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New-York tribune., 1918-08-04
A Woman Doctor for Women Investors

gage bonds at or 5A per cent, That would
be for the who comes to me and says, This
is all I have I would recommend for that
woman, too, not one investment but eight or
ten-always wide distribution of invest
ments. It's so much wiser! For richer
woman I'd still encourage wide distribution,
but | would advise some notes and stocks, all
very good, but possibly trifle less obviously
secure.
even in giving investments only in public
utilities I vary those utilities, say in New
England, Ohio, Illinois, and Minnesota.
rarely put more than $4,000 into any one Sc
curity. For one of my clients who had $4,000
to invest / divided it into fifteen securities.
GA little dressmaker who came to me-" she
went on, chad always dealt in curb stocks, and
did not know there were stocks which sold for
more than $3.50 share. She had always
bought them for about 81 share more, and
naturally lost most of what she invested. Now
she scorns anything at less than $100 par
value, and in the majority of cases has seen
her securities increase. In the pamphlets we
give out are set down the elementary prin-
ciples of investment, so that what advise
will not be confusing.
when desired we always carefully investi-
gate financial matters for our clients through
our investors service department. Once
woman came to and asked us to look up a
company which friend had told her was
sound and in which she wished to invest. We
found, upon inquiry, that the president Of the
company had been in prison twice for embez-
Element and had failed number Of times.
"The Liberty Loan" says Miss Carpenter,
Inip I'll ~ e.
training them to invest. 1t has paid us, too,
because it has put in touch with women.
Eighty per cent of the women who have come
to us to subscribe for Liberty Bonds have been
women who are earning their own living.
1T is pleasant to think of women in cities, in
the country in small hamlets-all of whom
have learned that investing is wise, is safe.
They have had the thrill of cutting coupons
tor the first time OF receiving interest for
saved money! Not only women who know
Wall Street, but women who know only their
own Main Street have come to the realization
OF what investing means and of the benefit to
be reaped from it, all through the Liberty
Loan.
Among wage earners," continued Miss Car
penter, "dressmakers seem to have the most
money to invest. Women physicians come next.
One fashionable dressmakcr places thousand
dollars a month with US, and have doctor
who puts in almost as much"
Miss Carpenter vows she has had no dis
agreeable experiences-though many funny
and pathetic ones.
"A woman came to department the first
of last December" she said. "She was nerv-
Gus, her face was twitching, she was quite.
quite white She talked in hurried, jerky
sentences.
"1 have $500 she said exctedv and T
must have $500 more before Christmas. Will
you make it for me? Can you promise me
$500 more? must have it, simply must Tve
been in and out of the market for twenty
years. she admitted.
"You see she didn't want to acknowledge
she had lost money--those who speculate never
New-York tribune., 1918-08-04
Thrift Stunts for Thrift Stamps

Virginia hospitality has limits. Witness
what happens when Virginia lavishness turns
to thrift. Mrs. Munroes economies are just
as thoroughgoing as her spending would be if
conditions different. Even with the
ferceness of a war-driven thrift upon her she
invests in expensive working tools that pay for
themselves and earn interest in the end The
force is there; only change in direction
needed to play the game of thrift. How many
Of "foow through" with Mrs Munroes
perfect form? A. L. P.
New-York tribune., 1918-08-04
The Official Uniform
Is an Asset

Among other and more important things
the official uniform of the organization will be
tried out and decided upon. AS a matter of
fact this has been as good as decided already
but it is a state secret which, as yet, am not
at liberty to divulge, but can say this--that
it does not consist of ugly gingham overalls or
bl"omers, Greenwich Village smock.
No, my dears it consists of riding breeches
well cut and of the most lovely shade Of
there, | almost told you-with sensible but
very becoming hat of the same material and
long-there | go again--I really must not tell
you, but you are quite safe in taking my word
for it that when squad of the Woman's Land
Army of America marches into the field it will
be just about the smartest, trggest and most
pictl esque little company that you could find
in all the Allied forces.
And for the officers-"leadcrs" | believe, is
their official title-a wee suggestion taken
from the French army uniform and adapted
to womans fgger and cut by the best tailor
in New York. Well two months intensive
training is very small price to pay for the
privilege of wearing such costume, and if
any recruits are needed for the Wellesley camp
/ would suggest that the director exhibit that
officers uniform, and l will guarantee that
there will be no dearth of volunteers.
The Womans Land Army of America is
ganized in units" or camps of from ten to
hundred girls. These girls go into the fields
in squads of six or eight each under the super
vision of squad leader" who is chosen from
the ranks. The entire "unit" is under the d-
rection of a woman usually an older woman
of experience and executive ability, who is
known the "unit leader" These are the
women who are being trained at the Wellesley
camp
New-York tribune., 1918-08-04
Who You Must Be
To Enter Here

