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Omaha daily bee., 1918-12-01
Omaha Girl in lie Puy
Mona Cowell Writes of French Village in Haute
Loire District Where She Will Do Recon-
struction Work for Red Cross
Among Repatrias.-

sleep of the just, or of very tired
girl, my first night. was awakened
by Germaine, French refugee, who
comes each morning for a couple of
hours. Gertrude was thoughtful to
get this neat, pretty bonnie, who will
look after our room, get our choco-
late, launder our clothes, mend and
clean our boots for the munihcent
sum of FIVE francs per week. She
comes from a devastated region in
the north. Her husband is in the
army and she welcomes the chance
to earn a little for her two hours
work eaeh day to supplement the
meager allowance that comes to the
wife of French soldier. True to re-
ports of French weather, it simply
poured, my first day, and indeed
seemed unable to stop.
Croix Rouge Bureau.
Bright and early l went with
Gertrude to the Bureau, as the main
Office of the Croix Rouge Americana
is called. The whole is divided into
zones for Red Cross purposes. Each
zone is composed of so many de-
partments, somewhat comparable to
our states at home, tho about the
size of one county. This is the Haute
Loire department. lie Puy is the
chief city, where the prefecture is.
In all the arondissments are local
committees. There are some 10000
refugees and repatries in Haute Loire
now. None are quartered at lie
Puy directly, but some are here who,
by getting work, can pay their own
way. My very first day it was my
good fortune to meet several French
girls of the local relief committee.
Gertrude has a very nice, capable
French stenographer, to whom she
speaks French glibly, and l wonder
if shall ever do as well.
lie Puy, as you know, is a very
old town, and it is nestled among
very verdant hills beneath the bluest
of skies. Tho very cool, one is con-
scious of being in southern France.
The houses are centuries old, stucco,
with red tile roofs. The streets are
narrow, for the most part, with an
occasional open place or square. In
some of these are very lovely stone
fountains. The people wear simple
dark clothes, and the peasant women
white caps, and most of them wooden
shoes. Oxen are common. and sheD-
herds drive their flocks through the
streets to market. One feels as if it
we're all a beautiful dream, save
when passing a convalescent hospi-
tal or when one sees some of the
rather draggled poilus home on
permission.
Visit Cathedral.
After closing time we went up to
the cathedral. Begun in the seventh
century, it was completed for the
most part in the 18th century. There
is remote cloister, with pillars,
having most exquisite capitals. built
about a hollow square. There is
sun dial, covered with ivy and soft,
messy, green things. Its pea ;eful
situation awakens a meditative mood.
The church itself is wonderful. The
builder must have had a glimpse of
real spirituality-the moderns have
given up much of the beautiful found
in these cathedrals,- so ,mellowed by
age.
Omaha daily bee., 1918-12-01
Do You Want aBaby?
Warm Hearted Men and Women Now Realize Chill
dren Need. Not Only Shelter, Food and
Clothing, but Freedom, Happiness
and Love,~Most of ALL
and Love, Most OF All.

py, had actually a bad physical eff
feet.
And they came to the, conclusion
that even from scientific stand
point, children need, not only shell
ter and food and clothing, but free
dom and happiness and love.
l suppose there aren't many in
FAINT asylums in the world that can
supply love in anything like the
measure that it's needed. But any
normal, happy home should be able
to supply plenty of it. And when
every such home demands an ex-
ira baby to love. and care for, the
orphan millennium will be on its
way.
And it will be much promptef
and pleasanter millennium because
women are seeing that child-a dop-
ton isn't just matter of being
charitable sand kind.
If two lonely people, disappoint-
ed in their own hope of parenthood,
take a baby that happens to be
friendless, but that hasn't bit less
infant charm on that account, the
baby surely isn't more to be con-
graduated than they are.
A normal woman has mother
emotions, and hungers for a child
toward which to direct them. What
is she to do with this extra, unsatis-
fed love unless, lacking a child of
her own, she finds another baby to
take its place?
Give Your Child Companions.
And one baby, by the way isn't
ever enough. 1t isn't good for a
baby to be an onlySchild or for a
mother to focus all her love and in
terest on one object.
"But one baby is all swe can at
ford" some mother who has taken
the plunge of adopting a single or
phan will object
Children do cost something, it is
true. There are sickness and shoes
and schooling tosbe taken into ac-
count always.
But if one cares enough for the
experience of doing the best one
can to develop little human beings,
IF the love of them and the care of
them is sweet enough ,one is willing
Omaha daily bee., 1918-12-01
By BEATRICE FAIRFAX
The world is growing kinder

