Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1918-01-03

to WaStefuinesS y 1EeTlciency we
are reproducing the major portion OF
the observations of the Tribune's
Washington represenTatiEe.-The Ed
itor.l
War Charities.
The administration is gong 10 take
up the matter of maladministration
of wal charities. Now thai is not 10
suggest that very Important steal
ing is going on 1t simply
that the women of the country have
gone war charity mad,
The whole duration of the Civil
war saw not one-third of this fren-
zied effort to comfort the soldiers of
that war that has already been put
forth since last April, and Yet U
soldiers came through IN pretty good
shape. all except those who starved
in rebel prisons. Many thousands OF
these soldiers wen 10 the front with.
IA uniforms or arms and with only
the cruGest of eating opportunities.
Thousands OF them weal TO the front
in cattle cars. out of which the filth
had not been cleaned. Whole regi-
spsnts were in line of battle Is days
after muster in. There We're nc cost
iy training camps TO extract all en-
tfHasiasG,
If you wan 10 know what var is
as supposedly designated by Gen
Sherman. ask any one of a thousand
Of the Civil Nrar veterans III Washing
ton and sou viii ge4 The truth,
BaI ali the same. these veterans
remember those four years ci war
1anst iezaealy. and thousands 81 theEa
yearly cross tbs c~9EtinsEt east.
new west, inst for another chance 10
march shoulder 10 Shoulder with their.
comrades Of half q century ago. Thess
unea enlisted. went fer love Of com
Try ana flag ana national institution
TIE People Thought
The people al home fhoaghr and
thought deeply ores the problems
confronting them. Farms we're 10 he
titled. Children chung 10 moIhers'
skirts and had TO be fed. clothed, edu-
Gated. while the father was carrying
a u for love OF country and sI3 q
month. The blacksmith. the miller,
the doctor. the preacher. the lawyer.
the merchant enlisted and the indus
tries of the country were at a stand
still. ! know one little Illinois town
IL which: net az aauitt man vas iirfft
to dig a grave for those who died.
The took up the work the
laen laid down when they went 70 the
front. They didn't do mach sewing
ami they did less knitting. As for
cookings, there wasn't much To cook
Every woman who had To cater to q
family poMdered well on the amount
of food that would sustain life, anG
that was what she fed to the hungr.
mouths about her. 1t vas not necea
sary to spend a million dollars, more
or less, 10 get women to CONSERVE
food. They learned this by hard ex
perience early in the war. The.
planted the fields and harvested til,
crops. They raised pigs. chickens, cat
lie and horses. The food they uset
they got from the ground or reare,
with their own hands. There was n
paper-bag living in those days to In
jure digestion and add to the mig
cost of living.
Women at the Frent.
Women went to the front? oil
indeed. The names of yer 80
nurses are written higis on the scrol
fame. They were registered o
government roofs, but most 9
them never asked for or received
dollar ofSpay. They got subsistence
fhat@wa all They wore n uniforms
Many 0f these nurses clipped the
Iuug hair and wore ii like men. Their
no starch for white caps or the
oTdreSSss or petticoats. S
sssHtEEo army nurses mostly wore blu
g&Essa&%Sffnn& drnaaAa and #xingf1am anroasa