The course is open to two classes of women
those who have had collegiate training and
those who have had executive experience. 1t
is, of course, taken for granted that an appli-
cant goes into the training camp with the in
tention of putting her training into practice
camp unit leader in the summer Of 1919.
Women between the ages of twenty one and
forty-five eligible, although middle-aged
women are preferred. The tuition for the
course is $50, which includes living expenses
as we'll. This low rate of tuition is made pos
sible by the generosity of Wellesley College,
which has subsidized the entire enterprise.
The women who have enrolled and who began
their training last Thursday morning are for
the most part professional who have
had business executive training and expe-
rience.
New-York tribune., 1918-08-04
Miss Alice Carpenter, of Wall Street
BY MARY GRAHAM BONNER

q WOMAN has opened department
"A for in the New York Office
of of the largest investment
houses in the world, with branches in Chicago,
Boston, Detroit Philadelphia, Washington,
Paris, London etc The firm handles no mar
yinal, that is, speculative accounts. They are
strictly forbidden.
Three years ago on the eighteenth of Jan
oSry the head of the firm sent for Miss Alice
Carpenter and said he had reached the con-
clusion that a department should be opened
in which woman could sell bonds to women
investors, explaining to them the elements Of
finance, giving them the confidence they
lacked And he offered her the position at
its head
That is how there came to be doctor"
for women investors on Wall Street.
''But why doctor?" one asks.
"a DOCTOR says Miss Carpenter 'finds out
more than his patients symptoms. He learns
about his home conditions and what his wor-
rIes are He takes into consideration the
whole of the human equation, and not simply
that portion Of the human anatomy which is
affected
"And 80 do L. | find out what people have,
try TO learn what they need People vary so!
For instance, ] invest in way for the
woman who is giving all she owns, and
another for the woman who is drawing from a
very large income.
IL would recommend 10 woman in set
of circumstances very conservative first mort
New-York tribune., 1918-08-04
Five thousand Women
On New York Farms

The Woman's Land Army of America, al
though only few months old, is already a
pretty important branch of the service, and as
time goes and more and more of our men
are called for foreign service it will gain in
Importance. The call for volunteers which
was sent out in the early spring met with
response that astonished even the most opti-
mistic of its supporters. There are to-day
5000 women working in the barns and fields
of New York State alone.
This land army is no temporary organiza-
ton. 1t has to stay, mark my words!
Long after the treaty of peace is signed and
that other great army has returned from over
seas the Woman's Land Army will continue to
serve in the same efficient manner in which it
is serving to-day. Little by little the farmers
are overcoming their ancient prejudices and
asking for women helpers in place of men,
even in cases where male help is still availa-
BILE. Their record is something of which we
New-York tribune., 1918-08-04
Hail to the
Oilcloth Apron

My aprons are all wearing out, and besides
they were so hard to wash and iron every week.
SO with percale at the present soaring prices l
invested quarter in a yard of figured oil
cloth and made one by simple pattern with a
large bib. All it needs is damp cloth; it lasts
at least four or five months and saves so much
work.
New-York tribune., 1918-08-04
Officers Wanted for the
Woman s Land
Army

The work began on Thursday at the very b..
ginning of things, with the erection of In.
tents in which the student officers are to Iivs
for the next two months. The work, incudjr,
the laying Of the floors, was all done BY tho
women themselves under the guidance Of an
expert from the Charlestown Navy Yard
There will be lectures on camp sanitation and
hygiene to follow, and after that from earv
morn until dewy eve these women will be kent
buster than they have ever been in all thei,
lives before with lectures and military drills
and practical work in the camp gardens or on
neighboring farms, several of which hay.
opened their doors to the student for the sum.
mer.
One interesting item is course in physical
training which will exercise and develop the
muscles which are used in farm and garden
work.
New-York tribune., 1918-08-04
Single Space and Use
Both Sides of the Paper

