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Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1918-09-29
Smith Graduates War Benefit
Omaha mnae Promote Dance Carnival Raise Funds for Smith College
Reconstruction Unit, Now at Work in Devastated Portions Of
Belgium

and Lincoln girls, The principals,
Portia Mansfield SWEET and Miss
Charlotte Perry, arrived Saturday
and are house guests of Mrs. E. A.
Holyoke. The girls from Lincoln
boarded the Denver train on which
Miss SWEET and Miss Perry travelled.
Some very intensive rehearsing fol.
lowed their arrival.
The program includes, among 9TH
ers, the following numbers: "In
Grecian Temple" Eleanore Tramp
ton, Helen Porter, Katherine Por-
ter, Donna Gusten, Katherine Bax.
ter, Pleasant Holyokc, El,,ily Bent.
ley, Mary Katherine Parrnslee and
Martha Dox; "The Butterfly
Chase" Elinor Kountze; Greek Maid
with Veil, Miss SWEET, Miss Peril.
Pleasant Holyoke, Emily Bentley,
Marjorie Barstow, Eleanore Tramp.
ton; "Salterella," Elinor Kountze,
Martha Dox, Mary K. Parmalea
and Katherine Baxter; Polish duet,
Eleanore Frampton and Marjorie
Barstow; Egyptian Sun Worship,
Miss SWEET, Martha box, Mary X.
Parmalee, Donna Gusten and Kath-
crime Baxter; Dragon Fly Waltz,
Emily Bentley; Episode du Carnival
and Saturnalia, Pleasant Holyoke.
Charlotte Perry and Marjorie Bar
stow; Jack and Jill, Pleasant Hoi-
yoke and Martha Dox, and Hymn
Of Joy" entire company and Eliza
more Baxter and Janet Sargent.
In response to an urgent telegram
Miss Elinor Kountze will arrive the
morning of the performance to take
part in the program.
Miss Eleanore Frampton, having
made all of her plans for the OPEN
ing of her private classes on Mon
day evening, will travel back to Lin
coin as fast as the speed laws will
permit at the close Of the perform
ance. She will dance a solo,
Miss Bentley, the third soloist, has
had very fattering offer from the
Chicago Grand Opera company.
George Brandeis has very gener-
ously consented to turn over his BOX
to the Smith College club. In the
two boxes reserved for the alumnae
will be Mesdames Allen Reed,
George Kiewit, Harold Evarts, HUI
bert Gloman Walter Preston, Harry
Pierpont, Edwin Bannister and the
Misses Eleanor McGilton, Helen
Robinson, Marjorie Barrett, Myra
Mcclellan, Irene Rosewater, Nell
Ryan, Edna Stickel and Marjorie
Beckett.
In Mrs. Edgar SCOTS box the fol-
lowing prospective Smith girls will
be present: Dorothy Sherman,
Polly Robbins, Dorothy Guckert.
Charlotte Mcdonald, Eleanor and
Margaret Scott, Daisy Rich. Misses
Juliet Griffin and Mae Sommers will
also be guests.
Mrs. A. D. Dunn, w. ]. Hynes
and Floyd Smith are the other box
holders. Thirty-three girls from
Sacred Heart convent will make up
party.
Line parties will include Mrs, Raw
Wagner, 10; Mrs. w. F. Baxter, Id:
Walter Preston, 10; Mrs. Z. G. Nc.
Clifton and Miss Jessie Willard.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1918-09-29
ARMY and Navy Notes

1t. Horace Keller, 1t. Nelson
Ramsey and 1t. Bart Long, who
have been stationed at Fort Omaha,
left Tuesday for Camp Wise, Tex.
1t. Edward Crofoot, 1t. John
McGurck and 1t. Virgil Lewis are
now at Mulberry Island.
Word has been received Of the safe
arrival overseas of 1t. Louis Sweet,
who is with the 86th infantry.
Philip Metz, who is an assistant
paymaster, is now on a United States
ship at sea.
Miss Helen Louise Cornell, who
left September for New York pre-
paratory to sailing for France for
Red Cross canteen service, is now on
the seas, according to word received
by her mother, Mrs. Sidney Cornell.
1t. ]. A. Christie, son of Mr.. and
Mrs. D. H, Christie, who was sta
toned at Fort Omaha for several
months, has been placed in charge
OF the new branch at Mount Wilson,
California. This is an extension of
the balloon school at Arcadia.
Donald Shepard, Frank Campbell
and Bernie HoimQuist left Friday
for the east, where they will attend
Cornell college.
1t. Paul Phillips, who has been
at Fort Omaha, left Monday for the
new balloon school at Arcadia.
1t. Eugene Neville, who has re-
Gently been commissioned lieutenant
in the field artillery, left Monday for
Camp Jackson, Columbia, S. C.,
after spending several days with his
parents Mr.. and Mrs. Elmer Neville.
1t. Harry V. Burnley. IT,, who
was home after receiving his COM
mission at Fort Sheridan, left We'd
nesday for indianapolis, where he
will be stationed.
Maj. Nathan Shiverick, brother OF
Mrs. Floyd NJ. Smith, who was
gassed August 8, has been able to
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1918-09-29
Women Organize Fourth
Liberty Loan Campaign

