The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-07-14

HIne regular saturday evening uln-
ner-dance will be given tonight at the
Country club. Among those who
have reservations at dinner are Mr..
and Mrs. William Macferran. Those
at their table will be Mr.. and Mrs. A
H. Greet of Kansas City, Mr.. and Mrs.
A. A. GODDARD, Mr. and Mrs. H. o.
Garvey, Miss Ida Macferran and Will
liam Macferran, jr.
Mr. and Mrs. II. S. Morgan will
have table at dinner, and Mr.. w.
Mrs. George A. Guild, Mr.. and Mrs.
j. c. Harmon and Mr.. Charles Kouns
are asking a few guests to dine at
their respective tables at the club.
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Mrs. Russell Frost will be hostess
at a meeting of her bridge club next
Tuesday afternoon. The club is one
that has been recently organized and
plays every Tuesday. The members
are: Mrs. Ivan Dibble, Mrs. Fred
Haynes, Mrs. Frost, Mrs. Holmes
Meade and Miss Grace Koontz-
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The woman's committee of the
Kansas branch of the National Coun-
Gil of Defense is getting into action
on the work assigned to it by the
United States government. The chair
man, Mrs. David w. Mulvane is to-
day sending but letters concerning the
work of county organization thruout
the state. She has worked out a sys-
tenn of organization calculated to
reach the women of all the fraternal,
religious and benevolent societies, the
Womens clubs and the unorganized
women of rural districts The COM
mittee is to include. for its particular
branches of womens work all women
of the state who will volunteer their
service in lines of effort controlled by
the society
The woman's committee in Kan
sas was organized at a meeting at the
National hotel a few weeks ago, the
session being called by Mrs. j. NJ.
Miller of Council Grove, who was ap-
pointed by the governor, under in
structions from national headquarters,
as temporary chairman. Mrs. w. A.
Johnston was at that meeting elected
chairman, and in that capacity formed
some plans for further organization,
and prepared for general meeting of
women interested in the work. At
that meeting Mrs. Mulvane was made
permanent chairman.
The government has directed that
the first work undertaken by the
committee shall be to look after the
registration of the women of the
state. There are two kinds of regis
tration cards TO be sent out from
Washington. They are the pledge
cards and the service cards. When
these cards are received, a registra-
ton day will be appointed by the COM
mittee, and the system by which this
registration will be carried on will
give to every woman in the state who
wishes TO help an opportunity to sign.
- The pledge card is a reflection of
the spirit of Herbert Hoover. 1t is
the food administrator asking the
cooks and housekeepers of America.
definitely and personally, but in the
name of the country he serves, to Join
the movement he has inaugurated to
eliminate waste.
This card is not to be confused with
the service card. The signing of both
is purely voluntary. The object of the
pledge card is to give the government
authorities information on which to
base certain processes of food con-
servation and their estimates of
amounts required for this country
The cards are to give the name and
address of the signer, the number of
people in the family. the occupation
OF the bread winner, and other points
Of the resources and demands of the
family. With this is a pledge on the
art of the signer to cooperate with
r ~ government in conserving all food
POSSIBLE and to reduce as much s
-c~cticable the amount of food con-
med.
The registration card signature in
dicates n readiness to serve the gov
eminent in any capacity in which the
signer is competent or fitted by spec