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...white planters of the region, who watched their cheap help skitter off the fields to get better jobs at the Army post. The planters referred contemptuously to "that nigger airport." A white planter telephoned that he would kill the first Negro soldier who ever again waved greetings to his womenfolk...
Despite its shallow quality, this khaki serial may well explain many perplexing army matters to womenfolk who are worried about their men in the armed forces...
...reorganized the Army on western lines, put down brigandage, overthrew rebel chieftains, stripped the mullahs of their judicial and political powers, drew up a code of civil law, hobbled child marriage by raising to 15 the age at which a girl might marry, removed the veils from the womenfolk and bettered their status in life, ran the royal Grocery Boy out of the land, fostered education, set up schools and colleges, tore down slums, erected beautiful buildings, updated agriculture, improved medical service and public health, founded Boy and Girl Scout movements, reconstructed roads and fomented trade and industry with...
...only 38% would support an income tax on small incomes ($500 a year) and 22.7% would actively oppose it. U.S. men are willing to be drafted for an expeditionary force abroad (53.3%) but their mothers (37-9%) and wives (26.7%) are not so willing. More than 36% of their womenfolk would accept an A.E.F. unwillingly; 22% of their mothers, 32% of their wives would actively object...
...start last week in Omaha, where the Union Pacific got off to a slow start 74 years ago, Omaha's town fathers agreed to commemorate both events with a Golden Spike celebration. Some 20,000 Omahans joined "whiskers clubs" to act as unpaid extras, Omaha's obliging womenfolk togged themselves out in 1869 costumes, Omaha's stores and bars were flimflammed with pioneer signs and doodads. The school board decreed two Golden Spike holidays. Omaha's Roman Catholic Bishop James Hugh Ryan dispensed his flock from eating fish on Friday. Fearing that its press-agentry would...