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Omaha daily bee., 1918-10-27
Defense Council Makes
Survey Of Cooked
Food Agencies

A survey of agencies for the sale
of cooked foods to. be consumed
away from the place of sale is being
made by the food production and
home economics department of the
woman's committe of the Nation
al Council of Defense.
The plan Of the survey in general
is to collect all available data re-
garding such enterprises in the
United States and abroad, those
which have been developed in Eu-
rope since 1914, and those which
are started as a result of the war.
An attempt is being made to esti-
mate the economy in materials, La
Dor, and money, secured by the
wholesale preparation of cooked
food, as compared with household
preparing o food. 1t is hoped that
disinterested answer may be given
to many of the questions which arise
concerning the practicability of co..
operative feeding in the United
States.
Omaha daily bee., 1918-10-27
Loretta cSckezbez
Rf"ehAarS1cFFeXs pho7o

minute of it," she says, "and the
best part of it is I feel that l am
a real helper and not useless men,
Der of society in these days when
our country needs the best services
of all its people"
Pigs for Market.
Nowhere will you find finer pedi-
greed Duroc-Jersey hogs than those
raised by Miss Loretta Scheibel on
the 50-acre farm she operates near
Florence. Their red backs dot the
green alfalfa fields in summer, while
the black and white cattle Craze in
the pastures. Miss Scheibel is proud
of a sale of 20 3-month-old pigs
which she made this season, the
consideration being $1,000. Sixty
little pigs were brought into the
world on the farm this year and sent
on their way to increase the meat
supply. Besides managing the farm,
Omaha daily bee., 1918-10-27
By RUTH BAILEY WHITNEY {

DERHAPS it is because we have
all learned the lesson, Food
- will win the war" perhaps it
is because the slogan, Back to the
land" has at last begun to bear fruit,
but certain it is that Omaha women
are taking to farming like ducks to
water.
One after another Omaha maids
and matrons induce their husbands
and fathers to buy them farms,
ranging in size from two or three
lots to 40 or 50 acre tracts, and they
proceed to show their SOOTHING
friends that just because a woman
is city born and bred is no reason
at all that she can't raise various
things, like pigs, strawberries,
chickens and potatoes.
1t is remarkable how successful
Omaha women have shown them
selves in their patriotic efforts to
produce food. Few, indeed, have
been the failures, and the successes
arc so numerous that friends have
turned from skeptical onlookers to
admiring boosters.
In raising funds for the various
war activities woman long ago took
a leading part; in knitting, bandage
making, fashioning refugee garments
and other Red Cross activities, the
American woman has astonished
the world by her energy and perse-
verance. Women have rushed into
business and industrial lines in great
numbers. not so much for the love
of the work or the salaries attached,
as to help get the tasks of the absent
men accomplished. When it came to
raising crops and breeding farm
stock, however, the world said, "She
can't do that" And now she has.
1t would take book to tell about
all the women of Omaha who en-
rolled, or are planning to enroll,
under the standard of Uncle Sans
food producers.
One Raises Poultry.
Mrs. Bert Fowler is one of Oma-
has most enthusiastic women farm
ers. The Fowlers have a beautiful
12-acre country home near Florence,
which they appropriately call "Hill-
crest" Poultry is Mrs. Fowler's
chief care, and she raised 128 little
chickens last year. II had grand
luck with them," said Mrs. Fowler.
Some of our crops did not do as
we'll as usual, owing to the dry
weather, but my big flock of Us
feathered beauties supplied us with
eggs and frys and brought in bounti-
full returns, in spite of the weather"
Mrs. Lys1e Abbott and her six
lovely daughters revel in the joys
of their country home in Florence
Heights in summer, though they
must be in town, where schools are
more convenient, in winter. The
minute school is over this happy
family HES itself to the leafy COM
fort of the farm. Clad in feminalls,
they dig in the moist, soft earth,
pull beets, pick berries and make
themselves useful and happy, re-
turning in the fall, Drowned by the
summer sun and eager to take up
the neglected books again. There
is a baby brother now, who will sup
Omaha daily bee., 1918-10-27

