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MISS VELMA DEANon the MOINES appearance WOMEN of have magazine been not a articles little on disturbed "Why Not the to past week which quotes at length the argument of Samuel S. Dale appearing the Brooklyn Chronicle for May 18. At first glance, the tendency is totaggravation. Women who have been spending hour after hour of more or less monotonous knitting do not relish being told in uncouched language that what they have been doing is not only useless but extravagant. But at second reading, it must be admitted that the problem is one which must be faced in the near future.

For the argument is not based upon the folly of knitting, but upon the growing shortage of wool. The first week in May, the government notified all worsted yarn spinners that 85 per cent of their machinery would be needed for government work and that no more yarn would be supplied to the Red Cross. Such drastic rulings presage a clothes rationing process for the civilians. To quote in brief Mr. Dale: "Wool is a military essential.

The United States produces annually one-third of the amount she will require for an army of five million men. Hand knitting requires the finest grade of all new wool, expensively spun, so fine and fluffy that it is not durable, being more suited for the cradle than the trenches. "Compared on the basis of stitches, one knitter in the mill does in a minute the work of 7,500 hand knitters, and keeps it up for ten hours a day." These facts alone in Mr. Dale's mind justify the cessation of handknitting. But he goes a step farther and declares that the articles could be dispensed with entirely, saying that stockings are the only hand knit goods that are of any use to a soldier.

In the meantime requests come pouring in for thousands of socks, helmets, mufflers, and wristlets. But a few facts remain. We do not have machines and experienced operators to knit the socks of the mixed cotton and wool. The day will probably come when women will be asked to operate machines in government hosiery mills, but in the meantime knitted articles are needed. Criticism, if any is due, might be made of the promiscuous knitting which is done.

Right at Camp Dodge there are men who have two or three unnecessary sweaters and a pile of socks, which fond friends and doting relatives have given them. A few too many relatives and friends will create a rather embarrassing pile of knitted articles which might be of use to some other fellow. When the time comes to move, a pile of luggage is often prohibited. The spirit in which the knitting is done is actuated by an earnest desire to be of use. And it is in such a spirit that the Red Cross has gone Into the knitting business.

The next few months will probably decide the question, which is one the women of the city should investigate. The chances are that they, will continue to knit, and that requests from army men, especially from the aviation branch of the service, will continue to pour in. HARMON-WEITZ ENGAGEMENT ANNOUNCED. Mr. and Mrs.

J. P. Harmon, 855 Fortieth street, announce the engagement and approaching marriage of their daughter, Marjorie, to Carl Weitz, son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles H.

Weitz, of Waterbury drive. The wedding of Miss Harmon and Mr. Weltz, which will take place Aug. 10, is of interest to a large circle of friends in Des Moines. The bride-to-be attended North High school and was a member of the Meje Daka club, a former school organization.

During the last year she was a member of the Douglass school faculty, Mr. Weitz was also a North High student and is a member of the Phi Lambda Epsilon fraternity. At present he is connected with the Century Lumber company. MISS VELMA DEAN TO WED LIEUT. ROY W.

LEIBSLE. Mr. and Mrs. W. E.

Dean 'of Bemidji, announce the engagement of their daughter. Velma Pauline, to Lieut. Roy W. Leibsle, son of Mr. and Mrs.

H. F. Leibsle, 1320 East Ninth street, Des Moines. The engagement of Miss Dean and Lieutenant Leibsle is the culmination of an acquaintance which began several years ago when the latter was engaged in business in Bemidji. Miss Dean is a graduate of St.

Mary's school at Faribault, and is the possessor of a beautiful soprano voice. Lieutenant Leibsle enlisted for military service last November at Camp Dodge and in January went to Camp Lee, Petersburg, for 1 officers' training. In March he was commissioned second lieutenant in the national army and assigned to Camp Humphreys. The wedding date is not announced. LONG.

BARBORKA ENGAGEMENT. Mrs. Emma Long of Mount announces the engagement of her daughter, Miss Bessie Mae Long, Clifford J. Barborka. Both Miss Long and Mr.

