Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1918-11-26
MEETING OF THE
COUNCIL OF DEFENSE.


The regular meeting of the Mara
thon County Council of Defense was
held Tuesday evening, c. B. Bird,
president, presiding.
Communications from the state
council were read on the fuel and
food situation and especially that
part referring to the delivery of an
thracite coal was discussed and the
secretary instructed to confer with the
fuel administrator as to what can be
done toward getting an adequate sup
ply for our people. AS it now stands
many who gave in their orders last
spring are without coal.
Mary e. Brady, home demonstra-
ton agent for Marathon County, was
present and made a statement of
plans for future work. Miss Brady's
salary in this work is paid by the
government and her travelling ex-
penses in the country is paid by the
Council of Defense.
Heretofore her work has been along
lines of food conservation, going to
central places in the county, where
meetings for women were held and
they were taught how to use flour
| III SOOhluS " LllC DCSG du-
vantage. Now that peace has been
declared, the work has undergone a
change. She has just returned from
a weeks stay at Madison attending
meeting of the home demonstration
agents. The work as now outlined
is to consist of demonstration in fit
ting and sewing, how to make over
old garments, how to clean, press and
otherwise care for garments which
can be made over for children and
grown people. One feature was the
hot lunches for school children, which
had worked much to the advantage in
the health and growth of school chill
dren. A discussion was had upon
the continuation of this work by Miss
Brady, and it was voted to allow her
stipulated sum for the expenses and
materials until further notice. 1t was
also voted that the secretary be. in
structed to correspond with various
districts in the county, giving the priv
Iilege of those wanting the demonstra-
tions to have them at no expense fur
ther than taking Miss Brady to and
| from the depot where demonstrations
were to be made.
The matter of how extensively the
Council wanted the committee to go
into the matter of war history on
Marathon county was discussed and
| it was the consensus of opinion that
| the committee should do what it could
| in gathering up statistics, material,
etc, and in enlisting assistance in the
work without cost; that perhaps the
state would arrange for the expense
making the work more complete dur
| ing the meeting of the legislature the
coming winter.
The matter of a Thanksgiving peace
demonstration was discussed and in
asmuch as the city council had ap-
pointed a committee on celebrations
for the soldiers as they returned il
was thought best to leave all this
with that committee. A. V. Gearhart
chairman of the committee, appointed
by Mayor Sell, on these celebrations
was present and expressed a wish that
the members of the Council act with
the committee in this work, and il
was so voted. Mr.. Gearhart said that
the Chamber of Commerce had also
appointed a committee to work with
the city committee.
| Recently the Bureau of NatuaraliZa-
ton of the United States requested
that free evening school be establish
ed to assist aliens in thorough un.
derstanding of the forms and purposes
of our government and to assist the
non English speaking people to ac-
quire a knowledge of the English
language. S. B. Tobey announced thai
such school had been established anG
would be open at the High school on
the evening of Monday, November 25tt
that it would be free to all aliens
and that competent teachers had been
secured to render them every assist
ance possible. Further, that the Uni
versity Extension Division of Visual
instruction will furnish films anG
slides illustrative of the various func-
tions and activities of the government
Mr.. Tobey stated that the names Of
| 203 persons, who had made applica
ton for citizenship, had been sent in.
to him, to whom he had sent out let,
ters telling them of the free evening
school, where it would meet, etc.