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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-02-10

Phenomenal Sale of Laces, Embr oidercs and Dress
Trimmings Offers Savings Running Up to Half and
More. Street roor Central Building
6,S76 Pieces of English Porcelain Dinnerware in
Great Sale at Very Low Prices Includes 5 Piece Eng
lish Porcelain Dinner Set at 1895.
Subway Building
Queen Anne Design Living Room Suites in the Half
Yearly Furniture Sale Arc $50 Below Regular Prices
at $40; Pieces. Fourth aoor East Badng.
ESQ Small Wilton Rugs of Famous Makes, $10.5o.
624 Women's Smart Cotton Dresses in Great
Value. Giving Offer at $3.50
Second aoor Central Building.
1900 Untrimmed Straw Hats in Another Great
Purchase at S9c.
Mezzanne Hoors. Eas, building.
Sale of 5000 Pieces Of Remarkably Fine Lingerie
76c., S4c, gao. Second l.as Building.
Women's Sample" Spring Goats That Are Unusual
Bargains at $2475. Central Building.
SIS to Sis Savings Womens Hudson Seal
Coats dyed MuskraD. Second floor, Central Hulang
Misses New Trench" Coats at Sic. 9s and $3.50.
floor. Central snlIns.
c. B. la Spirite Corsets at 81 40; Half Price.
Second floor, East Building
Amazingly Lovely Georgette Crepe Bouses at $279.
Second floor. East Building.
Of So. Court. street foor, Central building.
Womens Linen Handkerchiefs, 1lc.; Seconds OF our
19c. and Csc Grades Street floor. Central Building.
Our Most Unusual Offering Of Diamond .Jewelry In
cludes AK Gold Brooches $1l.45, That Should Be
SIS to $40. Street soor. Central Building.
5000 Suits Mems Pajamas at CSC.
East Building
Mems Cotton Socks, Unusually Good, at 17c. Pair.
building
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-02-10

things done if they arc not too i'm
portant. SO We'll give the women some
of these things to do. Feed their pa
triotism. Get them started on knit
ting, though goodness knows we don't
take their knitting very seriously. But
it's good psychology, anyway. Well
organize the homes. Keep the women
enthusiastic; that's what VIC want.
Last spring several women (thcy
happened to be rather important wom-
en-, educated by experience in knowl
edge Of the capacities of American
women made a call on Howard Coffin,
in Washington. Mr.. Coffin was a mem
Der of the advisory commission to the
Council of National Defence. lie was
told that the women were waiting to
take their part in the war and thcy
wanted to know if the Council Of Ma
tional Defence had considered any
plans for them. The council had not
The council had some ideas on tho
subject. Red Cross, food, knitting, etc.
to which these deliberate women made
the objection that as n war programme
it was far and away too small and
insufficient.
What. then. would these several
womcp themselves propose? They were
prepared for that.
They proposed first that the women
have part in the extended machinery
Of the government. manufactured to
facilitate getting the nation ready for
war And then they proposed that a
definite programme be drawn up. Il
progra anime that might we'll enough in
cludc knitting in its various branches,
but which would be devoted foremost
and Significantly to the functioning Of
women in the actual production Of food
and clothing and munitions Of the
country. America, they said, was a
great nation, but the war showed signs
Of becoming great and prolonged
war; and if the signs were good signs
it would be prolonged enough to
gravcly dcpletc the farms and the fac
tories Of their man power. When the
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-02-10
Woman S Idea Of
Her Province