use my husbands typewriter for my home
letters and most of my informal ones. l al
ways double-spaced and wrote on only one side
OF the paper, just because it looked better and
was easier to read Then one day i got a letter
from my brother in camp, written on Y. NJ C.
A. paper, with little notice at the bottom
Use both sides of this paper So now I sim
gle-space and use both sides, and have found
that one sheet can be made to take the place
of four
New-York tribune., 1918-08-04

women's war activities, for it marked the open
ing of the very first officers training camp for
women, a camp designed for the instruction
and training of the leaders of the Woman's
Land Army of America. Up to this time there
have been no trained officers or "leaders" in
this army, but another year will quite
different order of things, for, unless all signs
fall there will be at least thirty-five efficient,
we'll trained women who have taken the inten-
sve eight or ten weeks course at Wellesley,
have won the stripes brassards, or whatever
insignia the directors see fit to bestow upon
them, and are fully equipped to command
company in field or camp.
New-York tribune., 1918-08-04
being could possibly be efficient in all these
branches.
What Unit Leader"
Must Know


Must Know
In the first place the unit leader" must
select the site and plan and lay out her camp
for in many rural districts there is not suth-
cient accommodation for housing the workers
and they are obliged to live in tents She
must understand dietetcs so that the workers
will be given the proper kind of food; she
must know something of the principles of sani-
tation; she must be ready with first aid III
case of an accident; she must be able to do
simple carpentry work; to farm tools and
machinery, and she must have enough general
knowledge of agriculture to deal intelligently
with the farmers who employ the women of
her unit And besides all this she must be
the business manager of the whole enterprise;
she must not only keep the financial records of
the camp, but she receives the wages from the
farmer and settles any disputes which may
arise. Then, last, but by no means least. she
must be sympathetic, broad minded, mother
ly person who will act "guide, philosopher
and friend" to every last Of those women
who constitute her unit.
1t is pretty large order that the training
camp at Wellesley has taken upon itself to
supply but from what one hears of the per-
sonnel of the women who are entering upon
the course it is safe to predict that it's efforts
will be crowned with success. For the board
of directors has been very particular in choos-
ing from the scores of applicants who have
come to them those whom they considered had
the proper "makngs" for the job.
New-York tribune., 1918-08-04
Competitive Thrift the Latest
Thing in Child Play

IA Y LITTLE girls, six and eight have
Vl their thrift books Ks and nd are S"t just 'as as
proud Of them as possible. We all
take turns in filling up the babys book Every
time the children go without sugar on their
breakfast cereal l pay them penny for the I.
S. jar. l also pay them a penny for doing
things around the house. Each has a Jelly
glass on the mantelpece and they are very
much interested in seeing who gets quarter
first.
used to buy them little candy every Sat
urday, and it is about all they ever got. But
they have decided that other little girls need
food more than they do candy, SO that goes
into the jars now. But once in a great while
daddy brings home some candy.
In making mullins simple one-egg or spice
cakes--the only kind we get now-I fill the pan
only about half as full as usual. Instead of
dozen fat, puffy ones you'll have two dozen
much thinner, it is true, but nobody knows
New-York tribune., 1918-08-04
it, and they taste just as good and go fur
ther
A Wise Observation-Disclosures Utensils
Earn Interest in Thrift Stamps

am saving kerosene by investing 1920 in a
triple boiler of aluminium. / use my oil stove
altogether in summer except when we want
plenty of hot water for bathing. l can cook
three foods over one burner with the same oil
| formerly used for three pots, and if necessary
can put the oven on and still use three burners
instead of five.
I am saving fat by spending $500 apiece on
an aluminium griddle and frying pan. The cost
almost killed me, but, of course, they will pay
for themselves in the end, wear forever, and
are so easy to clean / can make batter cakes
now nearly every day with clear conscience,
or fry potatoes or fish, that had become regular
luxuries, because they took so much fat that
taking away from our boys.
New-York tribune., 1918-08-04

"W l. lie s. e-y,
Wellesley" now ring
with the sound of the
hammer and saw and
the short, curt com
mands of the drill SER
geant.
August l was a ban
ner day in the annals Of
New-York tribune., 1918-08-04
By ELENE FOSTER

