14 ROLES WHICH THE WOMEN WOULD PLAY Of Course There Would Be Nurses, as Always, Big Blond Dolls as Traffic Cops; Wives Run ning Husband's Offices What can women do to serve our country in case of war? asks Jane Dixon in the New York Sun, and an swers: There has been a well established rule running all the way down through history to the effect that the female of the species shall not fare forth to bat tle. It has been indelibly written that when the dogs of war slip their leashes It is not the part of woman to try to beat them back with bayonets. Why this is we do not know. Long ago we learned that when any great vital task must be undertaken by hu manity the men folk appropriate for themselves such portion of it as offers the most adventure, excitement, ac tion. Indubitably the physical fitness of women is another big barrier. And so it Is that "Sister Sue's sewing shirts for soldiers." The question is, What can Sister Su sie do to serve her country besides sewing shirts'.' There is the relief work first. The hand that rocks the cradle is the same hand that soothes the sick soldier's burning brow and laves his wounds with healing lotions. As Nurses anil Traffic Cops , Given the remotest hint of hostili ties, see what happens. Debutantes desert their dances and devote the vi tality previously expended in the fox trot to rolling sanitary bandages. Time ■which went to idling over chocolate, lavender literature and pink cocktails is spent in learning first aid to the In jured. I asked a girl who goes in for ath letics and walks miles every day rain or shine where she thought she could serve. "I'll bet I could be a bear of a po liceman," was her reply. "Feel that muscle," doubling up her arm. "Noth ing flabby about that, is there? I've played at least seven sets of lennis a day for the last six summers with that arm and believe me it could lead a lawbreaker to the police station so quick it would make your head swim. "I'd like a nice post along Fifth avenue, where I could grab any slacker who sneaked out of enlisting. Wouldn't it be great to get some of the spineless fellows who never do anything but light cigarettes and draw drafts on dad? A few months in the trenches would be just what they need —kill or cure." Picture to yourself a blond doll with Mary Plckford curls peeping out from under her cap standing in the traffic cop's place. She would probably he forced to use the nightstick to drive back the crowds of men citizens beg ging to be arrested. On the Subway Trains "I'd like to serve in the place of a Skefect UctMeffl! Get the Round Package Ask For and GET lAI/'C nUKUtVi 9 nfaMlMtel THE ORIGINAL nil MALTED MILK /ffSgjX Made from clean, rich milk with the ex ( tract of select malted grain, malted in our jAI own Malt Houses under sanitary conditions. Infant and children thrive on it. Agree• with EL weakest stomach of the invalid or the aged. L A| Need* no cooking nor addition of milk. ygEDAHDTfttVEURg/ Nourishes and sustains more than tea, coffee, etc. Should be kept at home or when traveling. Anu i"tritious food-drink may be prepared in a moment. ' A glassful hot before retiring induces refreshing sleep. Also in lunch tablet form for business men. I*l Substitutes Cost YOU Sams Pries *"' WU - U3 I Take a Package Homm Father's Daughter 4 'Father says that the Wal ladoo Bird does nothing but eat and drink—and that I'm a Walla- l 11 "31 dooßird. But I'm not —I just drink | 1 milk. And I never 1 eat between break- I fast and noon, be- I cause for breakfast l^Lß^p Cream of Barley MB fftf lifflE— —in w FRIDAY EVENING, HAARISBURG TELEGRAPH MARCH 2, 1917. subway guard," chose a girl who lives far enough uptown to be classed as an underground commuter. "Things would change a heap If women were left to operate the subway trains." There is no doubt women could keep transportation up to its present stand ard. The thought of boarding a sur face car and finding a perfect thirty six at the helm, while a girl who once drove her own motor requests you to "drop the fare in the box, please," may seem strange as things are now, but It is by no means beyond the realm of possibility. * Imagine having the dust whisked from your topcoat as you are pulling Into Chicago by a titlan-halred "flap per," who holds out her hand for the tip as natural as life. You would raise the accustomed quarter to a slip of green paper printed by the govern ment. And it Is a 10 to 1 shot you would never again miss that train. Women would be invaluable as mes sengers in war time. Here is a work which requires not so much strength as alertness, energy, endurance. It is a fact that When It comes to endurance in times of great stress a woman can outlast a man. Not only would she be able to substitute as a messenger in civil life, but within the military lines as well. As Makers of Munitions Munitions factories would claim thousands of patriotic women here as in Europe. So, if the battle cry is heard, we will see the lady of leisure and the girl who