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Evening journal., 1918-02-13
EFFICIENCY ISN'T FOR SALE
But Home Comfort Produces Home Efficiency
If You re Interested, Drop In
AT WANAMAKER'S FURNITURE SALE

means to stop at buying
Evelinda a washing ma
chine. The action is
praiseworthy, the ma
chine useful 1--WE sell
them ourselves, $6.25 to
S15, Fourth Floor), but
if you don't also see to It
that Evelinda doesn't
do twice as much work
because she can do it
twice as fast, or if you
fail to provide efficient
equipment for her rest
as well as labor in her
home, she's not a lot
better off than Aunt
Sally, tn e laundress,
who, having recently
married, came to visit
her old mistress.
'1s your husband a
good provider, Sally7"
asked "ole mis-"
"Deed he isp was
the enthusiastic reply.
why, he done perwide
me already with two
new washesT
In this Furniture Sale
are a hundred step-sav-
ers, strengths a We RS,
and tine-savers, which
in the end are life
lengtheners for tn .
Lady Evelindas of the
land.
Evening journal., 1918-02-13
XXTHEN you come to
w think of it.

lAAlAlh VI IL
Why should a busy
woman have to up or
d ownst air S, or the
length Of a long house,
every time she wants to
write a letter, mend a
tear in her apron, or
drop down" for mo
ment's rest or a glance
at the paper while the
kettle boils?
An extra wri ting
desk to be put in bed
room, dining-room or
Dutch hall can be Of
plain oak Costing as lit
tie as $3.50 without be-
ing either unattractive
or expensive. We have
521 kinds of house
desks, in all conceivable
styles, woods and period
designs, and the very
highest-priced one is
only $94. Endless varie-
ty to choose from up
and down that price
range, in walnut, ma
hogany, oak, enamel,
and even reed and
willow.
Priscilla sewing
stands cost from S6.75
to S10.50, in mahogany,
plain or hand-decora-
ted, and in hand-deco-
rated enamel. Martha
Washington S win G.
tables are obtainable as
low as $12. So why
not indulge in the lux
ury" of owning one-or
even two-if two can be
used efficiently?
II Evalinda is a true Penn
sylvania housekeeper, she would
not nap on a made-up bed IL
you brought the bed right down
stairs for her. That is why
she needs a comfortable chaise
Tongue or a day-bed at the foot
of her own bed, a couch in the
dining-room, a davenport in
the hall
And a big, comfy upholstered
wing-chair In the kitchen itself,
il the rooms large enough.
What is too good for Evehndsf
Evening journal., 1918-02-13

time she must either
stand wearily before the
telephone, as "the slave
of the ring; or drag a
chair half way across
the width Of the room
Chats where the carpet
gets that worn streak,
too); or stumble after
ward over the chair
which she herself forgot
to put back; or hunt the
telephone book or may
be the phone itself,
which have been moved
around for lack of a
suitable abiding place.
Votes from women on
the telephone table are
unanimous, so we've
laid in 20 different
styles in oak, mahogany
finish, solid mahogany
and enamel in various
colors.
A LSO, there never
"A was a woman who
voted against a book
trough, which h clips
along a housekeeper's
highest and least attain
able ambition, that of
keeping the centre table
clear-and deprives the
children of that favorite
specious excuse for clut-
tering up the whole
house with stray books
-"the bookcase is so
full"
Plain solid mahogany book
trOughs. $500 and $500.
Fumed oak with cane panels
twisted posts. showing Jacob
can influence. S10.75.
Japanese and Chinese enamel
With lower cane shelf. $3.50
and $3.50.
Solid mahogany and cane
with bottom shelf, S20.50.
YOU see, that home is
i Lady Evelinda's,
just a little more than it
is anybody else's. She's
there all day, while the
children are at school or
at play, and the men
folk in their offices,
which has no right
to be more efficiently
equipped than tn eir
homes.
And for PHYS sake,
don't think that equip
ping a home efficiently
- - -
New-York tribune., 1918-01-13
Wilson a Member of
Foreign Wars Order
Colonel Bates, of Old 71st
Regiment, Heads Local
Commanderv

