Payette enterprise. (Payette, Canyon Co., Idaho) 1909-1935, 1917-05-31
TO THE WOMEN OF PAYETTE

lmittee of the Council of National De
Tense in registration under govern.
mental authority.
Enclosed find the first authentic
statement issued to the press by
the Woman's Committee of the Coun-
ell of National Defense.
"The Womans Committee of the
Council of National Defense is now
holding its first session in Washing
ton. This committee was appointed
by the Council of National Defense
April 21st, 1917. 1t is made up as fol
lows: DR.. Anna Howard Shaw, Chair
man; Mrs. Phillip N. Moore OF st.
Louis; Mrs Josiah S. Cowles of Cal
ifornia; Miss Maude Wetmore O.
Rhode Island; Mrs. Carrie Chapman
Gait of New York. Mrs. Antoinette
Funk of Illinois; Mrs. Stanley Nc
Cormick of Boston; Mrs. sph E.
Lamar of Atlanta, Georgia; Miss
| Ida M. Tarbell of New York; and
Miss Agnes Nestor of Chicago. These
women were appointed as individuals
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regardless of any organizations with
which they might be associated. The
idea of the Council of National De-
Tense was as stated in its first an
nouncement of the creation OF such
a committee, "that women of nation
al prominence might be brought to-
gether to consider and advise how
the assistance of the women OF
America might be made available in
the prosecution of the war;
Permanent headquarters have been
provided for the Committee at the
Playhouse Club and Theatre, 1914
N. Street, N. w. opposite the Brit
ish Embassy. Some little time ago
Mrs. Henrietta M. Halliday, the own
err of the Playhouse, offered the
property rent free to the Govern
ment to be used during the war in
helping to relieve the congestion in
quarters which the defense work
has created The Womens Committee
expects to take possession OF its
headquarters the coming week.
The initial session of the Commit
tee is being devoted to framing a
plan for bringing together in friend
ly and efficient cooperation all of
The wcmen's organizations in the
country now doing or desiring to
do patriotic work AS soon as this
plan has been approved by the Coun-
Gil Of National Defense, it will go
To the temporary chairmen chosen
in each State to call tog Their the
repres NATIVE of all the organiza-
lions it is expected to coordinate.
1t is distinctly understood that the
Woman's Committee of the Council
or National Defense concerns itself
only with the defense work of these
organizations, that it is in no way
concerned with their individual pur-
poses.
The chief lines of effort which the
committee will attack with when the
work of organization is under way
are:
/. Registration.
q Food production, consumption
and it's temporary storage and dis
tribution.
3. Women in industry, with par
ticular attention to the preservation
of the best standards regarding hours
wages and conditions.
T. Training for special services as
the need for thees services develop.
s. The preservation of those in
ner defenses of our national life,
both material and spiritual, which
If allowed to weaken must weaken |
tho entire national structure.
In developing the plans and meth.
DDS of work in each field which it |
may take up, the Woman's Commit
tee which have the direction of the
Departments and the adj !
vice of the experts at the disposal
of the Council of National Defense. /
1t will issue no plans which have j
not been approved by the Council
Of National Defense
1. 1t is requested that all women's
now doing or hoping
do patriotic work will send at
once to the headquarters of the Wo-
mems Committee of the Council of
National Defense, Washington, d. c.,
their names, the names of their ma
Lional and state presidents, and if
they have literature concerning the
defense work that they have done
10 enclose copies. This request is
made that as soon as possible the
may have full list, of
the societies to be co-ordinated.
2. The Womans Committee sug-
gests that as plan Of registration
of the woman power of the nation
DESTROYS of engaging in defense work
is being worked out with the aid
OF the experts of the Council of Ma
tional Defense. the registrations al