Lansing State Journal from Lansing, Michigan • Page 12

12 FRIDAY THE STATE JOURNAL NOVEMBER 9, 1917 and make use of the well-known -a parcel post. Old 910 BOI Story. And yet, this JlO-biU-in-the-collar story is going up and down in the landand thousands of women are hearing that it happened to a friend of a friend of a friend of theirs, and are writing to the Red Cross about it. It does not encourage the knitting Wtoeini 511 Comes (to Boy-top at ewto Maclfotoe- why not buy the best? If you want to decide that ques campaign. Who started it There are five or sis of these tales, and they are always whispered so much alike that the Red Cross officials know them all by heart.

The other day a Washington man heard yNew Models Thev Latest! Direct from New York ml Fr Ladies Misses 1111 one of them, and feeling that he had uncovered something important, he hastened to national headquarters to tell an officer of the Red Cross. When he'had gotten about 10 words out, the officer interrupted. "Let me I'' tell you the rest of it," said the ofli' cer. And he did. Whoever evolved the stories, eeems to have been fasicnated by the idea tion for good, -and for all time, it will be necessary for you to buy a new ROTARY WHITE, because the new ROTARY WHITE sewing machine is the most modern and up-to-the-minute sewing machine made today.

If you will kindly call at my store and allow us to demonstrate to you the many new improvements on the ROTARY WHITE, you will be just as enthusiastic over this machine as we are. We sell this machine on the easiest kind of terms, $2.00 per month. Yours for a square deal of sewing up cash in hidden places. Our new shipments, constantly coming in, offer you always FRESH, Did you ever, as Schenezerade said to the Sultan, hear the tale of the Red Cross packer and the Enchanted Pajamas? The packer in question Hi, a nil I jrmi i NEW, UP-TO-THE-MINUTE styles in was boxing a lot of contributed pa jamas for a Red Cross hospital in France, when he felt something hard in one of the seams. He investigated.

i and lo! it was a $10 gold piece that the MOST DESIRED FASHIONABLE fabrics and colorings. EXTRAORDINARY VALUES at our prices, ranging from some kind soul had thus secreted for a wounded soldier. What follow Bnidldl's Mnnsk Htonnse ed? Why, the word went abroad among the packers, and since then they rip up all the seams in all the 50 pajamas before they pack them, looking for more gold pieces, and $1595 $37 119 EAST ALLEGAN STREET. LANSING, MICHIGAN hence it is no use making pajamas for the Red Cross. Whoever con ceived this tale may have been a German agent, but he had literary 25 ft aDinty.

Another common tale is that Am $1 795 south, with hardly a detail changed, OVERCOATS For Men Young Men erican soluiers in France have to The lumberman who was mulcted to of $2.50 sometimes works in Maine, pay heavy import duties on the things the Red Cross sends them. sometimes he works in Louisiana or SPREAD TALES DF RED CROSS FAKES Michigan or Colorado or Washing This is such a gratuitous slander of a friendly power that it deserves to ton. But the rest of the tale doesn be nailed seriously and nailed hard. France has suspended all import du vary. This in itself is enough to throw it out of court with those who ties on gifts to American soldiers.

can weigh evidence. It bears a fam An exeptJonsfly attractive assortment of the popular new reeppy "Trench Coat" models, as well as other stylish coats in all fabrics and patterns. Dresses Suits Children's Clothing Men's Suits Etc. Generous Credit To Everyone ily resemblance to the thousands of even the duties on tobacco and playing cards, both of which are stiffly object of underhand attack. The stories themselves are equally curious, in their mingling of ablo and artistic lying with absurd details that stamp them Instantly as not only false, but imposible, to one who has any knowledge of the Red Cros3 work.

A typical tale, and one of the most widely circulated, might be entitled "A Pair of Socks for Sammy, or How the Lumberman Got Stung." According to this tale, a young lady has knitted a beautiful pair of socks for a soldier, andentmsted them to the Red Cross for delivery to any lad in khaki. Moreover, the young lady, being of romantic temperament, has put a1 note with her name and address in the toe of one of the socks. A few weeks later she always gets identical telegrams that flooded con protected government monopolies gress when the question of declaring and among the principal sources of war was pending. But who started the national revenue. it? German Agents in United States Maliciously Slander War Institution.

