The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-05-21
POWER BOARD IS
 COAL. SOUGHT BY. WOMEN'S LEAGUE
Will do Much to Aid Gov ernment in Wartime But
 Want Representation.

New York; May 21-To stimulate
 further the government plan of sys- temat1zing the work of women in war, the National League for Woman's Ser vice, in each of the forty states in which. it is organized, will place it's organization at the disposal of the
 Woman's Committee of the National
 Council of Defense, of which Dr. Anne Howard Shaw is chairman. The pledge of complete cooperation to the committee has been made through Miss Maude Wetmore, national chair man of the league, who was ap- pointed a member of the committee According to Miss Wetmore, who attended the councils meetings for organizations, at Washington, the
 league already has taken the pre- limfnary steps in the, mobilization of l the Woman Power'' of the country and the committee in accepting the tco-operation will be spared the neces- i sity of a repetition of work. With the branches in forty states the league
 has been able to bring over two mill
 lion women within the scope of the
 work and more than two hundred CO., operation womens organizations in- ciud1ng the D.. A. R., the Council of
 Jewish Women, the Colonial Danes, the Collegiate A1umnae, and the Ma l tional Civic Federation
 l 1nasmuch as the league already has been in the field four months, active 1y registering women everywhere for war service, and even extending it's
 work to Nova Scotia, we have much ! useful material to offer the woman's
 committee, said Miss Wetmore, lone
 of the blanks in the platform of the | league is a demand for a, Woman Pow
 CT Board, with government sanction; to coordinate and co-relate the ac-
 tivities of women. The woman's com
 mittee of the Council of National De- 1 fense is an emergency committee and meets the demand at this time The league stands for a government board I for all time, to deal with woman's work and woman's welfare, paid or
 unpaid. and we are hoping that the Ioutcome and success of the present tcommittee may lead to the formation of such board. -ss ssss-s
 'eIn the meantime, the league will continue to work for a Woman's Power Board to provide clearing house for woman's work. In England the war has brought about govern mental recognition of the services of the English women and we women in this country have it in our power to i do as much. No cooperation among the women now can be too complete ] because, it is only through co-opera- tion that the women will be able to bring out their best efforts. The league understands the necessity of lsuch cooperation and each state lchairman has been, instructed to do all in her power to further the work Iof i<&<x l The activities of the league are now Iorganized into eight general depart ments, through which women have been trained and are being trained for lthe particular kind of war service :, which they have chosen. The depart lments are agriculture, home econo-s mics, social and: welfare, motor driv- ling, general service. wireless canteens and commissarist- Under the super lvision of the Department of Labor, a bureau, of registration and informa- ton concerning woman.s work also has been established at Washington sI by the league.
 'sThe program of trained, efficient iservice on which the league is working has met with great response, as our registry files show,'' said Miss Wet
 more. "In your work. we have been Il StreSS1ng partlcularly The importance
 of sanity and practicality at this time. I've are encouraging the members to lplan their services along lines most necessary in their separate localities. In a country of our size, the demands are so varied"
 The league now is established in it's Thew headquarters at No. 257 Madison favenue. The New York City and the I state branch is located next door at No. 259.