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About Morning Oregonian. (Portland, Or.) 1861-1937 | View Entire Issue (July 18, 1918)
) I 1 XJUK JIOKMNG OKEGONIAN, THURSDAY, JULY IS, " - ill I If - ..p-F1 . V:v - 5,000,000 war gardens planted by women in 1917 j $350,000,000 worth of crops i raised in backyard gardens f in 1917 Fruits and vegetables to the value of several millions dried in 1917 460000,000 quarts of food pre served in eight months 1,000,000 loaves of bread saved each day army &r navy supplies S ,000,000 women working In 50,000 Red Cross work rooms IN SUC WEEKS. THEY DELIVER 3,681,895 surgical dressings 1,517,076 pieces of hospital linen 424,550 hospital garments 240,621 knitted articles 301,563 miscellaneous supplies 13,000,000 articles in all sent abroad by Nov. 1917 3,000,000 snrgieal dressings going monthly to France $36,000,000 of garments for our troops la 1917 relief LC worj 19,000 Red Cross nurses for army service 1,000 volunteering per month 25,000 being raised for home service 75,000 women have taken First Aid Courses 34,000 have taken courses In home nursing BOO Red Crass chapters dispense eanteea service in this country WOMEN . WAN TE'D Your Wife Your Daughter AMERICA'S woman power is thirty jCTL five million strong. Do you know that when the nation's call to our women came fifteen days after war was declared it found them on their feet ? Throughout the length and breadth of the country the answer came "America, we are here." Not a village but had its 'women's or ganization ready to be turned over to whatever war work there was for it to do. The women were there ! Do you know that this enormous power, this vital, vigorous force, this woman power of our nation has been recruited? Is organized and working? It did not happen overnight Fifteen days after war was declared, the Council of National Defense ap pointed nine women national leaders to marshal and direct this enormous woman power of the nation. In less than two weeks, these women, sum moned to Washington from states as far apart as California and Rhode Island, had got together and formulated a tentative plan for organization. Immediately this plan was sent out to leading women in each of the forty eight states. The organizations were there. Five thousand of them, with two million women enlisted as members. The women of our country were awake active women, working women, think ing women women accustomed to take a share in civic work, social Work; women in industry, in commerce, in the professions, home women ready for national work. How could they be so ready, so fit, so able to do this work, if they had not been thinking: women, with real interests, women's-size duties and obligations ? Your wife your daughter. Man alive ! Don't think for a moment that this huge movement, this tremen dous awakening of the woman power of the nation has been going on without touching your wife, your daughter. This very night when you go home, see your wife with new eyes. Speak to her with a new interest. Know what it is that she really does, what it is that she thinks about and works about. The women of this country grew up long ago American women grew up long ago. There is no better reflection of this growing up, this broadening out of women's interests, than women's own attitude toward the one magazine that cut loose from all the old-fashioned ideas of what a "woman's magazine" should contain. "Women's magazines", as edited for years by men who were blind to the awakening of women, simply did not reach the progressive women. Inside and outside the home, this large and ever-growing class of women could find nothing for them in the narrow round of household topics, the simple school-girl fiction which other women's magazines provided. How large this class of women is, how vitaf a part it plays in the nation's life, is attested by the volume of the contri bution these women have . made, in dollars and cents alone, to the' effective carrying on of the war. One magazine has grown with them One magazine had the vision years ago to drop all "talking down" to women to step out from the ranks and to begin publishing, articles on the vital problems of the modern woman's life to lead the way to the interests towards which women were themselves turning. From the moment of its adoption of this policy, Pictorial Review began to grow. So stable, so sound has been this policy, that year by year the num ber of its readers has increased. Today Pictorial Review has the largest 20c circulation in the world. Steadily it has been leading the women of America in this broadening of their interests. It was the first women's magazine to send a woman abroad to get first - hand the story of the tre mendous changes this war is making in women's status. You have not read the story, but your wife has thrilled to it your daughter has. It is the ringing call to every intelligent woman 1 Pictorial Review is recognized as the Magazine that is reaching progressive women today Since the war, 100,000 more families read Pictorial Review every month, while other wqm en's magazines have been virtually standing still. In ten years Pictorial Review's circulation has grown from 200,000 to 1,500,000. Today, Pictorial is read by one family in every six having an income of $1000 and more per year. Business men spend $2,500,000 yearly to advertise their products to Pictorial Review readers. Eighty -four per cent of these advertisers are men who nave stayed with us who have found year after year that it pays to advertise to Pictorial Review readers. Largest 20 -cent Circulation in the World 1,300,000 copies monthly $2,500,000 Advertising Revenue Only one other monthly Magazine has as much MEW xemxzk Cmatesb TAfomm& Magazine iii mm r inance 1,000,000 women subscribed ts first Liberty Loan $1,154,358,075 subscribed ta Second Liberty Loan by end through women 18,000 women in one state alone end nearby eountieshelped sell the Third Liberty Loan , 17,000,000 pieoee of publicity en. Second Liberty Loan dis tributed tbroufh women (Fifur ff tl Third LiUrty Ln mr mt y4t ttmpiUd) 1 social 1 work WOMEN ARB DOINO CONSTRUCTIVE WAR WORK IN THESE DIRECTIONS i Registration of women for tiooal servioe Protection of woman'drawa late industries Maintenance of wage staadare'l Training women for industries , Maintaining' good housing sea, ditiona in factoxies Protection of children from labor Relief for families of enlisted meat Recreation for men In camps . Americanization of aliens N industries , 205,000 WO DOS In ea fining fsa dustries 273,000 la textile mills 212,000 In garment trade 130,000 In knitting and hoeier? - mills 98,000 In shoe factories 100,000 woman mechanicians 100,000 monitions workers 400,000 making military ecrats meets 45,000 elertael workers In WeaW ingtem alone