n HE tables in the cafe of city's
department store were pretty
we'll filled when the woman
entered, seeking a place where she
might partake of such food as our
friend, Mr.. Hoover, might permit.
Over in the corner she caught sight
of trim figure, the place opposite
her. at the table for two, still
vacant. The woman wandered her
way and the girl looked up pleas
antly and nodded smiling assent
to the query:
May sit with you"
, They die not fall into conversa-
ton at once. The girl was engaged
i'll consuming creamed chicken with
all the relish of youth and healthy
appetite. but it was while the two
sat (the woman ' aitpg for her more
modest sandwich that the older
noted the military cut and color of
the coat the girl wore and the red
service band across the left sleeve
just below the cuff.
What is your service she asked
simply, motor
Yes" the girl answered just as
simply, motor"
The beginning of the conversation,
as you see, was quite modern,
There was no approach"
Tell me about it, won't your" and
expected to hear in reply story of
taking convelescent soldiers on
pleasant excursions or the transfer
rims of Red Cross packages of mercy
from one station to another.
"Well,syou see, | drive truck"
she began
you drive truckp
Yes, | drive truck, so | am on
duty every day, but most of the girls
have one or two days a week, lust
as they can give the time. How
Omaha daily bee., 1918-10-27
If He Came Now
BY MARY CAROLYN DAVE.

BY MARY CAROLYN DAVIES.
II he came now
My heart would be like a once quiet street,
Hung with gay lanterns on a fete night,
wild
With singing! And my heart would be a
child
sleepily waking to a kiss, then fllnging
Sleep from 1t, springing
With all too ready feet,
out OF the niAS into the world again,
And finding tfat Its toys were all once
more
There where It left them, waiting on the
floor
To be played with again. My heart would
be
An opened book filled full with witchery,
Filled, too. with pain,
An opened book that had been left too
long
Upon rusty shelf 1t would be a song
In young mouth. And 1t would be buds,
too
Opening under the moon, and shivering at
the dew,
But liking It. And 1t would be a flame,
Red in the night. I used to be glad when
he came,
But not so very glad--because thought
That l would always have him. Then war
caught
Him up from me, and bore him out
To be where danger Is; and killed my
doubt,
My hesitation and half fears. All, how
I would run to welcome him, II he came
now!
eyassA Heesskssplns.
Omaha daily bee., 1918-10-27

or where there is baby of nursing
age, mother must place her
mothers duty above everything else
in life. This doesn't mean that she
need be an utterly idle parasite,
merely that she must place the
baby's interest first, But this is,
after all, brief period. For, to my
mind, it isn't always necessary that
a mother take all the care of her
baby after it is a year old. But
that is a question that every mother
must decide for hersef, and that l
shall discuss at length in another
article.
Think your own life out for your
self. Don't be influenced too much
by any one persons advice. Re-
member that it's every woman's
Omaha daily bee., 1918-10-27
Quaker City Has Many
Women in War Work

More women are employed in war
work in and near Philadelphia than
in any other part of the United
States, according to James F. Nc
Coy, an official connected with the
Philadelphia office of the United
States Department of Labor.
"The Pennsylvania railroad now
has $500 girls in its service, and the
frankfort arsenal 1900. There are
300 at the Schuykill arsenal, and
the Du Pont powder plant, which
has now several hundred girls at
work, has been adding them at the
rate of about 100 week. There are
many smaller plants in the locality
that employ from 80 to 100 womep
EACH.
Omaha daily bee., 1918-10-27
WAR WORKERS PAY STORY.
TOLL TO GABBY DETAY> S

LIVERY woman about the United
- War Work office in the court
house seems to have a title. 1t is a
sort of officers headquarters and a
private is hard to find. One day re-
Gently someone entered and con-
suited Mrs. Julia Maggie James, who
puts in many hours of the busy day
working there. "Let ME see," said
the seeker after information, What
is your title, Mrs. James," Mrs.
James thought moment. WELL"
she said, Il hardly know. guess
am scout"
M HEN Robert Buckingham's
w former Omaha High school
Instructors heard of the honors the
young man won last week as a
freshman in Amherst college, they
were reminded of some of his
youthful escapades, and RECALLED
Gabby with tales OF the high spirit
ed lads doings. In. his senior year,
QUESTIONABLE was passed the
students and among the questions
was What is your preference as to
coilege?" On Robert paper the
answer was, "Moler barber college,"
M ISIS MARY AUSTIN, principal
Az of the Columbian school.
helped in the Office of the Visiting
Nurses during the "Au" epidemic.
So did Mrs. w. ]. Hynes. Now it
seems that Mrs. Hynes' little son
goes to Columbian school and is
much in awe of his digni6ed princi-
pal.
One evening at the dinner table
Mrs. Hynes made casual refer
ence to Miss Austin in connection
with the work. Does she work in
the office now?" inquired the boy.
ooh, mother, suppose you had to
tell her to do something's What
would you do?"
T EON o. SMITH, psychological
II expert with the school board
doesn't like to brag about his chill
dren, but he really believes his
young son, aged two and a half,
shows signs of unusual business
ability for one so young. The other
morning he asked his mother for a
drink of milk.
There isn't any milk in the house
now" Mrs. Smith replied. "You will
have to wait until l can get some
from the grocery store"
Then she went on with her work
and forgot all about the child un-
til. several minutes later, she saw
Omaha daily bee., 1918-10-27