Barborka are well known Iowa young of Simpson college at Indianola and people. The former is a in graduate is a Pi Beta Phi sorority girl. Mr. Barborka is a former Iowa athlete and a member of both the Beta Theta Pi and Nu Sigma Nu fraternities. He is a graduate of the University of Chicago and of Rush Medical college.

At present he is located with the medical reserve corps at Chicago. MISS LA NORE WISE A BRIDE OF THIS WEEK. Mr. and Mrs. W.

W. Wise announce the engagement and approaching wedding of their daughter, LaNore, to Lieut. James C. Addison of. the Three Hundred Camp Dodge.

Thirty-seventh field artillery, at Lieutenant Addison is the son of Mr. and Mrs. E. H. Addison of Nevada.

He is a graduate of the State University of Iowa and a Phi Kappa Psi fraternity man. Following his training at Fort Snelling he was commissioned second lieutenant and assigned to Camp Dodge. The wedding of Miss Wise and Lieutenant Addison will be an in- EDITORIAL DRAMATIC DE MOINES SUNDAY JULY 14 1918 MIDSUMMER BRIDES Of DES MOINES MEN MISS MARJORIE HARMON per street. The took place Monday, July 8, at the home of the officiating minister, Rabbi Goldstein, 1123 Walker street. Mr.

Davidson, who was home on furlough from the Great Lakes naval training station, left Friday evening for the Great Lakes. The bride will make her home with her parents until July 23, when she will leave to join her husband. SOCIAL MEETING OF LADIES ELKS' AUXILIARY. Mesdames M. B.

Kimball. Harry Moetzel. Julius Moetzel and H. M. Meredith will be hostesses to the Ladies Elks' auxiliary at a social meeting Tuesday at 2 o'clock at the clubrooms.

GIDEONS SOCIAL MEETING AT GREENWOOD PARK. The Des Moines Gideons will hold their July business meeting and social at Greenwood park, the evening of July 20. Mr. and Mrs. C.

L. Austin will be the hosts. The women are asked to call Mrs. Austin, Drake 5222-J, regarding refreshments. LAWN PARTY AT J.

L. LITTLE HOME FOR SOLDIERS. A weekend party interest was the lawn party given Saturday evening by Company C. Third regiof which Miss Thelma Gilman ment of the Girls' Volunteer Aid, captain, at the home of the Misses Myrtle and Mary Nicola, 2840 University avenue. The lawn was attractively decorated with bright colored lights and flags.

Gayly decorated booths, among which was a fortune telling booth, featured evening, the latter part of which was spent with dancing. Miss Katherine Dodsley of Sioux City, guest of Lieut. and Mrs. Homer R. Dodsley, was an out of town guest.

The parly was chaperoned by Mrs. May Gilman, company mother, Mrs. Belle Deming, Mrs. E. Maulsby and Mrs.

J. S. Bateman. MILITARY DANCING PARTY AT SCHLESSINGER HOME. A group of girls entertained at a military dancing party last evening at the home of Miss Bertha Schlessinger, 1340 Eighth street.

was served throughout the evening, in which fifteen couples participated. JOAN OF ARC TO BE GIVEN FOR FURLOUGH HOME FUND. Joan: of Are, in pageantry form, will be given on the lawn of the B. Clark 'home in Red Oak on Tuesday evening for the fund being raised for the furlough homes in France, under the direction of the General Federation of Women's clubs. Dorothy Deemer Houghton, daughter of the late Supreme justice, Horace E.

Deemer, is the business manager. Miss Leota Hatswell, instructor in the Council Bluffs High school, is the director and Miss Josephine Junkin, daughter of Senator Junkin, will take the part of Joan. The Ladies' auxiliary to the Thirteenth engineers will meet Tuesday at the home of Mrs. T. E.

Stomp, 959 Twenty-first street 8:30 o'clock. Le Roe Dunn, recently returned from war zone, will be the speaker of the evening. 3 MISS BESSIE MAE LONG MI- AYR, IOWA days are vying with those of the month MIDSUMMER the number of engagements wand weddings. Many engagements of unusual interest are being announced prior to the departure of the bridegrooms for overseas service. Weddings in many instances are being set for the after-the-war period.

Three interesting engagements are announced today. Miss Marjorie Harmon, a Douglas school teacher, will wed Carl V. Weitz, Aug. 10, their wedding being one of unusual interest to the younger social set. The engagement of Lieut.

