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IKTERESTSofWOMEH
BRINGS MLS ."I NAVY
WOMAN ORATOR GETS 14,000
Mrs George Alexander Wheelock.
Birst Woman Naval Officer, Is
World’s Champion Recruiter
Bringing 14.000 young men into the
service of the United States Navy
brought to Mrs George Alexander
Wheelock of New York the commis
sion of junior lieutenant. She is at
present champion recruiter of the
World. Knowing how to handle the
crowd, taking it into her confidence
and making it laugh, made this
worker for Uncle Sam most effective
as a war-time orator.
"I begin.” explained Mrs Wheelock.
•"Now, boys, it’s only fair you should
know something about me and how
I happen to be here.' And then I tell
them about my early ambition to be a
great opera singer and how I sang
in the choir of the Methodist church
at home and how wonderful the neigh
bors said I would be on the stage.
“I tell them how the boys used to
laugh at my long spindling legs and
brick-red hair. I tell how K used to
be sent out with the Willing circle of
the King's Daughters to sing for the
convicts of the prison near by and
for the inmates of the county insane
asylum.
Nearly Caused a Riot in Jail
"I relate the story of the Sunday
afternoon when at the age of 14 I
•ang in all guilelessness the hymn.
•Why do you tarry, dear brother'.'
Way do you wait?’ which nearly
caused a riot in the jail. On my way
Out the warden stopped me and said:
*You certainly made a hit with the
boys. You ought to be in vaude
ville.’
“Which episode caused the Willing
circle of the King's Daughters to treat
me with marked coldness thereafter.”
Mrs Wheelock s audience is now in
a good humor and she sees it is time
to get down to business. Her dynamic
personality, 100 per cent patriotism
and what Kipling has called "the
common touch,” has pinned her hear
ers’ attention firmly.
"I didn’t ask anyone's permission to
serve my country when I started." she
continued. "I knew the personnel of
the navy numbered but 56.900 and
the German taunts about our helpless
ness were getting under my skin."
Went to Washington
After Mrs Wheelock had brought
14,000 men into the service she began
to feel the lack of official recog
bition. A pat on the back and a
casual "Good work!” were all very
well, but when she returned hot.
hoarse "and exhausted from a day’s
campaigning she could not help her
thoughts turning toward a uniform
and some sort of recognition from the
navy department.
Thus it was that one rainy night
last April Mrs Wheelock went to
Washington with the light of battle
in her eyes and a full scrap-book un
der her arm. The next morning she
intrenched herself outside the office of
Comdr Root, head of the bureau of
navigation. There she waited. Clerks,
secretaries and typists attempted to
, discover the nature of her business.
"I want to see your chief. No one
•Ise will do,” she repeated at inter
vals all morning. At last she was
taken to the commander.
"What can I do for you?” he asked.
“May I sit down?”
“Well—l'm really very busy—”
Got 14.000, Demanded a Reward
"I have given 18 months of my
Hfe to your department and have sent
14.000 men into the navy at my own
•xpens?. Now you can afford to give
me 20 minutes of your time.”
Comdr Root smiled.
“Sit down,” he said. “What do you
Want?”
“The best thing you can give a
Woman in this bureau. I ve earned it.”
“You have indeed.” agreed the com
mander. looking over, her scrap
book and credentials.
That night Mrs Wheelock left
Washington a chief yeoman—except
for the formalities—which was the
highest rank she could be given at
that time. A few days later she was
st work in her present office, the re
cruiting station at 34 East Twenty
third street. New York city, where she
makes herself useful from 9 to 5
e’clock daily, except Sundays and
those weeks when she is sent out on
* recruiting tour.
DOUGHNUTS FOR DOUGHBOYS
Smoke From Salvation Army
Kitchens Joins That From the
Battlefield
Mrs Mary Sheppard, a brigadier in
the New England forces of the Sal
vation Army, has returned from a
three-months’ survey near the front
line tre.nches, and gives a graphic and
compelling report of some of the con
ditions there. The heroic work of the
“lassies” who stay at the very edge
Of the firing line is well known, and
st was to “mother” and look after
them that Mrs Sheppard was sent
over.
When the troops march toward the
danger zone or are returning from
it these faithful workers set up their
huts in abandoned cow sheds, stables,
ruined barracks, and any place that
presents or can be made to present
the least kind of a shelter, said Mrs
Sheppard. The boys unhesitatingly rail
to and clean up these places, which
ere left in a disgusting condition by
the retreating Huns, and soon the
©dor of frying doughnuts and delicious
coffee permeates the air. while the
boys are well repaid for their help in
establishing the hut. pies and cakes
are also on the bill of fare, and, if
the weather permits, iced drinks are
•erved.
During one of the big drives an
•bandoned glass factory was used by
the girls, who worked continuously 'or
five days and nights supplying the
men with food and drink. Nearly all
of this time they were obliged to wear
gas masks, but it In no way interfered
with their energy. Sixteen hours a
clay is a common experience for them,
end for their unswerving devotion
they are rewarded with the finest
’ Kind of courtesy and respect from the
general down io the humblest pri
vate.
p QUEEN OF BELGIUM
Thanks American Women for Their
War Work
The queen of Belgium sends to the
women of America a cordial expres
sion of her appreciation of the war
work they are doing.'
