The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1918-10-27
On State
Departments Staff.

On State
Departments staff.
why, didn't you know? She's Joined
the State Department" This was the
reply received when 1 inquired what
had become of a prominent Washing
ton girl whom l had missed from her
accustomed haun4s. I laughed, but
when I ran over the list OF some of
the girls who have taken positions in
the department IL sounded for all the
world like the membership of an ey-
elusive club, and I decided that
COINED" was the right word after all.
Lillian Birney, Mary Graham, Mrs.
Franklin Ellis, the Hoar girls, Ade-
laide Heath, Cecilia McCallum-there
you have a sample of the State De-
partment's roster. anu the latest re-
cruit is Gladys Hinckley. Harriet
Peckham, who made her debut last
year. is now a worker in the War De-
partment; and Caroline Nash has en-
listed in the navy as a yeowoman.
Indeed. the navy rivals the State
Department-and the Food Admins
tration-in popularity with the promi-
nent girls and young women OF
Washington. The Postmaster Cen
erals two daughters, Lucy and Sid
ney Burleson, are both yeowomen, as
you know. and dozens OF other girls.
However, the corps is not made up en-
tirely of girls in their teens and
early twenties. Mrs. Albert L. NC
Lemore, wife of Colonel McLemore. of
the marine corps, is a yeowoman-no'
1 believe she's a marinette, but I'm
xa-hfah-and
the latest recruits is Miss Eliza
Scidmore.
Miss Scidmore has gone to work in
the Paymaster Generals Office, and
1 wager she'll prove an invaluable
assistant. She's very much OF per-
sonage, and in japan. where she has
spent many years, everybody "es Is
anybody" knows her and thinks the
world Of her. She is foreign secre-
tary of the National Geographic So
ciety, and has numerous interesting
books to her credit. Perhaps the
most widely known are "Jinricksha
Days in Japan" "As the Hague Or
dains," and China, the Long Lived
Empire"
The last named was published
shortly before the Boxer troubles,
and was one of the few authorita-
tive and yet readable works on
China that were available. Miss Scid-
more has ranged far afield for the
subjects of her books, witness her
Alaska, the Southern Coast and the
Sitkan Archipelago" and her Guide
to Alaska and the Northwest Coast.
She has also written delightfully."- o.
lava, the Garden of the East" Her
brother is American consul general
at Yokohama, Japan, and she has
The returns" on the fourth Liberty
loan drive appear to be still coming in,
but so much is absolutely certain
that the whole nation went over the
top with colors flying. As for Wash
ington, II went way ahead of its
quota. The woman's Liberty Loan
Committee carried on a highly sue
cessful campaign. despite the fact that
the influenza epidemic played havoc
with its program and that its chair
man, Mrs. Blaine Beale, was hors de
combat for the last half of the battle,
being Frustrated by the death OF her
son, Lieut. Walker Beale, in France, |
and through the organization no less
than 3,161 $50 was cleared.
To Mrs. Beale must go much Of the |
credit for the success OF the drive
engineered py the women OIL WASH
ington, for she started the campaign /
and organized her assistants so thor
oughly that they carried on very sue
cessfully when she was forced to give
up her active participation In the
Mrs. McAdoo, too, did yeo-
man service. stepping into the breach
when Mrs. Beale's trouble came, and
working for the local committee in
addition to her duties as chairman of
the National Woman's Liberty Loan
A pretty incident occurred on the
day that Mrs. Daniels, wife of the
Secretary OF the Navy, was in charge
of the Woman's Liberty Loan head
quarters. Mrs. George Dewey, widow
of the Admiral OF the Navy, had al