Roy W. Leibsle, of a prominent East Des Moines family, is announced to Miss Velma Dean, of Bemidji, Minn. The third engagement is that of Miss Bessie Mae Long, an alumnus of Simpson college and a Pi Beta Phi sorority girl, to Clifford J. Barborka, of the medical reserve corps at Chicago. direction of Lieut.

Col. P. J. Hennessy Promptly at 3 o'clock, Miss Catherine Van Evera, as Jeanne d'Are on her white charger, will lead the pageant. A military escort of soldiers from the French and British missions will accompany her.

Three groups of Des 80- ciety girls will follow. The colors of France Maids are: The Misses Miriam Cowper, Margaret Collins, Mary and Ruth Tuttle, Helen Knotts, Lucelia and Evelyn Miller, Charlotte Fleming, Dorothy Finkbine, Ida and Mary Brigham, Beatrice Blackmar, Josephine Warren, Helen Spencer, Rebecca Brown, and Mrs. Albert a Robertson. The Misses Berta Shore. Greta Weitz, Maud Leachman, Marjorie Smith, Ruth Getchell, Mary and Julia Polk, Doris and Marjorie Green, Helen Needham and Ferne Culbertson will play the roles of French peasant girls.

The third group will be the French flower girls: Evelyn Fowler, Gretchen Graefe, Jane Jarnagin, Mary Jean Verran, Virginia Fitzhugh, Mary Tone, Louise Rosenfield, Doris Hunnell, Susan Needham, Justine Brecht, and Dorothy The O'Rourke. pageant has been planned by Miss Irene Hirsch. A short program by the Three Hundred and Fifty second infantry band, under the direction of Lieut. Roland D. Burroughs, will precede the singing of the French national anthem "'Le Marseillaise" by Sergt.

B. Peletan of the French army mission. James B. Weaver 'will give an address, "Tribute to France." to which Lieut. H.

Pourchot of the French army will respond. Concluding musical numbers will be given by the Three Hundred Fiftysecond band. The festival is open to every citizen of Des Moines. The sum of ten pennies will be the admission charge and will be used for caring for the fatherless orphans of France. Miss Emilie Stapp is the originator of the project, which she has named; "Glory to France Day." BENTON-MICHAELSON WEDDING ANNOUNCED.

A wedding of which no previous announcement Mas been made is that of Miss Virginia Helen Benton, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A. M. Benton, and Master Engineer Gottfried Michaelson of Vancouver, B.

C. The ceremony was performed July 4 by the Rev. Benjamin D. Scott, acting postor of Grace Methodist Episcopal church, at 8 o'clock at the Benton home, 2707 Center street. The young, couple left immediately the ceremony for a brief leave of a absence and are making their home with the bride's parents, while the bridegroom is stationed at Dodge.

who is Engineer Michaelson, a member of the headquarters Hundred company of the Three Thirteenth engineers, is the instructor in trench making, having learned trench construction from returned Canadian officers. With A. F. Clow he has had charge of the work at the cantonment. ALIBER-DAVIDSON WEDDING ANNOUNCED.

Mr. and Mrs. H. Aliber, 1009 West Second street, announce the marriage of their daughter, Rose, to Lawrence Davidson, son of Mr. and Mrs.

M. 1712 Crock-4 All members and friends are vited. MADAME: AALRUD-TILLISCH IN MINNESOTA RECITALS. voice was admirably shown, the typical Norse songs, each briefly terpreted, and the stirring patriotic and home songs made a fine program. Her stage presence is most charming and quickly wins an audience, especially an audience of enthusiastic young Madame Aalrud-Tillisch of this city has just returned from a tour of Minnesota, where she appeared in recital program at La Crosse, Mankato and Winona, Minn.

