Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1918-02-08
WOMAN'S PART IN
STATE WAR SAVINGS
WELL QUALIFIED TO TEACH
THRIFT TO YOUTH OF
THE COUNTRY.
SCHOOLS THE BEST MEDIUM
Wonian's Committee Of Council OF
National Defense Has Been
Enlisted In the Cause
Of Thrift.

The woman's part in the Thrift and
War Savings plan throughout Missouri
will be conducted through the Wom-
| ans Committee, Council of Nationa
Defense.
Mrs. B. F. Bush, chairman for Mis-
souri, of the Woman's Committee,
Council 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. Vanderbilt, 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 men,
| bers of the Woman's Committee,
| Council of National Defense. How
| ever, the defense chairmen in these
counties 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
and co-ordinating all women's war &C
| 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 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 we'll organized in theiI
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. Genevieye
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. Ingles to make Boone
County the banner county. Miss Jua
nita Pelegrin of Marshfield, Webster
County; Mrs. Robert Lamar Of Hous
ton, Texas County; Mrs. r. e. Brown
st. Joseph, Buchanan County; Mrs
Charles Potts of Warsaw, Bentor
County; Mrs. J. 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 .
Pennington; Miss Elizabeth Brainard
Superintendent of Public Schools o
Grundy County; Mrs. James Gooldb!
of Fulton, Galloway County; Mrs. II
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, GAINESVILLE, worh
ing with Mrs. Frank Currie, secretar
of the Red Cross in local matters
Mrs. Charles Arnold, Jamesport; Mrs
E. M. Shepard, Springfield; Mrs. I
H. Spring, Joplin; Mrs. F. ]. Antoint
Doe Run, and Mrs. ]. e, Powell
Princeton, all express themselves d
doing all they can to help the cause
and appreciate the trust reposed
them.