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Newspaper
Leavenworth Echo
Location
Leavenworth, Washington, United States of America
Date
Sep 27, 1918
Page
3
A women's column celebrates velvet and satin substitutes for wool during a cautious postwar season. It praises cape designs, fur trimmed coats, and beaver hats, noting dye advances and the shift toward simpler, smarter lines in fabrics and accessories amid wartime shortages.
This column honors mothers and Western women for sacrificing to support the Fourth Liberty Loan. It underscores the role of women in saving meat and wheat, funding bonds, and backing soldiers abroad. It urges delivering utmost sacrifice to keep America marching toward Berlin.
The piece argues ten thousand voters in a western county failed to register or vote in a recent primary highlighting voter apathy. It laments election complexity and costs, notes union and radical participation, and asserts democracy relies on broad citizen intelligence and straightforward manhood suffrage.
A western town announces the November 1 opening of a wheelbarrow factory to create productive work and payrolls. It contrasts this with past reliance on Chautauquas and moral campaigns, denouncing brainstormers who dodge labor and investment.
War Department General Orders No 53 declares a gold chevron to be worn on the lower left sleeve by officers field clerks and enlisted men with six months service in a war theatre. The badge honors active participation in the conflict abroad and will extend to home front workers with the Fourth Liberty Loan badge, signaling war service and distinction.
Observers praise American soldiers in France for independent thinking and open fighting, contrasting with German mass tactics. Citizens at home are urged to take individual responsibility and participate in the Fourth Liberty Loan starting September 28, seeing it as essential to victory and mirroring soldiers’ efforts.
A wartime financial tally shows Ordnance Department spending from the war start to June 30 1918 reaching 4.3 billion with a 7 billion forecast. Major items include artillery rifles ammunition and clothing plus wagons horses and food for the forces in France and at home. The report notes nearly 2 million men in France and similar in training, underscoring Liberty loans fueling military power and victory.
Mitsui & Co. directing manager Mr. Fujise said Japan is prospering as never before. He cited steel imports from the United States and rising shipbuilding as signs of expanding industry and accelerating growth.
Laws to curb criminal syndicalism and sabotage have been enacted since the war began in Arizona Montana Nebraska North Dakota South Dakota and similar measures were adopted by Idaho and Minnesota last year. Heavy penalties are imposed.
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