The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1918-03-12
lollEN LEADERS
fblSCuSS PLANS
I. FOR WAR WORK
Liberty Loan and Women
Workers Chief Subjects,

representing nearly every branch Of war
activity IN their respective communl.
ties. The chairman OF this meeting was
Mrs. Roberta T. lawson OF NoWata.
state chairman women'S committee.
council OF national defense
The first speaker Of the morning
program was Mri. George Fuller oi
Kansas City, chairman Of the women
Liberty bond committee for the tenth
district with headquarters IN Kansas
aCfy. Mrs. Fuller spoke to the Okla
MONA women about their share in tho
great work connected with the forth
Somins third Liberty loan and said
UN April Holiday.
"April &, first anniversary Of Amerl
AtaS entry into tho war will start uur
third Liberty loan campaign BY sug
gestion Of Secretary McAdoo. President
Wilson will request eyeIy state and
municipality in the country 10 observe
April 3 as a national holiday, It being
expeSted that governors, mayors anl
other heads OF local authority will 81
designate this day by PROCLAMATION
we recognize that We are past think
Ing Of expenditures and accounts OF
this war Of ours in small figures when
, we learn this next loan IS to be for no
less sum than SoOOO,GOOOO Il will
I, be up to you women here. all OF you
4 women in Oklahoma regardless ol
whether YOU have been put on a Liberty
bond campaign committee Or not. 10
4 accept some share for responsibility
that this loan shall be successful,
n Women Must Help
The men OF the nation have been
charged with responsibility 10 gct m
y this So00O,0OO0OO bu, Mr. Wilson Mr.
7 MeAdoo and Mr. Newton Baker know
\ this sum cannot be obtained unlrs, the
women help You ask me what a
woman can do to help II Is expected
in this campaign that every woman OF
any means whatever will consider It
sacred obligation that she become
8 bondholder and as the woman's means
4 are invariably smaller than those OF
y man. il is expected she will I've found
q subscribing for most OF the smaller de
d nominationed bonds.
4 III there is foreign woman living in
4 your neighborhood at the present time
. II Is your duty TO at once go and call
on her, discuss the war with her. find
out how she feels about il. what her
y point OF view is, ascertain and find out
4 II she has become 100 percent Ameri-
4 can. ] say ths for The reason that
N there are many more such women
Y among our foreign speaking women
who are potential bond buyers than YOU
y have any idea Of
Convert to Suffrage
am free TO confess that this war
points out to us women the necessity OF
our having the right 10 vote was a
slow convert to It but the war has
changed my point of view ! am sorry
to have to report that we haven't the
vote in old Nilsson, we are back
number in that respect, but We women
up there are beginning to see the light
and we may have it soon
MANY women have asked me what
about the Liberty bond being used as
commercial paper. can only repeat
what Secretary McAdoo has said on
|, the subject, which was to the effect
that a patriot ought to sell and dispose
OF everything else he has and only sell
his Liberty bond as last resort"
Mrs. Fuller was followed by Dr. Leila
+. Andrews Of Oklahoma City one OF
the women IN charge ut the women cam
papners for the loan in this state. DR..
Andrews said;
II "The womens department OF the state
y council OF defense has operated with
you women in every branch Of war ac-
tivity you undertook, Red Cross work
and every other kind OF work included.
Now has come the time when the wo-
4 mems department OF the council i, GO
ing to enlist you to help put this third
Liberty loan over None OF YOU here
or any woman in the state can be too
busy too help US. In fact We don't
want any woman worker but the busy
woman. Idle women, We find. don't
make good campaigners
Vacation for Mother.
"Some women are goinE {, say ,hcs
fcanrot be spared from their nmr.ie.
tThis is the time for them To find uul u
sthey can be spared from their iamIc
land this is one OF the time, when the,
lare going TO find they can A vacation
+ sfor the mother Of the family i, orc O
1.-THE best remedies a doctor can prc,.ub
for her, and there are families that en-
ijoy having mother take vacation too
$50, you are not undutiful If you in
ithat in your mind, YOU who help to pre-
sside over the destiny of family tha
Fwhen your government calls on you II
ttalJe a vacation from your family and
khelp out this loan campaign, 1t is going
fto be up 10 you to do it."
J. W. Bridges, garden director for
Ethe war garden activities OF the state
council OF defense, made a short talk
ION the war garden propaganda Tie toll
fsomething about the work being done
and described a war garden pamphlet
fgotten cut under the supervision Of him
iself and Prof D. G. Moorng OF Okla
shoma A. and NJ college. his associate
lin war garden work lie invited the co.
operation OF all the women present r
aid in every possible way, this which /.
pne OF the many ways being devised tr
help out the food problem for America
hnd her army next winter
Women "carry On"
b Mrs. LAWSON, chairman OF the meet
Ing. discussing the work being done by
Eomen among the allies to I'm The
blaces made vacant by their men foll
being absent al war. said
Ny "Bsfore the war oueninp Grest Brit3if