The addition to the head
quarters staff of a woman of such
marked ability greatly increases the
eftlciency of the committees work, and
we are to be congratulated upon her
appointment"
THE women of no country are or
ganlZed as are the women of America, {"
SAID MISS Patterson, "and this splendid
coordination made the task of the
woman's committee in organizing for
war work simply a readjustment of
club IDEAS and efforts from state, coun-
ty and local activities to concentration
upon the most vital national interests
the women of America have ever been
called upon to aid.
1T has taken only a matter of five
months to create splendid, unified
general organization of the women of
the entire country for cooperation in
war work under the direction of the
woman's committee of the Council of
National Defense. This body acts as
the central committee of the entire or
ganlzation. The state committees with
their own chosen officers, and again
the county committees and even
smaller organized units, each with its
own officers and individual working
machinery, decentralize the women's
war work of the nation as widely as
the states themselves
Now, with the organization of the
states complete and ready for definite
work, it has behooved the woman's
committee to have its members spe-
cialize on some line of war work. and each,
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ture. We older people will be soon
gone; you will stay here, you, for whom
today your countrymen are in the tolls
of war. You are the future; we are the
past. We have lived in a world which
you never saw, and you will live in a
world which we shall never see"
These words apply with equal force to
the children of the United States, and
1t would seem that they have already
realized, If the seriousness of their eff
fort and the extent of their achieve
ments are test, that the blood of the
soldiers, the workings of munitions
plants and the expenditure of billions
of dollars are for their protection
At least, the work of the past sum-
mer and the possibilities for further
service which are suggested by new
plans set forth daily show that while
their youthful minds may not have
analyzed the situation in these most
solemn aspects, their hands have grasp
ed the nearest task in their willingness
to help.
Canning clubs, gardens. pig clubs,
poultry clubs, knitting, bandage
making, all such kindred activities
which assist the work of food conser-
walton, food production and aid for the
soldiers, show a record for activity
which surpasses our fondest hopes for
juvenile cooperation. And now comes
another means for enlisting their aid, a
means which because of its timeliness
and far-reaching influence will carry
the field of patriotic service right into
the heart of the schoolroom, thereby
making il possible for children to at
tend to their education and fulfill their
obligation to their country at the same
time throughout the coming winter.
The Junior Red Cross is a new or
ganization of the parent body, which
hopes to become a channel for patri-
otic service and interest to the 49,
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This Young Woman Hamdles Details of Bio Committee
Observation-Disclosures

about the new work she has under
taken. 1t would seem that this young
lady who presides over the destinies of
things at headquarters is expected to
be able to place her hand on the exact
location OF any of the members of the
womans committee, with an intimate
knowledge of the work on which each
one is engaged, so that she may either
fully and definitely answer every uues-
tion that Is asked regarding the work
or the committee or refer It to the
authority on the subject. In other
words, her desk will be the clearing,
house of information on all matters
concerning the work of the woman's
committee. She must know to the last
detail what is planned and what Is
going on, and she must be able to dis
seminate that knowledge and informa-
tion, to impart counsel and advice, to
cheer and encourage with the wisdom
and sympathy of a Portia,
But work is hobby with Miss Patter-
son. IF 1t will help women and chill
dren, so much the better" she says, and
she knows that by helping the country to
fight its present war of Righteousness she
is doing her noblest present part in help
ing the women and children of this and
other lands.
This is how DR.. Anna Howard Shaw.
chairman of the woman's committee
introduced Miss Patterson: "The wom-
ans committee is very happy to an
nounce the appointment to the Council
of National Defense of Miss Hannah
j. Patterson as a member of the wom-
ans committee. All correspondence
issued by her will have been author
lied by the woman's committee and
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and the enrolment jumped to four
times its normal size.
