The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-09-04
No Sinister Meaning Behind
Registration of Women.
Big Turn Out Expected in Kan.
sas Tomorrow.
INTEREST GROWING RAPIDLY
All Who Sign Food Pledge Cards
Will Help Families.
Additional County Registration
Places Are Announced.

'"The interest in the registration Of
the women is growing turnout the
state" Mrs. D. w. Mulvane said this
morning in speaking of the event of
Wednesday. September 5, registration
day I'VE have sent out 200, 900 cards
of both food pledge and war service
kinds, and we are afraid that number
will not be sufficient to register all the
women who are intending to offer
what service they can give to the ma
ton"
Some women who have failed to
comprehend entirely the nature of the
registration plan, worked out by Her
bert Hoover, are apprehensive that it
means draft of the women of Amer
lea. The registration is entirely vol
untary. Any woman who can offer
her services to the government and
wishes to do so, can signify that wish
on the war service card, She can state
whether or not she is willing to leave
home at the governments call If
she signifies her willingness to do so,
she may be called and she may not,
but no woman will be called away who
| answers mo" to the question on the
card.
Food Pledge Card.
The food pledge card is for the pur-
pose chiefly of furnishing the govern
ment information as to the drain that
will be made on the food supply
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| of foods. and it is also a promise to
! conserve food as much as possible
Mr.. Hoover has been in Belgium
where he saw children and the aged
dying from the effects of starvation
| He is making his best effort to see
people of America and the co-opera-
| ton of the women is as essential &C
their own and their familys welfare
as to the assistance of the United
| States government.
September has been named al
registration day by Governor Cappel
in conformity with the request of the
| Woman's Committee of the Kansas
Council of Defense, for which Mrs. D
| w. Mulvane is Kansas chairman. NJ
one is compelled to register, but the
nation is at war and the greater the
| loyalty and unanimity of the Ameri
can people, the sooner it will end
THE need for food conservation ha,
not been over-emphasized" Mrs Null
vane says. THE officials at Washing
ton have investigated the situation
and when then offer the women O
America the patriotic privilege of as
sisting by eliminating waste in cook
ing and buying, they are giving then
a chance to serve in a way that near
ly all women are prepared to serve
By signing the food pledge, you re
ceive bulletins from Washington tina
money. These bulletins are prepare,
by food experts who can give valuabl
assistance to housewives.
Nothing to Fear.
There is no mysterious, siniste
meaning in this registration there i
nothing behind the scenes to be afrai,
of. No woman will have to leav
home unless she chooses, or do any
thing she does not voluntarily choos
to do.
1T is the recognition by our govern
ment that women are a practical, eco
nomic force in this war, and it show
that the government wishes to utiliz
this force to the best advantage"
Mrs. George Crawford, Sha wne
, county chairman, has appointed tn
; registration places. Besides thos
previously published, the registratio
j for Oakland will be at the Oaklcn
Odd Fellows hall. Mrs. s. NJ Nc
f Garrah is captain, and her lieutenant
; are: Mrs. Godell, Mrs. Stamm, Mr..
, Heller, Mrs. Anderson, Mrs Barke
. and Mrs. Biscoe.
Women in the ShunganunGa distri6
$ will register at the home of Mrs. wal
! ter Joyce, one and half miles sout
2 on the Burlingame road.
The Tecumseh township women wi
: register at the home of DR.. J. A. Reat