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The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1918-03-13

Laid-off clothing received and
sold on commission at 124 Race ST.
ADV. 3-S-6t.
The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1918-03-13
HORSES AND MILES

Will arrive home Saturday morn
ing with large shipment of horses
and mules, the best to be bought
William l.. Dean.-Adv. 13-3t.
The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1918-03-13
GARAGE OPENED.

have opened a garage on Gay ST.,
in the building PARTIAL. occupied by
the Dorchester Shirt Co Autos for
hire at reasonable rates. Storage
by the week or month.-Edward S.
Phillips.-Adv. 10-22-tf.
New-York tribune., 1918-09-15

The very lovelest of them all! Youth
have to choose your favorite spot with
"Eny, meny, miny, moe" And it will
come out different each time North of
Alpine the path runs along little higher
above the waterline. 1t winds over
woodsy rises and dips into green walled
dells and part of the way is through the
rocklest rocks that ever crashed over the
world in the glacial period For some
distance the path is built of large rocks
laid flat side up. If you strike this bit
about dusk in the fall when the ground is
slippery as glass with fallen dried leaves
you'll wish-well, you'll wish you hadn't
said so casually, "Of course we can do an
other six miles before dark"
New-York tribune., 1918-09-15
Next Spring WEI Be Too Late
Sow the Dollars Now

The money must be raised now, 50
that the farmer may know what labor
he can depend upon for next spring and
make his plans accordingly. Good camps.
which will be permanent for at least the
duration Of the war, are vital necessity
for the housing of the workers Think.
by the way, what godsend this land
army movement must be to the over
worked farmers wife, who is relieved
Of the burden of feeding the farm help
ers. Courses in training, both for the
workers and for the unit leaders, must
be held this winter-and it's up to you
to back up this little army of clear-eyed
sun-tanned, loyal American women, who
for the last five months have toiled IN
ceasingly to help to feed the world.
There isn't one of you but what can
become 'Tiller"; nearly every one can
be a 'Planter" many can, if they viii,
join the "Gleaners," and quite a few
can attain to the glory of being "Har-
vesters"
There is no need for me to tell YOU
where to go to be Joiner Some.
thing tells me that the officers of The
Woman's Land Army will find a way to
collect your fee this very week. HaN
it ready!
New-York tribune., 1918-09-15

again owns the shore land, but in be-
tween is private property.
Climb the trail, strike the road and go
north. The next mile is tresome, but
what's beyond is worth while. When
the open season for motoring comes
again you can escape a few of them
# when you strike a crossroad (at
Palisades) you turn to the right and
then take the road to the left a short
distance further on. This is the pret-
tier of the two roads running north
parallel to Sparkill.
A Million Dollar
Ruin
At Sparkill ask your way to the rail
road station 1t is to the left. Cross the
tracks, take road to the right and then
to the left-you are looking for a ceme-
terry Cross the cemetery, pick up a path
at the opposite corner-and you're on the
Old Tweed Road.
A million dollars the famous "ring'
sank in this road. 1t never was finished
Now it has grown so lovely with grass
and shrubbery and arched trees that {;
million dollars seems small price to paw
for such charming decay. How beautiful
is political corruption-when the grass
has grown over it
a practical mind Immediately sets to
New-York tribune., 1918-09-15
Money for Motors,
Camps and Training

And now the future of the Woman's
Land Army of America is in your hands.
These splendid, sun-browned women are
putting it ''up to you" Will you help to
put the organization firmly on its feet,
just as you have helped the other war
relief organizations, the Red Cross, the
Salvation Army, the Y. w. c. A. and all
the rest?
England has land army of 100000
women, and without their aid agricult-
ire in the British Isles would be prac-
tically at standstill. We have no. need
to send out a call for recruits for our
land army. There are hundreds Of ma
triotic women all over the country
eagerly waiting to take over the work,
but money is needed to finance the en-
New-York tribune., 1918-09-15
Along The Old TWeed Road
!, ELENE FOSTER

