ao wi the leaders essential RRR SRR Demure Bellefonte, Pa., November 30, 1917. WHAT ARE YOU DOING FOR GIRLS IN WAR TIME? The National Board of the Y. W. C. A. has set under way since June 6, 1917, through its War Work Council a program of work that makes reply to this question possible. This pro- gram is in very close co-operation with the Federal Commission, the Y. M. C. A, the general War Council of the churches and individual command- ing officers of the army and navy. GIRLS’ WORK. Forty-six centers of work for girls in communities adjacent to army and navy camps have been furnished with sixty-five specially chosen workers. These have formed numerous clubs and circles of younger girls who are rallied to patriotic service through channels of expression suited to their youth and enthusiasm. A JUNIOR WAR WORK COUNCIL. A Junior War Work Council has taken as part of its activities the pro- ‘motion of the Patriotic League, whose membership of younger girls includes today more than 100,000 girls from ocean to ocean, each linked to the oth- er by the pledge: I pledge to express my patriotism By doing better than ever before whatever work I have to do; By rendering whatever ‘special serv- ice I can to my community and coun- try; By living up to the highest stand- ards of character and honor and help- ing others to do the same. HOSTESS HOUSES. Hostess houses for women have been constructed, or authorized for construction, in or near thirty-four of the 100 camps, at the request of the commanding officers. These serve as a meeting place for the families and friends of the sol- diers who are waiting to take their place on the battlefields of France. Each house is provided with a host- ess, a director, a cafetaria director and with an emergency worker. FOREIGN COMMUNITY WORK AND FOREIGN LANGUAGE SERVICE BUREAU. There are over 2,000,000 women who do not speak English nor think in terms of American ideals and cus- toms. For the non-English-speaking woman, the hostess house is her only place of comfort, for here may be found some one who can speak her language and explain the intricate routine that must be followed before the often essential meeting to arrange the future of wife and children can be had. A Finding Bureau seeks to locate relatives and friends in Europe, with whom communication has been up to the present impossible. EMERGENCY HOUSING. Every army center employs num- bers of girls and women in telephone offices, in shops, in restaurants, and as laundresses. In very few instances has any provision for adequate hous- ing of these employees been consid- ered. Practically every industry connect- ed with the furnishing of war sup- plies employs large numbers of girls. Thousands of girls are filling in the ranks left vacant by the men. For these, as well as for girls employed near the camps, the Council has begun to erect houses as an emergency measure and as a demonstration to the employer and to the otherwise un- prepared community that girls who are employed may be cared for sim- ply and efficiently, to the welfare of the employed, the employer and the community. SOCIAL STANDARDS. Through a Bureau of Social Moral- ity, qualified women physicians are enlisted to promote throughout the country the highest moral standards, and the promotion of true patriotism. Lectures to mothers, teachers and girls are made accessible; to the lat- ter after they have been drawn to- gether through some club or other bond of worth-while interest. COLORED COMMUNITIES. A great number of the camps and cantonments are situated in that part of the United States where the color- ed population is densest and special need for the care of our colored young women presents itself. Five colored workers of the national staff are giv- ing their time to directing work among their own people and securing to promoting practically the same activities among colored girls as are under way among white girls. EUROPEAN WOMEN. Even before the War Work Coun- cil was appointed, calls had been re- ceived from trusted social workers in Russia and France, for American Y. W. C. A. workers to assist the women of those countries in facing their diffi- cult future of reconstruction for women. Seven women have been assigned to Russia to work with the committee of Russian women. Twelve women have been sent to France, part of whom have been call- ed for to assist a committee of French women in equipping and directing foyer—canteens for industrial women whose hours of labor are long and on whom the stress of war bears so heav- ily. Help to provide rest-rooms, rec- reation and proper food conditions are among the services which suffer- ing France is asking of the American Y.W.C A The remainder of our workers now in France are asked to take charge of social huts for the splendid American nurses now “somewhere in France.” These huts are being constructed at the hospital base units and will do for the women when off duty, as