The message is m the form of
©able to the Belgian minister at Wash
ington, D. C- from Count de Jehay, a
member of the cabinet of King Al
bert, and Is as follows; "please trans
mit to the women's division of the
©ptumittet on public information the
following message: 'I am directed by
the queen on the occasion of the In
dependence day to Inform you that her
majesty wishes to express her admira
tion for the work the women of Ameri
ca are doing for the allies' cause.' ”
WOMEN BRING OUT PAPER
NOT A MAN ON THE FORCE
Atlantic City Evening Union Under
Feminine Sway—Other
Women Editors
The first woman-edited, woman
printed and woman-managed news
paper in the country appeared last
week in Atlantic City, N. J., when
Mrs Mary North Chenoweth brought
out the Atlantic City Evening Union,
the only evening paper In the town
and the next oldest daily. The fact
that this paper is "woman-made”, does
not mean that it will be devoted entire
ly to the affairs of women, according to
Albert F. Feyl, president of the Press-
Union company. However, the activi
ties of women in war work, club cir
cles and public affairs will be stressed,
but no news of general interest will be
excluded.
Gov Edge of New Jersey, the owner
of the paper, has allowed the Press-
Union full power in turning over the
paper to feminine sway. Mrs Cheno
weth, who is an Atlantic City woman,
is a college graduate and has taken
graduate work at Oxford. She has
been connected with Swarthmore col
lege for the last two years as director
of the department of art history- and
instructor in English.
It might also be said here that the
Boston Evening Record has a wom
an on the city desk, Jane Pride, who
is the only woman occupying such a
position in Boston. Another woman
city editor is Miss Helen Havener,
who is in the office of the Portland
(Me.) Press. Miss Havener was for
merly a member of the city staff of
The Springfield Daily News.
STRIKE BREAKERS OUT OF IT
Women's Volunteer Reserve Saves
the Day and Telephone Service
When 400 telephone operators of
Winnipeg, Can., went out at 7 o’clock
one morning, in sympathy with the
city’s electrical workers, the Win
nipeg women’s volunteer reserve real
ized that interrupted telephone com
munication would hamper seriously
the government’s war program.
Therefore, these women immediately
offered their services, not to the tele
phone company but to the Manitoba
government telephone commission, to
keep the system in operation until the
regular operators came back.
The net effect was neither inimical
to tne strikers nor to the telephone
company, and it was decidedly bene
ficial to the government and the gen
eral public. While these women, none
of whom wanted steady jobs as
switchboard operators, were filling the
strikers’ places, the work of the ex
change went on and strike breakers
could not be introduced. The com
pany had no opportunity to replace
the strikers, who therefore were able
to deal with the management quite
as effectively as though the whole sys
tem had remained tied up.
Within a week, through the efforts
of a citizens’ committee of 100 mem
bers. a settlement satisfactory to the
electrical workers and the employing
interests had been reached. The strik
ers’ jobs were protected while they
were out, for the women's reserve in
no measure competed with them: the
company interests were protected,
without injury to its employes; and,
most importan t of all. the government
and the public sustained only a
minimum of inconvenience, for al
though the volunteers were inex
perienced they learned quickly and
many of them became good operators
before the strike ended.
WOMEN POLICE IN FACTORIES
England Takes Steps to Protect
Its Women Workers
A distinctive war-time develop
ment in English industry has been
the establishment of women police
forces in factories where women are
employed. They have multifarious
duties, and perform them very ef
fectively.
The women police began their ca
reer in the summer of 1916, when it
became evident that further meas
ures were needed for the supervision
of women in munitions work than
had been adopted up to that time.
The women police examine pass
ports, check the workers as they
enter the factories, search for such
contraband articles as matches,
cigarets and alcohol, patrol the fac
tory neighborhood, and assist the
police court magistrates.
The patrol is a highly important
feature of their service, for many cf
these plants are located in lonely
spots, and practically all of them
are going full blast night and day.
Even within the factory inclosures,
ihe policewomen are needed, tor
these are in some instances six miles
long, and women making explosives
must often work in isolated huts at
long distances from other structures.
So valuable has the work of tne
policewomen proved that their reten
tion in industry after the war, so
long as conditions necessitate the
employment of women under present
conditions or conditions approxi
mately similar, is fully expectedd.
AMERICAN WOMEN CITED
Commander of 6th French Army
Praises Mrs Dike and Miss
Morgan
(By the Associated Press.]
With the American Army in France,
Thursday, September 5
Mrs Annie Murray Dike, president,
and Miss Anne Morgan, vice-president
of the American committee for relief
in the devastated regions of France, I
have been cited in orders of the day
by Gen Degoutte, commanding the
6th French army. The citation says 1
that the women, “obliged by reason
of the battles at. the end of March.
and the end of May to leave villages
the enemy was against to destroy, '
retired only at the last moment and
always under the fire of the enemy.” \
The citation also pays tribute to i
the aid given by Mrs Dike and Miss
Morgan to the military authorities in
evacuating the populations atid since
the offensive began in July, aiding In
h-wtont* to return to liberated
regions.
X —
COLLEGE GIRLS MAKE SHOES
More money on piece work has been ;
made by several of New England's
society girls in a shoe factory in
Maifchester. N. H„ than men have
previously made at the same work.
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 1918 THE SPRINGFIELD WEEKLY REPUBLICAN;
These girls in the tannery ar* turn
ing out remarkably good work.
The girls who have gone into shoe
making are college girls who have
sacrificed their summer holidays. One
of the girls is Miss Florence Tuttle
of Mount Holyoke college, daughter
of the attorney-general of New
Hampshire. Others are from the
university of Chicago. Radcliffe, Wel
lesley, Vassar, Simmons and Bryn
Mawr.
GOING TO THE CAPITAL ?
HERE'S WHERE YOU CAN STAY
War Work Council of National
Y. W. C. A. Will Build Large
Home for Government
W orkers
Where shall I stay in Washington?
That has been a vexing question es
pecially for the women who have
ccme either to visit or work in the
capital city.