The world is growing kinder to
orphans.
Nowadays it doesn't follow in
evitably that if your parents are
dead somebody will clip your hair
very close and put you in a blue
Bingham apron and make you an
inmate of a so-called home" that
has many of the features of a jail.
On the contrary, there's a very
good chance that somebody will
adopt you and give you a chance to
grow up in really human surround
ings. +
1t used 70 be the case that married
couples either had children of their
own or else remained sternly and
,forlornly childless Its such risk
to take irr- a strange, child" people
had a way of saying. you can new
er tell how he will turn out"
They forgot the same thing is
true when a child is of ones own
flesh and blood. Who knows
whether baby will grow up to be
tall or short4a useful servant of his
country or an idle waster? Guaran-
tees as to cfild's future can't pos
sibly be issued, even if his parents
are the most sound and praisewor-
thy in the world. There's chance in
it always-whether its ones own
blamelessly ancestored progeny or
the nameless baby from the orphan
asylum.
This is what people with empty
homes have been learning to realize.
They are coming to see that home
less, parentless baby isn't an OBJ
ject to inspire fear in anybody. So
one by one they are letting down the
bars, both the bars you can sec and
those you can't, and they are decid-
ing to give the orphans Of the world
a chance.
Home and Love Needed.
Warm hearted, sensible men and
women have always known That
rigid institutional life was bad for
children. A few years ago scientific
people found this out too. They
said that living by machinery, hav-
ing no freedom and never being hap.
T.
Omaha daily bee., 1918-12-01

to practice whatever economies may
be necessary.
Perhaps one can cut down on
house rent or Clothes, or -amuse-
ment. 1t will be worth while, what
ever it issl Scarcely any price is too
high to pay for the privilege of be-
ing a parent. ASK any wise mother
or father whom you may happen to
know whether this isn't true.
It's beautiful thing to see, this
eager, generous intelligent kind of
motherhood, that is bent on being
of service to the next generation,
and refuses to be limited by any
Withholding on the part of the stork.
And mother who declines to make
any distinction between her own
child and the motherless one whom
she has just happened to pick up
is a mother worth having.
Besides mothers who have adopt
ed children know a secret that all
women should know. 1t is that love
of, a child doesn't depend on being
its parent. That one loves any child
Omaha daily bee., 1918-12-01
~ r Y days are spent much as if
M | was an apprentice to a

r Y days are spent much as il
MI | was an apprentice to a
new trade, learning, as we
say in the states, the ropes" wrote
Miss Mona Cowell, in a recent letter
from France. THE war news is en-
couraging now, Bulgaria signing the
peace treaty seems like the begin
ming Of the end. Even the French
are hopeful that the end is near. II
ever nation should be war-weary
they skould-after four years. We
have a convoy of repatries coming
this week, and also the zone dele
gate, our boss, which is a fearful
combination.
To-day we had quite a drop in
temperature, which | hope wifi not
be permanent. It's too tragic to
have the poor creatures, many of
whom have no heavy clothing, 60
into unheated rooms. That this part
of France is warm in winter is fic-
ton, as it is some 1900 feet above
sea level. No, | have not thrown my
woolens into the sea, firstly be-
cause there is no sea-, only the river
Loire; and, secondly, because l will
be very glad to have them to wear,
from all reports. | do not know
whether the ban on shipping things
is likely to be lifted soon or not. If
it is we would rather have chocolate
or candy than anything else. Saving
the lack of sugar, the food is really
decent. Ny chocolate was most
welcome; also what l collected in
London and Paris. Here it is simply
non-existant.
Arrival at lie Puy. .
Of her arrival at lie Puy, where
the Omaha girl is in Red Cross ser
vice, she wrote as follows:
I'VE were bundled into a rather
tumble-down old wagon to come
rafting over the cobble-stones to
the Grand Hotel GARNER. 1t is set
back in sort of court yard, with a
tiny garden, where in the quaint,
wrought iron summer houses, we eat
our petit de jeuner. Nothing for me
to- do but speak French, as madame
at the desk speaks nothing else. The
owner, M. GARNER, is at the front,
and his mother and daughter live
here, and they have some sort OF a
manageress. l am lucky to get one
of the few rooms with a bath. Ger
trude and | share the cost. The tar
iff is to be 200 francs per month,
making my room, meals and bath
total $54 per month. Considering
that in Paris one can get, only the
smallest room for II francs with
only rolls and chocolate breakfast)
per diem, this is marvellous. There
will be plenty, however, for me to
do with my surplus, can see.
II need not state that | slept the
Omaha daily bee., 1918-12-01
An Ancient Toast