4hc Womcn's Committee has itself
,orcscen the time. in recent pamph
let, when the demand for men in the
armies and munltion plants will force
NC women to the farms to supplv the
700 essential to victory. Yet timidlv
inc pamphlet pledges this future aid
vegetable gardening, poultry, eggs and
DAIRY products these arc looked on as
a proper province for woman's aid in
inc 1000 war. They arc, it is true. But
'''ey scarcely lmpingc on circle which
grows wider and wider as the arn,ie,
increase and the Allied pantry grows
Da''c", III IS to the credit Of ,hc
pamph'ct that 1t advises women to learn
~ manage horses, so they can drive
reaper and binder and ride cultivators
IT they would actually contributc
toward victory.
But action on this suggestion is NOT
forthcoming. The women themselves
TACK inc power to put it into effect. al
Inougn they arc wide awake to it's nos
S'D'lit'es and TO it's future need. An
Up'n,on That seems TO be growing in
F" ash'ngton, aud attributed first to Sec.
rotary Houston. is that industry rather
imam agriculture is the road for mo
women to travel. However that NAV
pc, 1T is true that. continued in it's nrcs.
c"' course. another year of war will
1 I'm the United States delivering its
tar'n lapor TO battle and leaving behind
thousands OF brown acres with no hands
70 crih@ 1hem to greencry again.
IT 1t requires change in social at-
ti'udc to organize land army cf
women, the needs Of war surely OUGHT
10 provide an incentive sharp enough TO
prlng even that about. The women
'ncmsclycs arc the least to trouble
a ,'le, 1hcy have shown abundantly
'hey Know how to take care of them
selves Their desire to help i, unfa;j-
ing and strong. Surely the several
gentlemen who compose the Council of
National Defence ought to be sufficient
~ concerned and sufficiently intclli-
gent to recognize the ability of the
M Mo'"en 10 take real and vital part, to
ma a way for the women actually 10
get INTO this battle for survival At their
full strength. W
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-02-10
American Woman Only Still Denied
Her Fair Share of Serious War Work
In Washington She Is
Permitted to Knit,
Talk Children's We'll
fare and Keep a Huge
Letter File
BY Ralph Block

YTHIS is story about women. 1t is
not the usual story about women.
1t isn't the story we've been
hearing for the last quarter-ccntury
about women. 1t has nothing so
stormy about it. nothing SO passionate
IS the story OF the fight the women
have made to exercise their Judgment
II government. But it is tragic story
Just the same. tragic because deep
down in it lie so many stupiditics, SO
many official hesitations, such thinncss
Of imagination on the part Of some of
the men who arc making war for US.
1t is a tragic story because it in
wolves such an enormous wastaGe Of
devotion, OF patriotism, Of that strange
endurance that women have in over
towering quantity. And it is even an
.ronic story. For it is the story Of
Washington's refusal by its silence to
put the women Of America cndurinsly
and powerfully into the job of keeping
the nation OH its feet. And it is a
refusal in tho face of the most wearing,
sapping, Grazing and brutalizing OK
porienco that the years havo brought
10 humankind.
Waiting always used to be woman's
Job in war time. 1t isn't any more.
They know it now in France, in lug
land and in Germany. They know it
N all Of the United States of America,
but it hasn't been discovered yet in
tho District of Columbia. Washington
still believes faithfully that woman's
Job in war time ends when She has
pledged her kitchen to the Food Com
mission and has done her stint Of
trench knitting and Red Cross bandag
ing. 1t may look bencvolcntly but
scarccly seriously upon an advcnturing
lady trolley conductor or here and
there daring lady elevator woman.
1t has still to learn. and even more 10
understand. that in England the women
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-02-10

man power showed indications Of run
n'ng low, they wanted to sec that wom-
an power was ready on every side to
step INTO the breach, just as it had
stepped in to fill the gaps in France
and in Britain.
Mr.. Coffin probably pondcrcd this
1t is possible that several other mem
bcrS Of the advisory board to the Coun-
CT OF National Defence pondered it.
At any rate, there followed shortly the
appointment of the Womcn's Commit
tee of the Council Of National Defence.
The womcn's committee was intended
10 coordinate the powers Of women in
the United States. That far it was an
answer to the programme that had
been laid before Howard Coffin But
there it stopped short. 1t rcscmbled
all other advisory committees to the
advisory commission Of tho Council Of
National Defence in that it lacked the
power to do anything but advise On
the up road it advised an advisory
commission. 1t worked downward
through dozens and dozens of commit
tees below il. through state councils
- state committees, to county commit
toes, to community committees and sub
committees.
'cld to advice, what were the women
going to do?
This is the way their programme
reads:
Registration for service.
:, Food production and homo eco
Monies.
3 Food administration.
Women in industry.
3-Chld welfare
Maintenance Of existing social
service agencies.
7-IlcGlth and recreation.
Educational propaganda.
9-Libcrty loan
10-lIomc and foreign relief.
1t is very good programme, but it
Is not necessarily a war programme.
1T gives but the vagucst hint Of the
t-about-facc for women that the
experience of England in tho great war
projects into our own future. In its
own way, however, it is not futile
programme. 1t is able to accomplish
just enough to illuminate the vast
emptiness it might fill if it had the
power.
This is an instance:
The District of Columbia now has
housing commission which is trying
desperately to find quarters for gov
crnmcnt employees. 1t is d new com
mission. 1t took courageous woman
to bring it into being. When several
organizations had tried in vain to get
an appointment with an important
member OF the advisory commission 20
the Council Of National Defence, she
demanded an appointment and got it.
When she had finished describing the
meetings in which timid but earnest
housewives offered to house hundreds
and retired in confusion when they
found thousands were coming; when
she had finished telling him of the
dangers to strange young girls in
Washington, he established a housing
bureau the next day. 1T is a pleas
ant bureau of its kind. 1t has listed
hundreds OF people who want homes
and has told them where to go to get
them But it is still body without
power to do any more than that, and
the housing problem, with all its dam
gers, still hovcrs over the capital.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-02-10