The Winona Normal school has engaged her for another program to be given next year, and the Winona Republican-Herald in speaking of her recital says: "Madame Aalrud-Tillisch of Des, Moines gave a delightful recital at the Winona Normal school. voice is a full rich contralto and her well chosen and varied program was heard to special advantage. The Italian operatic number in which the singer's inflexibility of PRENUPTIAL COURTESY HONORS MISS LILLIAN MYERS. Miss Lillian Myers, a bride of today, was the complimented guest at dinner party given Thursday evening by a number of her friends, in the private dining room at the Grant club. The table was attractively decorated in pink and white, the center piece being a large basket of pink roses and white daisies, and the place cards bore little hand painted kewpies, while the bride's place was marked with a miniature bride.

After the dinner a number of toasts were given, and Miss Myers war presented with miscellaneous shower, after which a theater party was formed. Those enjoying the courtesy were the Misses Edna and Alda Coddington, Rose Bennett, Hazel Clouse, Esther Wellender, Margaret Bickel, Louese Retz, Erma Hunt, Elzora Reeves, Mabelle Perkins, Margaret Finagan and the honored guex. Miss Myers, who has been in the employ of the Iowa National bank for seevral years, will be married today to Mr. Jack Dumont of Anamosa, who is placthe automobile business at that MISS LOUISE WHITNEY LIECT. J.

R. JOHNSTON WED. The marriage of Miss Louise Whitney, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. B.

H. Whitney, Lieut. J. R. Johnston of Campo Dodge is of special interest Des Moines friends, the bridegroom having visfrequently at the home of his sister, Mrs.

W. F. Johnston, 745 Eighteenth street. The wedding took place June 29 at Slayton, the Rev. D.

D. Tallman officiating. The bride was attended by Miss Corinne Whitney and Mr. Frank Jones of Fairmont served as attendant to the bridegroom. Lieutenant Johnston and his bride enjoyed a wedding trip to Lake Okoboji, and are now at home in the Navarre apartments.

The bridegroom is a graduate of the engineering department of the state college He attended the first officers' training camp at Fort Snelling, where he received his commission as first lieutenant in the engineers' reserve corps. He has been stationed at Camp Dodge with the headquarters company, which entertained last Wednesday evening at a banquet in the mess hall in honor of Lieutenant Johnston and his, Among bride. the guests present were Colonel and Mrs. Howell, Captain Mrs. Slocum, Chaplain and Mrs.

Boyd, and the women friends of the officers of the company of which Lieutenant Johnston is commanding officer. The company presented the honored guest with a silver loving cup. Mr. and Mra. W.

F. Johnston entertained at a family dinner Sunday in honor of the young ple. OMEGA DELTA SORORITY PICNIC GREENWOOD. The actives and alumnae of the Omega Delta sororitv. will hola their regular meeting Monday evening at Greenwood park.

The Misses Ferne Botsford and Helen Keefner will act as hostesses, MISS LILLIAN MYERS WEDS MR. JOHN DUMONT. A quiet wedding which will take place this morning is that of Miss Lillian Myers, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J.

W. Myers of Carroll. and Mr. John Dumont of Anamosa, which will take place at the home of the officiating minister, the Rev. J.

R. Zook, 1194 Fourteenth street. The bride is a niece of Mrs. B. Williams and has been employed at the Iowa National bank for tep years.

Mr. Dumont is manager of the Anamosa Auto garage. He and his bride will leave today for Anamosa, where they will make their home, FESTIVAL OF WILD FLOWERS AT WOMEN'S AND CHILDREN'S BUILDING. During state fair week at the women's and children's building, the program committee, Mesdames W. L.

Harding, W. H. Snyder and Henry W. Spaulding, which gave entertaining and attractive programs last year in building, is planning a more extensive list of attractions for this year. For six successiveafternoons, gust 23 to 29 at 3:30 o'clock, the Indian legends of native flowers will be played in song and dance and pantomime on the auditorium stage.

The cast will be drawn from the children of the state, the majority from '10 to 12 years of age, and there will be an attempt to have a representative from every direction. The purpose of the festival is First of all to entertain; second to make a plea for the conservation of our wild flowers; third to give children a chance to express themselves in patriotic play. To anyone with seeing eyes, the value of the second phase of this purpose must be apparent. In our attempt to get roads conducive to easy travel, the sides are shaven clean. The old time grace and beauty of our prairie trails is being sacrificed to material need.