The Military Order Foreign Wars of
the United States. to which President
Wilson has recently been admitted as
companionship member of the New
York Commandery. is having a large
increase in membership through the
imitation of officers of the army, navy
and the marines who are serving in the
present war with Germany.
This military order was instituted in
1894, by the few surviving officers Of
the War of 1872, together with their
I1neal descendants and those of the
War of the Revolution. Previous to
the opening of the present war the
general commandery of the order was
composed OF twenty-five state com
mandcrles with a membership of about
hfteen hundred companions. The wars
represented by these members are the
american Revolution. War with Tripoii
War OF 1912, Mexican War, Spanish
American War, China campaign. Mex-
lcan border campaign, Vera Cruz cam
palgn and the Hayti campaign.
The commander general of the order
IS brlgadier General Samuel T. Foun-
tam U. S. A. (retired), who succeeded
Admiral Caperton. U. S. n, now in
command of the South Atlantic feet
- lhe commander of the New York
Commandery is Colonel William G.
N. G.
Companions arc entitled to place a
bronze service bar on the ribbon of
their insignia indicating the war or
wars in which they have been on active
service as commissioned officers.
The insignia is authorized to be worn
on full dress or service uniform under
general orders Of the War and Navy
New-York tribune., 1918-01-13
Kept Friendship
In Trying Days
Major Andrew said:


Il really believe that our principal
service was keeping alive .he friend
ship of the two countries at the most
trying time in their relations. And
our college boys were the best group
IN the world for doing that They came
from every part of the country, whole
communities We're interested in them
they wrote home of the greatness of
France at war. and so helped bring
the war closer to America.
"ln France there is not soldier who
has not seen the word American on
our ambulances afterNevery battle. and
thousands upon thousands of them
have been our passengers. We were
q message to the French army telling
them the United States was helping "
The French army has decorated 2O4
members of the A. F. S. with the
CroiX de Guerre and more than so Of
the Norton-H -Haries. Five men have re-
ceived in addition the Medaille Mill
taire, and both Major Andrew and
Mr.. Norton. the organizers, have re-
ceivcd tho Legion of Honor.
But that is not all The regard OF
France is better voiced by the French
officer who pinned the war cross on
New-York tribune., 1918-01-13
Drove Like Blind
Men Through Darkness

Nerdun, III many respects, was
gruelling, nerve shattering test for the
American ambulance men, as we'll as
for the French soldiers. The last win
ter was particularly severe for them.
At Rarecourt their barracks leaked, and
sleeping in their clothes and under six
blankets they could not keep warm on
September nights.
All the driving was done at night
without lights, except when the enemy
sent up their flares. whose CHASTITY
brilliance caught the ambulances steal.
ing with mufled engines from the
postes de secours to the hospitals.
I'VE had to feel our road. We were
like blind men driving automobiles,
over country torn up by shells, chokeG
with debris, filled with water holes and
with transport moving. We were blind
men, and we don't know to this day
how we came through it," said Lloyd
q. Blynn. former newspaper editor,
of Philadelphia, and veteran of the
service.
'Verdun." he continued, "remains in
the memory of every member of the
dozen sections as q record of utmos /
French excrtion and suffering and
forttude. They held. No nation has
ever held better. l think if you ask
any American ambulance driver what
impressed him most he would say the
depth of the dark nights and the ter
rible courage of the French.
"The wounded never groaned or cried
out. They struggled through or died
in our ambulances, and the only sound
that ever Reached our ears was the
word 'doucement-douc when
the ambulances hit the rough places
in the roads.
"Verdun, believe, brought us closer
to the enemy than any othe~ sector.
We had our casualties, too. Edward
Kelly, of Philadelphia, was killed there,
on the open road close TO Marie. The
story of his death has been told, but
no one has ever done justice to Bob
New-York tribune., 1918-01-13
All Volunteer
F or Fighting Lines

