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ami'argcnici-parlcnentgave thacid ednadeleast t belandap-i by wn-con-tain-11 ve tpect t $10 he: hisalue. arice Hired a reel rning . It ;d toBOSTON POST, WEDNESDAY. APRIL 3, 1918Artistic War Posters WAR NEWS$500Printed bv Women PUT UP TOFOR;STUDYING GRAPHIC ART AT WENTWORTH INSTITUTE.Boston women are invading a new field of Industry, the graphic arts. The picture shows Mrs. Mary C. Thurston, head of the art department of the Brooklii\e High School, studying under Vojta Preissig at Wentworth Institute. She is one of a class of 14 taking the course.irned it noatutedate“Women are making of printing not a trade, but an art.“ So said Vojta Preissig. artist and instructor in printing and the graphic arts at Wentworth Institute.Fourteen Boston women, the first in the country, it is believed, are pursuing the graphic arts course at this institution. Not content with printing the designs of others, these women aro turning their attention to the creative -work of printing.Already expert printers they now make their own designs, cut them in linoleum, make plates and impressions, experiment in color making and combining, and put them through the presses with their own hands.Original enlistment posters creation have been distributed out the United States. A few for local use drew favorable and already 18,000 have gone out. Calls are now coming from across the water. Under the inspiring direction of Vojta Preissig who is himself engaged in the completion of the design for a flag for the Czecho Slovak nation, posters with impressive national wrar-cries have been made for all the allied countries.SHIPS ONWAY HEREIMMUNEWill Not Seizeof their through-intended attentionDutch Vessels NowEn RouteWASHINGTON, April 2. — TheAmerican government has decidedPERSHINGEndicotjecteBaker Bars Washington Items AboutBills bear oration, saltnumerous tup by the yesterday, rbeing the sTroops in FranceExecutive 3of tlie Pub j which the ported “leaWASHINGTON, April 2.—Under orders cabled to the War Department, Secretary Baker has decided that in future all information concerning American forces in France will be made public only from the headquarters of the expeditionary forces. Information about troops at home will lie given out by the War Department as in the past. *BAKER’S ORDERSMajor-General March, acting chief of staff, made the following announcement:“The War Department has been notified by cable that Secretary of War Baker has prescribed the following rules for handling publicity of matters pertaining to troop movements and operations:“First — All matters pertaining to events, persons, policies or operations here (France) will only be officially given out from tho headquarters of theAmerican* expeditionary forces in France.“Second - Similar matters affecting forces at home will be given out at the War Department.”A proposal that General Pershing publish a daily communique for his sector has been under consideration, but there had been no announcement of its adoption. The activities of the Americanforces brigaded with French, and British troops probably will bo covered in the official statements issued by those , governments. General March refused to , comment on the announcement further than to say that it was issued upon direct order of the Secretary of War and “will be carried into effect beginning to- I day.It is understood that the order will not change the present practice of issuing casualty lists at the department.LOWELL TO ADDRESS
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Boston Post
Boston, Massachusetts, US
Wed, Apr 03, 1918
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