A little care for the roadsides would not detract from that need, and would take away the raw newness of the present highways. To all who have seen the shady roads, of the old countries, bordered with hedgerows and flowers, the added beauty will more compensate I for added thought and labor necessary to get the same results own land. The third phase represents a subject dear to every American citizen. With war absorbing every thought, the children of our country need careful direction in their play as well as protection in their work and health. What more definite bit of patriotism could be taught than that of our own Indian folklore? The Indian loved fiercely his own hunting ground and his own village; he fiercely anyone who interfered with him in his possessions.

He had an intimate ass0ciation with the sky and earth, and they spoke to him accordingly. In our own middlewest prairies these associations survive in numberless legends; these legends furnish the basis of this festival of the wild flowers, and express the primitive love of a primitive people for the things of beauty that were his. They are ours, also. The synopsis of the festival runs thus: Prologue. The Spirit of the Prairie advances slowly dancing an interpretation of long ago times when the winds swept the tall prairie grass in long deep waves as far 118 eve could reach, before man had cut his trail from east to west; when the trees along the streams grew sturdily without fear of yielding to the sharp ax and when the flowers thrust their right heads straight through the grass with full assurance that earth and sky both welcomed their coming.

And then the red man came. But the grass and trees and flowers were not destroyed by his narrow path, or by his shifting, transient homes. In truth they and the earth and sky furnished his stories and his songs. Through them the Great Spirit spoke of the beauty and gentleness of life everywhere, but most especially in this great land of the prairie where nature spread a great mysterions silence under the brooding sky. And then there came shiver of dread and unrest.

The red man scanned the eastern line of kindly sky and saw a people, white of skin, who advanced, drawn on by fair promise of rich lands, and looking on all the vast sketch from rise to set of sun as theirs. Like the kings of the earth this people drove the red man west, and with shining plowshare turned the shimmering plains of grass to of grain. They grew most prosperously, but everywhere they ruthlessly mowed down the trees where they stood in their way. and the flowers- the tiny children of the prairie land- were trampled under foot and cast aside. In the place of narrow tracks winding their way through grass and flower, they cut wide roads, most smooth and hard, and shaved the edges clean, leaving the flowers and grass to wilt and die.

And as the years passed on one fair bright flower after another gave up the fight and crept away where man cannot finil it unless he searches long and wisely. All this the Spirit of the Prairie tells in her dance, and then she tells why she has come back to this land so changed from the time when she passed over it each season, loving it all with her very soul and bringing into being all the beauty of form and color, of storms and quiet days of long and lazy peace. She comes with a magic of long ago times to plead that we shall not forget that the grace and beauty flowers and grass and grateful shade trees all have their place in progress, and that if we go on forgetting them in greedy search for shelter, food drinks, our souls will starve and thirst along the road. She comes in love of these, her children; she comes also in love of you, for her spirit is but a part of the all shining tender spirit that loves all things of earth. If you will listen to her she will charm your vision with the life of the grass and flowers- -a life more CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE.

WOMEN'S COMMITTEE TO ENROLL, STUDENT NURSES. United States has issued a call for 25,000 student nurses to take thee place of graduate nurses who needed at the front. Iowa's quota will be 1,050. The work of enrolling these nurse recruits has been given to the woman's committee of the counell of national defense and the American Red Cross. has just been received from Washington, D.

however, that the work of securing the recruits must be done by the woman's committee. Mrs. Francis Whitley, chairman of the woman's committee of Iowa, has sent out letters to all the officers and committees of the state organization, requesting them to arrange for recruiting stations in every county. A great ten day drive will open Monday, July 29, and close the evening of August 11. Competent young women from 19 to 35 years of age, with at least some high the recruits.

Iowa been first school education, must, make up in so many of the national war drives that it is certain that the girls of the state will see to it that this fame holds its own in this ten day drive. teresting event of Thursday morn- ing, July 18, the service taking place at 11:30 o'clock at the Wise restience, 1533 Pennsylvania avenue. MISS ELIZABETH PETERSON TO WED DALTON E. COLE. Mr.

and Mrs. S. A. Peterson, 1802 Jefferson avenue, announce the engagement and approaching riage of their daughter, Miss Elizabeth O. Peterson, to Corp.

Dalton E. Cole, son of Mr. Mrs. B. C.