Coming back to Paris after the
United States Army had taken over the
ambulance work and incorporated it
into the regular militarized Red Cross,
these men are now entering the avia-
tion, artillery, transport and other ser
vices.
'T wouldn't go back to the camons
for million dollars" is the usual
expression, "and wouldn't take mill
ION for my experiences"
1t is an expression typical Of the
adventurous American spirit, for the
ambulance CT cannon man is still to
be found who had not applied at the
American Aviation headquarters in
Avenue Mcntaignc for medical test
10 pass MIN into that service.
From the Norton IIarjes records it
is shown that the last roll call was
answered by GAS men. some above age
some exempted, and 43S eligible under
the selective draft law. Of these men
10 more than two or three were
drafted But 2S2, or GA per cent, vol
unteered, and nearly all are in train
ing now, somewhere in the aviation
camps in France and Italy, and next
spring will participate in the Ameri-
can air offensive on the West front
The Norton-Harjes also gave the
British army Dill Starr, the former
stream Guards and was killed in ac-
tion. Walter Oakman, also of the
Guard. had been decorated with the
d. S. O. Coalsworth, of Buffalo, N. Y.
formerly an ambulance driver, is an
aviator in a French squadrilla
The American Field Service percent
age of volunteers for aviation and
other army work is equally high. All
through the history Of the organiza-
tion it contributed to the strength of
French aviation. Section has five
graduates" who have won distinction.
Walter Lowell, of the Lafayettes, is the
best known. John Huetfer, who is in
another sqaudrila. has shot down five
Boches. Harold Willis, Lafayette
fller, was taken prisoner by the Ger
mans. Lief Barclay is a member now
or the trancoAmerican Escadrillc. ].
M. Mcconnell. who left the ambulance
IN 1918, became pilot, and was killed
at Ham.
Together the ambulance services have
contributed to America the nucleus of
a flying service, skilled. ouick-wittcd
day becoming accomplished aviators
and who tomorrow will lead the Ameri-
can aerial armadas.
Summing up the work of the am
bulance. Mr.. Norton said: eve have
given France all we as neutrals could
give. France knows the value of oul
service, and need say no more about
that. But one thing is significant
We showed France through more thar
two years of war that while the
United States was neutral the grea,
body of the nation believed in the
cause Of France and was in entire
sympathy with her. We maintained
always, at Nerdun and in Paris, the
spirit of friendship which now has
united the two countries forever"
New-York tribune., 1918-01-13

Gooch or Oliver Perry or the others
who went out. to get Roswell Sanders,
who was wounded, and the wounded
Frenchmen who were waiting for the
ambulance which never arrived
"Robert NJ. Gooch, was a Rhodes
scholar, from Virginia, and one of the
best drivers in the service. He went
ont on that road while it was still
under fire of the guns which killed
Kelly. He went by himself. too, with
no one to walk in front Of his ambul
ance to guide him through the shell
holes. There was one, a treacherous
place filled with water, but he went
right through it and didn't stop for
shells or anything until he had found
Sanders lying near Kelly, and brought
him in. Then he went out again
through the same fire and brought the
two wounded Frenchmen back.
"Meanwhile, Perry, our chief, had
had telephone call telling him oe
the accident, and had started his own
ambulance out on the road. 1t was
case OF the first man hearing of a
casualty going out to help, no matter
what the Boche was doing.
New-York tribune., 1918-01-13
Smith College Relief Unit
Brings Self Supporting
Comfort to People in Six
teen Villages
Necessaries Sold to In
habitants at Half Cost
Women Take the Road
With Pedlers' Carts
By Ruth Gaines

NIcCOuIl, koOHlue, rance, Dec. ~.
THE sphere of the Smith College
Relief Unit is not bounded. as
one might infer from my previous
sketches, by its headquarters at Gre
court.
The sixteen villages in our charge
are served by our medical staff of two
physicians and three nurses; by our
five social service visitors; by our farm
department, which sells chickens, rab-
bits and milk and buys fodder, fruit
and vegetables and last, and most un-
usual, by our travelling store.
This is in charge of two younger
members of the unit who qualified
early for the work
One became famous in the submarine
zone, not for hcroism, which she had no
opportunity to display, but for firmly
refusing to give up the two steamer
chairs in which she, like other less do
termlned members of the party, spent
the nights on deck Our chairs were
unceremonously pushed aside by the
crew, preparing to hose the deck in the
gray OF dawn. Not SO hers. The unit
rudcly aroused, heard her voice crisn-
ly announcing, Take my chair? guess
mott" And the deck hands understood
the tones, if not the words. and lef.
her IN possession. Her partner rose to
equal prominence by being the first
passenger to reach the cabling office at
our port of arrival. In other words. our
two storekeepers are among the mum
ber of those practical hustlers of whom
Smith College is perhaps most proud.
Storekeepers Move
From the Cave
During the first month of its ex.
istence the store supplies were kent
IN the cellar, or cave, of our ruined
chateau. Gave" describes the place
exactly, particularly it's condition or
our arrival-damp, dirty, filled with
debris and litter left bv successive
quarterings of soldiers. The wheelbar-
rows, which were really part of oul
stock In trade, were Communicated and
WY u'liC iOiieu w us sleeves and went
to work. But even at its best the
cave is a grewsome spot, with saggine
rafters, half-fallen walls and dark
ness that is haunted certainly by bats
and cats, and in our imaginations b,
evil memories.
The storekeepers were therefore de-
lighted to move into a portable house
as soon as it was put up. There ON
shinlng tinware hangs along the wall
with the heavier batteries de cuisine
pals and dishpans below. Bolts o1
cotton flannel and unbleached muslir
are ranged on shelves; beside them ar,
neat piles Of underwear, blouses caps
mutfiers, skirts and dresses. Beneat|
the counter are piled boxes-rarel,
full, SO great is the demandNo,
leather topped s,abots, slippers, galoche.
household linen, blankets, scrubb;n''
cloths and soap. Of these, also, we cal
never get enough to supply the de
mand. The store has real counter
New-York tribune., 1918-01-13