Some 100000 boys and girls were list
ed, providing labor force which hereto
fore has never been fully utilized. Their
work in food conservation consisted of
canning and drying fruits, vegetables
and meats, canning field corn for break
fast food as one substitute for wheat,
preparing potato starch out of parings,
culls and small potatoes to be used as a
substitute for wheat in the making of
custards pies and cakes and for 20 per
cent of flour in bread baking.
In addition to this vital work, the
children's clubs were taught many
kinds of cooking with n view of en-
abltng them-to make use of their home
grown products raised in the food saw
ing campaign, the killing, picking and
canning of cockerels, and the working
out of an economic balanced ration for
school luncheons.
Such curriculum called for a care
fully prepared system of instruction.
The Department OF Agriculture eX-
ecuted this work through its office of
extension and by means of the cooper
alton of state agricultural colleges.
State leaders and corps of assistants
trained district and county leaders, who
in turn trained the local volunteer lead
ers to work with the local groups.
Great interests was aroused among the
children by employing the contest fea-
ture, as in the case of intercollegiate
games. For instance, each group of
children trained for the demonstration
team, which was expert In all the club
activities These teams competed for
county honors and the winner was given
q free trip to the state fair At one OF
these fairs ten states competed for hon
ors in food demonstration through their
boys and girls.
Kindred to this work, though not ir
the very same line, has been the cam
paign of the boys pig clubs to stimu
late production of food products by
teaching youthful farmers to become
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confining her efforts to that issue to
which she is especially adapted, to
send out her information, her direc-
tions, suggestions and advice to the
very remotest corners of the land by
route of the state, county and local or
ganizations spread like a net over the
entire country.
Here is an instance of how this
works out: The commercial economy
board of the Council of National De-
fense found that a startling proper
tion of our daily bread was being
wasted through the return of unsold
loaves by, the retailers to the bakers.
The board asked the woman's COM
mittee to cooperate with 1t in stop
ping this waste by urging the women
to aid in correcting this condition.
Word was sent down the line. and the
effectiveness of the backing the wom-
en- have given the cause has resulted
in saving of tens of thousands of
loaves of bread a year. Practically all
the bakers of the country are today
cutting out that waste, and the women
were the first to urge them to action
and to stand by them.
Now comes the apportionment of the
work of the woman's committee. It's
activities were recently divided into ten
departments The first relates to state
organization, with Mrs. Joseph r. Lamar
as chairman. This department was Gre
ated to advise regarding organization,
to stimulate and to standardize 1t, to get
this great voluntary organization OF
women. the most democratic in the wide
world, to stand as one in this great
crisis. We want them to help each other.
We want to show the woman In Bath,
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women who will be brought in great num-
bers to the Industrial centers by the
exigencies OF the war
Mrs. Phillip N. Moores assignment
covers two related departments of spe-
cial work-social service and health and
recreation. The department of social
service was created solely to bring to
the correct agencies women who are able
to give time and effort to social service
especially as 1t relates to camp life and
in preserving the peace time social
standards therein. This department en-
deavors to get In touch with persons, who
understand the handling of people, or
with those who are willing to go under
course of instruction for this work.
so that they may give trained assist
ance to the recognized associations who
need help. In every state where camps
OF soldiers are in training the woman's
committee has been graphing with tho
it's work Mrs. Moore's departments
will cooperate with the commission on
training camp activities.
The letters we receive at committee
headquarters are inspiring, and 1 do
not hesitate to say that we receive as
much stimulation from them as we can
! give. The women of the country are
doing nobly in their war work, showing
| great initiative and energy"
The new resident director of the
woman's committee Is the daughter of
John G. Patterson, a prominent coal
operator of PENNSYLVANIA. She is a
graduate of Wilson College, Chambers
| burg, where she made distinguished
record in economics She was secretary
! OF the Civics Club of Allegheny, Pa;
was one of the board of directors of the
| juvenile court of Pittsburgh, treasurer
| of the Soho public bath, and was a
| member of the board of directors of the
Peoples bath at Pittsburgh. Although
| n reputation for unusual ability as an
organizer.