1t was a grand night in the old chival-
ric time. the wine circling around the
board In noble hall, and the sculptured
walls rang with sentiment, and song. The
lady of each knightly heart was pledged
by name, and many syllable significant
Of loveliness had been uttered. until it
came to st. Icons turn, when, lifting the
sparkling cup on high
"I drink to one" he said,
Whose image never may depart,
Deep-graven on a grateful heart,
Till memory is dead;
ITO one whose love for me shall last
When lighter passions shall have
passed,
So holy it's, and true;
To one whose love hath longer
dwelt,
More deeply hxedS more keenly
felt,
Than any pledged to your
Each guest upstarted at the word,
And laid hand upon his sword,
With fiery, flashing eye;
And Stanley said: 1--WE crave the
name,
Proud knight, of this most peerless
dame,
Whose love you count so high"
St. Leon paused, as if he would
Not breathe her name in careless
mood
Thus lightly to another.
Then bent his noble head, as
though
To give that name the reverence
DUE
And gently said, "My mother"
Omaha daily bee., 1918-12-01

that is dependent on one. That it's
the easiest thing in the world to DEF
velop strong, real mother love for
small being whom one never saw
until month ago.
The mother who felt jealous
dislike of every child outside her
own family is pretty thoroughly ex-
tinct. -.
The universal mother type is TAX
ing her place. y
Omaha daily bee., 1918-12-01

throughout the country have organ
lied canteens. The organization of
the canteen units varies with the. To-
cation of the chapters. At railroad
functions and important cities, can
teen service women are continuous
ly on call, sometimes at the station,
and often, as in Philadelphia,
Omaha and Detroit, in their own
canteen hut, where they have cam
teen rations always in stock ready
for requisition.
In smaller towns where troop
trains seldom stop for more than a
few moments, canteen service is linn
tied to the occasions when a troop
train commander telegraphs to the
local Red Cross chapter requesting
supplies.
Every Red Cross division has a
divisional director of canteen service
whose duty it is to see that the
chapter units in each division are CO.
ordinated and that the best methods
of service are adopted throughout.
Each canteen unit is offfcered by a
captain. two lieutenants, a supply
clerk and mail clerk.-General
Federation, Magazine.
Omaha daily bee., 1918-12-01

an honorary society, to enlist in the
army.
Louis Moser, former city sales
man for the Packard automobile
company, is stationed at Detroit,
Mich. where he is in. the inspection
department. Of the signal corps.
Edwin Moser left his studies at
Central High school and his place
as center on the high school foot
ball team, to don the khaki. He
also is stationed at Detroit in the
inspection department of the signal
corps.
Omaha daily bee., 1918-12-01

TOUR stars, representing the
II quartet of stalwart sons she
has given to Unclex Sam hang
in the service flag of Mrs. E. E.
Moser, 5S05 Florence boulevard. All
four are prominent in Nebraska uni
versity and Central High school
circles.
DR.. R. Allyn Moser was COM
missioned a first lieutenant just
few days after the United States
entered the war. He was the first
doctor in Nebraska to join the col
ors and was sent across immedi-
ately and served on the field of bat
Omaha daily bee., 1918-12-01

