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DEFENSE COUNCIL LOOKS
AFTER COMMUNITIES
Various Duties Performed by Wo-
men Who Are Endeavoring to Pre-
serve Communities i'm War Times.

serve Communities i'm War Times.
We are told there are TWO sides
of the war-the battle there and the
battle here. To win the war we must
win on both these fronts"
For the past six months the Wo-
mems Section, Council Of Defense,
for this county, has been engaged in
several important activities. A Red
Cross Chapter has been established,
which, with its seven OF eight bran
ches, has a total membership of
eighteen hundred members. This is
not. however, the only branch OF
work being done by the Council. In
deed, after the Red Cross Branches
are organized. the Council considers
it's work in that direction is practi-
cally over, and it is then up to the
people of the district But the work
the Council is busiest with is the
quiet, unheeded unostentatious, ey-
cry day work of life. By trying to.
keep things normal in these abnor-
NAL times, by looking after the vel
fare of the different communities:
There is the Social and Welfare De
partment, which cares for the fami-
lies of soldiers and sailors needing
assistance. Heretofore these fami-
lies were solely looked after by the
Council, now, however, all families
needing assistance are asked to re-
port to Mrs Andrews, or the Red
Cross. who have as their Home Ser
vice Committee Mr.. w. Grason
Winterbottom, Mr.. John R. Patti
son and Mr.. Milford Nathan.
The Department of comforts for
soldiers and sailors, which is looked
after and run by Mrs. George Wool
ford, who buys and dispenses all
wool for knitting.
The Patriotic Education and Child
Welfare Department is under the
direction of Miss jeanne Bryan.
Miss Sallie w. Dorsey is chair
man of the Volunteer Motor Messen-
ger Service. Heretofore little has
been done in that line. But it should
be done here by the people as well
as in other sections, and hereafter,
when a drive is on for the registra-
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that all patriotic citizens DESTROYS of
doing their bit for Uncle Sam will
offer the use of their cars and their
services to Miss Dorsey.
mere oSSh SOI1lS " VI n uo1IS
by the colored women, both here and
in the county. Their work has been
! mostly knitting. and at recent
meeting of the colored women OF
the town it was suggested to them to
make trench candles. These candles
are made of newspaper, two columns
wide, and the length of the folded
sheet. They are rolled around lead
tod fIn wit n
string. The pencil is slipped out
and they are boiled in parafine fif-
teen minutes. These candles are be-
ing shipped to France by the thou
sands and they will burn forty min
utes.
The Thrift Department, which ur-
ges the increase and conservation of
food, has been a large part of the
work of the Council. They and their
sub-chairmen and in time their
workers, have covered every house
in the county. The most important
question now is the gardens, and al
though snow is on the ground, it
would be we'll to look the premises
over and decide where a garden can
best be placed, and map out on pa
per the crop to be raised. Order all
seeds now, and encourage the young
sters. In looking over the situation
of gardens for schools, it is hardly
advisable unless the locality has an
experienced person who will under
take to encourage the children thru
out the summer. The chief trouble
heretofore has been the children
planted the gardens and then school
was over for the summer and the
children scattered. 1t is better to
encourage them to engage in gar
dens at home and thus increase the
food production in some form. The
government is especially DESTROYS
of women and children working for
the increase of dairying products, of
women and children in fig raising, in
chicken raising and in bee raising.
Last year there was nearly a third
increase in garden produce at home;
this year it is important that even
that be increased over last year.
/ One suggestion would be a garden
club. Here among the women, say
a meeting once month, to exchange
ideas and compare gardens. The
time to begin is now, and co-opera-
tive work through garden club
will give better results to both yours
and your neighbours garden. We
know soldiers train side by side.
Hereafter the gardeners must work
side by side.
Kipling says:
1t aims the guns nor armament, no
funds that they can pay,
But the close cooperation that
makes them win the day.
1t amt the Individual, nor the army
as whole,
But the everlasting teamwork of ev-
cry blooming soul.
MRS. EDGAR A. JONES,
Women's Section, Council of De-
Tense.