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stock raisers. The price of pork prod
ucts scared skyward during the past
season, and, the Department of Agri-
culture Thought that it was the psyche
logical time for arouSing the boys to
see the opportunities afforded by pig
raising. The result was that 10000 boys
and girls of an average age of thirteen
years in the states of Alabama, Arkan-
sas, California, Georgia, Indiana, Ken
lucky, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Ne
braska, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Ore
gon and Texas have become active hog
owning members.
The usual work of instructing the
boys in the club to understand swine
production and the growing of forage
crops was intensified. The additional
patriotic motive of giving the boys a
means of adding to the meat production
OF the country and providing a substi-
tute for expensive beef served to excite
unusual enthusiasm. Bankers were in
duced to lend money to the children for
lengthy period on their own promis-
sorry note, q departure from ordinary
financial methods, to be used for the
purchase of hogs, and the state pig
club agents were instructed to give all
possible assistance to the young stock
raisers
II X
While It is too early for the returns
to have been reported from all the
states, owing to the fact that the south
ernmost states hold their fairs late in
the autumn, a report from Kentucky is
typical of the work. Thirty-five pigs
were on exhibition by boy owners at
the recent state fair. In the spirited
contest which took place the members
of the clubs not only competed among
themselves, but showed their stock in
competition with adult stockmen. The
boys carried off one first prize, two
second, three thirds and fourth prize
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waste wherever 1t appears in the house,
hold. 1t will encourage an education
al propaganda on the subject through
schools, settlement centers and in
"Now here is an idea that may be
sent down the line for experiment next
season. Some of the women of New
Jersey planned a 'cafetaria' method of
picking vegetables and fruit. This
plan has been under way since news
reached Summit, n. J., that a farmer
plowed under whole field of peas
because he could not get pickers. The
canning unit of the woman's committee
of New Jersey has asked the farmers
not to plow under until the women
have a chance to pick. They have out
lined system for next season by
what peas or beans one wants, has her
basket valued on the way out and pays
the price less the labor.
"The third department is food ad
ministration, and Miss Ida NJ. Tarbell
is it's director. There is no outline for
this department, because 1t VIII serve
as the logical channel for giving the
women of the land the plans of the
food administration as they are for
mulated,
'"The department relating to women in
industry Is under the direction of Miss
Agnes Nestor. who understands the in
dustrial situation in this country as do
few women Her work will connect in
large degree with the operations of the
Department of Labor She~-will investi-
gate standards of work and conditions
under which women work in factories
You know that in this industrial up
heaval and the going away of men to
war there will be cases where women
may be put in the places of men where
the labor is too heavy. Miss Nestor
will try to look after that side of the
problem as well as that of housing the
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Special Correspondence
WASHINGTON. D c

WASHINGTON. ID. -
00 81 HEN President Wilson said
NhW in his April proclamation;
WV The supreme test of the
nation has come; we must
all speak. act and serve together" he
did not realize perhaps how great
response his words would call forth
from the children of the country Boys
and girls of America have proved
themselves worthy to be included in
his word. 1--WE" The children have
taken advantage of every possibility
for service.
The war, in its biggest Significance.
is being fought by the United States
and the allies for the benefit of the
boys and girls of these countries. An
English writer, in book recently pub
lshed on this idea and addressed to
tho children. said: I'm all your study
of the war make this your first and
foremost thought, that the war is for
you. 1t is you who will enjoy the now
order of things when the war is done.
Your countrymen are giving their lives
for their country; ii is your country
and in it you will pass your life. Our
dead have died for you. 1t is you who
win find this world better than they
found it. You will live in peace be-
cause they d..1 i'm war; you will go
safe and trns ause they went under
discipline -. to danger up to the
moment of o.. - leath. You will have
good time "a, lse they suffered. To
you, who gain their loss and whose
life Is made comfortable by their lives
laid down. comes the question from
countless little wooden crosses over
graves in France and Belgium and
from all the unmarked graves of the
sea. Is it nothing to you?