from ignorance and not from malice
against nature. You durst to speak to
any OF them and ask any questions you
like without danger Of being snubbed
One of them commented on the Garden of
Rocks:
Fifty years lived round these parts
and never appreciated what | was living
in. Why, we used to sit in the grocery
store evenings and groan because YOU
couldn't build a city on tumble Of rocks.
tumble Of rocks was what we called it
"Then got the job going up and down
the shore to watch out for forest fires
and to see that the admirers of nature
didn't carry off all the little evergreens
we planted. | went up and down in a
motor boat and up and down on foot.
Up and down in the sun and the rain.
when 1t was hot and when it was cold. all
times of the day and night. By and by
began to see those rocks! Fifty wears
ia lived with them and never seen them.
| don't believe III ever get tired of them.
They are more wonderful every dav.
And | used to want to blast them out
and build a city here."
About four miles from Alpine we come
to the state boundary line dividing New
Jersey from New York. few rods
further on trail leads up to the top.
Miles further on up the river the park
New-York tribune., 1918-09-15

"Then you approve of women as farm
helpers?' ! said.
''No. | can't say as do" he replied.
II like EN- as women, but III be burned
eft can git used to seein' em in breeches
workin' in my corntield. l shall always
hold that woman's place is in the
kitchen, war or no war, though I will
say that / don't know what in thunder
I'd "a done this summer without 'em."
So, you see, ancient prejudice dies
hard, but one needn't worry about the
attitude of these "standpatters." BY an
other year they will simply be forced to
employ women laborers, wily-nilly, for
with this new man-power bill going into
effect the great burden Of the farm work
for the coming year is bound to fall on
the women. And judging by what has
been accomplished by the advance guard
Of the Woman's Land Army, we need
have no fear for the harvest of 1919.
AT the offices of the Woman's Land
Army they will show you scores of let
ters written, unsolicited, by farmers who
have employed women workers. One
man says:
''It has been my business for many
years to employ men, so | know whereof
I speak when ! say that would rather
have the girls than the same number of
men, any day; they work steadily from
to II and from / to s. They smoke
not, neither do they chew, but are CON
tinually ON the job Even though they
are not as strong as men, they are more
faithful workers and accomplish more
in a day than the ordinary man. I al
ways doubted the ability of women to
take the place of men in farm work and
/ was afraid to hire them, but did so in
May and have had seventeen of them all
summer, and to say | am won over is
expressing it too lightly"
Another says:
Gas you know, have used the women
wheat and rye, haying. stacking, weed
team hauling rye and wheat sheaves.
Their work has been eminently salts
factory. They do not watch the clock
or run, but if a piece Of work is undonc
at quitting time they have the interest
that makes them stay and fnish-some-
thing that man laborer seldom does"
The women who stand before you to-
day holding their sheaves for your in
spection have not shirked any kind of
drudgery, from repairing the roads to
pulling the weeds from a mangel-wurzel
field (Which is the greatest bugbear of
all)
New-York tribune., 1918-09-15

intensive training for the workers to fit
them for their real labor in the fields.
This plan was carried out in England
and proved of infinite value, for when
woman went into the fields after this
obstruction she went as trained worker,
18th nothing to learn save the individual
methods Of her employer.
The training school for unit leaders
at Wellesley has been so successful that
others are planned for different parts of
the country, and money is needed to
finance these.
Up to date the Woman's Land Army
has made no public appeal for funds; it
has worked out it's own salvation, so to
speak, but the time has come when it
must make it's plans on much broader
scale for the coming year 1t has
passed through the experimental stage
Of its career, it has proved it's worth,
it as q c>atal maritime necessity and it is
asking for your support and cooperation.
How Land
Army Lives
Our Woman's Land Army was pat
termed in the main after that of Eng
New-York tribune., 1918-09-15
Be One of u Million
to Finance This
Army

the camp, and singers, too, that .h.
world will yet hear from
Talk about the degeneration of Amer
lean women! You would not believe
word of it # you saw these jolly, brown
wholesome girls. They do one more good
even than the fresh air and sunsbina
and work itself, for they put one in love Owe
with life The war is not talked NJ
though it lies deep in the hearts of tbess
sweethearts and sisters who are tryins
to do their bit to increase the eountrv's
food supply.
The 8 o'clock bell has rung, flights
OUT" Five thirty will be here as Soon
as touch my bed A. ".
New-York tribune., 1918-09-15
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waters edge and the other on an uprs
level.
At Nyack one bears to the right at one
of the many cross streets, reaches the
lowest road and keeps on to the ferry.
The wonderful wide stretch of river
here is called the Tappan Zee. Thoss
of us who remember our Irving know It
well. The sail across it at sunset is
matter Of iridescence, soft grays, luni-
nous whiteness and clear blues. Then
Tarrytown and home by rail.
New-York tribune., 1918-09-15
The Mercenaxy Charon
Al the Ferry