Above-Men of Section 1S, of the
American Ambulance, receiving
decorations for gallantry.
At the right-An American canton
section behind the Chemin-des-
Danes, helping the French ad-
vance.
In the oval-A. Piatt Andrew, for
mer Assistant Secretary of the
Treasury and Inspector General Of
the American Field Service.
New-York tribune., 1918-01-13
5000 American Boys From 101 Colleges Make
Glorious Record in Field Service in France
American
Heart Beat for En-
tente Cause Through
Two Years of Neu-
trality Vivid Story
of Their Deeds

Richard Halls coffin, and said in con-
cluson of the service at the grave:
"Drvcr Richard Hall, your body
alone, gloriously mutilated, disappears;
your soul has ascended to God; your
memory remains in our hearts, imper-
ishable. Les Francais n'oublient pas"
France will never forget these three
thousand Americans.
Copyright 1918. by Edward Marsha)
New-York tribune., 1918-01-13
They Served for
Love of France

They came as volunteers, a few for
the adventure, all for love Of France
The record of these 5000 is not merely
hard work. or suffering, or brave deeds
sometimes rewarded with the Croix de
Guerre; the young men of America have
given life and limb as we'll for the
cause of France. Twelve were killed
in the field, many were wounded, and
as with the armies of all nations, there
is another list of sickness and death as
the additional price they paid.
The ambulance work began with the
war. In October. 1914, the first unit
was organized in London, and came to
Cross. Richard Norton, of Boston, was
the chief. This service later became
the Norton-Harjes Ambulance, and had
200 boys as drivers.
The American Field Service grew out
of the American hospital at Neuilly.
In the first weeks of the war ten Ford
machines were donated, and in Decem-
Der, 1914, were operating in Paris. The
service was permitted to go into the
field in April, 1915, and in April, 1917,
after the American declaration Of war,
was further privileged to engage in
military operations, that is, the canton
service behind the Chemin des Danes.
Eight hundred served in the latter, and
the total number on the rolls of the
organization is 1000. A. Piatt An
drew, formerly Assistant Secretary of
the United States Treasury, and for
two years treasurer of the American
Red Gross, was inspector general of
the field service, in charge Of all its
operations.
The French War Office at first was
reluctant to permit the Americans to
go to the front. The country remain
ing neutral, it was thought inexpedi-
ent to permit it's nationals to observe
military operations, of which close con-
tact with the fighting gave many op-
portunities, and unfair to expose the
boys to the dangers which only those
conscripted as soldiers had hitherto
faced.
From April, 1915, the history of the
ambulance is the history Of the French
participation in the war. Every cam
paign found the Americans more in
number, more experienced, better
equipped. They wore the French he'll
their uniforms were khaki. With the
poilus, they learned the need of the
mask at the Battle of the User, in
1915, for they, too, suffered at the first
German gas attack.
The glory of Verdun is shared by
these American youths. In February,
1916, when the poilu said to the Boche
You shall not pass" and thousands
followed thousands into the breaches
the Germans made in the defcnccs. the
ambulances crept closer and closer to
the lines. Many time they hid amid
the ruins, less than two miles from
the front trenches, in advance of the
big French guns, and always in danger
of bombardment.
"The Boche would just as soon she'll
an ambulance containing wounded as
attack company Of advancing men,
a NortonHarjes driver who had been
through the long battle said, and the
confirmation could be seen in cars
shattered along the roadways
New-York tribune., 1918-01-13
Manned Ambulances
at Verdun and Supply
Trains at the Ladies'
Road Sixteen Paid
Supreme Price of
Their Gallantry
BY George Seldes