ou'Isd'ng opposite the British Embassy
on Street is a we'll conducted letter
writing bureau. All the admirable ac-
compllshments arc things that arc
gong to be done, although the com
mlttce has been living ten months,
things that are on the horizon or in
abeyancc for the time because some
department with actual power enjoins
secrecy. In the nature Of the case it
would be impossible to have done more.
1t 10 true that in April the committee
will begin nation wide educational
campaign to reduce the infant mortal
lty one-thrd. But even the pros
pcctus confesses the weakness Of the
pIan. and hints at the drawback of
dong national job without any ma
tlonal power. England, SO the story
goes, had government aid directly an
piled to a similar programme. But in
the United States it must be effected
by purely advisory methods through
local and always unofficial agencies.
Inc most significant section Of the
whole programme Of the Woman's Com
mlttec Is concerned with women in in
dustry. Members of the COMMITTEES
confess 1T has nothing to do with the
actual transfer of women into industry.
&c IS only supplementary, lowering
ABOUT the edge Of the problem, prcoc-
cuplcd with all sorts Of human loose
ends put never once touching the real
question Of putting the unframed
woman into training for a war lob.
The net result Of ten months is to put
member Of the committee on an a6.
visory labor council Of the Department
OF Labor, now holding executive sss
Sons on the rcadjustmcnt of labor that
must come in the wake of war. Pos
s'oly that is Il hopeful sign. 1t may
mean the beginning Of programme of
me inclusion OF women in investiga-
tons, armed to carry out the conclu.
slons of women about women II !,
hopeful. even If it does come six
months after d million and a half mon
lett the holes that call for rcadiust-
mcnt.
Inc hnal basis for criticism Of tho
organization OF women for women in
inc United States is that nobody is
p'anhfhg to put women into tho spaces
tnat arc pound to appear when the con-
cchtratlon OF man power in the fighting
machines becomes moro intense. WASH.
ington ought by this time to be aware
OF what has been happening in Eng.
land, but Washington replies TO anv
question: as TO why America doesn't
move IN the same direction that tho
timc isn't ripe yet. The land army in
England recruits women for the land.
trains them and finds farms for them
70 WORK on, and organizes them sys-
tcmatically into companies for no
labor or farm production. All this goes
on under the Intelligent direction of
INC National Board Of Agriculture.
! nose women raise livestock. poultry
care Tor horses, plough and plant,
spread manure and rcap The harvest
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-02-10
A White Building
And a Letter File

The Office Of the women's committee
has letter file that reaches to the
ceiling. 1t is filled with letters of
women who want to take some real
part in the war, but for whom there
is no place. 1t is an illuminating let
ter file. An examination Of the work
of the women's committee reveals
nothing more than that the white
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-02-10
Women Failed
At Cantonnents

Somehow the women failed at the
environments. 1t wasn't to their inter
est to fail, because it turned out to
be their sons, their brothers and their
husbands who died of meningitis aud
Of pneumonia. And properly COM
mandcd they might not have failed. as
indeed they did not fail at one Of them
1t was Camp Grant, at Rockford, H..
that was saved from tho unseen enemy
that was invading every other canton
mcnt. When the first cold snap came
unexpectedly in September local
agencies Of men and women together
had 10000 blankets ready in storage
to carry to Camp Grant. They we're
blankets from the farmers wives
roundabout each with farmers name
sewn IN 1t. Private motors gathered
them up and carried them to camp.
There was no meningitis. Thcrc"'uas
no pneumonia, at least in the same
measure as it invaded other camps.
But Tor one cantonmcnt so finely pro-
tectcd by local initiative and enthu-
slasm there have been dozen others
sorcly unprotected because there was
little response in local action to the
appeal of Washington, unenforced by
power to bring action about.
To be fair to the womcn's commit
tee, however. it has done a good deal
into corners that the several national
organizations Of women have never
been able to fill with any light This
is the work of education, Of eXhorta-
ton, of stimulation and encourage
mcnt and guidance. 1t is even the
work of organization and Of that
blessed process called in the Wash
ington tongue coordination" But it
has nothing to do with initiation OF
new projects. clearly seen from ma
tional perspective; nothing to do with
utilization in new and Immediately
necessary channels of all the potential
forces that lie in the nations women.
And war is no time for education,
unless it is an education that will
yield definite, certain and speedy re-
suits. The results themselves, if you
will go to the headquarters of the
>omen'S cOmmiNec and ask for your
self, arc not magnificent from any
angle of viewing.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-02-10

