I T- mm*** -"T~ INTEkNATIOKAL FALLS PRESS NOVEMBER 7TH. 1918 A WALLED CITY THE BITER BITTEN. THE BLUE TRIANGLE _0F WOMEN ON BABEL'S TOWER 1H& Lucia pulled hei .shawl farther I EtsjTfe^Te. A llttJft sunny village has g:*own up Has ucross her face and shrank down on It side a high wall in France wjthin the "Ti the station platform bench as the solid TRov/eoTHAT? last year. Its square flat houses stand -To II wcavGER blue figure suddenly bent down over In straight even rows and along one CRUSH 05u NftTIof/s her. Excitedly she shook her head in side of the city wall is a lon?j dormi wuir FALL AND answer to the question that she could tory for single women. There are many 5TftoNfGeR not understand. She searched through more of them than of the families in WAT» °«S her red plaid waist for the paper that the d*?y) little houses. The village Is fsiSe—^ Tony had folded Into a little square full or women—old, young, middleaged—whose wlft& and given to her. The writing on it, faces, hands and hair In U.S.A. cf Our 22 In the English that Tony knew and she slowly are turning yellow from the did not, told the house where she lived. powder which It Is said will eventually Tony had explained it all to her that affect their lungs. But most of them Unlike Topsy— morning. He had told It to her again are refugees and the fact that they at the station. Then, waving his hat, are giving up their good looks, their he had disappeared Into the train vvitfc health, and perhaps their lives in the Swift & Company the rest of the men, and Lucia had munition factory, is of little moment to been left standing oueslde the gate. them. They have come Into the walled There were crowds of women pushing town from ruined villages and devastated Has Not "Jest Growed" all about her. They were weeping. farms with their frightened Uttle I So Lucia wept, too. children, their despairing -old people, atttnfs carrying all their earthly possessions Lucia had been betrothed to Tony In the old country. Five years before, In tiny bundles. In their individual Swift & Company^ inWty years of well lives there Is no future In all their with a long ticket for New York ordered growth, has become one of the world there Is no interest but the conquest pinned Into his inside pocket, her lover great national services because it has had left her. He wrote in every letter of the Hun. No one comes into this little war that he had inade her a home learned to do something for the American it community that centers around the big the new country. Her dowry money people which they needed to have done had finally provided her own transportation, new munitions plant but those who for them, in the way in which tliey work. Because of the danger and the and for two months Tony and preferred to have it done. blighting yellow powder, the work is she had been married. Then he had THIS CARTOON FURNISHED W THE ««NNESorA COMMISSION °F PUBLIC SflFETy- highly paid and all the workers are drawn a ticket with a number on It, volunteers. It has met each successive demand, in and this morning'he had gone off to The women wear overalls or apron war. the changing conditions of national life, dresses, some of black sateen, some To the policeman Lucia told all these by getting good meat to increasing millions PREVENT TOP GROWTH OF PERENNIALS nondescript. The dull garb harmonizes things in rapid Italian. But the policeman effectively, efficiently, economically, with the yellowing faces and despairing only talked back to her as eyes. rapidly in a language that was not AND BE VICTORIOUS IN WAR WITH WEEDS and expeditiously. Italian. She followed him dumbly to Into this modern walled city of despair headquarters. An hour later a woman the Blue Triangle has flashed the The Swift & Company packing plants, A. first message of hope. The Y. W. C. wearing American, clothes gently refrigerator cars, car routes,- branch began talking to her in beautiful ItalIan. foyer is the only recreational center houses, organization, and personnel of within reach. The cars which find today are the practical solutions, born of Italian Lucia was only one of thousands cafes at the end of the line a mile of forelgn-bo'rn women, Syrians, away, stop running at seven o'clock to practical experience, to the food problems save fuel. The city. is three miles Italians, Armenians, R^sians, Lithuanians, of half a century. Polish, who, when the draft from the factory. called th dr men folk to the American My problem,'' writes the Y. W. C. Because