Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1917-06-19
July 1G-Sixth Community Day
COUNCIL OF DEFENSE MEETING


The Marathon County Council of De-
Tense met in Judge Marchetti's Office
in the court house last evening
The following were present; DR..
| Joseph F. Smith, Messrs. Gearhart,
Winkelman, Gensman, Giessel, Archie,
| Yawkey and Mitchell.
Mr.. Bird came in at 500 o'clock. Mr..
| Yawkey presided until Mr. Bird came
and then he took the chair. Mr.. Nit
chell acted as secretary for Mr..
| Thayer who was out of town.
DR.. Joseph F. Smith gave a report
on getting registrations for the six
| months course in nursing He ex-
planned that those who took the six
| months training would be required -
do nursing work for two years, and
! that they were not to ask for a salary
to, exceed $1,000 per week in addition
to board and room. He explained that
provision was being made for about
so women in Wisconsin to take this
course. To date, no registrations had
been sent in from Wausau. DR.. Smith
also went on to explain the work of
| medical relief at the front. He said
that one hospital unit was composed
of about 200 people, one chief sur
geon with the rank of major, a number
| of physicians with the rank of cap
| tain, and men nurses with still lower
rank. Each unit has approximately
| so regular registered women nurses.
A unit would also include a business
| manager, corps of stenographers and
| other assistants.
The matter in regard to the cele-
| bration of the Fourth of July was
| brought up. Mr.. Gearhart explained
that the matter was brought up at the
! last council meeting and was referred
| to the Finance committee, and that
| the committee would report at the
regular meeting of the council, June
/ 25. 1t was thought by the County
| Council of Defense that this would be
| too late a date to consider the matter.
During the meeting Mr.. Bird called up
| Mavor Marquardt and reported that
the Mayor promised to see the Finance
| committee and report to Mr.. Bird, June
10. 1t was suggested to Mr. Chellis
and to Mayor Marquardt that if the
| city would furnish the fire works the
| remainder of the expense would be
taken care of by the income from the
| celebration.
| Mr.. Bird reported that Mrs. A. H.
Reid asked to have her resignation as
member of the County Council of De-
| Tense, accepted The reason she gave
was that she would be away the great
| er part of the summer and would not
be able to take care of the duties of
the office. The matter was discussed
at some length and it was decided by
| the council not to accept her reSigna-
ton because of the precedent it would
| set. 1t was thought that during the
summer months not great deal of
work would need to be done by the
council, but that the main object was
for them to hold themselves as an or
! ganization in readiness for emergency
| calls.
Mr.. Giessel suggested that if the
| council wished to communicate with
school boards it should do so prior to
July 2, on which date each board
would hold its annual meeting 1t was
suggested by the council that it might
be well to get out a circular letter
to the 210 school districts in the coun-
ty and ask the boards to act as local
councils of defense, holding them
selves in readiness to answer calls of
| the County Council. Mr.. Bird stated
that he would get up letter to be sub
| mitted to the next regular meeting of
the Council of Defense, asking the
various school boards if they could be
depended upon to act as local coun-
ellis of defense.
The meeting was adjourned until
| Monday evening, June %.