Samples and broken sizes of better grades in our
stocks All worth more.
At 29c. parIine cotton halt,iggan Stockings with
double garter tops. Well reinforced ut heels and toes
Sizes y, and Q =.
At 39c. par-Finely colored merccrizcd
seamless Stockings. Pearl gray, medium and dark
gray, tan and dark tan. All sizes TO start with.
At $l.29 pairA. & s. make silk Stockings all full
fashoned all higher priced grades. In these very dc
sirablc sFades:-Ivory, medium and dark gray silver
taupe, bronze, cordovan, Russia calf leather color Also
black and white. Lislc tops and soeS. All sizes.
Street foot Cent EuilJI
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-02-10
Handmade Oil Opaque
Window Shades sec, u,,,..., ,... (, 10
Made from the very best materials
Curtain Scrins, 1Oc. I'd.

Fancy bordercd and colorcd in number of
attractive designs.
Scrim Curtains with Fancy Dor,
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1918-03-19
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publication from the United States de-
partmcnt of agriculture describing the
breeds of chickens belonging TO the
egg class, Farmers Bulletin sos,
STANDARD Varieties of Chickens: H.
The Mediterranean and Continental
Classesp
That is, there are 20 members of
the two groups of chickens which poul-
try experts classify as the egg breeds.
The Mediterranean class includes the
Leghorns-nine varieties; the Minor
cas-flve varieties; the Spanish--one
vapicty: the Ancona-two varieties,
.nd the Blue Andaluslan- In the Con-
mental class is the one breed Cam
pine with two varieties. All of these
breeds lay. white-sIlelled eggs. They
are called egg breeds because fowls
OF these types are especially good lay
ers but are not so well suited to the
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1918-03-19

yited to the dining room where punch
and wartime oatmeal cookies were
served. Those present wero Mes.
danes r. r. Roberts, Waiter Hill,
Jack Hill, ]. NJ. Winfree, r. P. Peck.
H. NJ. Canaan C. @. Childs o. s. Da-
wilson and Miss Lura Roberts. All
the members are urged to be present
at the next meeting which will be
held ~ rho home Of Mrs. R. B. Peck
on March 9th.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1918-03-19

table, They are The breeds best suited
for poultry farms where the produc.
inn q eggS N the main purpose The
Le@ldrh breed, and in particular the
Single Conb White Leghorn variety
is the most popular and widely kept
fhcaess breeds are smaller lian The
gencralpurp0Se types of chickens such
as the Plymouth Rock For THAI rea-
son they do not make particularly de-
sirable meat fowls and are not so well
favored by the poultry packers as are
The larger genera-purpose breeds.
Surplus cockerels, however, sold as
brolers when they weigh from tbtee.
quarters to a posad arl h0lfy<1ind
ready market. r.
The bulletin mcntione,. describes tie
different breeds and varieties of lay
crs in the two classes and illustrates
hem. However, the purpose OF the
bulletin is to give only general de-
scrlptions Of appearance and charac-
Ter. For Il description sufficiently de-
tailed to enable one 10 breed eXhibi-
tion specimens II will he necessary.
the specialists say, TO refer to the
American Standard OF Perfection" a
BOOK published b. the American Poul-
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1918-03-19
cooonuts All Year ,Round.

Across Lake Worth, from West
Palm Beach, Fla, is Palm Beach, stu
ated on a strip which extends along
the Atlantic ocean for many miles. The
world famous Royal Poinciana, one OF
the worlds largest hotels, and the
Palm Beach hotel, both face Lake
Worth. The shores Of the lake for
miles are fringed with stately cocouut
trees, always In bearing.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1918-03-19
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PocAssET ITEMS .


