THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: NOVEMBER '17, 1918.
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METHODISTS TO
RAISE BIG FUND
FOR REBUILDING
Bishop M. S. Hughes, Here,
Tells of Plans for Great
Work to Be Under
taken After War.
Bishop Matt S. Hughes of Port
land, Ore., who is the presiding
bishop of the Omaha area of ihe
Methodist church during the ab
sence in the orient of Bishop Stuntz,
is in Omaha, and will preach morn
ing and evening at the First Metho
dist Episcopal church on Sunday.
He met a number of the Methodist
ministers and laymen at the Univer
sity club Saturday at lunch for an
informal talk over the work of the
church here.
Bishop Hushes has just returned
from a meeting in the east of the
bishops of the church at which plans
of t'le denomination for meeting the
problems of the reconstruction per
iod were discussed. The church
will undertake, he said, within the
next 30 days the raising 0f a fund
of $5,000,000 particularly for recon
struction work. This is in addition
to the great Centenary fund of $80,
000,000, the active task of raising
which will probably be started in the
spring.
Have Farm in France.
The Methodists have already se
cured a 200-acre farm in France to
he used in reconstruction work.
Private schools have been started in
Rome for the same work, and it is
expected that the church will spend
at least $5,000,000 a year for two or
more years.
Bishop Hughes was in the east
when the first and second reports
of the armistice were received. In
Yonkers he went down into the Ital
ian quarter, and states that he never
saw any demonstration quite so de
lirious. "The quarter blossomed out
all at once with American and Ital
ian flags and the people went wild."
Chango of Sentiment.
"There has been within the last
few months," he continued, "a de
cided change in the attitude of the
foreign born in the east toward the
United States. An incident in New
York, while I was there, will indicate
the extent of this change. A little
Jewish girl hung out of her window
a Zion flag. The Jewish boys of
the neighborhood mobbed the place
and tore the flag down, demanding
that it be placed with an American
flag. The girl, heartbroken at the
incident, committed suicide, and the
feeling was so strong that the house
had to have a police guard until
after the funeral. This new spirit
of enthusiastic loyalty to the United
States is felt all through the east.
"This is a very different country,
anyhow," contiued Bishop Hughes,
"from what it was two years ago,
and the church has a tremendous
task in helping the people to hold
truo to the ideals which have come
to them during the war. The church
feels this responsibility and will meet
it, I am sure."
A council fire of local Campfire
guardians was held Wednesday eve
ning at the Young Women's Chris
tian association. Mrs. W. T. Moore
was in charge. Special honors were
awarded as follows: Woodgatherer,
Mrs. C. J. Hubbard; firemaker, Miss
Gladys Shamp; torchbearer, Miss
Zoe Schalek, and honor beads were
given to Mildred Titzel, Mrs. Hub
bard, Miss Shamp and Mrs. H. F.
Gates.
Ruth Hatteroth lit the candle of
work; Herberta Barker of Health,
and Zoe Schalek, the candle of love.
Committees are announced as fol
lows: Finance: Chairman. Mrs. H. P.
Gates, Miss Myrtle Hall, Miss Nelle
Ryan, Miss Helen AmUerson; War
Activities: Chairman, Mrs. C. J.
Hubbard, Virginia Offutt. Eleanor
McGilton; Local Honors: Chair
man, Herberta Barker, Virginia
White, Alois Berka, Margaret Bliss.
Dovothy Darlow, Katherine Sturte
vant, Floy Yarges, Mildred Titzel.
Vera Dubois; Publicity: Chairman.
Gladys Shamp, Margaret Wood
ward, Sue Moriarity; Entertain
ment: Chairman, Alice Chamber,
Mrs. J. O. Beebe, Mrs. Jane Buck.
Mrs. Edith Chantry, Mrs. N. A.
Nisewonger Esther Hauser; Camp:
Chairman, Bertha Vaughan, Zoe
Schalek, Mrs. Ryan, Ruth Hatte
roth, Lois Howell; Co-Operation,
' ChairrAan, Mabel Workman, Miss
Knox, Mrs. Thomas Jones; Organi
lation: Chairman, Mrs. W. T.
Moore and Eleanor Potter.
Okita group, of which Mrs. C. J.