A LITTLE PLATTSBURG has sprung
~ up almost overnight on the grassy
slopes of Wellesley College and the
walls which only few short weeks ago re-
verberated with the melodous chant which
is the most tuneful of all the college "yells,"
New-York tribune., 1918-08-04
Getting Down to
Bedrock

don't know whether doing my own work TO
save money ought to count or not. | could al
ford servant, a washwoman at least, but
am young and strong and in perfect health 50
| am doing all of it myself and sewing for the
children, and my own clothes, too. | get mighty
tired and discouraged sometimes, and it seems
as If life was nothing but drudgery.
Then l think that, after all, am doing
for the ones love best in the world and look
at my three rosy, healthy children, and think
of my brother in his training camp and an
other one in France, and then of the starving
children and the pitiful little dead babies lying
IN the fields and roads, and grit my teeth ana
go at it again, not to stop until every little
child in the world is safe from the clutches o.
the Kaiser and his kind.
LUCIA STARNES MUNROE.
Eastville, Va
C'To be continued" II you hare an org
'nal thrift stunt OF yoau o1cn, report 1t to the
Director Of The Tribune Institute and y1
arill get four Thrift Stamps in exchange, pro
riding the idea is ne1o and practical enough
print
New-York tribune., 1918-08-04
Salute the Director of the
Training Camp

The committee in charge of the camp has
been particularly happy in its choice of a di.
rector. 1t has selected Miss Edith Diehl, who
was formerly a successful bookbinder. Di.
rectly we went into the war Miss Diehl closed
up her bindery and volunteered her services To
the Red Cross, for which for the past wear
she has done most efficient work in the organ.
izing and supervising of hundred or more 0,
the Red Cross workrooms.
Miss Diehl is very enthusiastic about the
work of the training camp, and il is her hope
that when these women have finished the
course at Wellesley they will Immediately enter
the agricultural college of their home state for
the course which these institutions almost
without exception, are arranging for the com.
ing winter to fill the needs of the women who
are desrous of entering the Woman's Land
Army.
There is still room for few more "student
officers" in he Wellesley camp. Doesn't II
sound alluring to you? Think it over Two
months in the open with every day filled to
overfowing with all sorts of interesting work
and play and then next summer entire charge
of band Of earnest, enthusiastic war workers
It's pretty big opportunity to be of use, isn't
it? And then-think of being privileged to
wear that enchanting uniformi
New-York tribune., 1918-08-04
The Old Songs
Are the Best

One of our little luxuries we have given up
is new records for the victrola My husband
and used to take turns every month in choos-
ing record, and at Christmas and BIRTHDAYS
we would each get three. We decided we could
keep on listening to the old ones and save that
much nrecinuS monn.,
Mount Vernon signal. (Mt. Vernon, Ky.) 18??-current, 1918-11-29

I; A B. Humble. S; J.B. Hayse,
1; G. T. Hellard, 2; Ebert Han
sci S; Esker Jones. I; NJ. F. Jones
50 cts. Jackson B. Jones. 10; J, B.
Kirby. so cts; Delbert Loyfngs S;
Livingston Checker Club by DR..
w. It. Amyx. $50. Milt Miller, /;
j. M. Mink, 1; Charley Moore, I;
S. E. Muliings, I; W. R. Moore,
2; Henry Mahaffey, S; Geo Mink,
1; L. H. Morris, I; c. McMartin,
S; VIM. Owens, /; ]. L. Pickett,
S; W. M. Poynter, I; Sanford A.
Roberts, S; H. S. Smith, S; Geo.
9 Sowders, /; D. S. Smith, 1;
Sam Tankersly. I; Willie Turner,
2; DR.. R.G. Webb, IS; Thos. c.
WEIGH, 10; L. G. Woodal, S;
Tom Wilson, so cts. Mat Wood
SOD, S; James Whitaker. 4; is.
Four, $50.
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LIVINGS TO N