X x
"Why, the war is your war. You will
enter into all that it achieves and in
herit all that it earns. and all the mis-
cries of 1t will be the making of your
happiness. There are many good rea-
sons why man should fight for his
country, but they come to this one rea-
son, that he is fighting for the future
of his country. And you are the fu-
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Special Correspondence

Special Correspondence
WASHINGTON, d. G
IMPRESSIONS are tenacious as well
as valuable things, and a young
woman who has labored sedulously
q in one or other of the offices of the
woman's committee of the Council of
National Defense since that body was
created six months ago, and who yield
ed a definite impression of ability, sin
cerlty and seriousness of purpose, has
fulfilled this impression of efficiency, as
witnesses her recent appointment to
membership in that committee, the lat
est and youngest member of this i'm
portant group of women, whose wisdom
and understanding are to great extent
guiding the war work of the women of
the nation.
The young woman is Miss Hannah j.
Patterson, and her ability in handling
the details of the work of the woman's
committee during the six months of it's
existence led to her appointment as n
member, with the distinctive and dis
tinguishing title of resident director"
Accordingly, Miss Patterson is always
to be found at the Washington head
quarters of the womans committee of
the Council of National Defense, the
little playhouse" of old, on N street.
1t was on day very shortly after
her appointment to membership in the
woman's committee that an interviewer
called upon Miss Patterson for talk
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by supplying them with an impetus
for action in the right direction.
DR.. MacCracken has worked out all
the details of organization which have
been made known to the schools and
is at present perfecting the co-ordina-
tion of school activities with Red
Cross activities so that every channel
for service may be utilized. The voca-
tional classes throughout the country
will undoubtedly render an meal
culable service. for their ability can
be turned at once to the making of
Red Cross articles.
The movement has met with uni
versal praise. Philander ClaXton, COM
missioner of education, says that he is
willing to indorse 1t because II does
not interfere with school work, and
Mrs. Mary c. c. Bradford, president
of the National Educational Associa-
ton, expresses the sentiment that she
considers 1t a vital part of every school
program at this time.
Looking forward then. II would seem
that through this medium for Junior
Red Cross work the activities of
American children will be of great
benefit to the country at a time when
every effort and every sacrifice to
serve are encouraged. Looking back
ward there is proof to demonstrate
now well they can acquit themselves
them.
X X
throughout the past summer the
widespread movement to conserve food
by planting moro gardens and by can
ming vegetables and fruits for winter
had no more enthusiastic adherents
than the children. The campaign of the
Department of Agriculture through its
boys and girls canning clubs resulted
in 200 to 400 per cent more work than
had ever been done in one year before.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-24

Me-, what the woman in San Diego, Cal,
is doing, thus to assist and stimulate
all the states by the record of help and
harmonious activity
'The important subject of food pro-
duction and home economics comes
within the scope of the second department
and is under the direction of Mrs. Stanley
Mccormick. That department works
largely In cooperation with the De-
partment of Agriculture, and looks to
encouraging production and eliminating
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1918-09-12
GRAND ARMY MEN TO
ASSEMBLE AT PORTLAND

Portland, Ore.-Arrangements rapid
~ are being completed for the entertain
ment of the veterans of the Civil war
who will attend the national encamp-
ment Of the Grand Army of the Re-
public for 1918 which will be held here
August 10 10 %.
This will be the first time that a
national encampment has been held
in the northwest. Approximately 55,-
600 men who answered President Lin
coins call to arms are expected to be
present. They will come from every
section of the country.
The attendance at a G. A. r. never
has been below $4,000 in the past but
the rapidly dwindling membership roll
each year makes it unlikely that there
will be O greater attendance than 49,.
900. Aside from this many old soldiers
probably will find they are unable to
attempt the long transcontinental trip
from the Atlantic aeabOard. At one
time these annual encampments were
attended by approximately Q quarter
OF Q million of the veteran fighters.
