Mansfield mirror., 1918-02-14
W0N|AN S PART IN
STATE WAR SAVINGS
WELL QUALIFIED TO TEACH
THRIFT TO YOUTH OF
THE COUNTRY.
SCHOOLS THE BEST MEDIUM
Womans Committee Of Council Of
Nat.ona Defense Has Been
Enlisted in the Cause
of Thrift.

The woman's part in the Thrift and
War Savings plan throughout Missouri
will he conducted through the Won.
s..s Committee, Council of NatiOna
i, iel!.,e.
A.ru. Il. F. Bush, chairman for Mis-
sou OF the. Woman's Committee,
CC...~.l of National Defense, has Is.
sued orders to each of the 100 county
chairmen and the 1000 chairmen
throughout the state of Missouri to
assist Mrs. Theodore Benoist of St.
Louis, who has been appointed chair.
man of the Woman's Division of the
War Savings Committee of Missouri
by Frank A. Vanderlip, national direc-
tor of the War Savings Committee.
In some of the counties the county
chairmen appointed chairmen of the
Woman's Division other than mem.
bers of the Woman's Committee,
Council of National Defense. How.
ever. the defense chairmen in these
coGnties are cooperating with the
chairmen appointed by such county
chairmen.
The Woman's Committee, Council OF
National Defense, is the only federal.
lied body of women organized espe-
cially for war work. The committee
was organized by an act of Congress
last April for the purpose OF conserv.
ing the woman power and unifying
,fIt oil
tivities.
A number of the chairmen of the
.Woman's committee in the Council Of
National Defense are county superin-
tendents OF public schools, who are
doing effective work through the
schools of their respective counties in
directing a thrift propaganda. Among
them are: Miss Sallie Brown, Troy,
Mo-, Superintendent Of Public Schools
Of Lincoln County; Miss Roxane
Jones, Milan, Mo-, Superintendent Of
Public Schools of Sullivan County;
Mrs. Margaret Squires, Superintend.
ent of Public Schools Of Carroll Coun.
ty. Other chairmen who report that
the work is well organized in their
counties are: Mrs. ]. Hal Lynch, st.
Louis County; Mrs. George E. Harris,
New London, Rails County; Mrs. Sam
B. Cook, Jefferson City; Mrs. Ernest
Simonson, chairman of Cole County;
Mrs. M. c. Horton. Poplar Bluff. But.
Ter County; Mrs. w. E. Matlack, Ka-
hoka, Clark County; Mrs. Edw.
Scharff, St. Marys, Ste. Genevievs
County: Mrs. Rose Ingles, Columbia,
Boone County. Mrs. Turner McBaine,
chairman of the Woman's Committee,
Council of National Defense, is work
ing with Mrs. lngles to make Boone
County the banner county. Miss Jua-
nita Pelegrin of Marshfield, Webster
County; Mrs. Robert Lamar of Hous.
ton, Texas County; Mrs. X. E. Brown,
st. Joseph, Buchanan County; Mrs.
Charles Potts of Warsaw, Benton
County; Mrs. ]. M. Mitchell of Green
field, Dade County; Mrs. N. A. Frank
lin of Unionville, Putnam County;
Mrs. Clara Graham of Charleston, Mis-.
sissippi County; Mrs. w. p. Cayce Of
Pennington; Miss Elizabeth Brainard,
Superintendent of Public Schools of
Grundy County; Mrs. James Gooldby
of Fulton, Callaway County; Mrs. H.
H. Hurst, Tarkio; Miss Flora Born,
Savannah; Mrs. H. B. Grubbs, Mis-.
souri, City; Mrs. W. c. DeVol, Steel.
vile; Mrs. C. T. Ryland. Lexington;
Mrs. w. R. Haight, Brandsville; Mrs.
F. w. Meriwether, Clarksvllle, work.
ing with Mrs. Frank Currie, secretary
of the Red Cross in local matters;
Mrs. Charles Arnold, Jamesport; Mrs.
Il. M. Shepard, Springfield; Mrs. F.
H. Spring, Joplin; Mrs. F. J. Antoint
Doe Run, and Mrs. J. E. Powell,
all express themselves as
doing all they can to help the cause.
and appreciate the trust reposed In
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