Regard with great suspicion the old
mariner who sells ferry tickets at the
entrance. He'll sell you return ticket
every time! That stolid deliberateness is
mask to his desperate design. 1t is as
hard to get change back from him as
from flapper at a war charities benefit.
4 Sunday which you will long remem-
ber--perhaps by blisters as well as by
landscapes on memory's wallis the one
when you walk from Alpine to Nyack
The first part of the hike is along the
Hudson. The second part is back in the
New-York tribune., 1918-09-15
The Dying Struggles
Of Prejudice

In the course of a day spent with one
Of the units Of the Woman's Land
Army ] talked with half dozen of
the farmers who are employing these
women, and while they disagreed as to
Just which kinds of work the women do
best they all agreed on one point-the
consciousness and care with which
the women perform any tasks allotted
10 them.
"A man will drop his noe when the II
o'clock whistle blows,' one farmer told
me, "but one of these gals II allus finish
her row afore she quits. I've watched
'cm purity careful, an I've found if
they're five minutes late in the mornin'
they make it up at night. | don't have
to watch em either, same's do the men.
kin go inter the barn an be gone all
the afternoon an come back am find
they've been workin' stiddy all the time
I've been away. And they're mighty in
telligent, too--tell 'em once why thing
is done so and So and they see it an
they never forgit it, whereas I'd have to
tell it to man dozen times"
New-York tribune., 1918-09-15
If You Cannot So,u
Seed, Sou
Dollars

TIME Woman's Land Army Of Amer
lea has won its spurs. 1t is no
longer an experiment, but q per-
manent organization which will unques-
tionably play an important part in the
winning of the war.
For the first time this army is "bring-
ing in its sheaves." Not only the tangi-
Bile products of its seasons work in full
corncribs and vegetable bins, but good
ly crop of other things as we'll, such as
health and happiness and the wider ex-
perience and knowledge and training
which will make for the even greater
success of the movement another year.
The Woman's Land Army went into
the fields in the spring hampered by
three serious handicaps-lack of physical
training for this particular kind of
work, ignorance of the work itself and
an almost universal prejudice among its
employers against women as farm labor
ers. The summers work has practically
overcome two of these dificulties the
women of the Land Army have proved
that after a few weeks of exercise the
unused muscles have developed so that
they are able to perform all but the most
strenuous types of farm work, and under
the careful instruction of the farmers
for whom they have worked they have
become skilled laborers in almost every
branch of field and farm work But the
third difficulty, strangely enough. has
not been so easily conquered and there
still remain doubling Thomases dwelling
in white-shingled farmhouses within
twenty miles OF New York City who in
spite of everything still maintain that
the only place for woman on farm
is in the flower garden or the kitchen
New-York tribune., 1918-09-15

work on schemes for repairing the road
bed and finishing the job. | am told that
the work was so rotten from the first
stone that was laid that it is utterly
worthless. Even the course chosen is not
the best one. So, having dropped tear
for the cheated taxpayers, you and l
afoot can enjoy a millon-dollar path
from Sparkill to Nyack
We pass high above Piermont and
Grand View. Two roads run alongside
of us lower down; the older one at the
New-York tribune., 1918-09-15

Photos by Edmond Eiclecy.
The Song Of the Woman's Land {
Army
How do y do, Mr.. Farmer, how do y
do?
Is there anything we can do for y0u?
wen do The best we can, stand by
yOu Hike a man.
How do " do. Mr.. Farmer, how do v
G0o
terprise, to put it on it's feet, so that it's
efficiency will not be hampered by con-
6itions such as it has struggled under
during the last summer. There are
forty camps Of the land army in New
York State this year, and there must be
two hundred by next spring. Six hundred
thousand dollars is needed to establish
these camps, to furnish them with prop
er equipment, to buy motor trucks to
carry the women to and from their work
iii short, 70 put each and every camp
on a firm financial basis.
The officers Of the Woman's Land
Army have under serious consideration.
too, course Of from four to six weeks
New-York tribune., 1918-09-15
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New-York tribune., 1918-09-15
? Even the Guards Love This
Tumble of Rock"