of all these elements working in cplors, sked in helpless confusion A. secretair in charge, "is to keep the correlation and unison, Swift & Company what it vas all about.. When, would women occupied -in the evenings, to their iri' be back? What did people give them good'healthy amusement so. is able to supply more and better meat to mean hi they told them they would that they will forget their sorrows and more people than would have been possible rcceivc money through the mail? go to bed and sleep, physically tired otherwise, at a net profit per pound of Where uld they find work that thej out from playing." knew 1 to do? Was there no one She goes on to tell of some of the meat so low (a fraction of a cent) that the who cr- explain it all to them in women and girls who come to the consumer price is practically unaffected. their ov language?. foyer: C. "There is a pretty little round, rosycheeked The W. A. was ready to offer Strip away any portion of this vast, girl-here who is just beginning assistrn- s, but It would be of no value smooth-running human machine, and you to show the to offer it in English. Consequently effects of the powder. The -I 1X roots-of her hair and her for. head are make a large part of the meat supply it had supply a corps, of women who a pale yellow. The palms of lu h.iiit! coulrl a to the foreign-born woman uncertain, lose the benefit of half a century are a deep burnt orange and her luni.lx at her vn door in the language that of fruitful experience, and scatter the iiiid anus a bright yellow. she wfif- used to hearing in the homeland. intelligent energies of men who have teach her English was as "There is an ex-profession essentia a factor in her Americanization an interesting girl who r. oys devoted a life work toward meeting the as find her a job. Therefore foyer and helps entertain i:v tAer needs of a nation in one vital field. the wn' council of the Y. W, C. A. set :l!'K There is a professional pi-Msis': Well-Kept Roadside Where Weeds Are Controlled by Frequent Mowing. who does her bit at the noris ve out to her English. A before the war began in Europe, niirr hours. There is one Em lender?! of the Young Woman's ready irl who speaks i. i*- The booklet of preceding chapters in this c»:ory of sti association foresaw just :l.!U-r was an' innkeep in ii »»-.:« r.\ the packingindusm will be mailed on request to such itu.iitloii, sind made ready to Fr n'*e. There is a pivitv .?:• Sv.'i & Company. vrh is M!. .::gcd to a F:vn. s.,i Union Stocis Vardsr Chicago, Illinois. meet They studied the needs of the Sr igrant. They trained skilled tvljo *01} is rejoicing over !h- i'ate^ th:-. Amer social workers to become familinr I)p h-'d with him recency itli the home habits and to Bit a:r raid. His mother is tin Swift & Company, U. S. A. 1 spe.i*' 1 language of the Lett and the ia!:er here nd he is one of six Hum in and the Greek and the other he war. Two of them are (h :-i.i mothers who brought ba­ :-.i'i :ry prisoners, two are civil pns fc bies bundles over from Ellis island oners in Germany and two are soldi.er:in to F" park. the trenches. Her home in th Th ganization into which this experfr north of France was destroyed and she has developed was named ped with a small bund'e of «ncli v-c by tt W. C. A. national board, "The rhiit-.'s as she could carry in her h.-ni'l.s. ^Bustmtssaasbi Inter onal Institute for Young ii re is a sweet-faced girl who Wmr- In terms which these women a lacemaker In Valenciennes, who -inderstand, it is teaching the hu: direct to us from the Germnn.ii fore' -orn how to sew and cook and section after a hard experience care the baby. :,ig'away." Ir Tf Is like Italian Lucia, who coafuse- 'i hwe are the women the P.lue Tri-'....' lingered on the station platforiv helping to forget—perhaps hen the draft trains pulled out, on!y nn hour at a tlme^—the horrh.