Arizona republican., 1917-05-31
FIRST UNIT 1T
 AUXILIARY FUR COUNCIL HERE
Prominent Women Band for Aid of State and Help
 the Nation In It's Hour Of Wartime N Necessitv

The organization of the first unit of the Woman's Auxiliary of the Arizona Council of Defense was effected this afternoon by the adoption of a very comprehensive plan of work and the se- lection of an executive committee. More than 100 women of the valley met in the senate chambers at the state cap ltol yesterday to perfect this organ ization
 The meeting was called to order by Mrs. Edith c. Salisburg of the Agricul- tural Extension department of the Uni Nersity of Arizona, who acted as chair man for the afternoon with Mrs. J. L. B. Alexander as secretary.
 Mrs. Salishurg stated in her opening remarks that this was the first meet ing of the kind held in Arizona and that Dr. Von KleinSmid chairman of the food conservation on the Council of Defense felt that it was very fitting that it should he so, because 70 per cent of Arizona's food products come from the Salt River valley. As housekeepers, the women have the greatest opportun- ltE that they have ever had to be of service to the country Mir Hoover states that S5 per cent of the food that is produced in the country is handled by the women
 George H. Smalley, secretary of the Council of Defense. stated that the idea Of organizing the women originated from the receipt of a telegram from the governor of New Mexico, asking what Arizona women were doing to help the council of defense. thus opening the eyes of Arizona men to the important part the heads of other states expected women to take. MT. Smallev also stated that this organization will become branch of the present national council through its executive committee report ing to the state chairman of food con serYatiOn, pr. vOn KleinSmid. who in turn would report to the executive committee of the Arizona Council. which executive committee will report to the governor and. also to the Ma tioral Council created by the president.
 Mrs. H. A. Guild. president of the Central District Federation talked on what we can accomplish through or sanitation and urged the necessity Of more than doubling our efforts at can ming and preserving. not planning to make much money on it. but to save the produce at any rate. Mrs. Guild stated that the secretary of agriculture states. that in addition to feeding our own people in America this year. we reed to supply 60 per cent of the food that is to be used by the allies. By preserving the food we use in our own homes, we will release the food that we usually buy, which can then be sent to the allies Also that in thus pre- serving our food here, We relieve the railroads from transporting that much food stuffs for home consumption.
 The secretary of agriculture has said. it was stated, that we could save Amer lea $50,000,000 by raising food on our own home ground. That amount is what congress appropriated on one oc- caSiCn to carry on an entire war. and Mrs. Guild urged if we could by pro- duction and conservation save that much money. we swould be pretty good soldiers. Mrs. Guild urged that the study and use of farm machinery by women, the establishment of a public market and a canning factory and public cold storage plant. which latter points, however. she felt were not prac- tical at this time, the present need be- ing the saving of all the food possible in the home. The women she thought. should be divided into two separate groups, the country women and the town women. The town women to work toward the public market and cold storage and also start a wOman's exchange. She urged efficiency of or sanitation; that there should not he a multiplicity of organizations: that ev- cry organization should offer it's ser vice to Mrs. Eugene Brady O'Neill who had recently been appointed a member of the National Council of Defense for Arizona.
 Dwight B. Heard brought the encour- aging word that reports at the confer ence al Washington of the National Council of Defense showed that the women were coming forward and doing more than their share already: that they have taken up the work of conser- vation and developing the thrift of our ancestors. The preventable waste of food in America aggregates s700. 100000, and the world is facing a food short age, particularly in wheat, which short :-e ms year will reach 700,000,000 bushels. There is also a shortage of lin cans, in consequence of which he urges every woman to use glass con tainers instead of tin in canning H'~o to dry as much food as can be dried. His tuird caution IS to encourage lnr4lt and discourage hOarding.
 Mir Heard read Dr. Anna Howard Shaw's address at the conference in wasnngIon. whose keynote was the important part women are destined to play in the conservation of food
 Mrs R. NJ. Tafel, chairman of the organization committee,- which also in