Omaha daily bee., 1917-07-01
M ROM almost every woman's club
n In the city come reports of war
L work begun by patriotic women.

M ROM almost every woman's club
n IN the city come reports of wa,
L work begun by patriotic women
Thrift clubs, Red Cross auxili.
ares, knitting detachments, canning
schools, first aid and home nursing
classes spring up over night only to
prove that, there are no slackers
among the clubwomen.
While the majority of the clubs
have disbanded their regular work for
the summer, they are now calling spe-
clal meetings to organize for war.
time service. The South Side Wom-
ans club plans to meet next week for
the purpose of planning relief work.
The Benson Woman's club and the
Benson chapter of the P. E. o. sister,
hood banded together into a Red
Cross auxiliary which meets every
week. Mrs. John Calvert is president
of the club. Church societies, mem.
bers of the Omaha and Major Isaac
Sadler chapters of the Daughters of
the American Revolution, the suffra-
gists and anti-suffragists, the Associa.
ton of Collegiate Alumnae and vari-
GUS college clubs and sororities, and
members of the Omaha Woman's
club are all working for the Red
Cross.
According to the latest bulletin Of
the General Federation of Women's
Clubs, practically the whole 100000
of its members are doing Red Cross
work, studying and practicing eff
cheney and conservation in the home,
taking up the question of Americana
ing the slien or training of women for
new forms of labor.
The Political Equality league and
the Omaha branch of the Woman's
Service league are among the first
organizations to plan definite CO.
operation with the Nebraska State
Council of Defense in the mobiliza-
ton of the woman power of the state.
Mrs. William Archibald Smith, 10.
cal president of the league, has al
ready received word to assist in the
work of pledging the women of the
city to cooperate in the food con-
servation and elimination of waste.
The Political Equality league men,
bers plan to canvass the residence dis
tricts explaining the purpose of the
food conservation drive and urging
the housewives to economize in every
possible way.
The Woman Voters Conservation
league, which is probably the best
known of the thrift clubs, will meet
regularly every week during the sum-
mer months for the purpose of arous-
ing interest in the public and gaining
a larger membership rather than car
rying on the civic work on a big scale,
which they hope to do in the autumn.
Mrs. Z. M. Syfert, commandant Of
the conmissiarat department of the
Woman's Service league, is organizing
canning classes among the church
women of The city, who will can fruits
and vegetables in the church kitchens
during the summer.
The Young Women's Christian as
sociation vesper service today at the
summer camp will be of a patriotic
nature. Miss Eta Pickering, associa-
ton secretary, will give a patriotic
talk and Miss Hazel Evans will sing
several solos.
Members of Chapter B. X. of the
P. Z. o. Sisterhood will entertain
their families at picnic Fourth of
July in the woods near Calhoun. Fire
works will be eliminated from the
program, which will be of a patriotic
nature. The chapter will meet once
week during the summer to sew for
the Red Cross and the Child Saving
institute.
The Rockford College club, which
was to have met Wednesday, post
poned its meeting because of the
Fourth of July celebrations. The
club will have a picnic instead of the
regular meeting July 10.
At a called meeting of the Benson
Woman's club last Tuesday the men,
bers decided that the club year will
be from the last Thursday in Sep
tember until the last Thursday in
April. Mrs. A. Martin, Mrs. w. J..
Wing, Mrs. George Seward and Mrs
Beekman were the new members ini-
tiated. Mrs. Harry Rivett resigned
as chairman of the program commit
tee. Her place is not yet filled.
The Political Equality league will
meet Monday night at 7:30 in F. D.
Wead's office.
Miss Helen Mason will be hostess
to the Alpha Phi sorority the after
noon OF July 9.
DR.. Julia Carpenter will deliver the
last lecture of series of four, which
she began Thursday afternoon before
the Metaphysical Library club, Sun
day morning at II o'clock in the club
rooms, 70l Bee building,
Members OF the Women Voters
Conservation league and all their
friends will celebrate the Fourth OF
July with an old.fashioned family
picnic at Hanscom park. Mrs. A. I.
Anderson has charge of arrangements
in the absence of the president, Mrs.
F. J. Birss. Mrs. Mary E. Howe will
preside at the program, which will be
given ar Z o'rlork M,ynr Janes r