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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 22, 1918)
PART TWO SOCIETY SECTION PAGES 1 TO 14 The Omaha Sunday Bee VOL. XLVIII NO. 15. PART TWO AUTOMOBILE SEQTION PAGES 1 TO 14 ",' - OMAHA, SUNDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 22; 1918. SINGLE COPY FIVE CENTS pOISON gas and submarines and flying things VI ucan uv vk t,n t.3 wut'wv tu The newest is that department of organized friendliness known as the War Camp Community Service, whose aim is to keep up the morale of 'every man in training. It is authorized by the War Department, and is rendering invaluable aid to the government. You can help, too.'' Major E. C. Heniy's Toast at j Rotary Club oanuqimet i mm nvi . 1 I Service, whose aim is to keen uo the morale of 1 ailB " H n 11 W JLWWWl mmmm , 1 mv " FI 4 II II -at II ' tn tm i m"i .fs n i n 11 fi ' 11 11 h h m Z I ' r"S 4 1 ( ' ' Mil II II II .V II II W I II II 1 SilMMfe yTF' 11 f flfl ' 0 &4A VA Y fit' 'F 'ftlf - 1 "A lonely soldier is not . . 11 1 i Vl W jJIV3AAV filxfrm Wt'-'K M Xi- f - P good soldier, in the opin- I 11 I V- IV (l CAHx IfilA Vmt'tH ttej< ' ' ' l ment. which wants people T 11 1 Ik j&WSV fA ji V - fiM I I JW rfWl 'I everywhere to open their . I l I , Ml fpA iL a i 1 71 rN; J I . 1 1 fSJ 4 V'?' X kt : vl )XUXV 1 Here's to the - vWuIrCMV t 11. ' o 4 , : more ' fssgst :S ' .J F2 i t"'"""T :r 1 i , k u,sa : t si.i f f i t Gabby Detayls i ! J mill's. ' AHi II Is Keen of Eve I U ' -Mtw so3j y Here's to the blue of the wind-swept North, When we meet on the fields of France. May the spirit of Grant be over them all As the Sons of the North advance. Here's to the gray of the snnHcissed South, When we meet on the fields of France. May the spirit of Lee be over them all As the Sons of the South advance. Blue and Gray as one, meet on the fields of France. of God be over them all of the Flag advance. 4 l"t1 -M X PaMotielOlMe9 Ckfa Oak Life FkasaiiLt for War Camp Community Service Extends Welcoming Hand to All Men in the Neighboring Posts; Soldiers Say Without Reserve, ' - "Omaha People Treat You Right!" t 0 SOLDIER boy who has ever been sta-.the boys laugh. The boys always win, for 7 tioned in Omaha wants to be trans f erred anywhere else except "over there." , One and all, they tell you, "Omaha people treat you right." The boys in train tag are the honored guests of the citizens, and no class of citizens are more heartily entering into the job of making the boys at home than the girls of the Patriotic clubs, organized and managed by the War Camp Community Serv ice, the official organization designated by the government for entertaining the soldiers in training. Miss Frances Range is the, leader of these societies. Wednesday night is open house for the D, T. A., one of the clubs, composed of girls who work at teaching, stenography, book keeping and other tasks by day, but still find time for patriotic services when the day's work is done. , "Down with Autocracy" is the motto of th? club, and they are doing their best to keep the wariors of democracy happy and contented until their training is finished. The Y. W. C. A. building is headquarters, with the music room and gymnasium thrown open f,or the music and games of the young people.- First there is a sing. Really good mu sicians are secured to play and sing, and a reader varies the program. Then the crowd all "join in" for a hearty chorus. The pro gram is short and games come next. There Is the Virginia reel, as popular now as when the great-grandmothers of the present gener ation enjoyed it" There are modern games of tag and stunts, and the "gym" resounds with the gay laughter and shouts. One of the stunts is for the boys to try to make the they know how to make themselves irresisti bly funny. Rules are strict, but no one seems to notice them, for there is no thought of breaking them. No sitting about in corners, no mo nopolizing of especially attractive young men or women, and no "seeing Mollie home." Just a jolly god time and not romance is the object of the parties. 