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, THE BEE; OMAHA, FRIDAY, , APRIL 15, 1918, , , -
Conducted byjElla Fleishman
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liberty Bank Bond
f Total Climbs Daily
i Liberty loan subscription totaling
$50,000 were taken at the Liberty
bank of the National League for
Woman's Service, Tuesday and
Wednesday The largest bond, a $j0,
- 000 one was taken by the Guardian
Life Insurance company, through B.
JtLPlotts, manager.
Ernest Sweet and G. W. Wattles
were $5,000 purchasers; Mrs. W. II.
Yohe, Mr. W. H. Yohe, Miss Martha
F. Folda, Mrs. Victor B. Caldwell,
and the Eckman Chemical company
bought, $1,000 bands each; and $500
bonds were taken by William H. Line
barker, F. H. Gaines, Carl F. Reimer,
Mrs. Milton Barlow, Mrs. Theodore
." M. Patterson and Frank Chapin.
R. J. Watts of 323 North thirty
seventh street came into the Liberty
bank .Wednesday, took a $50 bond
and told the women he had voted
twice for Abraham Lincoln.
II. F. Mossman spoke from the
steps of the bank today at. 12:30
o'clock. Rabbi Frederick Cohn and
A. S. Ritchie talk Friday and the Old
Soldiers' quartet will sing.
Saturday at 1 o'clock, the high
school band .will play; at 1:30 p. m. T.
A. Hollister speaks and at 2 p. m.,
Spirit Sl0re
The "War" Spirit and Garments Beautiful
enables you to get "right up close" to manufacturing
cost for your new dress or coat, suit or skirt, -Mouse or sweater.
It means broad avenues orened wide leading from the best style
makers direct to your wardrobe. '
Women's Newest Spring Coats
1 . Motoring Coats - Dressy Coats - Characterful
$25.00 new spring coats, $19.75 I $35.00 new spring coats, $27.75
$30.00 new spring coats, $24.75 $40.00 new spring coats, $29.75
Prettiest Spring Dresses, afternoon frocks,
street dresses, business dresses, house dresses; all so full
of appeal all so rightly priced.
Eatra Special Forty afternoon and street dresses valued at $25.00,
$27.75 and $30.00 on sale at , $19.75
. CHILDREN'S SPRING COATS Ages 2 to 10
Children's Coats, $4.50, $5.00 I Children's Coats, $6.50, $7.50,
and $6.00 values... .$3.45 (and $10.00 values $4.95
CHILDREN'S HATS Only Few Left, but Look
Values to $2.00 at. ..... .98 1 Values to $5.00 at. .. .81. 08
WOMEN'S- RAINCOATS- CHILDREN'S
, . $5.00 to $19.50 $3.95 and $4.85
Tell Your Friends of This
Will Put
IFDME SOLDIERS
; ACROSS
$35.90 in the U. S.
NOW Wide Open to
It takes one sailor for every five sol
diers your country sends to France. Ships
are waiting for you to volunteer. The
Allies heed more soldiers. Will you help
take them across? "
Your Draft Board Will Give You a Cer
' . tificate Upon Request, If Possible
; v ASK THEM
The certificate reads : "Mr.- 's class and or
der numbers are so low he will not be needed in the
present quota. To our best knowledge and belief he
is of good character and a full UNITED STATES
citizen.
Take this certificate to the Fifth Floor
of the Paxton Building, 16th and Farnam
streets, Omaha, Neb.; or to one of the
Navy substations at Grand Island, Neb. ;
Norfolk, Neb.; Aberdeen, S. D.; Beatrice,
Neb.; Lincoln, Neb.; Sioux Falls, S. D.V
or Sioux City, la., where
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. Transportation Will Be Furnished
Marie Dressier talks. Saturday eve
ning at 7:30 o'clock, the fife and drum
corps will play.
The motor division of the Service
league, moved the state tank east on
Farnam street, this noon. Mrs. E. S.
