New-York tribune., 1917-06-12
Women Rapidly
Organizing for
Service in War
Mayors Board Needs $780,,
600; Committees Working
on Details Of Work

The Navor's Committee of Women on
National Defence met yesterday at the
City Hall and received the reports OF
the various subcommittee on the
nanv war activities in which the COM
mittee has been engaged since its ap-
pointment by Mayor Mitchell in April
Thomas L. Chadbourne, jr., chairman
of the Mayors Committee on National
Defence. attended and commended the
women on the thoroughness and DIS
patch with which they did their work.
The women of the committee decided
IN underwrite their own budget for the
ensuing wear The total budget, based
upon carefully prepared figures sub
mitted by the standing committees
| is estimated at $4,000 Subscriptions
are requested 70 the general work as q
whole or 20 the work of the parhcuiai
committees. The headquarters OF tre
I committee are at East Thlrty-nlhth
Street.
/ Organizations United.
/ According TO reports submitted yes
,erdav the work of co0rdnatlng all the
women's organizations IN the city en-
Gagged in activities for war emergencle'
/ is we'll under way. This IS one OF th'
biggest tasks the committee has un
dertaken. Uniform registration plahh'
have been sent to all such orgahlzd
tions and the information compIled VII
be later at the disposal OF the federal
state and municipal governments. anC
will serve as a means OF correlatiht
wOmen's war service.
A standing committee on agriculture
has been formed OF which Miss Nir
rjnia c. Gildersleeve is chairman. Inc
work of this committee is UNDIVIDED
under a bureau of agricultural lnfor
NATION. a subcommittee on farm labor
and a subcommittee on farm cities
This committee not only encourage
and aids various other experiment.
which are being made in p lacing womer
on farms, but itself has ALREADY
/ launched an experiment at Mount his
co. Westchester County, where women
farm workers. supervisors, dletitlan'
ar agricultural expert and director
are assembled in one farm unit
Cooks, Chief Need.
The committee has found that the
| farmers do not generally give the
problem of women workers on the
| farms serious consideration. Some OF
the farmers have informed the com
mittee that their greatest need is foi
women help in the house rather than
/ in the fields. With the employment oi
! extra men on the farms the farmers
/ declare they need more cooks. and the
committee will endeavor 70 supply this
need.
! A committee on social work was or
/ ganized yesterday with Mrs. '. u
Simkhovitch, president of the Green
wich Settlement, as chairman. THIS
committee will pay particular attention
to the problem Of affording the soldiers
and sailors legitimate amusement al
the camps. armories and other centreN
in the city where they may be con-
centrated.
The standing committee on food, oil
which Miss Mabel Hyde Kittredge IS
| chairman. reported that the city had
/ been divided into 100 districts with a
dietitian in each one. for the purpose
Of carving on the food conservation
campaign. The committee Will work IN
conjunction with the social workers IN
the various districts IN a general
thrift campaign" II is proposed 10
use the kitchens in the public schools
for drying and preserving certain food
stufs. such as vegetables, which may
be sold for winter consumption at low
prices.