Another tale 13 that of the devot The Red Cross has never been able to trace a single one of these stories ed mother who knitted a sweater for her soldier boy. She gave It to to its origin. Though there are only a few of them, they crop up thous Red Cross chapter to forward, but her boy never got it. She went to the ands of times; yet they are always chapter asain to reDort. nd the ladv things that a friend of mine heard in charge told her the sweater had or someone I know knows a woman been sent.

But the keen-eyed moth liy Frederic J. Haskin. "WASHINGTON, D. C. Who is Telling- tales about' the Red Cross? "Who is responsible for starting the half dozen stock fables afloat all cr in question noticed that the lady who, and so forth.

Salrics Negligible. Sometimes you will hear a more was wearing a sweater herself. A kUwoinr" 1H A NATIONAL INSTITUTION v3jp Ns214-North Washington Ave. second glance, and she recognized the serious charge brought forward to sweater as the one she had made for her son. "That is my son's sweater, the effect that a large part of the $100,000,000 war fund raised by popular subscription is being used to she accuses.

"And to prove it to you, an answering note from a man in a lumber camp. The answer assures her that the socks are a fine job and the lumberman appreciates them. It closes by saying, "They are the best socks I ever bought for in my life." Tale is Invarably Similar. From this tale an intelligent public is supposed to deduce that the Red Cross is taking the socks young ladies knit for soldiers and selling them for a pair. The' most is to convey some damaging insinuation about the Red Cross organization? Is he a pro-German, a paci- list, or ii malicious practical joker? 'r are the' stories started bv a hid- I will show you the $10 bill that I pay large salaries and heavy admin sewed in the collar." Which she istrative expenses.

As a matter of. triumphantly does. fact, practically all of the principal Tnere are several holes in this tale. officials at headquarters and all over The largest one is the fact that no the country as well as abroad not iteu but extensive organization of -ome sort? Nobody knows. The Stories are in circulation though, and ihry present a curious problem.

There is no truth'in any of them. Red Cross sweater has a collar. They aren made that way. Another is, that the policy of the Red Cross Is only work without salaries but bear all of their own expenses and are large contributors to the Red Cross besides. they are all designed to hamper and not to accept gifts for individual sol Now and again, too, someone rais striking fact about the yarn, and all its brethen, is that it crops upin exactly the same form in every section of the country.

The national headquarters of the Red Cross have received literally thousands of letters, each reporting that this tale is abroad east and west, north and fliers, but to reserve the right to give them where they will do the most good. Anyone who wants to send a present or anything else to a particular soldier has only to address tTiiiH ihiu uisrepuie me neu i.ruH Quitting campaign, which is a movement deserving all the support any American can give it. A knitting campaign is rather a curious object for any hostile power to select as the es the question of the Red Cross and religion. There have been charges, impossible to trace to their origin, to the effect that the organ the package, afhx a postage stamp, 7m ization favors or opposes certain creeds. The Red Cross is absolutely non-sectarian.

Its contributors come from all denominations, and it never inquires into creeds when help is needed. WOMEN'S C0A There is nothing wrong or un patriotic about criticism of the Red Cross. It ought to be as open to criticism as any department of the government. It is spending a lot of public money, and public criticism is salutary influence for any institu tion which does that. The Red Cross has been hastily and enormously expanded.

It doubtless makes mis takes, and it is anyone's duty as an Amcp-ican citizen to point out mis Extraordinary Values at $15.75, $20.75, $24.50, $29.50 There are hundreds of them to select from and there is such great diversity of style it would be impossible not to find exactly what you want. You will find velours in all such good colors as Burgundy, beet-root, Peking, mouse, taupe, browns, greens and many more and you'll find pom pom, burella" as well as all the other popular materials. takes and his privilege to denounce them as fiercely as he will. But the it stock slanderous stories that have gotten afloat belong in another class entirely. 1 II I I A Malicious Stories.

