Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-05-03
co-oRplNATED BODY OF WORK
Frs FOR WAR ACTIVITIES TO
BE FORMED.
PERMANENT COMMITTEES TO
SUPERVISE ALL WAR WORK
Plan Has Been Recommended to All
Counties in Iowa as Better Way Of
Doing Effective Work During Period
Of War-Will Enlist Services Of Sew
eral Hundred Men.

At conference Thursday evening
of the county chairmen of all the vari-
Gus war activities. at which were rep
resented the county council OF defense
liberty loan Red Cross, Y. NJ c. A
war fund, war savings stamps and
food administrator it was decided to
recommend TO the county council OF
defense, at its meeting next Wednes-
day, the organization of one large and
co-ordinated body OF war service work
ers, TO be known as the council Of de-
Tense, and TO include so far as is pos
| sible all the citizens who have been
| working in any of the war fund activi-
| ties, but reorsaniZed into permanent
committees who should supervise all
| war work in their respective districts
! 1t was voted to coordinate the five
county chairmen, together with the
county food administrator and county
fuel administrator, as general execut-
i've committee to direct all drives, with
power to call in advisers and assist
ants for special campaigns. These
| men have all been appointed by the
! go pCNkINt Lc1Nt u4i SSNOlS cL liitiT " "a
Will Have District Committee.
For the city organization it was voted
to appoint seven men in each Of the
four quarters of the city to constitute
district committee to supervise all
war work campaigns in their districts.
The first and second districts are to
comprise the First and Second wards,
while the third and fourth districts will
include the Third and Fourth wards,
with that part of the Fifth ward divided
east and west at Center street ard
merged into the third and fourth dis
trIcts. The general county committee
Of county chairman will appoint a dis
trict chairman for each war activity and
these seven chairmen in each of the
four districts will constitute a district
committee whose duty shall be to or
ganize their districts permanently for
ell war campaigns.
These four district committees will
be composed of captains, who shall each
assume command Of their districts
when the drive in their branch Of the
service is on. The war stamp captain
will take charge when his drive is on,
and the next week the Red Cross
captain will have charge, but the other
members will always serve as aids main
tanning the same district committee in
charge of all drives. The same plan
of rotation of command viii, prevail
with the county chairmen, who already
have their special branches of the
service, and who will sit as a general
war board for all drives. In this way
responsibility Of leadership will be
shifted in each drive.
It will be recommended that the two
districts east of Center street be sub
divided into five sub-districts each. and
that the two districts west of Center
street be subdivided into six sub-dis-
tricts each. with one extra district for
the soldiers home. The seven district
captains. sitting as a district council,
shall select seven men for each sub
district, who shall elect their own
chairneu and who shall do all the war
drive work within their sub districts,
with power to draft workers at will.
To Include Townships.
It will be recommended to the county
council Of defense that its membership
from each township be enlarged to
seven or more men from each town
ship, to include so far as is possible
all the men who have been identified