works for a living trudging side by side toward the fac tory, anxious, eager, burning to do their part toward victory. The danger of it will affect them no more than it does the soldier who turns back through a curtain of flre to rescue a wounded comrade left on the field. The wife who could keep the wheels of her husband's business whirring, albeit slowly, while he was at the front would be serving not only the nation, but her home and her family both wisely and well. Moreover,' the change would eliminate at least one social parasite—the girl who, when she strolls Into the office at 10 o'clock in the morning, hangs her coat on a hook, straightens her diamonds, takes the cover off the typewriter and spends the rest of the day scheming how she can get the boss to take her out to dinner. When Johnny goes marching away it will be to the tune of "The Girl I Left Behind Me," but when Johnny comes marching home it will to the tune of "The Woman Who Replaced Me." GOVERNOR URGES TREE PLANTING A Treeless State Is a Cheerless State Says Governor Brum baugh to People Governor Martin G. Brumbaugh makes a plea for reforestation of Pennsylvania and urges that the chil dren of the State be taught the mean ing and value of trees in his annual Arbor Day proclamation. The Gov ernor says: "A treeless state is a cheer less state," and urges that not only should waste lands be replanted, but that trees be placed along the high ways, in the school yards, about the public buildings and wherever one will grow and be of value either for shade or water supply. The proclamation fixes April 13 and 27 as the spring Arbor Days. The Governor ays in his proclama tion: "Whereas, Pennsylvania was once the home of vast forests of deciduous and evergreen trees, whose values to our people can never be fully reckoned, and, whereas our people now have set aside above one million, two hundred thousand acres of land as a State for est preserve and are steadily adding to this vast public domain and are giving increased attention to the conservation of her depleted natural resources and are making commendable efforts to re store, as far as possible, these gifts of God to our people; "Now, therefore, that we may wisely promote in the minds and hearts of our people a knowledge and love for trees und in order that the generations to follow may enjoy the blessings of forests and the good of trees, I hereby designate and set aside Friday, April 13, and Friday, April 27, 1917, as Ar bor Days. "Our people have been prodigal, even wasteful, of the great forests symbolic of our name. Instead of the wondrous woods rich in green and si lence we have the fire-swept wastes that add to the menace of our people and industries. Where once we had the sylvan streams, beautiful and en trancing, we now have the destructive flood and the famisned land. To face the task of restoring these forests is a duty both imminent and practical. We must plant where God once planted the native trees of our State and by careful and conserving concern restore to our mountains and remote valleys the essential good that trees secure to a people. A treeless state Is a cheer less state. A sylvan scene is an in spiration and a blessing. We need not fear the future if we do our part in our day wisely and well. The restora tion of our forest fastnesses and all the attendant good is the task not of a day but of centuries. But centuries are as years in the span of a continu ing commonwealth. Ours Is the duty of giving to our children a more valu able, a more beautiful, a more health ful Pennsylvania than we possess. "One needs to have a sincere love for the great out-of-doors, and a rev erent regard for the great forests where in profusion and splendor grow the carpeted mosses and the fronded ferns, where flourish the wild flowers and the trailing vines, where bird and beast find Bhelter and rear their young unscared, where summer showers are refined into splendor and flow in health and blessing to the populous cities, where the wonderful machinery of sun and storm produce a scene so rich, so varied, so entrancing that the vision enthralls the spirit and inspires the soul of him who by chance walks this way. We shall have increasing need of great reaches of shade and service as the years come and go. I wish it might be possible to have every child of our cities as well as those of our countrysides spend entire days in our Pennsylvania forests. • "If you want your children to love the beautiful and reverence the good, plant trees. If you want to add to the health and security of our people, plant trees. If you want to give large gifts of good to our Commonwealth, plant trees. If you want to see in the budding beauty of spring time an ear nest of the gorgeous autumnal color ing, plant trees. If you want to add many songs toi the bird chorus so sweet, so comforting, so welcome, plant trees. If you want to shower the earth with fruits and nuts, plant trees. If you want Pennsylvania to be the