-.t for the Y. C. A. lei giving direct assist* have blackened their luarthi-tf.nes Educated European women, and darkened the world. apr: to the regular staff of workers •:iy foyer," the secretary writes, 'i he camp'.Y. W. 0. A. Hostesi -iji:-i«ts of a hall and two large rooms IT' are able to talk to the drafted v4:h "cenent floors. One has a Writin-: A me» heir own language, assist them tii 1. paper, pens and Ink. scwin. S'VfSts+'f* In ng letters home, and in ai cuplward wltii teacups in mmm Subscribe for the Press rv.' furloughs and little visits to *V. \Vje table with papers and rM^j-aKl'tier FULLY EQUIPPED. th' p. .ya*., ^nsy chairs and my desk. The Tkere mrnit be (omfthinf for onr iioldien France to think about bealiM Home Tnformation Service for u'.lur ro'j:ji has a piano, more tal^^s, the stem bn»lne»« of killing. Soldiers' pets and aanrotn are eteetln means of :'-s jiciiing hoards and a VMrola. I\u il!ies of Enlisted Men" Is relieving: the strain. The above, picture shown a Collie fully equipped with gmm F- mask and smokinx ntcnuili. He belonva to nn American regiment la tkt front !fK inN'tical relief work for the mv unfrallied French pictures line trenchen and the fun he Jives the boys is more than we can appreciate. Wo ai^: American and French war post* rs nil nv^tliers. The purpose of want these boys to have a chance to play with their own pets at homo as aooa as possible, and the more1 generously we respond to every call for ar'r-iiid ihe room. The walls are-paint-' frh rd to he'p the women folk iss the quicker this will be accomplished* Fourth Liberty Loan Sept. S& ^,-v -uid white." ?e4 :rvl to understand where their 'tUYn--!:-.v evenings they s! .rnd 3 rind how they fjire being treater' '('.•inco. "First they have a ch «ru they need home support and writes -lie secretary, "such r.s 'Lt low to send them comforts, and .the 'Flymne des Aviat' 'or •r pace themselves by learning «f-.jy (v-juaiiy thrilling, and at-:!hi» and other things, so that when ial -lio'e^ of triumph a voice af: i.v I* IOLOMONLY SWAP'S Vh come home they will not find V- ••tst^yiH^s.-'Un polka, mees.' Th r- ii-' th v'omen still very un-American I W N A N O d. -here is a call for the Ml'-n-ne MORE ICS. CREEVV W*A~5 ai of sympathy with them. r-i Ai.ii, :. iin' and we sing the 'She.ri/.inner,' conservation bulletins have .Jiiosa fr\\ ID WIT* .MO* (Le Drapeau iytOi.o) b. nnslated into'18 or JL9 languages. NO KORK CA.*tY NVH-AT'J 'r. i" !«. binges." A• factories and, munition plant* W W MAiD S UG£Hv i'oyt rs have been estal!Hhed 3ters are available for the noiv -'Yh p'.f'i Iv in Mi-veral munition-centers'in J-'ra^ire. HOKEST speaking women by whom the nil gaa'" CANT !i nr lins a cafeteria, a recr a'ion ir industries of.ihe country are rmi rooms fitted up vs Vest argely carried. on.. In 25 imcities .•o-rns. writing and sewing rooms.'i At International Institute aiviu these rooms are HMed wi are training American and Freucii girls learning. i: .sh.-ty'ofcke'epii women for full time social .? or stenography, rhfit t.liev l:u«y .** work foreigners. Twentyained vork in the ofiices of A:nerican men are employed on E:\pediVionary Forces. In comvM'ion ional arn" district field staff of with each is a large recreation IkUl or n. A. On June 15 there were park. /omen working at Amerl- At the request of the French it:' ib BA«eo a try of war the Young Wontr _:r. a more than 75.000 Chicago men ifiu GAR tian association lias ope?^--«- Jrooms ut their blue cards for the Sep£2 for the sixteen thousand draft, Gang Luo Wong apat vromen employed in the ofiice, yt one precinct bringing with war department:. rs. Gang Wong and the three So successful has been the ibyer n. All five wished to register, work in France thr«t a call has come ^'ling clerk explained, but the from England to American W. wake many broken C. A. to bring it '^|ue Triangle huts trances before the mas.ily and foyers across'the channel. The was induced to .sign .4thoi$p*ji8 ^ife* Mrs. Wong English Y. W. C. A. has established inters for munitions work a lot :.,^fc|j»|[ijsh.t. *VJat would lwl\J smaller scale, but after ins of uil ^3 in|aeslayflpfi country If Hospital CAR IN FRANCE. jUHEincp jUc sir Vl A11 over the tie American wo in France th' four W' Tlitese b»ys and.thousands like. tuem are being wounded and worse for the Allies' English represen: tives to the States,Chinese and Poles and and «t *11 .Tiiey rare freedom safety of us. are being well taken ol. The picture C. & Food Administration. Women's congress a Paris In August, nuiinilril vere ifBTHTij!1 Uie wime question. shows a number of'wieu recently in battle being taken from the froot to rest camiis-beh!r.jfl jlhe iinv-i. Surgeons nre examining their patients. American cDclally requested that the American just vh needs that the War soldiers are ^Ing cared-for-this way because our country is the richest In A. similar work In Alf:- IlEROi »SA£RXEICE V. W. C. undertake of its of Hit' v. M. C. A. Is orgifr the world and because the great majority people are eager to Sght, work and' loaa their to their Government. Fourth Loan Sept. money .Liberty 88. .^ nglando •Ji I 5