Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-07-08
SOCIAL LAWS VOID
IN FOOD WORKSHOP
Women Helping Mr.. Hoover
Dress Alike, Think Alike and
Work to Common End.
MANY NOTABLES ON FORCE

Huh. this is Democracy with a big
3D. and with a vengeance" remarked a
male visitor at the office OF DR.. Ray
Lyman Wilbur. head Of tho food con.
servation department of the food ad.
ministration.
Yes. that's what it Is meant to be.
piped up little stenographer. who wat
taking dictation from the highest paid
woman editor in the United States
you see, we put these uniforms on to-
day to have our pictures taken. and we
are going to wear 'em right long
now"
the food administration to be worn by
women who register rs members OF the
food administration.
I'VE" included two or three Of the
leading experts on household econom-
les in this country: a millionairess of
social work: the third woman in this
country to drive an automobile UP
Pixies Peak; half dozen stenogra-
piers at $40 a month; a woman
business manager of newspaper. who
is proud of the fact that she can GO
into the composing room just before
press time and help set up ads, and
several women with NJ. AS. PHI. De
and a long string of alphabetical recog-
nitions Of their achievements.
Stenographer Voices Wall.
you know it was a mean trick to
play on me-" quoth one Of the stenog-
raphers. This uniform makes every
body look alike. and one lady came
in here this morning and began asking
me questions about cooking. I told
her some recipes l thought this office
ought to put out. and she listened. and
thanked me. and when I learned that
she had taught domestic science at
Columbia and at Wisconsin University.
and had written a lot of books about
cooking, / nearly fell through the
floor"
Democracy is the keynote Of the food
conservation office, just as 1t is to be
Of the registration campaign Mrs
Woodrow Wilson was the first to sign
n pledge. An assistant cook was the
second Only last week a school teach
err came down from Pennsylvania to
spend her vacation working for the
food administration for nothing. and
the same day Hlobe-trotter. who has
spent many summers in South America
investigating the condition of women
there. did the same thing.
Who Lined Up for Camerap
When the call came to have a group
picture taken there appeared. among
others:
Miss Mary Carmack McDougal-she
ia the woman who ran an automobile
up Pixies Peak but that was only by
way of diversion. Her serious life
work has been as writer and as pub
licity IMAM" for the Humane Society.
Boy Scouts. Red Cross. the Oklahoma
State Federation of Women's Clubs
and better babies contests. AS a So
cial worker she has made sociological
studies in Oklahoma, has taken part in
Western child welfare movements and
she also is a trained speaker ana or
9anizer, having campaigned in Kansas
for President Wilson. 1t might be
added that she is well known euA-
frage worker.
Mrs. Nina C. Van Wrinkle has worked
among the poor for fifteen years. for
seven years was president OF the
Women's Political Union OF New Jer.
sew. for five years was chairman OF
infant welfare work in Newark. N. j.;
is a member OF half a dozen national
social service organizations and an ac-
tive worker In all OF them ana mas
travelled all over the world to study
conditions among women and children.
Miss Ethel Bagg. well known in Wash
ington, who was In Europe when the war
broke out, and remained there to work
with Mr.. and Mrs Hoover on the Amer
lean committee. ana later dlQeo theH III
Belgian relief work and the Belgravia
war hospital supply depot. Later she
came to America to aid in getting hos
pital supplies for italy and England.
Miss Tessie Tag, woman business
manager Of the Stanford Palo Alto
News. graduate of Stanford University.
and now private secretary of DR.. Will
bur. president Of that institution.
Hark Ye! A Modest Press Agent.
Said Miss Sarah Field Splint
IT am aiding In this small way be-
cause I believe that so per cent OF
this war rests upon the women Of
America and believe that women never
fail in the task that is put up to them"
This small way" consisted of get
ting the publicity OF the food conserva-
ton wo-k under way and then turning
to the job of developing magazine
stories to help sustain the food saving
EFFORT, Miss Splint is a graduate Of
Hunter. College taught school Ave
years, then "broke into" the magazine
game and is now editor of Today's
Housewife.
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