far as may be under war conditions what our Club for Nurses does in New York city. Our economic specialist of the national staff has been loaned to serv- ice in France for a few months to di- rect building operations. ENLARGING THE HOME BASE. Men who enlist go abroad. Wom- en who enlist come into our communi- ties and add to the responsibility of the association in the United States. Everywhere the Y. W. C. A. seeks to strengthen the regular activities | which alone have made its war work possible and which must be the force that makes for permanence. It is a program that includes the sister of every man, the daughter of the American as well as of the for- eign-born; it is planned for women of all races and creeds. It aims to help the soldier through its service to girls and women. It seeks to create the highest standards of patriotism and the maximum Christ-like service even in times of war. “We can all do more than we have done And not be a whit the worse; It was never loving that emptied the heart Or giving that emptied the purse.” Centre county’s share in this great work is $1500. Every man and wom- an may have the privilege of contrib- uting. The campaign will be on un- til the tenth of December. If you are missed send your contri- bution to Mrs. R. M. Beach, Belle-|’ fonte, Pa. WILL YOU JOIN THIS PATRIOT- IC MOVEMENT? The appeals of recent months to the American people for such a con- servation of food as would enable us to fulfill our obligations to our own soldiers and our Allies abroad have fallen upon willing ears and the re- sponse in patriotism and self-denial has been worthy of the best tradi- tions of this great free nation. Notwithstanding, however, our un- doubtedly great saving of important food staples, and particularly of wheat, the disappointing crops of the 1917 season and an over-seas demand greater, through the exigencies of war, than we had expected, has brought us to the verge of a grave crisis in the wheat situation that can only be overcome by a more vigorous self-denial, a far greater degree of saving by the substitution of other foods in place of wheat, than anything we have before undertaken. The demands of those who are help- ing to fight our battles for the cause of democracy and of their supporters behind the lines are urgent, insistent and compelling. They must be met. Any break in the regular movement of supplies from America at this time would mean inevitable disaster and it is a fact which all should understand that our wheat supply is now known to be inadequate to permit a continu- ance of our present rate of home con- sumption and keep our own men and our Allies on the firing line through the winter. It is a situation in which all must help the Food Administration and we believe the people will co-operate by continued voluntary effort so as to avoid regulatory measures if our pa- triotism falters in the emergency. The greater wheat saving at home need not be a hardship. Americans like and know how to prepare appe- tizing breads of corn meal, rye and other cereals in substitution for wheat; buckwheat and corn cakes, oats and oat products for breakfast are an American institution and we can increase our consumption of all these plentiful commodities with no injury to our health. Have we the willingness and the will to do it? Is there any question that we who stay at home while our boys go out to fight will shirk an in- dividual responsibility that involves so little in a case like this? We be- lieve there must come a response to these questions to this further call for co-operation, that will be univer- sal, sincere and in full measure pro- portionate to the nation’s need. SEVEN ENTIRELY WHEATLESS MEALS ; PER WEEK. Mr. Hoover has asked that the re- sponse to the request for cutting down the consumption of wheat flour be made at once before it is too late. The needs of France, Italy and Eng- land, not to mention our own boys at the front, require us to curtail our consumption of wheat by one-third. The time to begin is today. It is now necessary to become more drastic in our saving. Mr. Hoover has asked the people of Pennsylvania to have seven wheatless meals each week, meals in which there will be absolute- ly no wheat flour used, either for spaghetti, macaroni, noodles, pastry, cake or bread. These meals should be preferably the evening meals, but that is left entirely to the judgment of each individual family. The only exception that should be recognized is the case of invalids or small chil- dren. At the meals, we can substi- tute bread made wholly from corn meal, rye, buckwheat or some other cereal or we can use oatmeal, rice or vegetables in place of bread. Mr. Hoover also asks that in addi- tion to the saving by adoption of sev- en wheatless meals, we make a fur- ther saving in wheat by using as much as possible bread made from a mixture of wheat and other cereals. An appeal, therefore, is made in the name of President Wilson and Mr. Hoover to every man, woman and child and to every Pensylvania home in which the spirit of patriotism lives to adopt these rules in their daily home life and to fulfill them faithful- ly and thus discharge the present sa- cred obligation. Y. W. C. A. Gets $200,000 of Rocker- feller Fund. New York.