The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1917-06-07

will undoubtedly be added later to the
state machine. The chief lines of eff
! fort which the committee will attack
are registration; food production and
consumption; temporary storage and
distribution; women in industry, with
particular attention to the preserva
ion of best standards regarding hours
wages and conditions; training fol-
special services as needs develop;
preservation of those inner defenses OF
our national life, both material and
spiritual, which if allowed to weaken
must weaken the entire national struc
ture. The Woman's committee will
have the direction of the government
departments, and the advice Of experts
at the disposal of the Council of Ma
tiOnal Defense. 1t will issue no plans
that have not been approved by the
latter.
State committee efforts are concen
trated at present on arrangements to
distribute to each man registering
June 5, a copy of President Wilson s
war message. These copies are obtain
able through the generosity of Mrs
Emmons Blaine, Of Chicago, who is a
daughter of Mr. Mccormick, of Nc
Cormick Harvester company fame, and
who was married to a son of James G
Blaine. Copies will be sent from Wash,
ington to the sheriff OF each county in
North Dakota, who will be asked to
furnish lists Of precinct committee.
men and the number likely to register
at each. Where it is possible, sub
committee workers are asked to have
women at the registration booths to
personally distribute the message. 1t
is estimated that $4,000 copies of the
messages will thus be distributed in
North Dakota alone.
State organization representatives
present at the Valley City conference
aside from Mrs. White, were Mrs. r.
3. Weible, Fargo, from the state board
of defense; Mrs. j. A. Pierce, for the
Votes For Women League; Mrs. M. A.
Hildreth, Fargo, for the National Wo-
mans Democratic league; Mrs. G. w.
Drake, Valley City, as proxy for Mrs.
Lyman of Cando, head of the Degree
of Honor; Miss Minnie Nelson, Valley
City, proxy for Mrs. Wick, of the state
federation; Mrs. w. C. Muir, Hunter,
proxy for Mrs. Hale, of the Rehekahs !;
| Mrs. O. A. Stevens, Lawton, for the
| North Dakota Anti-Tuberculosis asso-
citation; Miss Hilda Winsted, Valley
| City, proxy for Miss Mable Olson of
Fargo, of the State Nurses associa-
ton; Mrs. F. w. Heidel, Valley City,
proxy for Mrs. Elizabeth Preston An.
derson of Fargo, for the state w. c.
| T. U. Among others present were Mrs.
Simpson, of Valley City, not repre-.
senting any especial organization, and
Miss Mae Mcdonald, from the Exten-
sion department of the A. C. at Fargo.
Mrs. Paulda, of Valley City, was not
able to be present, but sent in list
of Eastern Star workers, as requested.
A number of helpful talks by vari-
Gus ones also featured the meeting.
Mrs. Stevens called attention to the
fact that there is no health board in
the state, owing to important bills
having been smOthered at the last
Legislature, and warned that should
there be an epidemic of infantile par
alysis, the state is not prepared to
handle it at, present. cts the women
who have got to correct these things"
she urged. Mrs. White reported acres
and acres of rhubarb, asparagus and
spinach going to waste in that vicinity
alone, for lack of organized effort, and
Miss Mcdonald told of government ex-
tension work and its present concen-
tration upon canning, from the stand
point of economy and food value. She
reported the A. C. Extension depart
ment as willing to give canning demon
STATIONS in every town, village and
crossroads that requests it. Mrs. Wei
BILE emphasized the necessity of &C.
ton that will centralize the war work
of women, saying we should profit by
England's example.