The Washington herald., 1917-07-10
stage IS SET
FOR REGISTRY
Housewives Of District Ex.
pected to Sign Food Saw
ing Pledge Today.

This Is registration day for the
patriotic housewives Of the District.
From noon until O'Clock this even
ing 5000 women are expected to go
to the schoolhouses nearest their
homes and there enlist in Herbert C.
their sons and husbands and brothers
enrolled June for military service.
1t is not compulsory for the women
- the District to do this, but the FOOD
istrator, the man who saved
m and Northern France from
zrze. ton. and who in reality now
has E gigantic job Of being Food Ad-
-ator of America and her allies,
ne women OF the District TO do
nd he knows best.
Is not convenient for q few
va lgton housewives to go to the
sfhg louses to register they may
-1i leir registration cards to The
V Administrator. Washington. d.
ut the advantage of going is
ley will hear speakers who will
safA just what the plans of Mr..
z5s are and just how they are to
4 i4sS those plans.
List of Speakers.
ipeakers follow:
ern High School, Mrs. Archi-
bald hopkins; Thompson School, Mrs.
Harriet Stanton Blatch, Rev. Louis
J. O'Hearn: Henry Cook School, DR..
Anna Howard shaw, George A. Cullen;
Jefferson School. Mrs. Frederick
Dubois; Emery School. Miss Elizabeth
Howry; Peabody School, Miss Mary
carnack McDougall; Eastern High
School, Miss Abby L. Marlatt, Mrs.
Geo. Bass and Julius Peyser; Ketcham
School. DR.. Cora Smith King; Nc
Kinley School, Mrs. Cordelia Powell
Odenheimer. Mrs. Edward Keating
and Hon. Jeanette Rankin; John
Eaton School, Mrs. Rose G. Hoes;
Powell School, Mr.. Strabo v. Claggett;
Park View School. Mrs. George
Thacher Guernsey, Mrs. Ellis Meredith
and Mr.. Clifford P!nchot; Takoma Dis
trict School. Sydney Snow; Arthur
school, Miss Ethel Mather Bagg;
wheatley School, Mrs. Charles Wet
more: Madison School, Mr.. Charles F.
Nesbit; Brookland School, Mrs. Alice
Allen.
City school teachers will be on duty
at every schoolhouse and will assist
any woman to fill out her pledge
card. Women who have received
cards ct their homes, from the police
men or by mail. can take these to
the schoolhouse already filled out or
NIL them out there. and then pass
them in to the school teachers in
charge.
The speaking at the schoolhouses
will start at 7:30 o'clock and all wom-
en- are invited. regardless of whether
they are heads of homes or not.
Mrs. Archibald Hopkins, chairman
Of the women's committee Of the Dis
trict Council of Defense. emphasizes
that all the schoolhouses will be open
and not merely those used when the
men were registered on June ).
Among those who will preside at the
food conservation meeting in school
house Of the District are:
Western High School, DIR. A. J. Nc
Kelway; Mckinley High School, Mrs
Ida Z. Kebler; Henry d. Cooke School
Mrs F. l. Ransome; John Eator
School, George r. Wales; Powell
School. Mrs. Harry Bradford; Wheat
ley School, Miss Flora L. Hendley
Madison School. Miss J. Austin
Ketchsm School. Mrs. Charles T
Roberts; Brookland School, Mrs
Charles 8. Molster; Phillips School
DR.. Charles II. Marshall: Garnet
School, Rev. A. G. Garner; Love
Joy School, Rev. F. F. A. Bennett
Garfield School. w. H. Lewis, Dun
bar High School, Miss NJ. Z. Kirkland
Randall School, DR.. D. r. Collins.