— The Rockerfeller Foundation has just contributed $200,- 000 to the Y. W. C. A. war work fund, in addition to its previous gift of $100,000. The association began its campaign October 10 and hopes to raise $4,000,000 before the middle of December. I the whole sum is at- tained, the Rockerfeller Foundation has promised another $200,000, mak- ing in all $500.000. ~ Seventeen per cent. of this amount is allotted to the district which in- cludes Philadelphia and all of Penn- sylvania, Delaware, Maryland and the city of Washington. The Rockerfel- ler gift comes with the stipulation that the money is to be used in this country exclusively. It will be divided among the many aims of the War Work Council, such as emergency housing greatly needed for women who work in and around army cantonments, hostess houses in- side these camps, where visiting wom- en relatives of the soldiers may re- ceive care and attention, and organi- at Showing Herself Up. tleman asked this new maid one “Germany can’t open her mouth mn ae ie ee LYON @ COMPANY. Gov. Sidney Catts at a Tallehassee| «Yes sir, but come right in. banquet. “No, she can’t say a word ' Here the new parlor maid winked. without showing what bad morals she | ‘He’ll never know. He's off to Jack- hae. i sonville.”—Washington Star. Sh ind f th rior : yy yg Yemings me 0 $ NeW are Fashion seems to favor plush, com- “Is Miss Lizzie at home?’ a gen- | bined with lighter weight materials. ally Ghrisimas Shopping IS PRACTICAL AND PATRIOTIC. To get the best selections this year it will be necessary to shop early. We have therefore ordered our first shipment of gifts in ad- vance and have on display many useful and pretty gifts at very low prices. Sweet Grass and Palmetto Bas- kets from 25c¢ up, all sizes and shapes. A big variety of real Cut Glass at prices that will surprise you. Leather Goods, Bags and Pock- et Books in all the new shapes. Fancy Combs, Hair Pins, Bar- ettes, White Ivory Sets and sepe- rate pieces, Fancy Ribbons suit- able for Bags, also Cretonnes for the knitting bags, Oval and Round Hoops in shell and wood for the the knitting bags, Fancy Satin Pin Cushions and other Ribbon Novelties that make inexpensive gifts. : Neckwear. Collars in all the new long Scarf shapes, also Collar and Cuff Sets. COATS and SUITS. A new line of Coats and Suits for your criti- cal inspection, fashionable materials and smart models that cannot be obtained in town or county at our prices. See our new $10 Coats ~A Bright . Clean Odorless Mellow Light ATLANTIC ® Rayplight You know there's a difference in coal. There's a difference in kerosene, too. The one kero- sene that always gives a bright, clean, odorless mellow light or a steady, warming heat without smoke, sputter or charring of wicks is called : Rayolight Oil. Why? To distinguish it from ordinary | kerosenes. It’s so highly refined and purified that it gives | these perfect results yet costs no more than the otherkinds. Instead of just asking for kerosene, look for the dealer who has this sign on his store: ‘Atlantic Ragolight Oil for Sale Here.” You'll find it a quality store—a good place to do most of your buying. It’s a scientific fact that, of any artificial light, a kero- sene lamp is the most restful and pleasing to the eyes. THE ATLANTIC REFINING COMPANY Philadelphia and Pittsburgh PERFECTION Smokeless Oil Heaters eel peat pe Just strike a match. The room will be warm and cozy in a few minutes. No ashes, soot or smell. is dealer. Price, .50 to $8.50. Many beautiful designs to choose from. Safe and easy to keep clean. See your dealer. Price, $1.90 up. light and clean. Stay lighted in the strongest wind. See your dealer. Price, 50¢ up. Rayo Lamps Rayo Lanterns : A centraldraughtlamp Give the most lightfor ma protiuces a oft oil consumed. cae and t hotblaststyles. Easyto B Il fi t Lyon & Co. -.. Bellefonte. IN The Master Min = there 1s an infer- ~~ red leadership. Some one manufacturer stands at the head of the field and what he does is interestedly waited for by the rest. Where clothiers gather, new designs of High Art Clothes Made by Strouse & Brothers, Inc., Baltimore, Md. are the absorbing topic. SS re hh © 1917 STROUSE & BROS. INC. BALTO. MD. oe A review of the styles we are showing for Fall and Winter, many of them of the military type, will forci- bly bring home to you the reason for the unique posi- tion of these very serviceable clothes in the world of BELLEFONTE’S men’s apparel. 3 LEADING CLOTHING STORE. F A U B L E S. Sy SS SEE zation work among the girls in the vi- | cinity of army centers. ' J 73 IN LC a
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