WOMEN: Mother's Day, Inc.

Last week in honor of Mother's Day, Secretary of War Woodring urged every U. S. soldier to write a letter to his mother. Mrs. Franklin Roosevelt said that flowers on Mother's Day were "sweet and nice," but something ought to be done for the 14,000 mothers who die every year from childbirth. A Manhattan tobacconist displayed a selection of women's pipes and four men in Philadelphia were arrested for breaking into a greenhouse and stealing 2,000 Mother's Day carnations.

In Manhattan the Golden Rule Foundation * held a contest for American Mother of...

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