The guards of Palisade Park are there
to help you enjoy the place. They are a
delightful variety. Even when they warn
you off from building a fire under the
branches of delicate hemlock tree and
tell you to move down further on the
shore, they understand that you did it
New-York tribune., 1918-09-15
Help American Women
To Feed the World

This hand to-mouth method Of eouin.
ping forty small camps while the move.
ment was in the experimental stage was
all very well, but two hundred large,
we'll equipped camps must be established
by next spring if the land army is to
work efficiently and fill the places Of
the men who are at the front, and such
amateurish methods are out of the ques.
ton. And so the coming week will see
the launching of another drive (don't
look SO disconsolate, you have had long
breathing space since the last oneD-a
drive for membership for the New York
State Woman's Land Army. One million
supporting members is the goal.
Membership is divided into four
classes: 81 a year makes one "Tiller";
for SIS a year one becomes "Planter":
for S25 year one is a "Gleaner," and
for 500 year Harvester.
Mrs. Charles S. Whitman is the hon
orary chairman of the drive, and the
active chairman is F. H. Bethel, first
vice-president of the New York Tele.
phone Company.
''The time has come when American
women must feed the world" says Miss
Sophie Carey, of the National Land
Council of England, who has come over
to help in this great drive.
New-York tribune., 1918-09-15
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NZONKERs is very lucky to have
4 Alpine directly across the Hud-
son. A ferryboat runs back and
forth every hour in the open season, al
though it stops at o'clock. l go to
Yonkers by the Broadway subway to
Van Cortlandt Park and then by surface
to Getty Square, where all cars meet in a
big chalk circle. One can get a transfer
and after waiting long time ride lit
tile nearer the ferry, but l go down the
hill to the left on my own two feet.
New-York tribune., 1918-09-15

woods, high Oh the slope, over the Old :
Tweed Road.
Every section of the lofty Palisades is
New-York tribune., 1918-09-15
Up the Woman's Land Army

land. The women are sent out in units
Of from ten to forty workers, under the
direction of camp or unit leader or
supervisor, who runs the housekeeping,
makes the business arrangements with
the farmers and acts as official chape-
ron to the women Of the unit.
During the season the various units
have been housed in unused farmhouses
or barns, which have been given them
rent free, or they have lived in tents.
Furniture for the camp was loaned by
various people in the neighborhood land
a heterogeneous collection it was), and
if it was necessary to buy any part of
the equipment some philanthropic per-
son was found who would give the
necessary amount for this purpose. The
best of these camps was none too COM
Portable, for the houses are usually with
out modern conveniences. The lack Of
bathrooms has been a great trial to the
workers, coming in tired and hot from
hard days work in the fields, but they
have cheerfully borne this hardship and
got along as best they could. In one
camp the girls put on Annette Keller
threw buckets of ice cold water from
the we'll over one another as a substi-
tute for the usual shower
A Letter From the
Staten Island Unit
For vivid picture Of life in a land
army camp and it's buoyant spirit, this
letter seems worth quoting in full:
Dear Lad: This isn't like any other
camp for man, woman or child. 1t is at
times the jolliest, but always the most
strenuous, ever. Rise $780, tumble
downstairs in the dark for hose pipe
shower; overals on; breakfast with
cafeteria rush; bed-making; grab a
lunch; jump into the Ford with ten to
twenty others whom natty little chauf-
ferette delivers at several farms within
a radius Of six miles by 1880; hoe, weed,
plant or gather and carry bushels Of
luscious tomatoes, until the noon whis-
tie blows; lunch under the trees with
perhaps few minutes nap in the long
grass; then farm work with the farmer
and his boys till the long Ford comes
with our driver in Fifth Avenue togs to
take us home again. Can you beat it,
the Woman's Land Army Plattsburg
Camp?
But wait; more yet AT home, there
is rush for the porcelain tubs and hot
baths, rush for the laundry tubs to
put underclothes and overalls to soak
Dinner at 6. dishes washed, lunches for
next day packed, and assignments made
Of next days work. A spin down to the
beach for saltwater swim, a coohsh
ride home with the girls hanging on
anywhere the Ford offers foothold and
singing as Justify as if they had loafed
all day.
You see, it is a course in many things
besides agriculture, and the camp is a
democracy, and cosmopolitan at that
Across the burrows at her wedding a
little Russian tells Of her recent voyage
to America. Further in among the eel
err beds a French girl and an Irish girl
exchange consolation fer the lover and
the husband who recently started ''over
there" College girls, important in their
senior years, and women weary Of de-
grees and world travel, wisdom or teach
ing, come here and take the kink out of
tired nerves by strainng their flabby
| muscles a bit. There are violinists in
The weekly tribune and the Cape County herald. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1914-1918, 1918-07-26
COUNTRY CLUB IS
PROPOSED FOR CAPE
Commercial Club Appoints Com.
mittee To Consider Plan
And Report