But to-day sn answer is on the way.
The response is coming from the war
work council of the national Young
Women’s Christian association. The
war-work council at the request of
the government is new planning 'o
erect a mammoth building where
women may be housed during their
stay in Washington. This is going un
near the union station so that it may
beam its welcome to the women who
land in Washington alone and not
knowing where to go for food-and
shelter. This hotel is being begun at
once.
The vacation homes are likewise
being erected for the women of Wash
ington. in that city. They will bo
completed the middle of July.
One is the Young Woman’s Chris
tian association vacation home at Sil
ver Springs. Md., which has been pur
chased by the war-work council. The
other is the former home of the
Georgetown preparatory school at
Georgetown, which has been leased.
Both are easily reached from Wash
ington by trolly. Many women in
government employ will have only a
reek or two weeks' vacation. Those
living at a great distance will there
fore net be able to go home. The
Young Womans Christian association
vacation homes will supply a home
like place for these women who are
working so hard to help win the war.
The two houses have a total capacity
of 250.
Membership in the Washington
Young Women's Christian association
entitles one to privileges of a country
Nub on the outskirts of the city. This
is the four-acre campus of the
Friend's school, leased for the sum
mer. A spacious library and sitting
rooms are attractive there. Outdoor^
are six tennis courts, basketball equip
ment and delightful picnic grounds. A
rustic cafeteria provides tables out
doors for those who come to supper.
WILL GIVE BADGE OF HONOR
Red Cross to Present Symbols of
Mourning to Slain Fighters’
Parents and Widows
Mourning brassards, designed and
suggested by the woman’s committee
of the council of national defense, con
sisting of a band of black broadcloth
or other material three inches wide
with the regulation military star em
broidered on the surface in gold thread
will be given by the American Red
Cross to relatives of men who have
given their lives on the battle front
in Europe. The emblem will be worn
on the left sleeve midway between the
shoulder and the elbow and the num
ber of stars will show the sacrifices
made by each family.
These will be furnished free to
parents and widows of men who have
died in the service, and at a cost to
other membas of the family. It is
expected that the first distribution will
be made about the middle of this
month.
In announcing the manufacture of
these brassards the woman's commit
tee has Issued the following state
ment: “In adopting this insignia the
women's committee desired that it
should never be commercialized, but
that it should always be possible for
members of families of those who have
made this supreme sacrifice to prepare
for themselves this badge of honor.”
WOMEN NOMINATED
One for Congress, Two for the
State Senate and 13 for the As
sembly
One woman was nominated for
Congress—Sadie Kost, republican, in
the 22d district. New York city, in
last week's primary election in New
York. Two women were nominated
for the state Senate. The republicans
selected Kate F. Southmayd in the
sth district in Brooklyn and the dem
ocrats chose Catherine Peck Wylde
in the Ist. comprising Nassau and
Suffolk counties. For the Assembly
two women were nominated by the
republicans and 11 by the democrats.
In the 2d Assembly district in Suffolk
county. Mrs Ida B. Sammis was
nominated by the republicans over
Henry Murphy, the Incumbent. She
is also the prohibition nominee.
DO NOT FAIL THE FIGHTERS
ITALIAN WOMEN “CARRY ON’
In Munitions and Factories Where
Their Men Left Off
More than 120,000 Italian women
are filling places In industry and la
bor that were formerly held by the
men of that country, according to re
ports in official publications made by
the Italian government. That they
are facing the hardest kinds of work,
and meeting the requirements with i
up-to-the mark results is made obvi
ous by the following:—
"Women in factories have left
lighter work to take men's places, and
and peasant women have come to the
cities, attracted, by high wages In the
munition plants. Women are being
employes in making aeroplanes and
their work is recognized and appreci
ated, although three years ago this
was not considered a suitable occupa
tion. Lombardy is the largest indus
trial center and Milan the chief In
dustrial city, but everywhere condi
tions have changed fundamentally.
“Every effort is made to guard the
' health of munition workers. This Is
particularly necessary for the peasant
women who are unaccustomed to long
hours indoors. Physicians are sta
tioned In each factory to attend to
emergency cases, and there are rest
' rooms with baths and showers. Club
rooms and places of amusement also
I are<urnished to guard the moral wel
: tare of these simple women in their
new environment. Their homes are
I officially inspected and the landlords
I are required to keep the property In
I first-rate condition. Municipalities
; control rents, which consequently re
-1 main reasonable In spite of the crowd
; ing of th* cities.
i "The munition plgnts are situated
outside th* towns and the workers
travel back and forth on the street
cars. In most cities the fare is two
cents, and during busy hours tickets
I may be used that cost even less.
"Day nurseries have been estab
; lished in the munition plants and the
v omen bring their younger children
I with them in the mornings. An allow
; ance of time is given to nurse the
• babies, and as a result of this the
number of nursing mothers has in
creased from 27 to 50 per cent, while
■ infant mortality has decreased from
36 to 9 per cent.
“A law compels all munition work
ers to register in the national pension
fund. Since the war a second fund
to which employes pay a small sum
monthly, aas been started to provide
for conditions after the declaration
: of peace, when many of the munition
I makers will be compelled to find other
i employment.”
THREE MEALS A DAY
[Menus and recipes prepared by Virginia
Larter Loe for The Sunday Republican.]
Sunday
Breakfast—Sliced peaches, clam frit
ters, corn muffins, watercress, coffee
Luncheon or supper—Creamed eeas
with pimentos in the chaffing dish, re
heated muffins, grape juice fluff.
Dinner—Bouillon in cups, roast leg of
iamn. browned potatoes, succotash fruit
safari. cheese straws.
