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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 18, 1918)
; - PART TWO SOCIETY SECTION PAGES 1 TO 16 UNDAY B PART-TWO ( AUTO SECTION PAGES 1 TO 16 H OMAHA EE 1 , 5 'i i VOL. XLVIII NO. 10. OMAHA, SUNDAY MORNING, AUGUST 18, 1918. SINGLE COPY FIVE CENTS. life iiliiw ll v ; R , L A i u lr - ; r vi tejr . : r yw"-- I 111 MiiAti ' WJJM:-:::. B I dkFiiiF 1 i mi- mm I Omalhia Wm3ni t B aimi .m amii Aroninii City mi AMgnnet p IE day will be Wednesday , August 28. On 1 that great and glorious day the women of Omaha will show their appreciation of the boys in- khaki and the boys in blue by presenting each of them with a big, home-made, luscious pie. The War Camp Cummunity service, established by the Josdick commission for the entertainment of the men in service in America, believes that pie-eating is one of the chief of American amusements. J. M. Parker, superintendent of the work of the com mission in ' Omaha, and his committee of enthusiastic men and women, have arranged for one day when each soldier and sailor and employe of the commissary de partmentin fact, every man in and about Omaha who wears the uniform of Uncle Sam,' shall have a whole "mother-made" pie. This means work for Omaha women, but they are t i Mdl rooo Kfofce A soldier's wife may obtain employment at the civil ian relief department in the court house. The Mitchell car donated by L. C. Buresh.is now for sale and can be seen at the Andrew Murphy garage. The sweater quota is still short by 500 garments.. There is plenty of wool on hand for the sock knitters. A base ball game between the Navy team and the Armour Packing company netted the Red Cross $13.65. Mrs. Marguerite Svengard. 2835 Cass streel; Florence Rahm and Florence Neville are the latest volunteers for Red Cross motor setvice abroad. The RedNCross canteen at "a center in France" runs so efficiently that it. is possible to serve 600 men in 15 minutes. Adjoining is a rest room, with 20 baths and showers. ' W. F. Baxter of Kilpatrick company has given the salvage department the two clothing racks requested. Two pairs of crutches are on sale at headquarters, 1409 Harney street. Letters from American prisoners of war show that most of them depend exclusively on the food furnished them by the War and Navy departments through the American Red Cross at Berne, Switzerland. The Amer ican prisoners turn over to the prisoners of other nations, not so well provided for, the rations furnished by the priso' camps. responding nobly. "Will I make a pie?" exclaimed Mrs. Mary A. Vapor. "I certainly, will. I'll make two of them." Mrs. J. M. Keyes was the first volunteer. Just as soon as she read about pie day in The Bee she called up the War Camp Community Service and said, "I will make two pies for the soldier boys. Two lemon pies." And so it goes each day in the war camp office. "Ting-a-ling" goes the telephone, and then a voice at the other end says, "I am Mrs. So-and-So. I will make a pie for the soldier boys." In spite of the generosity already shown, there is still room for more, volunteers. Pie day will require 3,000 pies. If 3,000 ordinary sized pies were placed in a row down Farnam street they would reach from the Bee building to .the Burlington headquarters, and one can readily see what a lot pi pies that would take. The soldier boys are not hungry. "We get every thing from soup to fish, and he best there is made of it at the fort," said one of the balloon school men. But every mother who has a son knows how good mother's pies always taste to him and how pie is the first thing he asks for when he comes home from a trip. That is the reason that the mothers of Omaha are glad to make home-made pies for other mothers sons. And the sis ters are not going to be left out. They can make pies a3 well as their mothers ever did, for they have many of them learned how to do it at the most expensive domes tic science schools. "Which will you have, a domestic science pie or a grandmother pie?" might be the question asked, if any one could tell the difference between two pies, both practically perfect in spite of the varied methods of man- ufacture. Just make the pies. This is all the War Camp Com munity Service is asking'of Omaha women.Automobiles and trucks will be esnt to carry the pies right-side-up-with-care to the soldiers and sailors who are to eat them. Make a pie, any kind of pie, just so it is a superla tively, good pie, and help the good cause along. When it comes to serving the pies, the girls who be long to Patriotic League clubs get first choice. Some of the boys say they are even more interested in the fair servers than they are in the pies, but the pies will fur nish good, substantial entertainment vwhen the smiling servers have passed on to the next man, for there are going to be enough pies to go around, but, not nearly. enough girls zrfmia orms an) Z&nria ZPo6erte I f riltate to Omalha Redl Cro, Canteoini mRIBUTES to the service of the yards and had riot even been permit I Omaha Red Cross canteen corps continue to pour into the hands of Mrs. Luther L. 