him coming up the street with his
little red wagon. on which reposed
tull bottle OF milk. The child had
collected several empty milk bottles
taken them to the grocery store and
traded them for a full bottle.
n ABBY heard all about the recep-
~ ton the war camp community
committee gave Fred C. Williams,
the new director, when he came last
week. Mr.. Williams has been in
school work in Nebraska, for many
years. and Miss Belle Ryan and
Superintendent Beveridge know him
very we'll.
|. When Miss Ryan was introduced
to the new director she assumed her
most kindly and welcoming look, 81
am so glad to meet YOU" she said
effusively. Mr.. Williams looked
puzzled. Then Mr.. Beveridge was
introduced. He wore his best "be
kind to strangers" and welcomed
Mr.. Williams into their midst most
cordially.
By that time Mr.. Williams decided
it was a joke and refused to be
treated longer as stranger and the
committee resolved itself into a
good fellowship meeting.
A woman everyone knows-and
A loves-is ever so eager to en-
ter overseas service.
Hers has been the task of handling
many, many applications of other
women for overseas service and
sending them on their way rejoicing
in the opportunity to serve.
Valuable as her services would be,
the probabilities are that she viii
not be accepted by reason of the rul-
ing barring any woman who has a
son in the service.
limitations have come from
Washington however that the ruling
might be lifted.
IT WO days pay is the desired sub
- scription of individuals to the
United War Work campaign, and
Mrs. l. R. Rutledge, publicity chair
man, urging the importance of
donations by women.
How is a married woman going
to estimate her pay?" one of the
species wanted to know.
Well-how? Gabby Detayl:
would like to know!
Estimate your own value-but
place it high enoughl" Gabby would
caution the fnatrons.
Omaha daily bee., 1918-10-27

right to be a wife and mother, but
that there's no reason in the world
why she can't be wage Garner also
if she chooses to. In fact, that it's
a case where she can have her cake
and eat Il. too.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-01-11
Confirm
SWap0f
MC''nniS
Frazee and Mack Admit
Deal Whereby Athletics
Lose Last of Star Inield-
Philadelphia Boss Not
Sure What Players He
Wants of Sox.