Hubbard is leader, will hold a coun
cil fire Sunday afternoon at her
home.
Last Sunday the Salem Campfire
Girls hiked to Mandan park to eat
breakfast in the woods. Standing
on a high bluff they watched the
sun rise and the nrtst clear away
from the river. The girls built a
fire with damp leaves and wood but
nevertheless they had an excellent
meal. They hilged back to church
in time for Sunday school.
Miss Gladys Shamp's group, the
Assandawis. met Monday at the
home of Miss Helen Williams.
New Deposits of Rich
Ore Found in the Abe
Lincoln Copper Mines
Word has reached Omaha that
additional rich strikes have been
made in the mines of the Abe Lin
coln Copper company at Wicken
berg, Arizona. The last strike is
said to assay 29.60 per cent copper.
Georeg W. Platner, the Omaha
lumber merchant, is president of the
company and E. V. Getten. of Oma
ha is treasurer. Practically 90 per
cent of the stock in the company is
owned by Omaha people.
Officers of the company say that
the machinery is all installed and in
operation, that every available team
is being used to haul the high grade
pre to the smelter, jm- a new
Blair Mother With Five Sons in the Service
and Two More Waiting a Call
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With five so"s in the service and
two more ava..:ng a call, Mr. and
Mrs. A. J. Taylor of Blair, Nebras
ka, were not among the least thank
ful when the news came that the
war was over and the soldiers and
sailors would no more have to give
their lives in the trenches and be
fore the submarines of Germany.
The mother of the seven big boys
is 61 years of age. Besides her sons
she has four married daughters and
nine grandchildren. Until late last
spring she was kept close at home
by the care of an aged relative, but
since that time she has been a con
stant worker in the Red Cross
rooms. Besides the Red Cross
work, she has knit five sweaters, six
pairs of socks and 12 pairs of wrist
lets at home.
Paul, the youngest son, not quite
17, was the first to get the war fev
er. He enlisted in the heavy field
r.rlilkry division of the Nebraska
'Fighting Fourth" in March, 1917.
He was sent overseas last October.
When Ivan, who had been absent
from home several years, wrote
that he had enlisted and was about
to sail, he begged his mother to try
to keep Paul at home, as he was too
young for war, but the "baby" had
enlisted long before. Ivan is a gun
ner in the heavy field' artillery and
the family believe that he is in Italy.
Carleton is in the tank corps. He
is a graduate of the Blair High
school and was a sophomore in the
state university, taking a course in
agricultural engineering. He orig
inally enlisted with the base hospi
tal unit No. 49, but was in the hos
pital having his tonsils removed
when they sailed, and was left be
hind. Later he joined the tank
corps and is now overseas.
H. Byron enlisted in the engi-
Doctor's Vigil is Unbroken
Over U. S. Wounded Soldier
With the American Armies in the
Field, Oct. 14. Correspondence of
the Associated Press.) War has
not caljoused or dulled the sensibili
ties of the American army surgeon.
Nothing stands out finer or nobler
than the tender care and earnest
solicitude with which American mil
itary doctors handle their soldier
patients.
In a three-day trip through the
Saint Mihiel sector the correspon
dent' of the Associated Press had
many opportunities of observing the
work of the American medical men.
He visited a number of field dress
ing stations and also several hospi
tals just back of the battle line,
through which hundreds of wound
ed Americans were passing.
Disabled American soldiers, from
the time their wounds are dressed at
the advance casualty station to the
time they arrive at the last base
hospital, receive the most sympa
thetic and tender care at the hands
of the army doctors. They get bet
ter care and more attentive treat
ment than an average person would
in peace times. To render the sol
dier free from pain, to make him
comfortable, to cheer his spirit, the
American military doctor will ex
haust every recourse, will sacrifice
sleep and food and all personal
thought of himself.
Thousands of instances occur
every day where army physicians,
so absorbed and so' sympathetically
interested in their patients, will
keep night after night an anxious
and unbroken vigil over the progress
of their condition, and will rest only
when ordered to do so by a superior
officer.
