The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1917-07-12
WOMEN GIVING ADJ
THEY ARE BEING Modified FOR
ALL WORK THAT WILL
HELP WIN WAR.
UNDER COUNCIL OF DEFENSE
National Committee, Headed by Or.
Anna Howard Shaw, co-ordinatIng
the Activities Of Al oroanixations-
Matters Like Suffrage Laid Aside.
BY EDWARD D. CLARK,

~ eOWhHO .. SIAHN,
Washington.-.The presidents Of all
the national organizations Of women, /
hundreds in number, recently gathered
In Washington to confer on the mobi-
lization of women for the war. In the
| meantime every state, as well as the
Philippines and the Panama zone, has
n chairman who Is sending I'm reports
of the machinery now in process of oil
Ing up for the carrying out Of the
plans of the committee In Washing
| ton. .' .'r-'
For the first time In the history OF
! the world, the women Of nation are |
being modified for war, under the
leadership and direction Of women and |
directly under national government.
In the nice little plat of squares. and |
lines that represents the activities of |
the council of national defense, a new |
square appears. 1t is entitled "Wom-
ems Defense Committee" Sitting SUI |
preme In that square is the aged but |
still poppy dean Of all the women Of |
| America, Dr. Anna Howard Shaw.
With her as vice chairman Is one of |
the leading woman publicists of the |
United States, Miss Ida Tnrbell. Other |
members of the committee are Mrs. Jo- |
seph II. Lamar of Atlanta, Mrs. An |
toinette Funk of Illinois, Miss Maude |
Wetmore of Rhode Island, Mrs. Philip |
n. Moore of Missouri, Mrs. Stanley
Mccormick of Massachusetts, Mrs.
Josiah II. Cowles of California, Miss
Agnes Nestor of Illinois, and Mrs. Car
RE Chapman Gait of New York.
Suffrage questions and questions Of
personal interests have been thrown
into the discard. The leading sulfra-
gist of the country the other day went
off and left the leading antisuffragist
to write letter for her. Agnes Mes
tor, the glove worker, and Mrs. Cowles,
the club woman, and Mrs. Lamar, the
Colonial Dame, are throwing every
thing else aside for the sake of the
one issue: "The successful prosecution
of the war;
Ten Main Divisions.
The plans of the women are divided
into ten main divisions representing
the most important interests and activ-
tiles of women. Each division will be
while the committee as n whole will
sit on general questions of policy.
Food production and conservation &C.
cupy two divisions, woman In industry
another, child welfare n third. In all
these fields the committee will har
monize the work done in various gov
eminent departments and committees
and unity the women of the country In
these lines. Liberty loans Tin the
pluraD will form another division, and
home and farm relief, in cooperation
with the Red Cross. Social welfare
work, such as work for crippled chill
dren, tuberculosis hospitals, settle
ments, which will be hard hit by the
war, will be encouraged.
Women are to be urged to feel that
America must be n good place for our
soldiers to some home to. To give to
the war needs their last penny ana
their last ounce of energy, not by
taking everything away from existing
charities, but by taking everything
away from personal luxuries. In con-
nection with this, but occupying anoth.
er division In the scheme. Is the plan
to help safeguard the morals of the
young boys everywhere in canton
ments and on duty In camps and on
guard.
Work Of Coordination.
But the great work Of this vast ma.
chine will be coordination of the
wOmen's organizations already engaged
In war or defense work. Letters and
kilograms by the thousands have
poured In upon the council from wom-
ems organizations all over the country.
They are especially keen to be in.
structed upon the war Itself, Its causes.
and the historical phases OF II. They
also require training for efficiency In
various lines Of service. This training
I will be done under the various organi-
cations now In existence, the committee
simply preventing inefficient overlap
| ping and duplication. When the casu-
| alties come In the women Of the coun-
try will nderstand-genuinely under
| stand-why their boys have gone.
i They will realize that the women
whom the government has chosen as
| leaders do not fold their hands and
| say WHY
| In carrying out the plans for work,
the whole country is divided into dis
trlcts according TO the federal reserve
scheme. Each state has its own chair
| man and its own locally provided ma
| chlnery. And the first step in thi
3 mobilization is the registration OF
| women, the card for which is in prepa.
ration under the advice of government
experts.
The women's committee Is an in
tegral part Of the Council Of National
Defense, responsible directly to the
war cabinet and as such II is the
great governmental agency for organic
j ing women for defense. Whether en-
:. gagged in Red Cross or other war relief
work, or whether going into an office
- or a factory to take the place of a
~ man. or whether carrying out the
= Hoover committee plans in her owr