Monday
Breakfast—Stewed crabapples, un
cooked cereal, coidled eggs, toast, cof
fee.
Luncheon—Bean soup, croutons, baked
apples, gingersnaps.
Dinner—Peanut‘soup, cold sliced lamb,
baked onions, creamed potatoes, vege
table salad, peach shortcak^?.
Tuesda^*
Breakfast—Grapes, uncooked cereal,
French toast, marmalade, coffee.
Luncheon — Clam chowder. barley
crackers, baked peaches, cookies.
Dinner—Panned hamburg steak smoth
pied with onions, hashed brown potatoes,
romaine salad, watermelon.
Wednesday
Breakfast—flaked maple apples, beef
scuffle (left-over steak), corn none, coffee
Luncheon—Deviled eggs, bran gems,
olives, cold rice pudding.
Dinner—Broiled halibut steaks, green
ccrn. parsley potato balls, beet and
horseradish salad, cup custard.
Thursday
Breakfast —Molded ceeral with prunes,
fish timbales, hominy crumpets, coffee.
Luncheon — Baked stuffed eggplant,
thin rye bread aud butter, peach dump
lings.
Dinner—Clear tomato soup, braised
sweetbreads, spinach, mashed potatoes,
chocolate Bavarian cream.
Friday
Breakfast —Cantaloupe, barley mush,
panned tomatoes, toast, coffee.
Luncheon —Baked cheese aud crackers,
olives, thin rye bread, apple sauce.
- Diuner —Cream of corn soup, fried
flounder, tartare sauce, lima beans, es
calloped potatoes, lettuce salad, fruit
jelly.
Saturday
Breakfast—Grnpes, poached eggs on an
chovy toast, friend hominy, coffee.
Luncheon —Tomato salad* cheese and
nut sandwiches, sliced peaches, oatmeal
macaroons.
Dinner—Vegetable soup, chicken and
rice croquettes (from canned boned
chicken), buttered carrots, pickled beet
salad, deep apple tart.
Beef souffle-—Mince any of the left-over
imtnbnrg steak and add sufficient tomato
catsup to moisten. Heat over Lot water
and for each cupful of the mixture add
the yolk of ouc well beaten esg. Cook
until thickened (do not boil) and remove
from the fire. Fold in tbefstlffly whipped
egg white, turn into a small souffle dish
(greased) and bake in a moderately hot
oven until risen and browned. Serve
immediately in the bilking dish.
Beet and horseradish salad—Cut cooked
and peeled beets In cubes and arrange
on a bed of crisp lettuce and pour over
the following dressing: Mix a quarter
of a tenspoonful of mustard, half a ten
spoonful of salt and a quarter of a ten
spoonfnl of paprika. Add the yolks of
two eggs ana mix thoroughly. Add two
tablespoonfuls of oleo. cut in bits, and
one-quarter of a cupful of eider vinegar.
Set the saucepan over hot water and stir
until the mixture Is thick and smooth.
Remove from the fire, cool, and fold In
the stiffly whipped white of one egg.
half a cupful of cream, beaten solid and
one tablespoonful of grated horseradish.
Serve Immediately.
Grape juice fluff—Soften one table
spoonful of granulated gelatine In one
anarter of a cupful of cold water and
1* solve by standing the dish in hot
water. Dissolve three-quarters of a cup
ful of sugar in one cupful of nnfenuent
ed grape juice and strain the gelatine
into It. Add the juice of half a lemon
and stand the dish in a large vessel of
Ice water. When It begins to thicken,
whin with an egg beater and fold in the
stiffly whipped whites of three eggs.
Pour Into a mold, rinsed with cold
water and set Ih the lee box to chill.
Serve unmolded. accompanied by a
custard sauce made from the egg yolks.
Peanut soup—Add one cupful of fresh
peanut butter to one quart of boiling
milk and add n bay leaf, halt a teaspoon
ful of salt, the same of celery salt and
one tablespoonful of grated onion. Cook
for six minutes in the upper part of n
double Imfler and thicken with one
tablespoon fill of cornstarch moistened
win)* a little cold water. Cook until
smooth, stirring constantly. strain
through a sieve and serve with croutons.
Taste to see if extra salt is required aud
dust each portion with paprika.
SAVE ANIMAL FATS
Though pork is now released to
general use as a food, we must still
s..ve pork fats as they are necessary
to the making of munitions. The veg
etable shortening' that is used with
such great sucoess by government
food demonstrators, by colleges and
housewives, is sold in pails similar to
the pure leaf lard pails. The product
should be used the same as pure leaf
lard. It combines quickly and smooth
ly with the new flours and is an ideal
frying medium.
All beef fa’s contain certain pro
tective qualities which makes them
most desirable as a regular part of
the diet. This is because the animal
is an eater of leaves, grass, etc. AU
drippings from meats should bo care
fully saved. When the family does
not like the flavor of beef and mutton
fat milady may use them in combina
tion with lard substitutes and get good
results.
Take two parts beef fat and one
part vegetable. Put through grinder
to mix well. Add one-halt its weight
of milk and render it in double boiler.
The milk seems to remove some of
I the peculiar flavor of the suet and the
resulting mixture is softer.
FROM SOCKS TO SHELLS
Chicago's champion knitter has be
come a munitions worker. She Is
Helen Dillon of Charles street, Chi
cago. now working in a factory at
Pullman. The young woman's splen
did success In knitting for the sol
diers inspired her with a desire to
undertake some more important work
in the war program, and she is now
engaged in an important branch of
shell manufacture. According to the
reports received by the department
of labor, she finds this work not only
more patriotic but more remunera
tive. ______
The following is an excellent way
to wash old lace without spoiling it -
Make a lather with a good soap and
warm water; put this into a glass bot
tle with the lace. Shake it well. Re
peat this in several waters until
clean. Then' take out the lace and
carefully rinse In the same manner.