The minimum wage of adult ex-
perienced women workers in Winni-
peg, in factories where foodstaffs
other than candies are made, is not
less than $40 week.
Omaha daily bee., 1918-12-01

kept on with his work. Many days
he has cared for more than 100 pa
,tients.
The Omaha lad worked under
shell fire from October until July
and participated in the never-to-be-
forgotten 45-day retirement when
the Huns started their drive on
March 81.
First Lieutenant Ellsworth Moser
was commissioned at the first Off
GERS training camp at Fort Smelling
and is adjutant of the Third Battal-
ion of the ThirtY-sixth infantry at
Omaha daily bee., 1918-12-01

|GE FORGE PAUL BORGLUM had
~ heard his mother and father
discussing the terms of the arrnis-
tlce, and how Marshal Foch had Kept
the emissaries of the kaiser waiting
for two hours before he would give
them an audience.
Madame Borglum, whose brother.
General Vignal, studied in the mill
tary school under the imam of God"
ventured the opinion that Marshal
foch had given the time to conf
munlon with God or had needed
that time to control his feelings, 10
regain mastery of himself, before
meeting the Germans who had
wrought so much havoc on the
world.
Perhaps Marshal Foch was read.~
ing his favorite book" -vouchsafed
young George Paul.
1TS he married." Gabby heard
l maiden ask this old but never
undressing question the other
day. Yes" replied her friend. "IIe
was evidently married with a double
ring ceremony for he wears a we'd
ding ting"
u approve of that" said the first
girl. Think how much trouble it
would save if every married man
wore a ring or service pin or
something
Omaha daily bee., 1918-12-01
PART TWO

A M US E M E N rs
PAGES / TO IA
Omaha daily bee., 1918-12-01
PART TWO

SOCIET Y SECTIOl
- PAGES 1 TO- n
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1918-10-18
Twenty-Five Years Ago.

Cured tobacco is selling around 10
cents but no market has yet developed
for the new crop.
The old McChesney mill at Indian
Ford is undergoing repairs converting
it into feed mill.
The first step in the contest of the
Daniel Stone will was begun in the pro-
bate court this week.
The collapse of two of Janesville's
boom enterprises promoted by one
Hamilton of Ohio has developed some
fine examples of financiering. The
original investors have only nicely en-
gravei stock certificates to show for
their money.
An orphan asylum at Madison was
destroyed by fire on the Is inst The
property was built by Gov. Fs~gell in
war time. purchased by the 81 te and
used as hospital for wounded soldiers
until it passed into the hands of the
Norwegian synod.
Friday, Oct. 20, 1893.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1918-10-18

WHEN peace comes, it will come
quickly. All will be changed in the
twinkling of an eye. Our millions>of
soldiers and sailors in Europe, in army
training camps and on the sea will be-
come Immediately anxious to return to
their homes. Government contracts
for ships, munitions and war supplies
of all kinds, aggregating billions of
dollars, are likely to be hastily cam
celled and the millions of the workers
in war industries (who, although they
have made high wages, have saved but
little, if anything) thrown out of work
and compelled promptly to get other
means of livelihood or suffer want;
prices of war stocks, war bonds and
war commodities of all kinds are likely
to tumble, and peace-time industrial
stocks and supplies go sky-rocketing;
and, unless the country is prepared in
advance for the change the situation
will doubtless result in widespread con-
fusion, distress and disaster. If, bow
ever, the manifestly necessary steps
are taken in preparation for this ad-
vent of world-peace, there need be no
confusion nor distress to mar the uni
versal happiness that will be our right
full heritage when peace comes. How
ever, the time available for these es-
sential preparations is short and they
must be begun at once if these por-
tending evils are to be averted.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1918-10-18
Primary Election Fraud.