Besides the use of anesthetics, the
Yankee doctor, caring for his fight
ing comrade only as he would care
for a brother, resorts to a hundred
other means of relieving the wounded
man's distress. In the actual battle
zone he has to act as physician am?
nurse, for no women are permitted
in the front lines. It is always im
pressive to see the gentle, cautious
way he places his patients in bed,
the infinite pains he takes to cause
them as little suffering as possible
when applying or removing dress-
road is being rapidly constructed
in order to take care of the increas
ed .output. E. W. Getten is now in
Phoenix, Arizona, making arrange
ments with freight contractors for
handling the large volume of busi
ness, which will soon be 150 tons
daily as the develonement work is
.nearly all done and from now on
the ore will be shipped steadily.
ings and how kindly and reassur
ingly he speaks to them.
The ambulance drivers and
stretcher bearers spare no pains to
see that the sick and wounded in
transit from the front over broken
French roads suffer no hardship or
discomfort.
neering corps at Denver. He is a
second lieutenant, attached to the
personnel staff in the adjutant gen
eral's department at Camp Shelby,
Miss.
Edwin B., enlisted at Salt Lake
City in the tank corps, and was soon
made a corporal. He went overseas
last October.
Max W. is registered at Whittier,
Cal., and was placed in class 4. He
is maimed and has one child, so was
not called upon for service.
Fred J. has served in the signal
service of the navy five years. His
navy service was spent on the Pa
cific coast among the Samoan Is
lands. He registered at the last call
for men.
The boys were all born in the
same house in Blair. Their mother
says she has often wondered why
so many boys came to her, but now
she knows. It was so they could
go and help lick the kaiser.
$90,000 ASKED
ON MONDAY FOR
BIG U.W.W.FUND
City Must Give That Sum in
One Day if Omaha is to
Oversubscribe Fifty
Per Cent.
Ten thousand dollars an hour for
nine hours!
This is the amount Omahans are
asked to donate to the United War
Work fund on Monday, the day on
which the drive will officially close.
This large sum will be absolutely
necessary to place Omaha in the
class of American cities that have
not only subscribed their original
quotas which Omahans accomp
lished Friday but have given the
50 per cent additional, asked by the
national committee in charge of the
drive.
After checking over the actual
donations in this city up to Satur
day night, the committee announced
that $410,000 had been given. The
goal set for this city is $500,000.
making it imperative that the slogan
for Monday, "$10,000-an-hour-for-nine
hours," be not only words but
an actual accomplishment.
"Omaha can accomplish this duty
and will do so," declared "Bob"
Manley, in charge of the publicity
for Omaha. "It seems like a large
amount, but Omaha has come for
ward in a greater manner than this
before and it is not possible for it
to fail this time. We certainly are
going to hit that mark."
And in order to do this, the com
mittee in charge of the drive has de
clared Monday the general "clean
up" day. Special committees have
been named to "mop up" the city
and any lagging citizens will be
called to task.
The general instruction for all
workers Monday is: "Go get 'enj!"
Scenes at Big
Described By
Base Hospital
Omaha Nurse
Heartbreaking scenes at Base hos
pital No. 49 are described in a let
ter received by Miss Florence Rich
ards of the Visiting Nurses' asso
ciation, from Miss Beatrice Arthur,
formerly with the Visiting Nurses,
but now with the hospital unit
overseas.
She describes the voyage, the
wonderful sunrises and sunsets
across the water, and the landing in
England. Then the trip across the
beautiful English country, with its
castles, abbeys and beautiful green
farms, and arrival in sunny France,
which happened to be disappoint
ingly rainy at the time. In France
they saw many German prisoners,
as well as American officers and
boys.
"They told us truths," she writes,
"and I was not a bit sorry for these
prisoners when we saw them work
ing at something that was unpleas
ant. We had only to to think what
they had done to our boys and to
France's women and children."
Work is Strenuous.
"Our camp," she writes, "is much
on the order of any American
camp, wooden barracks without
many conveniences, but we think
Uncle Sam does well to get the
provisions and food across, consid
ering all the risk. The boys had
done much for our comfort and it
is surprising how much one can
learn to do without. I only wish
there were more things we could do
for our boys.
"I am on night duty and have
been ever since I came, and every
night two, three or four trains come
in. All the wards has 64 beds and
a tent of 50 for the less seriously
wounded. You can imagine what
it is to wash all these patients and
take all the temperatures before you
leave in the morning. And you have
to carry all your water from the
main kitchen and have only candle
or oil lamplight.