Westbrook is captain.
The largest amounts in Liberty
bonds purchased at the bank today
included $6,000 from the Paxton
Vierling Iron Works, Mrs. Thomas
L. Kimball, $5,000, and I. Gluck, $500.
Conservation Meeting in School.
Three hundred mothers attended a
food conservation meeting in Mon
mouth Park school Wednesday after
noon when Miss Nellie Farnsworth,
federal food agent, spoke on conserva
tion and the use of substitutes. Mrs.
George J. Daniel, 3312 Fowler ave
nue, is district chairman of the Cen
tral Conservation council, in charge
of the meeting.
To Elizabeth Rooney, school prin
cipal, is due much of the credit for
the large number of women present
Miss Rooney sent a circular letter to
the parent of each child in the school
and, in addition, offered a silk flag to
the school room the children of which
should have the best representation
of parents and friends. v
Of course, every mother had to be
present.
Win - tWW.r Fashion Shop.
(AT.wXICOME ARCH
NAVY Reserves
Men in the .Draft
FARNAM STREET J
Signed by Draft Board"
Women's Clubs Help
Boost Bond Total
To $2 fiOOfiOO Goal
Five Jewish women's organizations,
banding together, have already turned
in a total of $30,000 in Liberty loan
subscriptions. The clubs . are the
Jewish Ladies' Relief society, Mrs.
Reuben Kulakofsky, president; Tal
mud Torah auxiliary, Mrs. Ben Hand
ler; Young Women's Hebrew asso
ciation, Miss Jessie Kruger; Golden
Hill society, Mrs. Philip Schlaifer,
and Daughters of Israel, Mrs. S. Ra
vitr. Tempi Israel sisterhood turned
in $13,000 in' addition.
Mrs. Warren Blackwell, chairman
of clubs, reports from the . Vassar
club, $12,500; Association f Col
legiate Alumnae, $1,200; Christ Child
society, $300; Train School Mothers'
club, $400; Greek-American Political
society, with a membership of 178,
$4,050, through the Greek church.
Liberty Notes.
Ed P. Smith took the largest bond,
a $5,000 one,"af the Thompson-Belden
booth, young women of Central Con
gregational church in charge. '
. All Liberty bond campaign work
ers are urged to attend the luncheon
Saturday at the Chamber of Com
merce, when Marie Dressier will
speak.
Large subscriptions reported in the
house-to-house canvass are: Nye-Schneider-Fowler,
. $5,000; J. A.
Cavers. $1,000; Mrs. Charles E. Wag
oner, $1,000; Peterson-Pegau company,
$1,000; Baker Manufacturing company,
$2,500.
Mrs. Joseph Duffy, chairman for
the Third ward, started the women
of her district in the house-to-house
campaign with a $1,000 bond.
Alfred F. Anderson, 3722 North
Twenty-eighth street, only 10 years
old, bought a $50 bond with the
nickels and pennies he has been sav
ing since he was three years old.
Mrs. T. P. Reynolds addressed
Miller Park and Mrs. A. A. Holtman
Belvidere and Central Park Red Cross
auxiliaries on the "Liberty Loan"
Wednesday.1-
Mrs. Moshier Colpetzer, soliciting
Liberty bond subscriptions among her
friends, obtained $14,050.
Red Cross Notes.
The salvage committee sent for
three big truck loads .to Mason school
and the boys of the school brought
down two additional loads. The of
fering consisted of rubbers, tinfoil, old
papers and other bits of salvage.
Another Victrola has been given to
the committee and a number of rugs
which will be placed on sale. The
receipts have been averaging about
$25 a day. ,
To Continue All Summer.
The Red Cross auxiliary of the
Omaha Woman's club will continue
to meet on Wednesdays at the Ma
sonic temple. The other departments
of the club will suspend during the
summer.
