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Newspaper
The Review
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Apr 04, 1918
Page
9
The War Savings Plan offers 25-cent Thrift Stamps with a sixteen-space Thrift Card. When full, investors pay 12 cents in January and one cent more monthly in 1918 to receive a War Savings Stamp at the post office or bank, with stamps redeemable for five dollars on January 1 1923 and interest credited quarterly.
Geraldine Farrar, a leading American opera figure, engages in war relief with the Stag Women's War Relief Society. Shown operating a sewing machine, she contributes skilled, precise work for soldiers and sailors in democracy's battles.
Captain Ednyfed H. Williams, returning from France, explains how the Red Cross buys supplies in France England and Italy to free shipping space for troops and munitions. He notes warehouses stocked in France enable relief to Italy and that American workers donate labor without pay.
Patriotic lumberjacks observe meatless and wheatless days and give up sugar and milk twice daily. Secretary J A Vye of the Minnesota state food administration spoke at the capitol timber sale and timber operators pledged cooperation to the food conservation movement. He cited Hoover plans saving about 6000 pounds of sugar weekly and urged city people to join in.
A collie in Northeast, N. Y., guided locals to the frozen body of a hermit living atop Mt. Rinta. Believed to have slipped and fallen, the elderly recluse died before assistance arrived.
United States recruits gathered in a five acre naval barracks built along a cliffed riverbank in Ireland. The Cob Dock station trains sailors for destroyers, housing thousands in four thick stone granaries with hammocks and field kitchens. Access is restricted by guards while liberty routes lead to a distant village with US clubs and cinema shows.
Mrs. Samantha Masten of Pleasant Valley New York knitted 20 sweaters 20 mufflers and 20 wristlets in five months averaging an outfit a week. She balanced household duties while knitting for soldiers and taught other women to knit.
Members of the Cleveland Hotel Men's association advocate using Thrift Stamps for tips. Bell boys and other staff receive stamp books to be affixed by the tipper, promoting a savings oriented tipping system.
William C. Plunkett of Washington DC, the only blind undergraduate at Harvard, has won the Bassett scholarship and earned a place on the roll of honor.
A jumble of short anecdotes from a Tribune page recounts Louis Yvyno born in Italy who answers born with yes on a slip, Charles miscalling a phone call to his milliner aunt, and a tongue in cheek note about snakes hawks and owls urging public understanding and protective laws.
In a playful tale a wealthy suitor courted a girl with orchids violets lilies and roses while one poor youth sent only daisies. She chose the orchid sender, marrying him, while the daisies marked the contrasting gesture in a George Jean Nathan line from Puck.
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