Mexico weekly ledger., 1918-06-06

Fifteen miles from St. Louis Is one Of the great
Am factories In the 81. Louis district s,4sO Of them
have given a good portion Of their capacity to war
production work.
male quartet 10 France TO sing for the soldiers.
The Y. NJ. c. A has trained 500 auto-mechanic
Railway Y. NJ. C. A. hut near Union Station more than
5000 soldiers have been entertained on their passage
through the city.
bers, and responded with 22 900. IL has ioz, 900 Junior
Red Cross members.
The quota Of Red Cross members for the South
1,le1, oOo; IL gave 3,75O.0oo 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 to the efforts of this
Committee, there has been a reduction of the city's
earbaee, in six months, of 5000, 600 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 plowed up for thrift gardens, from which
movement the national thrift garden campaign was
started, resulting in the production of $350,O0 600
worth of food in 1917.
More than 1000 St. Louis boys have enlisted In the
aviation division.
A school for plastic surgery has been established in
St. Louis and $50 officers already trained.
st. Louis raised a fund of 500, 900, in one-haIf day,
to finance two Home Guard Regiments, and in 90 days
recruited and equipped two regiments of 1000 men.
One of the first hospital units to land in France was
from st. Louis and was QUILTED by the st. Louis
Chapter of the Red Cross at a cost of 500, 1000.
Scores of St. Louis men and women are devotin9
all or part of their time to Government work, being
classified as dollar-a-year men.
Twenty-eieht thousand st. Louis women are regis
tered to do knitting. More than 5000 work daily on
hospital garments, and IL, 900 on surgical dressings.
These agencies have supplied over 1,0OO,OO0 articles
to the army in France, besides those sent 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 on dependent
families of soldiers.
The st. Louis Chapter of the Red Cross is spending
$4,000 a month on war 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 683 chapters, 1850 branches
and 900 auxiiaries. This division has under Its juris-
diction the largest number of camps and cantonments
in the country and is serving $50, 900 men.
st. Louis is the center of the supply department
which furnishes material to the entire division.
Germantown population Of St. Louis Is 6.95 per
cent; Cleveland, 7.3S; Cincinnati, 7.S1; Chicago, 1874;
Detroit, $50; Buffalo, 1924; Milwaukee, 1873.
Detroit, SO per cent; Chicago, IS per cent; New York,
Al per cent.
St. Louis is American in heart and sympathies and
in all Its activities.
Compare the wonderful record of st. Louis, item
by item, with that Of any other city, and measure its
patriotism and loyalty by the result.
St. Louis has not done more than 1T should. nor all
that 1t expects to do. 1t will continue to respond
loyalty, periodically and generously to every govern
mental and humanitarian demand made upon 1t
until Prussian militarism is overthrown.
statistics compiled and guaranteed
r OF Commerce, and is paid for by
St. Louis, Mo.