The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-04-01
WOMEN PREP ARE
FOR ARMY DUTY
Four Week Service Camp To
Be Established.
Five Hundred Students VIII
Enroll for Training.
NAY EXTEND over COUNTRY
Navy League Sponsor for the
National School.
Live in Tents; VIII Be Under
Strict Discipline.

Washington, April 1.-The call OF
the woman's section of the Navy
league. patriotism, Americanism and
National Defense" has brought to its
standard women from all over the
limited States. IL has a branch in
every state In the Union and a mem
bershfp of $4,000. The members are
pledged to think. talk and work for
( Patriotism. Americanism and sufficient
national defenses to keep the horrors
of war from Americas homes ana
shores forever; to do their share to
awaken the lawmakers to the danger
OF the countrys present undefended
condition: to make their homes CEN
ters of American ideals and patriot
s ism. and to instil into the hearts of
their children reverence for the coun-
try and its history and the deternl-
nation to Uphold it's honor and fair
repute.
Comes now the National Service
school. sponsored 10y the Navy league,
where girls and young women may be
trained along the lines of the instruc-
ton which the Plattsburg military in
struction camp afforded their broth
ers The camp, which is to be estab-
lished on the outskirts of Washing
ton, will open on May /, to continue
four weeks at least, perhaps longer.
If the experiment proves successful
branches of the National Service
school will be established in important
cities all over the country.
Plans for Curriculum.
Plans are now complete and de-
tails of the comprehensive and inter-
esting curriculum are being arranged
under the direction of the National
Service school committee. Mrs
George Dewey, wife of the admiral;
Mrs. Hugh l.. Scott, wife of the chief
of staff, L. S. A, and Mrs. G. Bar
nett, wife of the commandant of the
marine corps, are serving on this COM
mittee; likewise Mrs. Henry F.
Ashurst Mrs. Gibson Fahnestock,
Mrs. Frank G. Odenheimer. Mrs. c. l..
Hussey, Mrs. John Callan O'Loughlin,
. Mrs. James II. Oliver, Mrs. Richard
Wainwright, Mrs. Sidney Bailou, Mrs.
Mary Logan Tucker, Mrs. Edward Me-
Cauley, Jr., Mrs. Nylla Wilson Poe
and Mrs. Spencer Wood. Miss Elizabeth
Ellicott Poe is chairman. These are
names to conjUre with from a social
point of view, and they are borne by
women of vision and executive ability
who have turned their undoubted tai
ents to account in mapping out a thor
oughly interesting and practical VEN
ture.
The National Service school of the
Woman's Section of the Navy league
Will be located on "A ten-acre tract in
Chevy Chase, Md, just over the Dor
der from the District, the use of which
has been given by Senator Francis
Newlands of Nevada. 1t is accessible
to the street car lines and within easy
reach of town by automobile. More
over the property is improved, with
+ sewerage, water and lighting facilities,
all ready for the pitching of the tents
Army Tents Supplied.
Army tents have been requisitioned
for the use Of the resident pupils and
the camp will be conducted along
regulation military lines. with set
schedules Of classes. drills. etc, for
resident and day pupils. The main
object of the school is to give an OPP
portunity to American women to ac-
quire sufficient special training to be
of use in time of war or national
calamity. To this end and in order
that the National Service School at
the capital-the first of it's kind in
the world-may inspire the founding
{ of other schools where women may fit
themselves for the part they must
play in the national service of good
citizenship and patriotism. delegates
viii be sent from the different states
to make study of the work of the