Dip in very thin starch water and p'n
out into shape on a covered table,
picking out each point with a pin.
Dry in this poilllon.
SCHOOL andCOLLEGE
NEW ERA IN EDUCATION
Great Britain Advances School Ag,
From 12 to 14
The British education bill has re
ceived the royal assent. Its pass
ing into law "marks," commented the
London. Times, "the opening of a new
era in English history as well as in
English education.”
The measure is of wide scope, and
covers a number of points, each of
which would provide ample material
for an entire letter, writes the Lon
don correspondent of the New Y'ork
Evening Post. its object is pro
fessedly "the establishment of a na
tional system of public education
available for all persons capable of
profiting thereby.” One of its chief pro
visions is the raising of the minimum
exemption age from 12 to 14, or, if
the local authority so decides, to 15.
This involves the abolition of the half
time system, prevalent in many of
the industrial districts of the North,
und^r which children between 12 and
14 Were permitted to divide their
working day between the factory and
the school. This addition of two years
to the teaching period will be a great
boon, especially as there are coupled
with it administrative changes—
for example, the removal of the previ
ous limitation on the amount that a
local authority may raise out of rates
(local taxes) for education other than
elementary—which will permit the
provision of more advanced instruc
tion for the older pupils. A great
step is thus made toward the linking
up of elementary and secondary edu
cation.
The main provisions of this act ap
ply. of course, to those schools only
that are "public schools.” in the
American sense. But private schools
also are in some degree affected by it.
They may offer themselves for inspec
tion by the board of education, and
a report of the inspection will be sup
plied to them free of cost. They are
further required to supply the board
with any particulars that may be
asked for concerning their character
and work, in order that the board may
be in a position to inform itself and
Parliament mote exactly than it can
do now as to the quantity and quality
of the total provision of education in
the country.
It is not intended that the act,~as a
whole, shall come into force until
after the war. It js accordingly a defl.
nite contribution toward "reconstruc
tion.” Some sections o* it. however
—which these are has not yet been an
nounced —will be put into operation at
an early date. In certain areas the
local authorities, with the assistance
of progressive employers of labor,
are making provision for the opening
of continuation schools next month.
The new act establishes continua
tion schools which every one. not be
ing otherwise educated, is to attend
up to the age of 16. and after seven
years from the "appointed day"—
that is, the day on which the act comes
into force —up to the age of 18. The
minimum number of hours of at
tendance at these' schools is to be 280
hours in the year, or, after seven
years, 320. These schools are to meet
during hours taken m the day out
of the rmployer’s time, and it is in
tended that their curriculum shall not
be entirely vocational or technical, but
shall provide as liberal and humane
an education as is possible in the cir
cumstances.
CONNECTICUT COLLEGES
Make Extensive Preparation for
War Training
Trinity. Wesleyan and Yale are
making extensive preparations for the
new comers, and more especially for
(lie military duties which will await
them. Students' army training corps
will be maintained in each of them.
At Trinity, the military training will
be under Col Calvin D. Cowles, re
tired. formerly of the sth United
States infantry. He has been profes
sor of military science and tactics
since April 6, and he was placed on
active dutj- with the Connecticut na
tional guard about five years ago. He
has seen service in two campaigns
against Indians, rind was active in
the Spanish-Ame. e„.i war and in the
Philippine lnsurrec,!c;i.
At Wesleyan. Maj Henry S. Wy
gant. United States army, retired, will
continue as commandant, to the sat
isfaction of about every undergrad
uate who was at Wesleyan last year,
and who is to return to get further
instruction under him. Maj Wygant
saw active service at San Juan Hill,
Cuba; in the Santina campaign of
1898; in the Philippines in 1899, and
in December of that year was recom
mended by Col C. C. Hood for brevet
of captain. It is expected that military
instruction at Wesleyan during the
coming year will be on a much more
extensive scale than heretofore.
At Yale members of the faculty
have been at Work all summer co
operating with government officials,
arranging a. curriculum of studies for
both the R. O. T. C. and the Yale
naval training unit. All of Yale's drills
in gunnery are under experienced
naval or artillery officers, and it was
because of the splendid work done at
Yale along military lines that Secre
tary Daniels stationed there as com
mandant Rear-Admiral Colby M. Ches
ter. Skilled military instructors in
clude Maj E. B. Reed. Capt J. C.
A.'ams, Capt H. S. Burr and Capt J.
R. Crawford. None of the members of
the faculty holds a commission In the
army, but several are staff comman
dants, commissioned through the. rec
ommendation of President Hadley.
At Storrs the students’ training
corps of the Connecticut agricultural
college will be in command of Col J.
S. Parke, and one member of the fac
ulty. Glenn H. Campbell and 11
students have been designated to as
sist in this work. All of them have
been in training for several weeks past
at Plattsburg. N. Y. The students se
lected are: E. D. Dow of Hartford.
M. S. Downs of Danbury, H. W.
Wright of New Haven, H. W. Alexan
der of Waterbury, John P. Bishop of
Bridgeport, Charles W, Neumann of
West Haven, Carlton J. Austin of
Weston, Vt., William Gronwoldt of
North Germantown, N, Y., George J.