A meeting was held at the Com
mercial Club rooms last night to
take steps for the organization of a
country club.
H. l.. Albert was made chairman.
A fair sized turnout of business and
professional men were present. The
proposition was reviewed in informal
discussions for an hour or so.
A committee of five, E. ]. Deal,
Nussbaum and Charles Harrison, was
appointed to report a plan of or
ganization.
D. N. Stafford, Norman Hely, Henry
The general plan contemplated by
those interested is to perfect a coun-
try club organization and to get sew
eral acres of land in Cape Rock
Park, near the historic Cape Rock,
which will be developed and i'm
proved. Golf links will be one of the
important adjuncts of the club.
The weekly tribune and the Cape County herald. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1914-1918, 1918-07-26
DIR. PORTERFIELD
MUST REPORT AT
HOUSTON, TEXAS
Is Assigned to Base HOspi-
tai for Temporary Serv-
ice-SOOn to France
is GIVEN CAPTAINCY
IN MEDICAL CORPS
WelI.knOwn Cape Surgeon Must
Be at CantOnm ent By
July q.

DIR. John d. Porterfeld, Jr., yes
terday received orders from the war
department to report for duty at Fort
Sam Houston, Tex, July q. He has
received his commission as captain.
He will depart for the cantonment
either Wednesday or Thursday.
DR.. Porterfeld received message
from Washington yesterday direct
ing him to report at the base hospital
at Fort Sam Houston on July 81. The
message stated that he would be on
duty there only temporarily. It is
presumed that he will be ordered to
France within short time, to assume
charge Of an American hospital.
DR.. John Brown, one of the most
noted surgeons for the army is a
close personal friend of DR.. Porter
field. He is familiar with the Cape
Girardeau surgeons work, and has
recommended to the medical depart
ment of the army that DR.. Porter
field be given position in keeping
with his ability as a surgeon.
DIR. Porterfield, although a young
man, is a surgical genius. Many of
his operations have been presented to
the American medical society. He is
a son of DIR. John d Porterfield, ST.,
who was the leading surgeon in this
section of Missouri for almost half
a century. The young doctor will
wind up his business at once in order
that he may reach the Texas canton
ment on the day prescribed.
The weekly tribune and the Cape County herald. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1914-1918, 1918-07-26
MAYORS PROCLAMATION OF
WEEK END MARINE ROUNDUP.

In fulfillment Of my duty as a pub
lie official, and as an appeal to the
patriotic preference of all true Ameri-
cans, | earnestly urge that every av-
ailable man eligible for service re-
spond to the call for the preservation
of liberty at home and the establish
ment of freedom and democracy in
the contending countries with whom
we are at war; and as a means of ex-
pediting the accomplishment of such
purposes and desires; l, H. H. Haas,
Mayor of the City of Cape Girardeau,
Missouri, herewith proclaim
JULY oath. 1918 to and Including
JULY 31st, 1918.
WEEK END MARINE ROUNDUP
during which time l respectfully re-
quest that all energy and effort be ex-
pended to the cause of increasing the
efficiency and strength of that Won
derful organization-The United
States Marines-an indispensable and
never failing support upon which de-
ponds SO much the success and at
tainment of all other branches of the
service. Help in every way that you
can to build up and add to the ranks
of the men who do real fighting and
are always there when the trouble
begins. e.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, l have
hereunto set my had and affixed the
seal of the City of Cape Girardeau,
Mo-, attested by the City Clerk, this