quite certain that many business
houses of long standing would be
able to obtain some up-to-date hints
to apply to their own business at
the headquarters where the women's
committee is handling its "big job"
Here will be found all the neces-
sary departments from the "sanctum
sanctorum" of its chief head, Mrs.
Frank Judson, and the banking de-
partment, with its corps of typists,
under Mrs. w. A. c. Johnson, down
to the information desk at the en-
trance to the building.
For more than two weeks past
1900 women have been busily at
work on their preliminary reports,
securing the city so that no inhab-
liant, large or small, would go I'M
reported.
Some have had to take interpreters
with them, and all were determined
to make detailed reports. One lieu
tenant in the Tenth ward, convinced
that someone was at home in one
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1918-09-29
Business Girls Red
Cross Auxiliary
Adopts Orphan
Observation-Disclosures:

( Unique among local Red Gross
auxiliaries is the unit of Nickel EN-
ployes, every member of which has
a relative in the service. The auxil-
larry, which meets every Tuesday
evening between and 8 o'clock, is
this year supporting four French
war orphans, and the members are
preparing to send Christmas boxes
to them. The girls will also send
holiday boxes to men of the firm
now in service.
Mrs. George E. Nickel and Mrs,
T. L. Yard assist the girls in their
work. Miss Mayme A. Jardine is
chairman and the unit includes Mrs.
John Gum, Mrs. E. A. Miller, Mrs.
Pauline Lynch, Mrs. o. NJ. Branson
and Misses Esther Jacobsen, Eva
Jacobsen, Honore Yard, Bess Green
berg, Sarah Owens, Eva Heffel-
finger, Gwynuthe Trothe, Josephine
Cleaver, Effie Eggert, Adalyn Solli-
day, Lucille Ellis, Alma Darling and
Agnes Slaven
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1918-09-29

house that she called on, sat on the
doorstep for over one hour. Finally
the door was opened to her and she
presented her mission.
These preliminary reports are
turned in by the lieutenants to their
captains, who check and pass them
on to the majors of the wards.
Finally the reports are passed on to
the sitting committee, under Mrs
o. T. Eastman, and are carefully
sorted and filed.
One of the reports, picked at ran
dom from the files, showed the fol-
lowing notations by the sitting com
mittee, opposite the names and adj
dresses:
First: six in family, including
wife, sons wife and three little chill
dren; son in service; will take two
bonds"
Second: "Wife in hospital. Hus-
band works in grocery. Will buy
one bond on installment."
Third: -Four in family, refused
to take bonds. Conditions indicate
comfortable circumstance"
Fourth: wife and new baby.
Will take one for each"
Fifth: mo one answered the
door. Positive someone home, as
the curtains stirred"
Sixth: Wife and two children OF
soldier in France. Seem in need OF
help
in service. Takes in washing. Has
two bonds; will take two more"
The third and fifth cases were pen
ciled by the sitting committee with
this notation, Report to Flying
Squad The sixth case was marked
.for reference to the civilian relief
committee. The eighth was turned
over to the Council OF Defense.
1t is expected that some OF these
reports will be changed when the
bond sale begins on October 7, but
no man or woman has a ghost of
chance" to. escape this bevy OF
businesslike women who are giving
their undivided time to their coun-
try's call, and whose duty it is to see
that everyone gives his fair share
in the coming bond issue.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1918-09-29

