The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-08-25
Big Parade VIII Be Staged Here
Next Monday.
Woman's Committee of De-
Tense Council Demonstration.
MRS. IRA COUCH WOOD HERE
Executive Secretary National
Organization To Speak.
Every Woman in the City In
yited To Take Part.

A giant parade of Topeka women is
to be held Monday afternoon, starting
at 1880 o'clock. Every woman of the
city who is interested in the patriotic
work which is being mapped out for
them by the national government, is
invited. either to drive or to walk in
the parade. A regimentai band will
furnish the music. The arrangements
are not fully completed, but are be-
ing worked out under the direction of
Mrs. Horace Hall ana Mrs. Paul
Walker. Details will be announced
later.
The parade is to be the prelude to
a meeting at Memorial hall under the
auspices of the Woman's Committee
of the Kansas Council of Defense. At
that meeting the chief address will
be made by Mrs. Ira Couch Wood, ex-
ecutive secretary of the Woman's
Committee of the National Council of
Defense, whose headquarters are at
Washington, D. c. Mrs. Wood will be
in Kansas to visit the large towns and
make speeches concerning the gov
ernment's plan of registration and
conservation. The meeting will begin
at three o'clock, and is open to every
woman who wishes to attend. Cover
nor Arthur Capper will make an adj
dress, and also DIR. Edmund J. Kulp,
If he is in the city at that time Miss
agreed to sing if they are still in the
city.
Ready for Registration.
The state of Kansas is now prac-
tically all organized for registration
which is to take place September 5,
each woman to register at her voting
place. The plan of organization OF
the los counties, each with five execu-
tive officers, besides the captain and
five lieutenantS for each of the 5000
voting places, gives total of 1900
officially engaged in the work of the
whereby any woman who wishes to do
so can pay a registration fee of 10
cents to help pay the expense of print
ing cards and conducting the regiStra-
ton. The sum is not required, but will
be gladly accepted where offered.
The woman's committee in each
state gets its authority direct from the
United States government 1t was Of
ficially launched by the national
council of defense, which, in turn, was
organized by the president and Secre-
tarfes of war, the navy, the interior,
agriculture, commerce and labor.
Hoover Behind Move.
Herbert Hoover, known as one of
the ablest and most dependable men
of America, is himself asking for reg
il tration as an assistance to the gov
eminent in estimating the country's
resources, both in food and in female
service. The work on the part of the
women is entirely voluntary, and is
carried on, primarily, so that the peo-
pie all over the country, as well as the
soldiers abroad, will be provided for.
England and France are just now
beginning to conduct such a registra-
ton of their women. They have dis-
covered, after three years of war, that
it is the only wise and practical plan.
The food pledge card, which asks
nothing that any American woman
could not freely subscribe to, reads as
follows:
To the Food Administrator,
- Washington, ID. Z.
l glad to join you in the service of
food conservation for our nation and
hereby accept membership in the United
States food administration, pledging myself
to carry out the directions anu advice of
the food administration in my home, inso-
far as my circumstances permit.
Name NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. Observation-Disclosures.
Street Observation-Disclosures. City ........
State Occupation. ...........
Number in Household. Observation-Disclosures.
Occupation of breadwinner. ............
hood movements for food conserva-
Have you garden
The food administration wishes to have az
members all of those actually handling
food in the home All women over sixteen
oligibIp