The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1917-12-28
Women's Council of Defense News
BY LILY LIKES LOWE

Announcement has been made by
Mrs. Edward Shoemaker of Baltimore
and general chairman of the Maryland
Women's Council of National Defense
that the first open monthly meeting OF
that body will be held on Friday, JAM,
q, only one day later than the original
time selected. Mrs. Harry }. Patter-
son. chairman of the Prince George S
County division of this Council has per-
sonally invited every woman connected
with this work to the morning session
it's expected that large delegation
from here will be present at 5lo North
Charles Street at 10 o'clock on that
day in the State Metropolis.
Governor Harrington, as the man who
named the original Commission OF
women which later merged into the
Council of the Defense for the state,
will be a particularly interesting figure
at the convention. 1t will be especially
inspiring for him as he will witness the
assembling of scores of women repre-
senting equally as many back home who
are organized to help defeat Germany
before too many years have passed. Ii
will be the first opportunity for catching
a glimpse of the far reaching stretcr
of the Councils activities enjoyed by
the State Chief Executive since he
signed the commissions of the women
responsible for its gowth.
Beneath the usual routine procedure
of the council, there appears steadily
increasing feeling among the women
that preparation for longer war than
was at first anticipated, must be made
Fortunately the Council both for the
state at large and in Prince George 5
County is so we'll organized that its Ell
forts were never at any time of tenn
porary or makeshift character. Every
thing done for the past months of wal
on Germany was executed In a COL.
structive way. There are no fences t.
be torn away or bridges burned before
the women can proceed to make ready
for three or four more years or even
seven or eight more years OF WORK
sacrifice, deep thought, personal abne-
cation and neighborhood consolidation
as their part under the Star Spangleo
Banner. Before the seed are even 1T
the ground, Mrs. Chestnut of Hyatts-
Vile and Vice Chairman of the Thrift
Department is making plans for increas,
ing food production this year both
through home gardens canning demon
strations. Whatever was done last
summer will serve as experience and
background against which this year
efforts must loom larger and more
strenuous. Mrs. Guy Meloy has had he
members of the Motor Messenger Ser
vice ready for the transportation OF
convalescent or wounded soldiers since
summer. While they have had no calls
as yet for that type of Messenger work
they have done valiant errands in the
mean time to aid the Council function.
Plans are under way for the presen-
tation of a series of lectures by county
speakers dealing with the educationa!
side of the war. These lectures are
to enlighten the public generally or
how the conflict came to have an Amerl
can element IN its composition, how
America has conducted herself up to
date and the detectives towards which
she is striving before Peace is a posi-.
bility. Mrs K Morris of Hyattsville
was named to be in charge of the first
schedule of these lectures and they will
be delivered before as many of the
women's clubs Of the county as can ar
range for them in their yearly programs
as we'll as before other gatherings OF
public and representative nature. Ii
is not too much to point to the construc-
tive foundation laid by Mrs. Edgar
Brown, vice chairman, IF the Council
Red Cross department as the chief
reason for the present day existence of
a Red Cross Chapter in this county.
Her up buildH Ing of the local organiza-
ton of this national body during the
past summer and fall brought a Chap
ter to bounty which might have en-
dured several years more of isolated
local groups before have centralized
headquarters such as now exists at
Hyattsville, had 1t been under organic
ed by the Council.