Mrs. L. ]. Healey's staff was on
duty when The Bee photographer,
snapped the photograph which ap-
pears on this page. Others on duty
include Mrs. E. P. Boyer, Mrs. w. ].
Mettlen, Mrs. Lucy Plat and Mrs.
H. H. Berger. The soldiers being
given attention are Cadet R. A.
tones of Fort Omaha and Private
N. w. Pratt.
]. M. Adams, superintendent OF
the Union station, the civilian in the
picture, is an important member"
Of the Omaha Canteen corps. Be-
sides notifying the commandant,
Mrs. Luther L. Kountze and her as
sistant, Mrs. George B. Prinz, Of the
arrival and departure of all troop
trains, Mr.. Adams is the Mr.. Fix
It" of the canteeners' troubles. II
the train is late, the supplies not on
hand, the crowds too large to
handle or just anything generally
goes wrong, Mr.. Adams is the man
the Red Cross women appeal to.
"Ask Mr.. Adams!" is the exhorta-
ton most frequently heard about the
canteen desk.
Mrs. Prinz, here pictured at her
home Office, established in the Ii
brary of her fathers residence, is
another highly important member of
the organization. When Mr.. Adams
telephones trains arrival, Mrs.
Prinz in turn calls out the canteen
company which is to meet the train
and serve the soldiers.
The attractive information" pos
ter seen in the background is the
work of Miss Helen Eastman, tai
ented Omaha art student. There is
talk of reproducing the poster for
distribution to all Red Cross infor
nation booths in the country.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1918-09-29

return to the lines, according to
cablegram received last week by
Mrs. Smith.
George Doane Keller is now in
the quartermasters' corps of the
United States army.
1t. Ray Millard has just received
his commission and is spending a
few days with Mr.. and Mrs. Barton
Willard.
1t. Jack Webster, who entered
Camp Johnson, Florida, in May as
a private, has received his commits
sion as second lieutenant, and is
now in the quartermaster's depart
ment in Washington. Mrs. Web
ster is at the Dewey hotel in Wash
ington.
1t. Hal Brady, son of Mr.. and
Mrs. John S. Brady, is spending a
few days here from Atlanta, Ga,
where he has been stationed.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1918-09-29

Mass; Miss Elizabeth Biddlecome,
Newport, N. H.; Miss Dorothy
Brown, Montclair, N. j.; Miss Anne
Chaplin, Springfield, Mass; Mrs.
Ruth Arnold, Chicago, and Mrs.
Barrett Andrews of New York City.
This is not the first money to be
raised for war work by Omaha alum
nae. Last spring a committee con-
sisting of Mrs. Philip Potter and
Mrs. Edgar H. Scott raised 5000 to
finance Miss Dorothy Ringwalt, a
Smith girl, as canteen worker. The
other half of the fund was raised
by the Dundee Woman's Patriotic
club.
Dance advertisements will be
given by group of young Omaha
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1918-09-29
THAT the feminine mind is adapt

THAT the feminine mind is adapt
able to sudden and complete
changes is demonstrated in the
organization of the women's Fourth
Liberty loan committee of Omaha.
Women who, before the war, were
utterly unversed in the art of sys-
tematizing a business Office, have
evolved a system for selling and
recording sales of Uncle Sans
bonds ard for keeping check on
all his nephews and nieces-their
worldly goods and their dispositions
that has attained fine degree OF
efficiency.
1t is possible that the feminine
mind, so long trained to care for the
thousand or more details connected
with the modern method of house
keeping, is particularly suited to care
for the details of a thorough bust
ness airing of the homes of the en-
tire city.
Whether this is true or not, it is
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1918-09-29
Busy Tire at led Gross A6rzzzan Esk 1T Izoz czzz<o1
Gabby Wetayls
Tells Secrets
of Cupid

A PRETTY Titian-haired girl has
A fallen under Dan Cupid's
spell, Musically inclined, she has
given the last few years to this
study and has spent much time in
the east. This winter this charm
ing young woman will remain at
home, however, and we are sure
that war work will claim her days,
for you may see her standing on
the corners selling tags for every
drive that comes along.
The man, of course, is in service,
and if you have noticed the avia-
ton wings" that his pretty fancee
wears, you may know that he is
member OF Uncle Sans air forces.
Just last week the young officer Wis
tied at the home OF Miss Auburn
Hair and now he is on his way to
France. After the war? Yes, when
our men come marching home, this
wedding will no doubt take place.
TN AUGUST, 1914, Mrs. Howard
l. H. Baldrige, Red Cross state
censor, and her son, Malcolm, had
passage abroad engaged on the
Vaterland. When war was declared
the Baldriges cancelled their sailing
orders.
Four years later to the day, on
the same boat which had been in
termed by the United States and
later put into use, Captain Malcolm
Baldrige set sail for France.
HNHARLEY" LANE, Union
" Pacific official in the days
before Uncle Sam took over the rail-
roads, used to dictate to his secre-
tary the usual complimentary clos
ing, Yours truly" to business let
tiers. But since the general shake
up in the railroads in which many
officials were transferred or relieved
of their posts, has taken place Mr..
Lanes friends or business associ-
ates receive letters signed, 81 beg to
remain"
A VERY charming and pretty
"A young woman, who chronicles
the coming and going of Omahans,
and who records the very informal
wartime affairs known as society"
is telling a few intimate friends of
her engagement.
He" of course, is in the service
of Uncle Sam and is now stationed
at a southern post. The romance
began in the east when this pretty
girl was attending school two or
three years ago.
The wedding date is indefinite, one
of the latter the war" affairs, no
doubt, but still one never can tell
CABBY strolled into the voca-
VI tional guidance Office in the
city hall the other morning just in
time to hear a little lecture on
"Americanization." A German moth
err was trying to get Miss Foster to
grant a permit to her child to stay
out of school, and she was explain
ing her reasons in German. A little
bird has told Gabby that Miss Fos-
ter is a postmaster of that language,
but she failed TO understand it that
morning. EFF you want to talk to
me" she told the mother, you will
talk American" The mother sput-
tered and fumed, but to no avail.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1918-09-29