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To
Help
Win
the
War
The Newest Style
PUMPS
Dull Kid and Patent Celt. -A
Fine New Lot
The new plain style with
leather Louis heels and
street soles, only
$1.9S
We Are
Building
a Great
Business
Greater
BOOT
Red Cross Chairman No. i
Mrs. H. E. Cotton is the first one chosen to appear in The Bee's Red
Cross frame for auxiliary chairmen. Her record for patriotism is well worth
relating as an example of how the woman who stays at home may win the
war.
When the first Daughters of the American Revolution Red Cross workers
began operations in the Army building, Mrs Cotton was one of the class.
She enrolled in one of the early, classes taught by Miss Nelle Calvin, first
Red Cross surgical dressing instructor in Omaha, and, having completed her
course, took charge of the Grant Woman's Relief corps auxiliary. Mrs. Cot
ton also had complete charge of the Red Cross auxiliary of the Omaha
Woman's club and of another composed of Daughters of the American Revolu
tion members, besides teaching for some time in the public shop and work
ing at extra busy time in the Red Cross warehouse.
Since these workers have finished the required number of lessons, Mrs.
Cotton devotes her Thursdays to the managing of the censor room in the
Masonic temple and is in charge of the teaching in the state instruction
rooms, where out-of-town workers come for special guidance.
With the coming of the summer and vacation time, this instructor-chairman
thought it best to be home with her two small boys who will not be
kept busy at school, so she has organized an auxiliary which meets at her
home Tuesdays. There are already 20 members and the work is so ex
cellent that on the first day's meeting 400 compresses of the 8x12 size were
turned out and 50 many-tailed bandages.
Besides this splendid amount of Red Cross work Mrs! Cotton manages
to do all the housework in her cozy bungalow. She has very willing aids in
her husband and sons who give their support in making "mother" 100 per
cent Red Cross.
Three Interpreters
Needed to Register
South Side Babies
Three interpreters, a Serbian, Lith
uanian and Bohemian, were nec
essary to complete the registration
of 258 bab'es in the South Side Cor
rigan and West Side schools Wednes
day. Most of the babies were brougfit
by "little mothers" of 14 or under,
sometimes three, four and five babies
in one family, as the mothers are
employed during the day.
Ethel Louise Carleton, 3836 Ham
ilton street, born the day the United
States entered the war and who,
therefore, celebrated her first birth
day on the day the third Liberty loan
drive was launched, was one of the
babies registered at Franklin school
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Come Tomorrow and Saturday
We Give Thrift Stamps With
Children's and Boys' Shoes
With Every Pair of Children's or Boys' Shoes From Size 6 up, we
give a Thrift Stamp. Help Win the War. Buy Children'! Shoes Here
and Save. .
Largest Popular Price Children's Department
With touis Heels
Oxfords
'
Fine Black Patent Colt
AND NUT BROWN CALF
Extra fine quality white oose-Hned Cirela
Foxed style with hand turned street soles.
We price them for Friday and Saturday
at $3.95.
'Oxfords
With Cuban Heels
300 Pairs Fine Black Patent
The new wins toe style. Lined with Cray
I ooie heels of leather, 1'4 inches high.
Just Friday and Saturday at
Brown
Calf
Oxfords
With -College
Heel $5.95
SHOP - I5I2 Douglas
this morning in the Council of De
fense's infant welfare campaign.
Friday babies will be registered in
Monmouth Park school in the morn
ing and at Central Park in the after
noon. Miss Charlotte Townsend,
school nurse in charge of the weigh
ing, reminds mothers to bring towels
in which to wrap the babies.
New Achievement in Knitting.
Knitting while dictating is the new
est achievement in war work for wo
men. Mrs. Emma B. Manchester,
who was the first one to win the
medal for 500 hours of Red Cross
work, has accomplished much of her
work during business hours.
