Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1916-01-15
HAWAII WOAEN'S
WORK FOR NAVY
LEAGUE PRAISED
Territory in Few Weeks Organ
ICES One of Largest Chap
tiers in Woman's Section
Special gtar-Bulietin Correspondence

Special Ctar- Bulletin correspondencel
WASHINGTON. ID. G.. Jan. 8 MRS
Sidney Ballou governor of the Won.
ans Section from Hawaii Of the Navy
League, has received word from y r.
Walter r. Dillingham;. organizer Tor
the section in the territory, that ia
wall Chapter OF the Woman's Section
OF the Navy League has been organ
lied in Honolulu with membership
Of over 300 women.
The organizing meeting was held on
the roof garden OF the Young Hotei,
Honolulu. on December 9th. Inc
. chapter was organized with prelim.
mary membership of 80 women ana
the following officers were elected:
Mrs ". r. Dillingham;, president:
Mrs r. J King, vice president: MIS-.
II whitney. secretary: Miss Beat
rice Castle, treasurer; Mrs. j. NJ
Riggs, chairman membership comth','
fee, and Miss Marguerite ASHFORD
chairman OF the press committee.
A vigorous campaign for member.
shin carried on by the chapter. whicn
inserted a notice in the territorial
newspapers asking the women of ha-
wall TO Join the Women's Section hau
the spIendid result of getting 300 new
members to swell the Million Mem
bership campaign OF the section.
which held its first count on New
Years Day.
The results achieved in far-on Ha'
'w4ii which has the distinction OF De-
iny one OF the largest chapters as
we'll as one of the most distant mas
6sen dnnlicated over and over during
the Million Membership campaign
through the states. On account oil the
holIdays intervening II has been de-
cided by the executive committee pi
the Woman's Section to continue the
Million Membership campaign untll'
March 1, in response to many re
quests. A.,
pesplte the interference OF the
chrisfmas holidays. over a hundred
Thousand new members Of the WON
ans Section OF the Navy League nave
heen obtained. Every mail brings III
) thousands more pledges. and II is ex'
nlrfSd that before the New Year count
e over n will be found that several
hundred thousand members nave oeeh
added to the membership lists OF inc
Womari's Section OF the Navy League
through the special membership cam
paign. Among these are Mrs. Charles
r Miller. wife of the governor OF Dela,
ware: Mrs. Luther b. Hall. wlIe OF
the governor of Louisiana; Mrs. EN-.
met ID. Boyle, wife OF the governor Oh
Nevada; Mrs. Baxter, wife OF former
governor OF Tennessee, who is STATE
regent OF the d. A. r. for that state;
Mrs. Albert b. Fall. wife OF Senator
Fail of New Mexico; Mrs. William ID.
MeDonaId. wife OF the governor OF
New Mexico: Mrs. Francis r. Warren,
wife OF Senator Warren Of Wyoming;
Ma William Buffin Cox, Richmond,
VIreinia. state president OF the So
ssetv Colonial Danes OF America;
Mrs Lemuel Padgett, wife OF the
house chairman on naval affairs; Mrs
w. Bourke Cochran. New York City:
FLORENCE S. Walton. the dancer. and
Mrs, f. Livingston Pell of New York
City.
The governor of the Woman's Sec
fioh A the District OF Columbia tMrs.
George Dewey and the members oil
fhe state committee have issued a call
far an organization meeting OF the
Washineton branch of the Woman $
Section to be held in the small ball
r3or1 or the Kew Willard Hotel at | !
am. an January Is. At this meeting
permanent con<littees will be select
ed and plans OF the sections work IN
washington viii be made The WASH
ington membership is now over zooo
and Il is expected that the Washing
ton section will be one OF the largest
in the organization.