People who complain be-
cause they are unable to get
some little Injuries should re-
member that our forefathers
lived without sugar till the thir-
teenth century, without coal
till the fourteenth, without but
ter till the fifteenth, without
tobacco and potatoes till the
sixteenth, without tea, coffee
and soap till the seventeenth,
without umbrellas and lamps
till the eighteenth. and without
trains, telegraphs, telephone,
gas and matches till the nine
teenth: without automobiles,
electric appliances, aeroplanes
and wireless or U-boats until
the twentieth century.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1918-09-29
RED Cross C@mt@@m
Corps Looks After
Soldiers lE111r@mt@


klVIYILL you direct to the Y M. c. A."
w "' 1 find place for wife while 1
am stationed al FortO Omaha"
Red provide place for soldiers night?
money travelling and make
nv connections until morning"
notify mother through here today could
not stay long enough telephone herr"
Have magazines for this n?
These and hundred similar questions requests and calls
are handled information
members of the Two duty each
day but Sunday large corps
~
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1918-09-29
NOTTEN up on a weeks notice,
Smith COLLAGE uorner'S hepefI I

n OFTEN up on a weeks notice,
r Smith college women's benefit
~ performance, Monday at 4
O'Clock in the Brandeis theater, for
their alma matters reconstruction
unit at work at Chateau Thierry, on
the River Marine, will establish
record in successful war benefit
promotions. Among the Smith
women who have dedicated them
selves to this unique service are
Miss Dorothy Young of Newark, N.
J.; Miss Mary Stevenson, Pittsheld,
Mass; Miss Edna True, Chicago;
Miss Anna Rochester, Buffalo; Miss
Marie Volts, Newark, N. J.; Miss
Catherine Hooper, Montclair, N. J.;
Miss Elizabeth Bliss, Worcester,
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1918-09-29
The Biz Job
By ARTHUR GUITERMAN

It's the biggest job the nation tackled;
It's the job we have to finish, what may;
If we hope groaning world unshacked,
We do it in biggest, grandest way.
We rally the banner that has known defeat
We the biggest army have the biggest feet
And biggest clouds of apane and the biggest CT
wheat
And we dare grudge the price have pay
When the biggest, grandest nation has to borrow
1t do it the biggest, grandest plan
As you look the glory of tomorrow,
You help with every dollar that you can.
It's the biggest loan for freedom and for all and fair
And it isn't for the nabob and the muti-milonaire,
But you people, take the biggest share
So down with all your money like a mani
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1918-09-29
Story Tellers' League.

Omaha Story Tellers' league will
have luncheon at the Blackstone
Saturday, October 5, at / p. m. This
will be the opening meeting of the
wear.
Evening star., 1918-07-17
BIG BOXING PROGRAM
Many Fighting Stars Battle for
Soldiers to Buy Athletic
Equipment.

NEW YORK. July 17.-Prominent
ppgilists met In bouts at Madison
Square Garden last night in a bene-
At to buy athletic equipment for
soldiers. The feature bout, between
Jack Dempsey and Billy Miske.
heavyweights. was called on rs
Dempsey sprsined an ankle in gym
nasium work In the afternoon.
Benny Leonard. lightweight cham
pdon. outboxed Willie Jackson of
New York in . four-round bout Augie
Rather of Fort Wadswsrth and Eeret.
Ross Of Zachary. Taylor Camp. Louis
vflle. Ky, welterweights. went four
rounds. with Rather winning on points.
Sergt. Andy Terrano OF Fort wads-
worth won on q foul ia the third
round of a four-round match from
Jimmy Dolan. Pelham Bay naval re-
ssrves. Both are welterweights.
In a heavyweight four-round bout.
Kid Norfolk outfought Jim johnson.
Packy Mcfarland of Chicago gave q
three-round exhibition with D.
Shields Of New York.
In other fonr-round bouts. Private
Johnny Solsberg outpointed Corr.
Yankee Brandt, both at Camp Up
ton; and Joe Lynch, bantamweight of
Camp WaAsworth. defeated Dick
Loadman OF Buffalo.
Evening star., 1918-07-17
EQUIPMENT NEEDED.
flR2oDD TEAMS.
Base Ball Making Great De.
.lrlands for Outfits Among
Troops in England
BIZ II. C. BYRD.