Boston, Jan. 1.-THE deal by
which Jack ''Stufy'' McInnls, who
played first base for the Philadelphia
Athletics for years, becomes a mem
Der of the Boston Red Sox was COM
pleted yesterday over the long-dis-
lance telephone by Harry Frazee,
president of the Boston club In the
American League, and Connie Mack of
the Athletics
The deal has been hanging fire for
some time and many rumors that4it
was completed were current during
the last few days, but they were de-
MED by the parties concerned. Only
this morning Mr.. Frazee made his
last denial that McInnis was coming
here.
What Boston is going to give to
Connie Mack for his hard-hitting first
baseman remains a secret, at least
so far as Boston is concerned. 1t is
stated, however, that Connie will re-
| ceive no money, but will get some
players to be picked from a group
agreed on by himself and the Boston
owners.
President Frazee says the deal was
held up until yesterday because the
clubs could not agree on just which
men Connie could have if he want1R
| them, but that this matter was set
tied early yesterday in the telephone
conference in which he, Mack and
Jack Barry, manager of Boston, took
part
McInnis, who first played in New
r,eyIa fC,s ~
to come to Boston, and the deal will
surely please him. He is the eighth
former Philadelphia player now on
the Boston roll Schang, Bush and
| Strunk having been bought by Bos-
ton few weeks ago, and WALSH
Pennock, Wyckoff and Barry all hay
ing been with the team for one or
more seasons.
| Harry F'razee, in spite of his in
| terposition of Philadelphia talent, as
serts he will not change the name OF
his club from Red Sox to Mackmen
A ninth member of Mack's camp who
will be in Boston this season will be
DR.. Martin Lawler. who was the Ath-
| letics' trainer from 1906 to 1908, in
| elusive, and who has trained the st.
Louis Browns for the last, nine sea-
sons. DR.. Lawler replaced Charley
Green, who has trained the Red
Sox, with the exception of one or
two seasons, for about fifteen years.
Jack Barry is delighted to add Nc
Innis to his coterie of former team
mates, and says with the newcomers
the Sox will be IS per cent. stronger
than they were last year.
President Frazee said last night that
Connie Mack was dickering with
) some of the other American League
clubs for players and until he found
out what he could get elsewhere he
would not make his decision regard
ing the material he would gather
from Boston's garden. He also says
he will keep his promise to Connie
Mack not to mention the names OF
the Boston men likely to figure in the
deal but will leave it to the Philadel-
phia manager to announce his
choice.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-01-11
CHARLIE MITCHELL
WANTED TO BECOME
A GREAT PHYSICIAN

The first ring engagement of Char
lie Mitchell, the famous fighter who
fought John L. Sullivan 80 rounds to
draw in France, was staged near
Birmingham, England, on Jan. IL,
1878, just 40 years ago today. His
opponent on that occasion was Bob
Cunningham, whom he defeated in
SO minutes. Mitchell was born in
Birmingham of Irish parents and his
early ambition was to become a ply
stefan: He was only 16 when he
whipped Cunningham. He was then
a lightweight, and in 1879 he fought
a draw in London with Bill Kennedy,
the lightweight champion. In 1881
he fought Caryadoff, the Belgian
Giant, at Antwerp, and defeated the
big fellow in one round. Mitchell
never weighed much over the middle
weight limit, yet he mixed it with
some of the greatest heavyweights of
his day, including Sullivan. He was
on the down grade when he was de-
feated by Corbett at Jacksonville in
1894, which was his last ring battle.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-01-11
YOUNG CRITIC AND
ABE WILLIS GREAT
ANTIPODES BOXERS

Twenty-eight years ago today. Jan.
IL, 1890, Young Critic defeated Ale
Willis in three rounds at Sydney,
Australia Abe and Critic had pre-
viously fought a 20-round draw Both
boys afterward came to America, and
they were among the stars of their
day. Critic, whose real name was
Albert Grifiths, fought as a feather
weight for several years. hut after
ward went into the lightweight di-
vision, although he seldom weighed
over 12S pounds Willis was a true
featherweight and, with the excep-
ton of Critic, the best little fellow
that ever came out of Australia Will
lis crossed the Pacific to San Fran
cisco soon after his bout with Critic
and was matched to fight George
DIXON fc- the featherweight title ii
San Francisco. They fought at III
mounds NJ in the fifth round tbs
Chocolate Drop won with a knock
out. Critic didn't land on this side
until 1903. He was more successful
in his bouts with Dixon, getting thret
draws with the clever darkey.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-01-11
BOMBARDIER WELLS
FIRST MET DEFEAT
AT MITS OF NOR

Bombardier Wells had his first taste
of defeat-he was to have many there
after-just seven years ago today.
when he was knocked out in the third
round by Gunner NOR. AS in most
of the subsequent battles in which the
big Bombardier was to be whipped,
he had all the best of it at first. In
fact, Wells was so much the superior
that the fans cried out "shame" and
called upon the referee to stop the
slaughter, while some left the Olym-
plain disgust a such an unequal con-
test In the first two rounds Moir
spent more time upon the floor than
on his feet, but he kept getting up,
and in the third chapter he got an
opening and landed a blow on Bonn
bardier's glass jaw that stretched
him out The following year, 1912,
Wells gave a somewhat similar exhi-
bitiOn in New York. He made the
clumsy Al Palzer look like a novice
for a couple of 7rounds-and in the
third the Iowa farmer put the pride
of the British army to sleep. Wells
was always game enough, but he sim
ply couldn't absorb punishment, and
that inability alone prevented him
from becoming worlds champion.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-01-11
PRINCETON MAY
ORGANIZE CREW