The Epworth League will meet as
usual Sunday evening at 1880.
Mr.. and Mrs. Messenger visited
his parents in Union last Sunday.
Miss Gladys Canaan of o. c. W..
spent the week end with her parents
here.
Mr.. and Mrs. Laws of Alex spent
Sunday with his brother, s. NJ Laws
and family.
r. w. Davidson left Sunday for
Sulphur to visit his brother, Leslie,
who is quite i'll.
G. f. Hill returned Saturday night
from Enid, where he has spent sever.
al days on business.
Deacon Dubbs" will be staged by
the R. N. A. in the near future.
Watch for the date.
Little Claudia Fay Osborn, daugh-
ter of Mr.. and Mrs. John Osborn. is
very i'll with pneumonia fever.
Miss Allen of verden is visiting
her sister. Miss Elizabeth Allen. the
assistant high school teacher here.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1918-03-19

SURGEONS agree tnat y cases OF
Cuts, Burns. Bruises and Wound
the FIRST TREATMENT is most iu-
portant. When an EFFICIENT anti.
septic is applied promptly, there IS
no danger Of affection and the woun
begins to heal at once. For use ou
man or beast. BORoZONE is tie
IDEAL ANTIsEPTIC and HEALING
AGENT. Buy 1t now and be read
for an emergency Price 25c, 5oe,
no d sl.ov. Sold by Wren Drug
Co.--Adv.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1918-03-19

Miss Irene Wilson spent Sunday
with friends in Chickasha.
Mrs. A. S. Hancock OF Alex visit
ed the week end with her parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. D. J. Lilies of this city.
The "Maxey Sunday School Glass"
will meet Friday evening at the home
of o. S. Davidson. All members arc
urged to be present Visitors wei
come.
Miss Maud Osborne Of the Chicka-
sha Business College. visited her pa,
rents. Mr.. and Mrs. r. S. Osborn,
from Friday until Sunday.
Along with the wheatless and
meatless days. the housekeepers OF
Pocasset wouldn't seriously object if
Mr.. Hoover would order a few wind.
less and dustless days each week.
Merrel Clark. formerly of Pocas-
set, and Miss Vivian Speako, of
Chickasha were married at Chicka-
sha Sunday. They came to Pocasset
Sunday to visit his parents. Mr. and
Mrs. w w Clark.
On last Monday night a party was
given at the r. S. Osborn home in
honor Of Carl Aduddell, better known
as Chief" one OF our soldier boys.
at Camp Funston. a large number
of young people were there and every
one reported jolly good time.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1918-03-19
Where Eaa nreeds Are Kept.

Eggs, Of course, are produced wher
ever chickens are kept, and by far the
greater part Of The egg crop comes
from the general farm, yet large so
called egg farms have been developed
with the main purpose OF producing
eggs for market. The largest Of these
egg farms and the greater number OF
them are located. near markets which
pay a premium for white eggs; and
for this reason, together with the fact
that eggs are primarily desired, the
breeds kept are those known as the
egg breeds, such as Leghop, Cam
pine, Minorca and Ancona.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1918-03-19
WIDELY POPULAR
HEN FOR LAYING
Single Comb White Leghorn Of
Mediterranean Class is
Most Favored.
NOT DESIRABLE MEAT FOWLS.
Especially in Back Yards and on Farms
Where Waste Material Is Avail
able Purchase Of Expensive
Grain Not Required.

If you want to raise chickens for
eggs only, if you want to make your
hennery strictly an egg factory with
meat production only an afterthought
yog must select an egg breed. You
have 20 chances, according to new
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1918-03-19

home Of Mrs. S. NJ Laws. This aux.
Hilary has Seen divided into two
classes, with Mrs Canaan as instruc
tor Of one and Mrs. Winfree of the
other Mrs. Wintrce's class met lasr
Thursday Each class will meet
every two weeks and hereafter the
meetings will be held at the NJ W
A. hall, whcrc machines viii be pro
vided We are anxious that all the
women who possibly can. attend
these meetings and do their bit for
our boys in camp aud at the front
The meetings will be held all day
SO womcn, come and bring your din
ner and help in this great work
The r ". Of A. met last Wednes.
day with Mrs. O. S. Davidson. The
regular business session was held
after which social hour was euiov-
ed, with Mesdames Canaan. Roberts
and Davidson as hostesses. A con.
test was given, in which a recipe for
"a Royal Neiehbor cake was written
and then cut into pieces with only
one word on each These slips were
given to the contestants who were
told to put the words together in'o
sentences ard see if the whole would
correspond to the original recipe 4
great deal of fun was created by this
contest as some of the contestants
had words that could hardly be form
ed into sentences. When they had
finished the recipe was read aloud
end the Two we're found to be quito
different The guests were then in.