The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-01-03
cabinet WIVES Do BIT
FNiRS. ROBERT LANSING INITIATES
II CONCERTED ACTIVITIES.
'Gach Member OF "Cabinette' DeVOtes
o Several Hours Daily 10 Practical War
:. Work-.As Consequence Elaborate
=, Entertaining Is Abandoned.

"a Washington Times: Americas war
Government during the last eight
4 ,nonths has established new record
N achievements. This is due in large
rt,neasure to the presidents cabinet, from
oavhi6h war activities radate.
Fo Investigation discloses that America S
var government Of men has it's counter.
)art in an American war government
# women.
/" For the presidents cabinet there is a
Ts,'abipstte, which includes the wives and
|lausht4rs of each
Il" Secrctdryess of State Mrs. Robert
.ansinE initiated the movement that
|eehreceded the. entry Of every other mem
Ter OF, the cabinette into war work, each
IN some branch of the department Of
ISvhich her husband was head
Following the organization of tnc
workers. in the state department into a
wax machine" Mrs Lansing idea took
Hirm hold Of other cabinet members
Wives and the other departments Were
organized, Each member of the cabi
etta has been devotng several hours
ally to the work.
So heavy has become the war work OF
he eabinette that meeting was held
ecehtlv with Mrs. Lansing to deter
line on some plans for curtailmg the
ocial activities for the season that
Naore time may be given to practical
ltorS,
IL Nh Big Parties.
The time-honored custom of observing
iIabihet day' on Wednesdays was aban
nbned at least for the period of the
aar; all official entertaining they agreeC
a dispense with, and elaborate enter
ainments of any Kind will be elimi
sated,
The state department relief board. o
ehich Mrs. Lansing is the head, de
Sotesi its attention mostly to Red eros.
nork' and to food conservation activi
|ues. Mrs Lansing some time ago
howed what could be done In any hom,
tie way of conserving food by serv
eS 70 the c;tbinette a dried luncheon. >
ne first of the kind in Washington.
! IIeAdqhartelk for the state depart
lent'S war relief work are maintaine,
the old Bancroft house ON II street
Ilme of the historian. Here Mrs. Ian
ng daily works several hours aidin.
the preparation of Red Cross sup
les one hundred members of tn
)ard recently went to the home o
RS. Richard Crane ILL., wife of tn
icretary to Secretary Lansing, an,
tent the day picking apples from tn
ranes' Virginia farm. Later they mad
pier which was sold on the market. III
ioceedts going 10 their relief fund.
Mrs. Franklin X. Lane is chairma
the Woman's War Relief bureau
hich she organized in the department
the interior, OF WHICH her husband !
e head. She has directed extensiv
sr relief work both at home an
broad! s.,
Mrs. William G. McAdoo, wife of tn
lcrctary OF the treasury. has been on
the hiosi active workers in the il
Irest Of the' two liberty loans, bein
Iairmah, of the woman's liberty loa
mmittce, WHICH is now giving its tim
d attention TO stimulating interest 1
.e war; savings certificates and thrii
when 3the great liberty loan bonfh
,ts lighted on the hill at the Washing
- monument AIps. McAdoo apple
r spaTR.N She set, the pace for III
POND l}berty. loans BY J hayng he
lugh'ef, lli,fte 12l eanGf &nsob sNtAda,
che ttNaass Sysst bond, 5Tht. .shIeAdp
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