Soldiers Are Grateful.
"But, O, Richie, we are sometimes
so heartsick' Our medical men are
wonderful and do all they .can to re
lieve the suffering, but I can't un
derstand why some things have to
be. The boys are so grateful. I
don't think I have ever moved an
arm or a leg but what they have
said, 'I think that is better.' It is
such a satisfaction to be able to give
even a little relief. You can't imagine
the endurance these boys have.
Their patience and fortitude I shall
never forget. Whenever I feel a
little tired, all I have to do is to
think of the boys lying out there
week in and week out, without cover,
getting only the little rest they can
snatch.
Brothers Are United.
"There are many happy and sad
coincidences we will always remem
ber. The other day we admitted a
patient, and by accident laid him
right down beside his brother. Such
a happy meeting. And then we have
the other side. The other night
one of the boys was on his way
"west" and asked repeatedly for his
pal. The name appeared familiar
to one of the wardmen and he
finally though of a boy in another
ward. It was the boy. Our boy
recognized him for just a few min
utes. He asked for a Bible and laid
it over his heart. The next morning
they looked in the Bible and found
the date of his arrival and a note
saying how lonesome he had been
for his mother here in France, but
that he had tried to follow the Mas
ter's teachings.
"Last night I was talking to a
boy and he said: 'Since coming here
I've lost mother and dad and a
sister, who was an ambulance driver
was killed by a bursting shell.
When I hink of the other boys go
ing back with everyone to welcome
them, and realize that I have no one
left, I'd rather stay here.' Life is
surely strange.
"Since coming here I have lost
my young brother. He died on the
field of honor. I would not have it
otherwise, but it is hard, Richie. I
loved him so and looked forward so
much to seeing him, and then when
HOUSE ACTION
ENABLES BANKS
TO HELPU.VV.W.
If National Banks Are Per
mitted to Subscribe It Will
Swell the Fund by
Millions.
O. H. Menold, publicity director
of the United War Work campaign
received a telegram Saturday from
national headquarters, stating there
is every reason to believe that as
quickly as the committee of the
house of representatives in Wash
ington can master a quorum the
resolutions passed by the United
States senate empowering national
banks to make subscriptions to the
fund will become a law.
"This will result in many millions
of dollars being poured into the
fund," he said.
Late Friday the following tele
gram was received in New York
City by John R. Mott, director gen
eral of the war fund drive, from John
Skelton Williams, comptroller of
the United States treasury:
'"John R. Mott, director general,
united war work campaign: In reply
to your inquiry, I regret to advise
you that the joint resolution empow
ering the boards of directors on be
half of national banks to make sub
I scriptions to the united war work
campaign, wnicn nas passea ine sen
ate, has not been reported upon by
the house committee for lack of a
quorum. It is hoped this resolution
may become a law shortly. Mean
while there is no reason why nation
al banks desiring to do so should
not make conditional subscriptions
to the fund, such subscriptions to
become effective only when the bill
becomes a law.' "
I arrived he had to be taken. But it
is no worse for me than for anyone
else, and I know while he lives in
my memory it will help me many
times to be a sister to these boys
1 while I am here."
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world
over.
You start with a mere 25c, and you quickly cover the price of the
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The only requirement, other than making your first 25c payment,
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At MECKEL'S
Comer 15th and Harney Sts., Omaha
Also at 334 Broadway, Council Bluffs, la.
Your "Service Pin"
is to always re
main that
Distinctive
Badge of Honor
for which it was
intended
in
IP you haven't already
secured a "Service
Pin," you should by all
means do so at once
if you have had your loved
ones in this great war for
Democracy. .
The extension of time granted by
the government and the Red
Cross for "Over Seas" Christmas
gift sending opens the way for
you to make this a Glorious
Christmas for all the Yanks.
Let us suggest that in making
up your "Over-Seaa Box" that
you send such articles as will
aid materially to the comfort
and convenience of the boys
"over there."
Comfort kits, cigarette
cases, reliable wrist
watches and the like are
o be found In a wide as
sortment at all Jewelry
stores, and there you will
find helpful store service
In making; your selection.
A Christmas Gift to a Yank win be
a Gift in Deed and a joy forever.
Greater Omaha and Council Bluffs Jewelers
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