Evening star., 1915-11-15
For Board of Governors.

For Board of Governors.
Mrs. Mary Logan Tucker. chairman
| of the committee on nominations
| brought in a resolution Offering the
following nominations for members OF
the board of governors of the Woman s
Section of the Navy League:
Alabama, Mrs. Rhett Goode, Birmlns-
ham; Arizona, Mrs. Henry F. Ashurst,
| Phoenix; Arkansas, Mrs l.. l.. w hlthey' ~
Little Rock SalifoTnia, nin MIS- onnecficut Ggoaa
Miss Julia Marlowe (Mrs. q: H. Sotn-
ern), Litchf1eld; Colorado. Mrs. John
Mcneil, Denver; Delaware, Mrs Charies
lumbia, Mrs. George Dewey. Washing
ton; Florida, Mrs. Duncan .. Fletcher'
Jacksonville; Georgia, Mrs. Roby Robin
son. Atlanta; Idaho. Mrs. May p; NC
Logan: Indiana, Mrs. Henry A. Beck.
Indianapolis: Iowa, Miss Flora Wilson;
Kansas, Mrs. George Thacher Guern-
h1ntugky NJ Mas lanes Husn r + Thomson sso5
W 'aans: Maine. Mrs. Samuel az. Haz.
Surfing, Baltimore; Massachusetts. nasetn.
Mrs; George Ven l.; Meyer yer bstroit; boston;
Minnesota Mrs. Edward W. Backus.
Minneapolis; Mississippi Mrs. Daisy
McLaurm Stevens, Brandon: Missouri,
Mrs Philip n. Moore. st. Louis; Mon
Butte: Nebraska. Mrs. Russell B. Harri-
son; Nevada, Mrs Pearls Ruckner Ellis,
Carson City; New Hampshire, Mrs.
Charles B. Abbott Keel,e, .>e" !e y,
Mrs Thomas A. Edison No NJ, ,.
Mrs Andrius Jones; New York, Mrs.
John Hays Hammond; North "a. o.,
Mrs. D. NJ. Faison, Halifax; North Da-
kota. Mrs. J. H. S. Thomson, Valley
City,. Ohio. Mrs, Nicholas Anderson;
Oklahoma, Mrs. William R. Clement,
Oklahoma City; Oregon, Mrs. Thomas
Haley, Portland; Pennsylvania, Mrs.
Alexander Van Rensselaer,; Rhode Is
land. Mrs. lie Baron Colt, Providence;
South Carolina. Mrs. E. s. Mather, Co
lumbia South Dakota, Mrs Edward B.
Keator. Watertown; Tennessee, Mrs.
Lawrence D. Tyson, Knoxville; Texas.
Mrs. Henry B. Fall, Houston; Utah,
Mrs. Lee Charles Miller. Salt Lake City;
Vermont, Mrs. julius ]. Estey, Brattle-
boro: Virginia, Mrs. George Barnett,
Arlington; Washington, DR.. Mary b.
Martin. Seattle; West Virginia. Mrs.
Antoinette Schley Fisher, Morgantown;
sin: Wyoming, Mrs. Elizabeth c. Fries,
Yellowstone Park; Panama Zone, Mrs.
William Morrow. Balboa Heights; Ha-
waii, Mrs. Sidney Ballou.
Report of the Secretary.
Miss Elisabeth Ellicott Poe. general
secretary of the organization, was the
Miss Poe said, in part:
ut gives me great pleasure to be able
to report to you on the most important
work in behalf of peace ever attempted
well for the common sense and patriotic
Judgment of the women of this country
that in these days. when advocates OF
peace-at-any-prfce still abide noisily in
the land, they did not join in any num-
bers in the foolish and unpatriotic de-
mand for dismantling the country's de-
fenses and tempting by our undefended
riches the rapadity of any nation with
the lust Of war.
Instead, there came a concerted and
practically unanimous demand from
American women that this country, SO
precious and dear to all Of US, should
be made SO strong that no foreign nation
would dare to enter into. a contest with
u.s.
Miss Poe said that the Womans Section
of the Navy League was organized in
July, 1915. She described the sending of
20, coo pledges to the women of the coun-
the pledges received. under which nearly
that number of Tomen declared their
signed intention to do their share to
awaken lawmakers ITO the dangers Of our
present undefended condition
1--WE want 100000 members by Janu-
ary L. Miss Poe said, land this gigantic
task can be accomplished if every present
member of the Womans Section of the
Navy League Will take 1t upon nerSeu
to personally secure certain number of
signers.
An Iowa member, Miss Poe said, has
obtained 900 signers to the pledge of the
woman's section. This was done. by the
Iowa member without aid, and by her
personal efforts alone in six weeks. The
aid of ministers of the gospel has been
enlisted in various communities. Miss Poe
said, to preach on the necessity for mili-
tary preparedness. She told of other work
<f
tion have don't to bring its aims before
the women of the country. and described
the duties of member of the woman's
section in the following words:
II pledge myself to think. talk and
work for patriotism, Americanism and
sufficient national defense to keep the hor-
rors Of war far from Americas homes
and shores forever"
Col. Robert NJ. Thompson, president