McDermott of Milford. John P. Bishop
of Bridgeport, Frederic Bauer of West
Haven. Henry p. Averill of Washing
ton Depot. The Connecticut agricul
tural college was one of the first col- :
leges in the country to be designated
by the war department for the es- (
tabllshment of a unit of the reserve
officers’ training corps, and the system
of military instruction at this college
has been'Bo arranged as least to In- ’
teifere with the scientific education ‘
of students who attend the institution
' for other lines of work. It is claimed
for the college that there are more
stars on its service flag than there are
students enroled, and it is surprising
to note , that at least one-third of
those in the service have been abla
; to qualify as commissioned officers.
। Throughout the summer the Yale
and Brown university training units
have been busy at Madison, where the
Madison Beach hotel was chartered for
their special occupancy. Rear-Admiral
Chester has been in charge, and there
have been about 200 young men in
training. About this number ar* still
there, and it is stated that they do
not lack for motor yachts of various
sizes and types, placed at their com
mand by generous and wealthy alumni
of Yale.
WAR TRAINING AT WILLIAMS
How the War Department's Fro
gram Will Be Carried Out in the
College
The Williams college authorities are
co-operating with the officials of the
war department in working out the
necessary arrangements for the stu
dents’ army training corps unit that is
to be established at Williams on Oc
tober 1 The college will open as an
nounced on the 19th of this month,
And the regular college entrance exam
inations will be held preceding that
date, with the exception that certifi
es ion will now be granted for modern
languages. There will be no lowering
of academic standards, though the
college will admit additional men here
for the purpose of study along lines
of special work—as conversational
French and German, history, econom
ics, geography, meteorology .surveying,
mathematics, sanitation and hygiene,
international and military law, and
such courses that will give the young
men a broader and better outlook on
the war and its aims. The military
work will follow infantry instruction,
but preference for the other branches
of the service will be considered as
far as possible. All discipline will be
military in character and in the hands
of the commanding officer. Officers
will be assigned by the government
so that one will be assigned for every
75 men. The academic classes, as
seniors, juniors, sophomores and
freshmen, will not be used in the unit,
but they will be classified by ages, as
20, 19 and 18 years men. Their stay
in college will be. it is expected, for
periods of three, six and nine to twelve
months, respectively. Athletics will
probably have to be given up. or only
intercollegiate contests held between
neighboring institutions.
Boys below the age of 18 may take
the training, but will not be supported
by the government. For those not
taking the military work the regular
college work will be carried on as far
as possible. The number in the unit
will be maintained by drawing from
the high schpols and cantonments, the
ones having reached the r age of 18.
High schools are urged by the gov
ernment to intensify their work so
that boys of that age may finish their
courses in, advance of the regular
classes.
The government - provides clothing,
room, bedding and furniture and board
at the common mess hall. The dor
mitories will be used as barracks and
each man will be assigned to a place
according to companies and only cer
tain furniture will be allowed in^he
rooms.
The exact number to be enroled here
at Williams is to be determined by
the war department, though plans to
accommodate as many as 1000 at a
time are now being made by the col
lege authorities.
JACKSON ADDS WAR COURSES
Will Train Graduates for Secre
tarial Positions—-Special Work
in ^Drawing
Jackson college in Medford will
prepare her women to meet the in
creasing demands of the national
exigency by adding to the curriculum
courses in secretarial studies. Last
yeas’, a war emergency course was
opened to the upper class students, in
shorthand and typewriting, which
proved to be of so much value that it
was deemed expedient to enlarge the
scope of study. The faculty has recog
nized the need of college trained wom
en in this line of business, and the
ever-increasing need and dqjnand for
secretaries with an intellectual grasp
and greater capacity determined them
in adding these war courses.
The object is to fit college graduates
not for business or mercantile posi
tions but to be secretaries for profes
sional men, college professors, physi
cians, lawyers and clergymen. This
course upon which some part of the
freshman Class will enter on October
3 extends over four years with the
advantage of including the acquisi
tion of technical proficiency in short
hand and typewriting with the or
dinary requirements for a degree.
During the summer a special course
In drawing was offered to women by
the engineering school to meet the
demands of the government for copy
ists. draftsmen and tracers. This
course was attended by a number of
women, to some of whopi positions
have already been offered in the of
fices of railroads and industrial con
cerns. It is proposed during the com
ing year to offer a somewhat similar
course in drawing of larger scope, and
intended to be of normal school char
acter.
OBERLIN TRAINS OFFICERS
Nine Hours of College Work In
cluded—6oo Girls Are Also Reg
istered
At the outbreak of the war Ober
lin college offered its services to the
federal gpvernment. The offer was
accepted and many of the faculty have
gone into War work. Now the gov
ernment* has establised a students’
army training corps in the college
and has assigned Capt p’rancis Root of
the regular army as commanding of
ficer. All men over 18 wtll.be mem
bers of the United States army on
active duty. The government will pay
their tuition, board, lodging, furnish
equipments and give each man a pri
vate’s pay of S3O per month, in ad
dition to the military studies and drill
prescribed by the gpvernment the
student may take nine hours of col
lege work. He will remain in col
lege under military discipline until
his particular abilities are discovered,
when he will be transferred to officers'
reserve corps or training camp, as
the case mav lie. for further develop
ment. The Oberlin men’s building has
' been converted into a barracks capa
ble of housing 425 student-soldiers.
The rest of the college will continue
as usual, offering the regular courses
: to the girls. 606 of whom are already
i eglstered for a ttendance. All of the
academic work done by the men under
* the new order will be credited to,their
record, and after peace Is declared
! they may complete their course and
take their degree in the usual way.
: President Henry Churchill King Is on
leave of absence in France on a spe
cial speaking mission for the Young
Men's Christian association. In his ab
sence Dean Edward I. Bosworth is
acting president.