Over In England the demand for
base bail material is far greater than
the supply. according to a report
made by Vice Consul Hayes to q de-
partmeIit OF the United States 4goy-
ernment. According to his estimates,
equipment for something like 1000
teams. more than 10000 men, will be
needed during the present season.
Statistics given by Hayes relative
to sports and sports paraphernalia
In England are interesting.
What 1Iayes says:
'The extent to which the war has
diminished the demand for athletic
goods in England has been estimated
by the head Of a prominent dffm.
manufacturing and importing aport-
ing goods. as being about so per cent
on all goods except foot balls. boxing
gloves and base bail equipment
"The demand for base ball equip
ment has at all times during the war
far exceeded the supply. This Is di-
srectly attributable to the coming OF
the Canadian expedftionary forces.
and the limited supply of base ball
to time the leading Arms have i'm
ported large quantities OF base ball
goods, but, unable to gauge the mar
ket for the coming year. continued ia
underestimate the demand until the
restriction Of imports made the OBJ
tanning of q sufficient stock extreme
ly difficult.
1915 various leagues were formed,
composed OF teams representing Ca
madam hospitals and teams of young
American college men employed in the
London branches Of American firms.
Games were played at summer resorts
in England and ireland, for charity.
to exceptionally. large crowds. and
public encouraged other hospitals to
place teams in the deld. In 1917
there were n the Canadian army 10l
organized ball teams. and probably
another 500 or 100 that were NOT
members Of any league or officially
recognised.
AT present. when the American
Army and the American Navy have
forces in England, stocks OF base
ball goods are almost exhausted, and
II is impossible to satisfy q con
stantly increasing demand from camps
and stations for balls, bats. gloves.
masks. shoes. protectors. etc 1t IL
estimated that there win be q de-
mand for base hail gear during the
present season to OUTFIT 2.0ee teams.
and all of 1t must be brought over
from New York.
THE books Of a large London sports
store indicate the increased demand
for base ball equipment since 1914. In
1915 the approximate value Of its i'm
ports was $4,000: in 1915. $40. 900: in
1917. $4,000. and In 1918. to date,
1900. On the other hand. in some
lines, such as cricket tennis rackets
and golf clubs, the demand has de-
Evening star., 1918-07-17

It is possible that no ruling on the
appeal from the work or fght order
of Ainsmith or any other major league
ball player will be made until after
the baseball season ends; that the
authorities will have it understood
that until a decision Is rendered an
appeal will enable a notified regis
trant to continue in the occupation he
now is engaged without having his
deferred classification altered. This
would permit professional base ball TO
go on, and If 1t is the conclusion OF
the officials that continuation or the
game is desirable it could be MADE
possible in this manner. RELIEF from
the suspense under which all con-
nected with base ball now are labor
ing is-what Is most earnestly soeght.
No matter how 1t Is brought aoout'
it will be welcome.
1t is not merely the mental stress
being suffered by men having their
all invested in the game. The play
ers who have only the diamond TO
rely on for the support of their de-
pendents, who have received or Know
they soon will receive orders making
it obligatory for them to find some
thing useful to do. are leaving their
teams in Increasing numbers.
If the ultimate decision Is favorable
to base ball the sacrifices a1ectins
their wives and children these players
made will have been unnecessary, as
will the loss to the team owners. II
the game officially is decided to be
on-essential those who are to be
thrown out Of employment are losing
opportunities to obtain work calcu-
lated best to protect their depend
enfs~f a financial sense. A case IN
point is that Of Joe Judge, the WASH
fngton first baseman. Judge was no
titled more than a week ago to en-
gage IN some essential occupation or
have his. classification changed from
"A to l. Judge is married and has a
young daughter. He naturally is
anxious to make sure they will want
for nothing. His first thought was
to take advantage Of an opening Of
fered him in an industrial concerR
at 4 salary far less than he is receiv-
ing for playing ball, but sufficient to
support his dependents properly. He
has hasitated to do this in view OF
the fact that base ball has not yet
been definitely declared non-essential.
If the, game finally. Is held to be not
prodaetive his chance to get the job
offered him may be gone.