Cole, of Charlotte, Mich. The wedding will take place in the near future at Deming, N. where Corporal Cole is stationed with the headquarters company. of the One Hundred Ninth engineers. Miss Peterson will leave this evening for Deming.

Both Miss Peterson and Corporal Cole are well known among the young people of Central Christian church, the latter being president of the Endeavor society at one time. Miss Peterson has been employed at the Des Moines Duplicating company. PICNIC HONORS MISS ETHEL VIRTUE. In compliment to Miss Ethel Virtue of the archive department of the state historical department, who is leaving July 17 assume work as the head of the manuscript department of the Minnesota Historical society at St. Paul, the curator and members of the historical department entertained at a picnic Friday evening at the home of Mrs.

W. C. Dack, 2927 1 Brattleboro avenue. Those participating Miss Virtue, Mrs. W.

C. Dack, were. and Mrs. E. R.

Harlan, Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Stiles, Mr.

F. E. Pitman, Miss Dorothy Pitman, Mrs. Elizabeth Marple, Miss Alice Marple, Mr. W.

H. McBride, Mrs. Ellen Spaulding, Mrs. Lizzie E. Jones, Mrs.

Helen Wharton, Mrs. Jennie Willis, Miss Martha Watson and Dr. Z. M. Schermerhorn.

On Thursday evening the Philathea Sunday school class of the First Presbyterian church. of which Miss Virtue and Miss Mary Rosemond are associate teachers, entertained at a picnic in Union park complimentary to Miss Virtue. Before assuming her new duties Miss Virtue will take a short vacation at the home of her parents at Webster City, leaving for SL. Paul about Aug. 1.

"GLORY TO FRANCE DAY" ON LAWNS OF WESTCHESTER. Westchester, the home of D. S. Chamberlain, will be the scene of Des Moines' most pretentious patriotic fete for many seasons, when July 14, the July 4 of French history, will be celebrated there this afternoon. The allegorical beauty of the story of Jeanne dAre will be enacted, and military bands and army officers will take prominent parts.

Flags in profusion will wark the lawns, and the grounds and homes along Grand avenue will float the French tricolor. The program will open at 2:30 o'clock with patriotic musl by the fife and drum corps of the boys of 1861, to be followed by songs by the famous Trench and Barracks glee club of Camp Dodge, under the CHILDREN'S YEAR CAMPAIGN COMMENT BY PUBLICITY CHAIRMAN. town. Counties Plan "Catch-up." Iowa babies will reach the high mark of -perfection if they measure up to small Barbara Harding, the 31 year old daughter of Governor Harding. Barbara stands 33.75 inches in her bare feet and tips scales at 38.625 pounds.

From the top of her brown head to her toes she has but one penalty filed against her. That penalty 18 a point of decay in one tooth. With Barbara marking the top notch of physical quality, the small town of Jewel, Hamilton county, follows with the same perfection in numbers. The little town has a population of 1.100. One-tenth of that number should be the correct enrollment of children under five.

The examination closed this week with 110 having passed the test. In fact, the whole of Hamilton county has a splendid record in this campaign, with an organization that reaches every corner of the county in the same manner that Jewell has been reached. Dr. Mary Hotchkiss and Mrs. F.

W. Wilison are directing the work for the county with a clinic headquarters in the office of Webster City doctor, who ala though away in military service has given the use of his scales and other equipment for the carrying on of the test for the babies of his home "Catch-up" clinics are being established in all counties where the test is fairly well over. During these, all children who were sick or compelled, for some reason, to miss the examination at their first appointment, will be "caught-up," so that quota for the county will reach the correct proportion of the population. Black Hawk county, which has been having a wonderful campaign, has planned for a "catch-up" to be held two weeks after the regular test. This week the county is securing the birth registration of every child under five who has not been registered be- fore.

Babies in Wagon Loads. Delaware county, under the chairmanship of Mrs. A. W. Stearns, Manchester, is giving the doctors of the community a pleasant surprise in the interest he the parents are showing in the height weight of the children.

Mrs. Stearns says in a letter to headquarters, "babies come and continue to come in wagon loads and auto loads." Fort Dodge is the first town in the state to proceed with the follow -up work of the measuring and CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE,.