Mrs. Sarah B. Hall Is very sick
at present. She is another suf.
ferer of the flu.-The family of j.
w. Hughes, Who have been con
fined to their rooms on account of
1.-THE flu, are improving. - Fin
Davis, of Lowell, is visiting his
brother, L. FL. Davis. -O.D Bry-
ant, of Mt. Vernon, has resigned
as freight agent here and o. d.
Ponder has taken his place. -
Died: Mrs. James Mahaffey. wife
of Uncle James Mahaffey, who
died about year ago. She died
the 18th and was buried at the
family burying ground at the
Balls Cemetery. on Rockcastle
river. = Mrs Robert Mcclure is
very low with pneumonia and not
expected 10 live. She first had
flu and later went into pneumonia.
Mrs Fred Owens and children.
of Cincin natl. have moved back to
Livingston Ollie Browning has
moved his family here f ON Lon
don and is working third trick at
Sinks.-Sone of the soldier boys
have come back and more are
coming. We learn that several
thousand will come from England
and France in the lear future
They did all they could to destroy
Kaiserism. Can we put our hand
on our heart and say with clear
conscience that we did too.-The
flu situation Is getting better now.
No new cases ard all that have it
are gradually improving, and 1t is
to be hoped that it will be blotted
ont - Mike FannOn was at Mt
Vernon, Sunday, to be with Mrs.
Fannon, who is hello girl at that
place.-D. B Rambo was in Louis
vile latter part of last week.
Earl Rice was here Sunday, en-
route to Corbiu, where he has
position with the L. &N R r. TO
Joe Jackson, who is in Uncle
Sans Navy. was here Sunday,
but did not get here in time to see
his-wife who died of the flu and
AauhSried few days before his
arrival.-Mr. and Mrs 1. Z. Stew
Mount Vernon signal. (Mt. Vernon, Ky.) 18??-current, 1918-11-29

art, of Cincinnati, who have been
visiting relatives here for the
past week. left on ~, Wednes-
day, for Nashville. Charley Kel-
ley, son of Smith Kelley, WHO
was with the colors, was brought
here a few days ago and buried
near town in the family burying
I ground. Another victim of the
flu.-Logan Overbay, SON of Mr..
and Mrs. John Overbay, died Fri
day Of pneumonia, which was
caused by severe case of the
flu. He was buried On Sand
Hill, Saturday. He was thirty
years old and leaves a wife and
four children, father and mother,
several brothers and sisters to
mourn his loss. - Born: to the
wifi. Of David Smith, fine boy
on the 25th; also fine girl to the
wife of T.. L. Black, on same date.
= Mrs. D. H. Owens has resigned
as assistant postmaster and moved
to Lebanon junction. - Mr.. and
Mrs. w, R. Ward and son, Glen,
have returned to their home at
Hazard. KY after a few days
visit with relatives here.-Mrs.N
81 Oliver, who has had severe
attack of flu, is able to leave her
room. - Bill Odell's family are
better after all being confined to
their room with flu &C. NJ Griffin.
of Falmouth, KY, were here lat
ter part of last week. = Lee Null
Inns, who is interested in coal min
ing, near Corbin, was with his
family Sunday.-Judge Dees has
resigned as postmaster and Miss
Flora Pennington has been ap-
pointed aud will take charge Janu
airy first. jennie Bullock, who
had the flu about month ago and
developed pneumonia, is slowly
improving Mrs. Hobert Griffin.
who moved to London, KY, about
two months ago, has moved back
to our town w A. Ward is NOV
ing his family to Wilde, as he has
purchased a farm near that good
little. Ii s ,oNl.-.za ,ot0r $
of last xzsIl, and ialefeSe7gallnl9ld
through q friend the most import
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undergo, so we are taking 1t
easy, knowing that we are fight
ing Cor have been fghting)
for the greatest cause which
mortal man ever bled and died,
Viz: A World wide Democracy"
and we have been crowned with
a victory that will put these
United States in a position where
all the rest of the Nations of the
earth will look up and respect
her as they have never done be-
Continued on last page.)
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! was il my company about
four days when ! received a
transfer to the Camp Headquar.
tiers, at (which place I am now
stafioned.L am. working in the
officers Morale Department now.
The most ofathe WORK / do is
on the machine. / am liking
army life fac. Of Course there
are some hArdships for to
undergo, but nothing to compare
with that through which the
boys "over there" have had to
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have been almost continually en-
gagged in some kind Of Office wo:k.
The first seven weeks that I
was here I was In the Personnel
Depxrtmeat Of the army, from
that I was sent 10 the Motor
Transportation Office. which is a
branch of ON. e. I was there
on special duty and not perma-
nentl assigned. and after ahont
a month ! vas ordered back to
my original company by the
camp commander, Col. Macomb.