nARIS, Jan. 2.--On the third day of
last November it was officially
announced in Paris that the
Chemin des Danes, from Courtecon to
Hurtebisc, was rid of the enemy. The
Germans had fed.
Six months earlier the military
critics warned France that the struggle
Verdun, and the fate of the Allies was
once more fuctuating with the tide of
battle on the slopes of a famous ridge.
The Chemin des Danes was won by
French infantry, French artillery and
800 American college boys, who
carried every one of the millions
of shells used in the fight, every log,
every inch of barbed wire and every
bomb and grenade. They represented
transport, communications, the left
arm of Mars behind the trenches.
France knows these eight hundred
as the first American belligerents.
France-the strength of France in the
feld-knows their companions, the
1900 other American college boys, as
Lies Amis de France the friends of
France from the first days of the war.
The 1900 were ambulance men.
From Flanders and the Somme, from
the Champagne, from Verdun and Lor-
raine and from Salonica, the wounded
poilus have been carried on blood
soaked stretchers in swaying ambu-
lances under shrapnel hail and burst
ing shells to safety and recovery by
these "ambulanciers Americans"
New-York tribune., 1918-01-13
Hall Was First
American to all

1t was here that the first American
was killed in the European war. He
was Richard Hall. and he died on
Christmas Eve, 1915. He went out
alone on the slopes of the mountain
and came back with wounded poilus
On his second trip, a two-hour jour
ney through a snow-filled path swept
by enemy fire, stray she'll hit the
car on the road picked up his body
from the wrecAage, and he was buried
with military honors. The roll Of
honor Of the American Field Service,
compiled few days ago, contains the
names OF sixteen men. and follows+
RICHARD NEVILLE HALL, 1880
Hill Street, Ann Arbor, Mich, Of
Dartmouth College, killed by she'll at
ilarMannswelerkopf, Christmas eve,
1915.
EDWARD CARTER SORTWELL, 5s
State Street, Boston. of Harvard Uni
New-York tribune., 1918-01-13
1O1 Colleges
Are REPRESENTED

One hundred and one colleges and
universities of the United States were
represented by the 1000 men, and
those which sent ten or more follow. in
order:
Harvard, a4s; Yale, 2oe; Princeton,
California, 40; Stanford, 5S; Columbia
AS; Massachusetts Institute of Tech
nology, 45; Pennsylvana. 43; Chicago.
80; Amherst, 81; Michigan, 35; Will
lams, 80; Syracuse, 81; Wisconsin, 32;
Washington est. Louis), 81; Illinois,
30: Missouri, 20; Virginia, %: Bow
doin, 23; Tufts, q; Brown. 10; Boston.
is; Northwestern, 16; Wesleyan, 16;
Beloit, 10; Marietta, l3; Oberlin, 10.
II the ambulance service meant
drinking deeply of the dregs Of the
world disaster, it also gave these thou
sands of spirited American boys enough
adventure, the fight against dailv dam
gers, the contact with the little of
drama that has remained of the battle
fields. The camion drivers had no
recompense but the satisfaction Of
knowing they We're serving France
vitality. They knew nothing but work.
They bruised and boodied themselves
with rolls Of harbed wire that came
undone; they drove through nights and
days IN mud and rain. twenty two
hours at stretch frequently until
they lost human semblance; they took
the five sous a day OF the French SOL
ders, ate soldiers fare. and never had
d day Of rest. And yet some of them
saw poetry in the thing. The "Field
Service Bulletin" is full Of their ef-
forts. Here, for instance. is the trans
port work through the eyes of Elisha
Whittlesy, Of Princeton, and Section
1H2.
New-York tribune., 1918-01-13
CANTON
CANNON
Through the tinted village creep
Under the moon,
Great beetles, one by one,
Whirring in tune.
Blind beetles, one by one,

Blind beetles, one by one,
That drop their iron spawn
And scuttle off. The dust streaks gray
Across the dawn.
The canton men saw all Of the bat
lie of Chemin dcs-Dames. and some
times, like the ambulance drivers. they
could get cicse to the danger zones,
and they suffered causualtes. Section
lS3. all Princeton. received an army
CITATION for its work under she'll fire,
and Bob LaMonte, who lost one hand,
and Henry Thompson, who was injured,
were cited individually and received
the CroiN de Guerre.
The section had worked closer to
the front than any othhr and all the