'Kountze, com mandant. The above was penned to Miss Margaret Gamble, one of the canteen corps. Private W. P. Forman-is author of another letter cf glowing praise, ex pressing appreciation for the efforts of Mrs. G. L. Bradley, who met him when a recent troop train passed through Omaha and sent her car to bring his mother and brother toMhe station to bid him adieu since he was not permitted to leave the station ted to wire, them of his coming, v Private Forman also voiced the pleasure of the boys for the cooling shower bath, the first the soldiers on his train had had for several days. Sergt. C. F, Hyde, en route over seas, Roy Brazell at Camp Lewis, wrote , "not even you yourselt fully realize the good work you are doing, Henry G. Swartz, who wrote "we will at all times remember the good Red Cross society which cheered our htarts when leaving Omaha," are among the appreciative soldiers. Kearney and Buffalo county boys appointed a committee, includingJ. M. Fitzgerald, R. G. Hartzell and D. A. Webbert to draft a letter of ap prcciation. Next to the loyal women who serve them, the soldiers welcome the shower baths installed 1v the Ui.ion Pacific in the train yards and added by the railroad t the canteen corps' courtesies.. Five hundred men can be put through the showers in one and one-half hours and one excessive ly warm dav last week. 2.077 soldiers enjoyed a cooling bath in exactly four hours. onsumer ... ., j. . Dsfenta Council Urges t , Women to Qualify for Reconstruction Work NEBRASKA women who are trained in occupational or medi cinal lines wffich would qualify them to serve as reconstruction tides are urged by the woman's committee of the Council of Defense to apply for appointments in the training schools open for this service. A number of Nebraska's college women are already in this training. Among these are the Misses Ina Gittings, former phy ' sical director of the University of Nebraska; Ethel Johnson,' who has been teaching ih the Wisconsin State,, normal; Miss Marion Sweezey, who is teaching in. Pullman, Wash., and Miss Wilma Wood. These young women are all in training in the Reed college, Portland, Ore. Miss Git tin gsis on the faculty. Letters received from these young women by Miss Sarka Hrbkova, state chairman of the woman's committee, give a very interesting glimpse ol the nature of the work of reconstruct ing our soldiers, conducted directly under Surgeon General Gogas. Wo men who are trained in massage and medical gymnastics, op who arc skilled in manual training and hand craft work are particularly urged to go into reconstruction work training. The cases treated are composed largely of fractures, adhesion, curva ture, paralysis, rheumatism, pronation, sprain, neuritis, locomotor atixia, burns, debility, sciatica, fiat feet, etc., all of which are types of cases which will be found most frequently among the soldiers. . ' The task of fitting men for further military service is at present the most pressing need, because wherever ait able-bodied man behind the lines can be replaced by one less fit physically but vocationally capable, a soldier is gained for active service. The recon struction work in the hospitals will therefore emphasize technical training in all lines capable of adaptation to the physical limittions of disabled men and in which employment will act as a therapeutic agent. - When play and work and study will help a man get well, this kind of medicine will be prescribed to the patient At present patients are beinsj trained in general hospitals for lim ited service as general and vocational teachers, typists, printers, tailors cob blers, harness makers, welders, motor mechanicians, painters, telegraphers, photographers, telephone operators, storekeepers and electricians. J . in Tin . . American women are wen worm rpHE Red Cflbss canteen J service stands as a won derful monument to the efforts of American women. It is the one thing which helps keep up the spirits of our men on their long trips. If any of the men had any doubts before of the reasons why the United States of America is mixed up in this war, they are now certain of one thing, fighting for. After seeing the way women of this country are backing them, not one of them but will do his best to make old Kaiser BHl wish this country was out of it. "Will you permit me to say that I think the. costumes and the girls of Omaha were far prettier than any canteen we passed. The men were more than pleased with the systematic way in which your canteen did its part. When the trip, was over one of the bright spots in their memory was the workers of Omaha. It was on the mouth of every man. Praise and thanks for your efforts would be putting it mildly. For them I wish to thank you, and I know that when we are in the trenches our minds will continually wander back to you." From a Soldier. and that is that Registration for war service cards filled out by Nebraska women last fall are to come into use. The Douglas county women's committee will loan the cards to the Chamber 6f Com merce, for use in the latter's new activity of placing women in industry where the need is the greatest. - , Th cards will be transferred from the public library where they will be tabulated for immediate use. A paid worker will probably be employed to handle the new work and an; em- " ploye of the Co-Operative Employ- ment bureau will also help. Filling needs for women with wo- -men employes first instead of obtain- - (Continued on Page Two, Column On4 I I