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CARESJFOR HIS OWN
[From the Chicago News.]
Oh, well, as somebody has re
marked in another connection of
somebody else, the kaiser may be a
villain publicly considered, hut he is
' good to his folks. That is, of cour w.
h'u Immediate family.
MUSK and MUSICIANS
MUSIC IN ENGLAND
NATIVE WORKS FOSTERED
Anti-German Sentiment Creates an
Indigenous British School
Which Contains Promise
for fee Future
The time is probably coming soon
when those Americans who care for
music will have to face the problem
of utilizing in practical ways the
wave of anti-German feeling that the
war has started among us. So far
its work has been largely destructive;
it has swept over our musical life in a
flood, washing away landmarks and
leveling only by tearing down. So
long as it remains negative—mere
anti-Germanism —it is bound to have
this destructive effect. Nothing could
be more fatal than to give way to
chauvinism, to substitute racial or po
litical for artistic standards, and to
sacrifice the quality of our music to
the nationality of the musicians. If
we want this flood of feeling to have
useful effects—if we wish to make it
turn our musical mill-wheels —we
shall have to see that it takes on a
positive character, and that our slo
gan becomes not anti-Germanism,
but pro-Americanism, says Daniel
Gregory Mason in the New Music Re
view. To the extent that it can be
made thus positive and constructive
it will be found capable of perform
ing useful and necessary work, and
of helping to bring that day of great
er artistic self-reliance among us tor
which all thoughtful Americans hope.
As an object-lesson in what can be
done by a wise patriotism to foster
native music we may meanwhile
study with advantage some experi
ments that have been made by the
English, placed in a relation to Euro
pean music so similar to ours, yet
aware of it so much sooner.
In both of these Anglo-Saxon coun
tries we find native schools of music
still In their infancy, with talent in
plenty, blit largely latent, and with
out developed traditions, struggling at
a disadvantage in competition with a
highly mature, in many respects even
decadent, foreign school (German),
and with various other schools more
developed than themselves (French,
Russian, Italian, etc.). In so uneven
a match the native school is bound to
lose; and its backers, instead of wast
ing their breath blaming various ele
ments of their society—public, pub
lishers. composers—as has so often
been done, would do better to recog
nize that the situation is a social one,
in which all elements co-operate and
interact, and to find out by analysis
at what points assistance can best be
rendered.
Public is Not Helpful
In the first place, then, there is the
public. In all countries, of course,
the proportion of the people who care
for serious music at all. who ever go
to instrumental concerts, is small, —
considerably less, I believe, than 1
per cent. Of this fraction, again,
only a small proportion, say 30 per
cent, exercise any discriminating judg
ment on the music they hear. The
other 70 per cent are, as a conductor
said, cows who eat with equal appe
tite everything you feed them—grass,
hay, roses, weeds. However it might
conceivably be enlightened by educa
tion or by systematic propaganda as
it stands to-day the general public
seems one of the least hopeful of all
possible points of attack.
As for the publisher, one’s first im
pression is that he is condemned Ly
economic law to be but a reflector of
this public. For inasmuch as he is
usually obliged to regulate his busi
ness with a view to making a money
profit, and inasmuch as a profit is
best obtained by selling in quantity
(even at a small margin) it is hard to
see how he can lift himself, as by his
own bootstraps, above the level of
general public taste. “During .he
whole 19th century.” Mr Corder says,
“the London publishers,-—with the
conspicuous exception of Messrs No
vello, who almost confined them
selves to the production of choral
music—treated good instrumental
music as a negligible factor. Ex
amination of the catalogs—the huge
catalogs—of our other firms, great
and small, will show little else but
an amazing mass of triviality.”
MUSIC AND MORALE
General Reorganization of Army
Bands Anticipated — Revived
Recognition of Music’s Military
Value
[Correspondence of Associated Press.]
IN FRANCE, Tuesday, July 23
A recent general order of the Amer
ican army Increasing regimental bands
to 50 pieces and giving all bandmas
ters the commission of lieutenant is
understood to foreshadow a general
reorganization of army bands and mu
sic, Like a good many tilings that
military theory had either abolished
or regarded as of secondary impor
tance when this war began, music is
to come into its own again as a pri
mary essential of soldiering.
The commander-in-chief recently
sought the advice of Dr Walter Dam
rosch, American orchestra leader and
composer, who is now in Prance, and
as a result the army bands are to be
brought up to date and perfected. At
present, army musicians also act as
stretcher bearers when action is on. It
is proposed to relieve them of this
duty, if the military authorities think
it feasible, and compel them to prac
tice constantly. The band leaders are
to be examined as to their musical
ability, and an effort will be made to
find the best instrumentalists in the
service so that every regiment will
have a highly-trained band.
The army authorities have learned
that music is a big part of war. The
men want it and they appreciate good
music, as is shown bj the large gath
erings at the concerts. Rood music
is a tonic to the units relieved from
the front lines, and varied troops
(Straighten up inwardly and outwardly
when they are played into rest camps
after action. It also has been found
that to play the men out when they
start for the front improves their mo
rale.
Experiments are being made with a
view to the introduction of the French
bugle in our bands. The American
bugle is keyed in C and does not lend
itself well to a band, while the French
army bugle, keyed in B flat and with
, a clear ringing tone, is excellent coun
। terpolnt tn band music.
; IRELAND FROM A STEAMER
! Through wilful shadows slow to clear
I The shores of Ireland reappear,—
I All amethystine light and shade.
A loveliness that will not fad*.
But lingers, touching sky and sen
With deepest Celtic mystery.
MAKTHA HALE SHACKFOHn
Welleslejr, September X, 1018.