She has to her credit 142 wristlets,
12 sweaters, 76 medical sponges, 39
wash cloths, 5 helmets, 104 pairs of
socks. Besides this, she has done
knitting for friends in the service and
has adopted four soldiers.
To
Help
Children
Save
Stamps
ORDER
BY MAIL
Write for Our New
Sprin( Catalog
Low Heel College Style
PUMPS
m DULL CALF AND PATENT
The stylish pump
for young women.
Heels of leather just
1 inch high'. Very
special at
Same Style in
OXFORDS
$4
.95
Low Heels,
Fine Dull
Calf ... .
Street
' We
Under
Buy. .
We
Under
Sell.
Litarty Bond
Interest in the Liberty loan prize
contest for Nebraska school children
grows keeer and keener. An aval
anche oi patriotic paragraphs de
scended on the contest editor this
morning and the best ones explaining
why the third Liberty loan bonds
should be purchased are printed be
low. T. C. Byrne, state chairman of the
Liberty loan committee, has offered
$100 in prizes for the four best para
graphs and The Bee offers five ad
ditional prizes. The contest closes
May 1.
All post cards, on which the 50-
wotd paragraphs are written, should
be mailed to The Omaha Bee, which
will print the best paragraphs re
ceived. After it has been printed, and
not before, clip it and mail it to Lib
erty loan contest committee, Cham
ber of Commerce, Omaha.
Answer Uncle -Sam's Call.
Helen Ballou, Aged 13 Tears, Williams
School Columbus, Neb. Eighth
Grade. Miss Bernle, Teacher.
Rise up, American people, and an
swer Uncle Sam's call. He needs your
help in bringing victory to America.
We must win in this great struggle,
so it's up to you, citizens of America,
to do your bit. The time is short, so
buy Liberty bonds and help down
the kaiser.
We Will Win.
Betty Sward, Aired 13 Yearn, Lake School,
Omaha, Neb., Eighth B. Miss
Roys, Teacher.
Liberty is desired by all nations.
The imperial German government is
bent on conquering the world and in
sofar as several small nations are
concerned it has succeeded. The
United States of America will see
that Prussianism is stamped out and
Liberty established fSr all. Buy Lib
erty bonds and we will win.
Buy Liberty Bonds.
Thelma Howard, Aged 15 Years. 7S0 West
Eighth Street, Fremont, Neb, Miss.
' Pplckard, Teacher.
1. To insure the protection of the
greatest country on earth.
2. To make the world safe for de
mocracy. 3. And by buying them we will help
win the war and our country's name
shall go down on the pages of history,
not as a nation corruptible, but as
the foremost invincible example of
freedom.
Wilhelm's Downfall.
Edwin Ryplns. Aged 15 Years, Central High,
10th B, 629 Houth Thirty-first Avenue.
Omaha. Miss O. Clarko, Teacher.
"The more bonds we buy and the
quicker we answer the Liberty call',
the soon we'll all be rejoicing o'er
William the Beast's downfall."
Why Third Liberty Loan Bonds
Should Be Purchased.
Elizabeth Goldberg, Aged 17 Years, 1409
North Twentieth Street, Omaha, Van
Sant School. Miss Van Sant and
Mrs. Williams.' Teachers.
"It is the duty of every American
citizen to invest his cash in the best
secured collateral in the world, "third
Liberty loan bonds, which cash forms
the nucleus for disbursement aiming
at the successful prosecution of the
war against the barbaric principles of
the Huns."
Liberty Bonds.
Richard Inman, Aged IS Years. HI West
Seventeenth Street, Columbus, Neb.. 10th
Grade, Columbus High School.
Prof. Webb, Teacher.
"The Germans are threatening our
very existence as a nation. If we
value our liberty and our lives we
must buy Liberty Jjonds to help win
this war against the unscrupulous
Hun. To lose means slavery. Which
do you prefer, your dollars or your
freedom?"
Liberty Bonds.
