McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1918-03-29

| Professor John D. Shoop, Super.
tendent of Schools of Chicago
The keynote of the Conference was
an effort to define the function OF
the Junior Red Cross, which was
stated by DR.. MacCracken to be,
First, Educational, Second, Productive
and Third, Financial, in the order of
Importance named.
The following are the members OF
the Honorary Advisory Committee /:
Bernard M. Baruch, Council of Nation.
al Defence; Mary C. c. Bradford, Pres
ident National Education Association;
Carrie Chapman Gait, President of the
National Suffrage Association and
Woman's Committee Council Of Ma
tional Defence; P. p. Claxton, Unit
His Eminence James Cardinal Glib
bons, Archbishop of Maryland; Wal.
ter F. Clifford, Director of the Council
of National Defence; Samuel Com
pers, President American Federation
Of Labor; Henry John Heintz, Chair
man, Executive Committee Worlds
Sunday School Association; Herbert
c. Hoover, United States Food Admin
istrator; Julia Lathrop, Chief Chill
dren's Bureau, United States Depart
ment of Labor; Eva Perry Moore,
President National Council of Wom-
en-; Herbert Putram, Librarian of Con-
gress Frank e. Vanderlip, Chairman
Of War Savings Committee, United
States Treasury; Frederick Walcott,
Food Administration; Mrs. Josiah Ev.
ans Cowles, National President of the
Federation Of Woman's Clubs
DR.. Philander P. Claxton, United
States Commissioner of Education,
stated that he had carefully investi-
gated the program of the Junior Red
Cross and had decided that 1t was the
organization most practically fitted to
enlist the interest and activity of the
school children of America into sys-
tematized program of practical patriot
ism.
State Advisory Committees.
State Advisory Committees to the
Junior Red Cross composed of men
and women prominent in educational
work have already been appointed in
the Ave states Of the Southern Divi-
sion as follows:
Tennessee: s. W. Sheriff., State Su.
perintendent of Education, chairman;
A. A. Kincannon, School Superintend-
ent of Memphis; w. E. Miller, School
Superintendent of Knoxville; G. H.
Winder, School Superintendent of
Chattanooga.
Georgia: M l.. Britain, State SUI
perintendent of Education, chairman;
G. H. Bruce, School superintendent of
Macon; c. B. Gibson, School Super
intendent Of Savannah; Chancellor
David G. Barrow of the University of
Georgia; Mrs. John w. Rowlett, State
President Of the Parent Teacher Asso
citation.
Florida: W. N. Sheets, State Super
intendent of Education, chairman; j.
f. Knight, School Superintendent of
Tampa; F. A. Hathaway, School Su-
perintendent of Jacksonville; DR.. A.
A. Murphree. President of the Uni
versity Of Florida.
North Carolina: ]. Y Joyner, State
Superintendent of Education, chair
man; G. p. Harding School Superin-
tendent of Charlotte; John ]. Blair,
School superintendent of Wilmington;
DR.. Edwin X. Graham, President Of
the University of North Carolina:
Mrs. Thomas w. Lingle, Dean of
Womea Of the University of North
Carolina.
South Carolina: J. E. Swearingen,
State Superintendent OF Education,
chairman; A, B. Rhett. School Super
intendent Of Charleston; Frank Evans.
School Superintendent OF Spartan
burg: Or. w. S. Currell. President OF
the University Of South Carolina