They are malicious, mischievous. and mysterious. In so far as they hinder the work to supply our soldiers with comforts, they are almost treasonable. None of them has any foundation in fact. Their verv tri viality seems to make absurd the idea that they are started by agents of the enemy, but the widespread and FEME FTO the absolute sameness of these trivial tales seems to make it certain that there is an organized movement to get them under way.

The next time you hear one, try to find the jit UP: xx i person who was actually victimized. The Red Cross would lilto to get at least one oi tne accounts at first hand. Sets8.75 to 35Muffssto $1575 CEDAK LAKE. this styles. season They are all brand new all Among them you will find: Special to The Stute Journal, CEDAR LAKE.

Nov. 9. Miss Try using Instant Postum on the family table-serve it to your guests, and note their remarks. It's a fact many times demonstrated that a cup of Postum well made is often mistaken for coffee and very frequently pleases better than the cup one has been accustomed to. You can make Instant Postum, rich or mild, to suit individual preference by varying amount used per cup.

And always you get a beautiful seal brown drink of delightful aroma and a snappy flavor that amply satisfies In every regard. For coffee drinkers who find it necessary to abstain from coffee, and for children and others who delight in a strengthening, hot, meantime cup on a cold day, there's nothing quite like Nat- Jessie Lawrence and Litah Van Vel-sor were in Grand Rapids part of A variety of Fox, Near Lynx, Natural Muskrat, ural Wolf, Beaver, Jap Mink, Black and Kit Coney. last week. Airs. Addie Lutz of Lainesburs visited at the home of James Black last week.

Miss Irene Jorao, who is attending hoc! at 1'psilantl, spent the week end at the home of her parents. Mr. and Mrs. Theo Jorao. Mrs.

Earl Beardslee was an Owosso visitor Wednesday. Mrs. Higgins visited her daughter at Lansing last week. Mrs. Jj.

A. Potter and son of Lan sing were week-end guests at the home of Rolan Sleight. XORTH VICTOR Special to The State Journal. the Best Values in Lansing, at $15, $18, $20 and $25 They are made by the best clothes makers in New York City. Made by hand.

Made of the finest all-wool materials that can be had. There are all styles for all tastes; and for all occasions. There are all sizes, too. NORTH VICTOR. Nov.

9. Mrs. Josephine Murdock and Earl Hadley of Detroit returned home Tuesday. Mrs. J.

Harley of Litchfield and Mrs. Lamb and Mrs. Dawson of Fittsford returned home Tuesday. Mrs. M.

Woodhams is spending this week with her sister. Mrs. Starr of Laingsburg. INSTANT Postum Mrs. Alhe Beckwith is at the R.

L. Beckwith home. Mrs. R. L.

Beckwith left Thurs day for a visit in Cleveland. Mrs. W. Stocker of Dryden re turned home Saturday. The women of the Grove church A Small Payment Down and $1.00 per Week plan to have a patriotic fair in IiOCKE.

Special to Tbe State Journal. Buys Your Clothing Here Let your grocer Introduce you to this pleasant beverage by ordering a tin from him now. Made in America. No raise in price. 50-cup tin 30c.

100-cup tin 50c. 8 if Credit to All LOCKE, Nov. 8. Rev. Robert Cunningham, who has been visiting relatives in Vyers, and South Bend, for the past five weeks, has returned to his home in Belle Oak.

Mr. and Mrs. Bert Jones were in Lansing. Tuesday. School in the Rowley district, which has been closed on account of scarlet fever, will begin nest Monday.

Mr. and Mrs. George Parslow, who have been the guests of Mr. and Mrs. LeonSwefet, have returned to their home in Williamston.

Rugs Draperies Linoleums 4 There's a Reason Dr. Markland enjoys the -distinction of'belrig the only woman surgeon in the British army. She is known as one of -the foremost surgeons in the British isles, and will probably see active service soon. 1 fQWlW WJ MHM.