RELIGIOUS
THE CAMBRIDGE CONFERENCE
Theologians of Many Schools la
Actual Fellowship
The conference of theological sem
inaries held last month in Cambridge
seems to have been a remarkabl*
gathering, judging from the after
math of favorable comment. Fifteen
denominations were represented by
officials from 53 seminaries. Store im
portant than the topics discussed,
says one editor, was the fact of th*
gathering for the first time, in friend
ly conference, of men who represented
religious bodies which have seemed to
be too often rival and in. some meas
ure antagonistic. A breezv Chicago
Methodist pictures it in part as fol
lows;—
“Something new at last! A con
ference of theological schools in the
United States and Canada! There
have been conferences of college and
secondary schools, of law and medi
cine and dental schools, but never be
fore so far as the record goes, of
theological schools. The reason is not
far Jo seek. In spite of much ir
responsible talk to the contrary th*
average theological professor is th*
the most conservative person in the
world: and his relations are such that
he feels the responsibility of his ac
tions and opinions as affecting not
just the school but also the denomina
tion he represents.
“What was the conference about?
Primarily it was to consider problems
of theological education arising out of
the war. Secondarily and most use
fully it was to test whether religious
denominations could act together with
anything like the unanimity of other
organizations where a great national
interest was involved. The outcome
was most encouraging. There was
entire agreement on the main issue
and sufficient divergences on details
to make the discussions interesting
and vital. The discussions followed
three main lines—ministerial supply,
the theological curriculum, and the
methods of instruction. Some of the
disclosures were of moment.
"First, all seminaries report a fall
ing off in the number of students en
rolling. and all speakers agreed that
want of adequate religious leadership
and the decline of parental solicitude
for the religious nurture of the young
were among the chief causes for this
condition of things.
“Second, there was general agree
ment that while seminaries should
strive for college graduation as a
minimum requirement for admission
to seminary studies, due attention
should be given to capable and prom
ising men of native gifts who wcr*
dead in earnest about giving them
selves to Christian service.
“Third, there was no division of
opinion as to the necessity of giving
heed to the popular demand for
branches of study outside of the tradi
tional theological discipline. The dan
ger was recognized of multiplying
these extras, and an offset was sug
gested of extending the course from
three years to four. Favorable con
sideration was also given to "clinical”
work which in some suitable way or
other should have credit recognition.
“In the matter of beneficiary aid
for students there was as might ba
expected difference of opinion arising
from difference of experience. But
all were agreed that wherever bene
fiefary aid was extended to students
it should be done in such a way as to
preserve the students’ self-respect.”
In a broadside of comment in the
Christian Register, Dean McCollester
of Tufts college says: —
"The unexpected success of the con
ference is a proclamation of tremen
dous meaning to American Protestant
ism—one of the most far-reaching
utterances of the Christian church
made during this war period. On one
side, it is a proclamation that teachers
of Christian thought of all sects have
met together in a unity of spirit and
with a sympathy of purpose; on an
other side, it is a proclamation that
the teachers of religion have asserted
their determination to be free from
the control of outside forces in mat
ters of faith, and henceforth to serve
not under the autocracy of creeds, but
in the democracy of truth and fe'low
ship. This meeting is one for which
many have long prayed, to which
many came with small hopes, but.
from which all go with a conviction
that Protestantism has changed from
a program of a division of forces to a
program of a unity of effort and of
co-operation of institutions.
"As a single event, more prophetic
than any other, I place the morning
communion service. It was a new
thing for an Episcopal bishop to pass
the communion elements to clergy
men of a scorn of different sects, and
It was an equally new thing for men
of these once contending sects to
kneel and accept the communion ele
ments from an Eniscopal bishop: but
it was good for all. and a sign of the
unity of fellowship Inhere the spirit
is stronger than the letter.
“As a'l present got a new spirit of
fellowship from the three days to
gether. so must it be that these 15(1
men will carry the great message to
the centers of religions education,
and the whole world of Protestantism
be benefited therefrom.”
The daily vacation Bible-school idea
has taken a strong hold on the think
ing of the city churches, but it re
mained for the Spanish mission of
the Presbyterian church to develop a
strange new application of the Idea
which Is splendidly Christian, says
the Northwestern Christian Advocate
There are a large number of Mexi
cans employed by the railroad in Ch,-
cago. many of whom have brought
their families with them and live in
empty box cars along the right-of
way. A considerable number of these
neople are congregated near One
Hundred and Third street, near the
R.ck Island, and the children of the
families are quite numerous. T!4
missionaries found that none of th*
children, nor the parents could speak
English A daily vacation Bible*
school was organized in an empte
coach furnished by the company and
was conducted throughout the sum
mer weekly A sewing machine had
t- cn donated and classes in sewing for
Ihe women are now being formed.
Through the good-will established in
the work with the children, an oppor
tunity has been given to work among
the ent’re colony with the result that
a good work is being organized with
excellent prospects for splendid re
sults. The old coach probably never
dia better service..
Rev Dr Joseph Fort Newton re
ceived at the City Temple In London,
just before vacation, by post, an un
registered and annonymous letter
which read. “For your holiday, from
a big sinner." and there were treas
ury notes for SSOO. Here we see tht
advantage of being a minister; an
editor cannot accept anonymous con
tributions.
For the 12th consecutive year Eng
lish Wesleyantsm Is compelled to re
por’ a decrease in its membership. Th*
total membership reported last May
was 469.077. a decrease of 81(1 mem
bers. There was a decrease of 35<J
members on trial. The Methodist
Ttecorder the official organ of th*
church, attempts this year no explana
tion of the decreas*.