Robert Inman. Aged 14 Years, 21 West
Seventeenth fttreet, Columbus, Neb. Ninth
Grade, Columbus High School.
Prof. Webb, Teacher.
"It is a small thing to buy Liberty
bonds when our boys are giving their
lives for democracy. Every dollar in
vested in Liberty bonds brings us
closer to victory. America must fur
nish the allies with food and supplies.
You that can help, but will not, are
traitors to your country."
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Child Conservation is an
Important War Work
"The conservation of children is the
war measure of all others," was the
statement' of Mrs. Joseph R. Lamar
of the woman's committee, Council
of National Defense, at 'the Child
Welfare conference recently held in
Washington. The conference was
called by the woman's committee to"
formulate plans for the "children's
year," which is to be launched on
April 6, the anniversary pi the entry
of the United States into the war.
Chairmen of the committee's child
welfare departments from many of
the states were present.
"For the saving of different kinds
of food," Mrs. Lamar went on, "a
whole department has been created,
but we have been in the war a year,
and it remains for this committee to
start a campaign for the conserva
tion of the greatest crop of all the
children.
"The success of the campaign,
whose plan has been ably drawn up
by Miss Julia Lathrop, chief of the
children's bureau, depends simply
upon reaching the greatest number of
women. This our committee is par
ticularly able to do. When our or
ganization is perfected it will be pos
sible to reach all the women in the
country with every appeal from the
government through the state, county
and town chairmen and the heads of
the units below them. Already it is
possible to- do this in many states,
and to reach a large percentage of
the women in all of them.
"The written word is not enough.
Experience has taught us that the
mass of women have to be reached
by word of mouth and will be more
impressed by what people they know
tell them than by what they see in
print. This is why our organization,
extended into small units in some
states in 'tens' with one woman re
sponsible for all those in her group,
is so valuable. Through this com
mittee every woman receives the gov
ernment appeal through some one she
knows directly, and everything thus
transmitted is authoritative."
History of Knitting
In 1551 the first knitting needles, '
coarse wire things, appeared in Eng
land. Some say they were introduced
from Spain, others from Scotland.
Queen Elizabeth wore the first pail,
of stockings ever knitted, according
to Hume.
The first knitting machine was in
vented by one William Lee of Wood--borough,
England. He worked on
this invention three years, spurred on
by the refusal of the girl he loved Ho
look or speak to him because .she was
too absorbed in her knitting. He
vowed to make a machine that wouW
take the needles from her hand. At
last he evolved a flat frame, the web .
being fiat when the stocking was com
pleted, making it necessary to seam '
the finished product by hand. Lee
died penness in France, and the girl
married another man, bat his knitting
frame was used almost withe
change until 1831, when Tiurthy
Bailey of Albany, N. Y., applied
power to it. Previously all knitting
had been done by hand. The flat web -.
remained in use until 1850, when J. B.
Aikin of Buffalo invented a machine
that turned out the stocking round.
He was so pleased with his invention,
which at once revolutionized the fac
tory products, that he went further,
and invented a machine for doing the
family knitting at home.
In a circular he issued at that date
he said: "My family machine wiR
make it possible for the housewife
to do all her own knitting and earn
a little rftoney knitting for her neigh
bors. It will knit gents' und&rwear,
gents' cravats, gents' suspenders,
ladies' opera capes, tidies, sontags,
shawls, nubian scarfs and rigolets,
Grandmother's occupation is gone
with one of my machines in the
house." y
Of Interest to Women V
Filet and valcnciennes combine to .
form decorations for undies of crepe
de chine. . - -
A St. Louis hotel is believed to be
the first, in the country to employ
negro girls as "bellboys" and elevator
conductors. t
The daily mail of Mary Pickford,
the movie star, is said to exceed in
volume that of any other woman in
the United States.
In the fifth century he Empress
Helena established hospitals for the
sick and wounded soldiers of the em
pire, on the routes between Rome and
Constantinople.
HELP WIN
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