The Grand Army 6f the Republic was
organized NJ Decatur. III. inl1S6e. IT.
membeteh1pz numbered 100000 during
the ftfStEe4o years of. its existence.
The pr@94aa&4@sfAss 80 of sugsttees =
about 7SSl1lt
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1918-09-12

England. America and other countries.
In these circumstances Frances pur-
chase OF muslin and Manchurian flour,
Latin Americas increasing business
and other circumstances furnished
scarcely n consolation to the bust
ness community.
Notwithstanding governmental eff
forts to check the soaring cost of liv-
ing, conditions have hardly improved.
Not only the fertilizer trade but the
flour market have been prey to specu-
lators' manipulation, which lately has
become greatly magnified with the
concentration of capital in big firms.
Rice. miscellaneous grains. flour and
foodstuffs generally have With few
exceptions been higher. Textiles and
their materials have Increased in price.
Even cotton goods have resumed their
advance. in spite of the export trade
remaining slack. Metals, particularly
iron pigs and steel shares, have Mount
ed. Among miscellaneous articles, coal.
charcoal, papers, petroleum, and Other.
articles effected notable advances. Even
gas rates werc raised in Osaka and
Toxic. thus increasing the burden of
the masses Of the people.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1918-09-12
A K CONFESSION or
PLUNDERING BELGIUM

New York.-Open confession of Ger
man ~plundering OF Belgium and OF
plans to continue it were made
at a meeting Of the German Eco
nomic Commission for Belgium, held at
Brussels, June ~. 1918. A German
official report Of this meeting has Just
now come into possession of the BeA
gian government n has been made
public here by the British wireless ser
vice.
Governor General Won Kissing stated
at the meeting that the shortage OF
raw materials in Belgium was partly
due to the fact that they were carried
away at the beginning OF the was.
Thousands Of machines, he said had
been transported to Germany to make
war munitions.
Won Kissing said that he had two
aims. the good OF Belgium and the pre-
vention of any revival Of Belgian IN
dustry which could harm German in
dustries. He explained his solic,tude
for the good of Belgium by adding that
"a squeezed lemon loses its value and
a bad COW gives no milk
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1918-09-12
INTERVENTION talk
IS HALTING BUSINESS
People of Japan Cautious With
Investments While Russian
Situation Threatens.

Toxic, (by maiD-Apparent tendency
by Japenese business men to ppose
Intervention in Siberia has been re-
Elected in business generally here. The
stock market has been oppressed with
the idea of Siberian mobilization. Trad
ing has fallen off and many shares
have weakened. At times when it APP
peared that japan had at least tenn
porarily tabled the intervention ques-
ton the market has rallied, becoming
active with short covering, but the
general investment public has remained
strictly cautious. showing disposition
TO sell at advancing prices.
Late in June the foreign trade fell
off. The United States extension of
its lists of restricted imports virtually
stopped Japan's growing shipment of
skins and feathers. The American
trade ban was enlarged so as to stop
II this is rightly enforced Japan's braid
industry will be reduced to an insight
ficant position and Great Britain's re-
moval Of Its ban on hemp braids would
come to naught.
Trade with Asiatlc Russia was made
possible by the ~reopening of the ST.
bertan border. and matchstick Inn
intention Of buyink afresh there. while
bean oil men had q brighter prospect
for their buyink of soya beans.
The China trade has remained slack.
Then japanese Cotton Spinners' associ-
alton. for instance. reported that during
10 days Japan shipped 1903 bales less
af yarns to China and other Oriental
points. Trade with British India also
Aas been slack.
The tonnage question ana Americas
nav railway rates also have caused
anxiety In the business world. OH men,
grain people. and sothefsssay that the
high freight costs ana the -dlfflculty n
obtaining cargo space have interferred
seriously with their sbuoine6G. these fAc.
tees ce0bining Adversely with Kindred
lcennaco eestEtce3ene aaopeeA BY