Princeton, N. J., Jan. 11-Indica-
tons point to the formation of a
varsity crew at Princeton this spring,
along informal lines and the schedul-
ing of races with Columbia and
Pennsylvania
Princeton has the men and the
equipment and as many of the men
desire to row it is felt that there is
no good reason why a crew should
not be ORGANIZED.
If rowing is resumed it will be sub
ordinated to military drill, and there
will not be the intensive training that
has taken place in other years. Many
freshmen and upper classmen have
been reporting daily for practice on
the rowing machines and will be
ready to report for places in the var
sity and freshman squads if it is de-
cided to take up the sport this year.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-01-11
EBBETS ADVISES
BOYS TO STAY
IN SCHOOLS

John McGraw recently advocated
the adoption of a major league system
of signing youngsters under the draft
age and schooling them for future
use. Charley Ebbets points out that
the McGraw idea is wrong-not from
the standpoint of the clubs, but from
the viewpoint of the boys themselves
Ebbets holds-and rightfully so-that
any system which seeks to make pro-
fessional baseball players out Of
sch olboys is a bad one.
Boys of the school age belong in
school, says Ebbets, and I do not
want to become party to any plan
that seeks to take them away from
their studies and convert them into
professional ball players" Ebbets has
been in the baseball business long
enough to know that it is the worst
venture for the average youngster-
that it takes his youth, stamina and
ambition for other activities and
| leaves him stranded at a time of life
when other men are in their industrial
prime. Now and then we have the
exception, like young ROBBERS Hornsby
of the Cardinals, but even he goes to
prove the rule
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-01-11
MINOR LEAGUE LEADERS
ASKING ESTABLISHMENT
OF WAR MORATORIUM
Request National Commits
sion to Hold Up All Debts
Against Territory Cover
ed In Small Circuits to En-
able Clubs to Avert Disas-
ter.

New York, jan ia committee
representing the minor leagues, con-
estSting of President John Farrell Of
the New York State league and Harry
Stahlhef6er, president of the Central
league, appeared before the National
Commission at its meeting in Cincin-
matt last Tuesday to ask for a mora
toTilm during the war for minor
league clubs Secretary John Heydler,
who returned from the commission
meeting yesterday, d1vulged this in
formation
Farrell, who is secretary Of the Ma
tiona1 association, presented the ar
gument that if a war moratorium
were declared by the National Com
mission for the minor leagues many
leagues which at present have no
chance to operate in 1913 might take
the field.
Farrell declared that in many
smaller cities new men could be OBJ
tained to take care of franchises pro
vided they were not compelled to pay
, the debts which former owners have
piled up against the territory. In
cludetd in these debts are back dues
NdIlD1ldl dSSe5OC11IlOIl, UdtAh CcH1l-
aries to players, franchise debts ant
unpaid fines. Under baseball law
debts of former owners are consid-
erred a lien against territory and {
franchise may not be taken over by
new owners unless these debts art
paid
According to Farrell, Some cite
which might be operated next season
have debts as high as S., 900 and $500
FsGsd up against them There woult
te no chance to interest new men il
fbese clubs if they had to pay thes
obligations at present
farrell, however, attempted TO max
ciE1r to the commission that the mi
nGas were not attempting to sideste
HCnest obligations, but merely desire
b postpone payment until after tn
war, when baseball conditions are ex
pected to be better The Nationa
Commission has taken the matter III
der advisement-
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-01-11
EXPECT GREGG
TO BE WINNER

To those Philadelphia fans who
view with alarm the future of the
Athletics, now that Connie Mack
has sold all but one of his star
pitchers, the astute leader of that
team points out the record of Vean
Gregg, obtained by him from the
Providence club who, Connie
Mack believes, will show the form
he displayed as the Cleveland
clubs star hurler a few years ago.
Gregg drifted back to the minors
two years ago, but the strength
has come back into his salary whip
again and he led the International
League in pitching last season
Mack made a couple of trips to
cities in that circuit during the
past summer in order to see Gregg
in action, and is sure that Vean
will be a consistent winner with
the Athletics in the coming cam
paign. Gregg's average of earned
runs allowed per nine-inning game
last year was ~, and he won Fl
games and lost .. &