California is getting nauseating
dose of the primary election nostrum.
The supreme court has upheld the con-
stitutionality of its primary election
law, and at this distance it appears that
the democrats are not only minus a
candidate for governor, but there does
not seem to be any legal way for them
to fill the vacancy. Governor Stephens
won the republican nomination. Mayor
Rolph of San Francisco was permitted
under the law to make the race on both
the republican and democratic tickets.
He lost the republican nomination, but
defeated Francis J. Heney, candidate
for the democratic nomination. The
primary law barred Heney from max
ing the race, so he took his case to
court, only t. be told that the law
stands between him and his goal
This is the fraudulent law that was
calculated to permit the people of Cal
ifornia free and full expression, yet
it seems to have barred one political
party from having candidate for
governor. No law that can be manip-
ulated in this manner is in the inter-
ests of all the people. The democrats
are entitled to have a candidate for
governor, and if law has shut them
out it should be repealed. The modern
primary law is wonderful and dan
gerous thing. At present it is hated
only second to the kaiser From New
York there comes wall that the pri-
mary law is a tumble of machinery
that does not work In Indiana the
leaders of both political parties have
about decided that in its present form
the primary law is a delusion rather
than efficient agency for full and free
expression of the peoples preferences.
In Wisconsin it is demonstrated farce,
bringing about here the same result in
this congressional district as now tires
the patience of California democrats.
Recently William Fl. Taft closed an ar
ticle on primary laws in this country
with the exclamation: t'Oh, Lord,
how long?' The echo Of this question
is heard in practically every state OF
the union. Madison Democrat.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1918-10-18

No ONE who knows the facts has
ANYTHING but praise for the attitude
which Governor Philip has shown in
this state since the entrance of this
country into the war. Besides aiding
in the legislation necessary for the Gre
alton of the Council of Defense and
seeing to it that the soldiers who went
as volunteers from Wisconsin were
equipped for war duty, Governor Phil
ipp was one of the first to take the
stump in the state in support of the
war issues, and strongly supported the
attitude of this government in enter
ing this war. What is more, the Gov
ernor delivered his speeches in some
sections of the state where it was said
there was opposition to the war atti-
tude of the nation. In all of his public
utterances in regard to the war, the
Governor has strongly supported the
nations aims and only recently eastern
papers praised the speeches of the Gov
ernor as well expressing the American
idea of the war and the ideals for
which the nation was fighting, and re-
ferred to one Of the addresses as "A
fountain of inspiration to any person
who may need little stiffening of the
backbone in dealing with the TeutonIc
powers on peace terms. The Gov
ernor has warned in emphatic language
against any peace which was not con-
sonant with the fundamental principles
which caused this country to enter the
war, and only recently declared that
this country could enter into no peace
treaty which did not formally recognize
these principles. incidentally, the Gov
ernor has son in the service and a
daughter who is enlisted in the war
service of the Red Cross as graduate
trained nurse
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1918-10-18

AN IMPORTANT use has been found
for fish scales, namely, as reinforce
ment for rubber, according to the No
vember Popular Mechanics Magazine.
The resiliency and toughness of this
waste product is well known. The in
ventor of the new rubber compound
claims that the cellular structure and
the chemical nature of the scales are
such that they readily combine with
rubber and respond to sulphur treat
ment in the same manner as rubber.
Thus, fish scales and rubber combined
can be vulcanized to produce sub
stance that is tough and hard, but at
the same time, elastic.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1918-10-18
Government Telephone Exactions.

The Postmaster General has ordered
the telephone company to make con-
nection fee charge of $500 for Install
ing a telephone, and not less than So. 90
for moving a telephone. These charges
to apply in all cases except where a
party moves into place where tele-
phone service is already established.
and there is no lapse of service, then
the minimum charge of $500 shall ap-
ply. The reason given for this order is
the necessity Of conserving labor and
material and to eliminate cost which
is now borne by Il. permanent sub
scriber of the telepho.-e.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1918-10-18


IT is your patriotic duty to safe
guard your property against all posi-
bility of fire. The nations resources
in men, money and property must be
dedicated and devoted to the one OBJ
ject of winning the war. Food de-
stroyed robs our armies and needy
allies. Neither men, money nor ma
terials should now be used in the con-
struction of buildings needlessy de-
stroyed.by fire. The government right
ly discourages all construction work
not necessary to the successful prose
cution of the war. Both lives and
property are of priceless value today
while war calls for its terrible toll and
sacrifice. Are you doing all you can to
prevent fire? If not, you fail in your
duty as a patriotic citizen.