5lMTN A (TTl l A cm TI TI iF argaireit jiauipy uauM? to As one woman to another that describes the way Miss Margaret Slattery talks to her audience, according to Miss Frances Range, War Camp Community Service worker. , Miss Slattery will speak to the girls of Omaha at the Auditorium Tuesday evening. She is considered the leader among speakers to girls in this country. Miss Slattery is so popular as a speaker that her time is taken two years ahead, but through her personal acquaintance with Miss Range, the War Camp Com munity Service has been able to get her for one even ing. "Several years ago," said Miss Range, "I first heard Miss Slattery talk. At that time I was working among girls under the direction of the1 Y. W. C. A. in Roches ter, N, Y. Five minutes after she had begun speaking I felt as if she andI were alone in the room and she was talking only to me. That is the way every mem ber of her audience alway feels. She makes her talks thoroughly personal and knows the way to the heart of every girL When she came to Rochester again after we went into the war, to talk on the work of the War Camp Community Service, I was not particularly in terested in the service, but I did know that no matter on what subject she talked I wanted to hear her. I went and arranged for all the girls among whem I was working to go in a body to hear her. She told of the work of the patriotic leagues. Before she had finished talking I knew that I must take up that work. After (he evening was over I proceeded immediately to take the necessary steps, and as for the girls who were w;th girls laugh, and then for the girls to make! went 100 per .cent strong. if SITTING on the outside with few chances to look in, does anyone ever wonder what the elevator man thinks? Does he watch his passen gers as they go and come and does he put two and two together? One elevator man in the city hall has put, two together, as Gabby found the other day on her travels. All summer long Miss Sarah Can field and Joe Ihm have worked to gether with the boys' and girls' garden and canning classes. Up and down in the elevator they have rid den many times a day, escorting wash boilers, glass jars, fruit, vege tables and many other domestic utensils and materials. One day Mr. Ihm rode up with out his canning partner. "Where is the missus today?" asked the eleva tor man gravely. And that innocent young man replied, ''She has gone on before," without making any statement as to his single condition. So the elevator man probably still believes in the matrimonial arrange ment which exists only in his imagination. GABBYis always interested in names. Today she can not re frain from calling your attention to the fact that Miss Mae Engler will not have to become atcustomed to a very much different name when she become the bride of Capt. Mor ton Englman." "Mae is just adding on a 'man'." was the comment of double import made by a punster brother. Fort Omaha soldiers who frequent the post canteen are having a good laugh over one of the canteen work ers who signs her initials to their checks thusly, "B. V. D." PASSING the Wead building one day last week, Gabby saw two women, evidently from out of town, looking longingly up at the big Red Cross on the second floor, which in dicates state headquarters of that society. They had stopped a young man, also a stranger, to ask their way. "But there inust be some way to get up 'there," exclaimed the younger, woman argumentatively. The young man looked bewildered and helpless. Then his eye caught t War Work Record v W.CT.U. War work of tremendons propor tions has been accomplished in the last year by the National Women's Christian Temperance Union. The Nebraska branch stands among the states accomplishing the most war work individually, as reports to be given at the state meeting in Frer mont Tuesday to Friday of this week will indicate. A delegation of SO women, headed by Mrs. H. G. Claggert, will go from Omaha to at tend the meeting. Local women who will address the convention are Mrs. George W. Covell, Mrs. Flora Hoffman, and Dr. Olga Stastny. Miss Margaret Munns of Illinois, national treasurer, and Prof. Minnie T. England of Lincoln, chairman of the women in industry committee, Nebraska Council of Defense, wo men's section, are other speakers. Mrs. Mamie Claflin of Lincoln, state president, will preside. Included in the union's war work accomplishments are: Equipment of IS field kitchens, of which Jive are from Nebraska; adoption of 500 French war orphans, of which 2S were taken by Nebraskans: and 'three in Douglas county; gift of four ambulances for use at the front and 100 moving picture machines. The Nebraska union has also pur chased 25 electric fans for the post hospital at Fort Riley. The Douglas county service flag has 179 stars for sons of members. an approching hook and ladder wa gon and gleamed with a bright idea. J Gabby rushed Up and piloted the women to the stairway just in time to save the city fire department from an emergency call. One $1,000 bond will provide one 16-inch shell, ready to fire, or smoke less powder enough to propel three 16-inch seacoast shells and 1. N. 1. enough to burst SO three-inch Stokes mortar shells Hw MaiMy. Bonds Cam Omaha Wmm Sell? "A Bond in Every Home " Not How Much Money Can Be Raised, is Slogan for the Fourth :: Liberty Loan Drive OT how much money can be raised, but how many bonds can be sold, is the test ot efficiency ot the Women s Liberty loan com mittee in the coming drive. President Wilson has: said that he would like to see a bond in every home. There are still, in spite of pros perity, many homes in Omaha where there is not sufficient money over and above bare necessities of living to buy a bond, but wherever there is enough cash procurable to pay for one little $50 bond the women will use all their persuasive powers to have that surplus invested in this gilt-edged government security. ' ' This year it will be rather difficult for the women to make a big show ing, owing to the system whereby the men are given the downtown ter ritory, and the women must confine their efforts to the home and the wife. In the last drive, in this same territory, without infringing on the men's rightful grounds, the women mrle 11,000 sales, totaling approx imately $3,000,000. For the fourth drive they are determined to do at least equally well, and they hope to leave that goal so far behind that it will be a mere speck in the distance. . Omaha, Florence and Benson will be canvassed thoroughly. Every home will be visited. "Have you a little bond in your home?" will be asked of every woman, and if she cannot display a bond purchased by hubby she. will have to buy one herself or show the reason why. It is not a bit of fun to do this work, and the women who have, vol unteered for the eanvaaitinor are not doinff if for th Invo nf tVi oAflr itself, but because they realize that it is their patriotic duty to help get! me money 10 nnance tne war. ineir msk is naraer than that of the men because of the feeling of resentment on the part of many people at what they consider an unwarranted intrusion into their homes. In previous Liberty loan drives the women have occasionally been subjected to insults and humiliating treatment.. .Col. J. M. Banister has told the women's committee to report to him any soch treatment re ceived this year and the government authorities will look after any who do not receive the women courteously. Not how much money they can raise, but how many bonds they can sell. This is the object for which every woman in Omaha, both those on the committee and those who merely owe a loyalty to their sex, will get together and boost just as hard as they can. : :r'STATE CHAIRMAN'S APPEAL. Nebraska women have been asked by the state chairman. Mrs. A. G. Peterson of Aurora, to buy bonds as well as sell them. Women gener-i terials, made over under Hie dim. allv are nurchasers of SSO and S10O bonds." A ISO bond will n tv. penses of the national war for only one-fifth of a second. It will take 300 $50 bonds to carry on the national war for one sec ond, three $5,000 bonds to carry on the war for one minute, 18,000 $50 bonds to carry on the war for one hour and 432,000 $50 bonds to carry on the national war for one day. Pioneer Work in Relief for Belgium by Vassar Women A - : J " 1 r . i uiiuunwiue campaign tot Bel gian relief will open Monday, when 5,000 tons of old clothing will be col. lected by the Red Cross in the United States to protect the Belgian destitute against the coming' win ter. As a nation Americans have hpptl clflur fn . U 1 ble asset in discarded clothing.1 Private relief organizations 'have' sent some, but. comparatively little has hppn sent jinrli tti f BULilLl.l III. American organizations. " ' Mrs. Joseph Smith, daughter of Ma). George Putnam, publisher and author, representing the Franco Airlerican cnmmitt-i-c (nr tk - thildren from the front, writes that me numDcr 01 cniiaren needing- as sists nee, a number constantly on the icrease, has now reached the stupendous totalof 600,000. Of these the French government is caring lot about 400,000. The rest of the work is done by Americans. These chil dren must be fed. They rcusi re-t ceive medical attention, but first of all, thev must be clothed. ' ., i The Duryea War Relief, spon-' sored in Omaha bv the Vassar rink has been shipping- clothing to' France durinsr the last IS Forty-three large packing cases have been assorted, packed andshipped. People have been very generous in response to the continuous drive for old clothing which the Vassar club has instituted, and the large and very valuable budget received last week from -the Women's Christian Temperance union -of Dooglas coun ty is a conclusive proof of the value of the used garment This . collec- A.'. A 9 A M . non cunsisico. entirely ot used ma- tion of Mrs. T. M. Taliaferro After the Belgian drive the Dur yea War Relief office, S29 Bee build ing, will receive any donations of - clothing and provide for their re-" shipment V "4