finest, fairest land in all the world, plant trees. "Plant trees for shade and for food upon our fertile arable acres, about our schools and other public buildings, along our great and rapidly developing highways, and out in the great pre serves where in time they will be the pride and glory of our State. As we increase our forest areas we shall in crease our wild life in Pennsylvania and by natural distillation provide the greatest gift of our loving Father to his children—pure, wholesome, life bearing water. "Teach the meaning of trees. Study their habits. Observe their yearly transformations. Learn to know an oak, a locust, a poplar, a hemlock, u chestnut, a dogwood quite as fully by its outline, its bark, its habitat as by its leaf or blossom. Consider what trees do for man in his home and in dustrial life, what rich shelter they provide for our song birds, what rich gifts of food and health they bear for mankind. Impress upon all children the humane treatment of animals, an unafraid attitude to the out-of-doors and the duty of preserving our beauti fully throated songsters, "Whose habitations in the treetops e'en Are halfway houses on the road to heaven." "Gather on these days your own children about you in the home and teach them to love trees and all that attend them. In every pulpit may a lofty plea be made for the fragrant forefits and the beautiful birds. In every school let the exercises of the day include such reference to the day as will quicken in the tender spirits of children a reverent regard for the things that God in his wisdom set upon the earth and that we should forever cherish and conserve. Then in the open air crown the exercises by plant ing trees. "Thus shall blessings flow to us, good to those that succeed us, honor to the great Commonwealth we de voutly call our home." RAILROAD CONGESTION IN MIDDLE WEST CLEARS By Aisodated Press Washington, March 2. . Conditions In the congested railroad yards of the Middle West were reported to-day to be rapidly approaching normal, A telegram from a special commit tee of operating officials at Columbus, 0., to the Car Service Commission of the American Railway Association stated the situation at Columbus had been restored to normal. Reports re ceived from Cleveland, Detroit, Pitts burgh and other Interior points con tained the information that the recent war weather had enabled the roads to clear away much of the accumu lation of cars and that progress still continued. At Atlantic and Gulf ports con it'.r.ued diminution In accumulations | was reported, Tells How He Deserted Profitable Saloon to Take Up Mission Work An audience that filled the auditorium of Technical High School, last night, heard John Fulton, superintendent of Bethesda Mission, 107% South Second street, tell the story of his conversion, how he walked out of his $50,000 hotel and saloon in New York, ten years ago and began missionary work in that city. Mr. Fulton told of the needs of Har rlsburg's rescue mission and made a strong plea for the public's generosity in helping to care for the homeless, who, in their journeylngs, happen Into this city. After last night's meeting opportu- I|| Final Reductions ® HART SCHAFFNER & MARX Society Brand—"-Clothcraft Suits and Overcoats All Wool Guaranteed PRICES 5 ,00 Bargains Await You Spring Suits, Overcoats and Fixings Are Ready For You H. 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Superintendent Fulton has just com pleted installing twenty-flve beds in a building across the street from the mis sion and is making further prepara tions to care for his charges. Suffragists Plan For a Great Demonstration By Associated Press Washington, D. C., March 2. Amal gamation of the Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage and the National Woman's Party was planned at a Joint convention of those organizations which opened to-day and will end Sun day with' a suffrage demonstration be fore the White House gates. Leaders in the merger movement stated the new body would bear the name of the Na tional Woman's Party. Plans were formulated foi organized activity of women in war times, and for an accel erated campaign on behalf of a Federal suffrage amendment. U. S. Consul Loses a Suit For 119,000 Crowns Malmoe, Sweden, March 2, via Ix>n don. Joseph Westerberg, American Consular agent here, has been adjudged by the municipal court liable for a pen alty of 1111,000 crowns in a civil action brought by Forenede Dampskibs-Sels kab, of Copenhagen, to recover double damages under a contract. Mr. Wester berg Imported a quantity of American pork last September through the plain tiffs and signed an undertaking not to re-export it to any country at war with Great Britain and to request a similar undertaking from his agents under penalty of forfeiting twice the value of the pork. The plaintiffs allege breach of the undertaking and the Court de cided the allegations had been sub- I stantiated.
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