The Washington herald., 1918-07-10
SALVAGEFOR
RED CRoCST0
Be PURSUED
saving Of Waste" Mate
.. rails to Occupy c. orc.
) Commitee.


-salvastng so-caIied waste" material
for the. hsnent Of, the Red Cross will
5ecupyg the War Work Committee Of
be. washington Chamber of Com
uerce tomorrow evening at n'"'NrS
n the Chamber Of Commerce Audi
prium-
Mrs Dougherty has been made
hairman Of this. work and will out
Hne the splendid results that can be
Echieved in Washington. She has
hadcharge Of such work in other cities
1ndH can ably direct the campaign
representative citizens throughout
WASHINGTON have been invited.
IA Leftwich Sinclair. president OF
<he Chamber Of Commerce. has re-
ceived an interesting letter from q
url war worker In Washington rela-
i've to the Saturday holiday in. the
8ores of the city. The writer asks
hat the Chamber Of Commercs urge
Monday as the closing day m tn
foresr In order that employees in the
departments may have a chance to
mop. The Letter follows:
- Arsnmeat.. Given.
II am a stranger. in Washington.
having accepted a position here with
rbe Government and. as, part Of the
TASK, expected to put up with un-
agoidable inconvenience due to un-
settled conditions. Also, / took 1t
FOR granted. that everybody wonld do
their part in removing unnecessary
hardzhips, and wish to bring one
a. these to your attention.
I'VE government workers have only
onel hour each day. from to 6 in
which to do, all our shopping; during
three summer months we have an
additional half holiday on Saturday.
hat for some reason it has been de-
cded that employees in stores must
have two fun holidays each week.
these days to be Saturday and Sum
day. Could not this without serious
inoonvenience to anybody be changed
to Sunday and Monday? Most gov
eminent employees receive fair salaries
and we are anxious to spend part of
ft with local merchants. But you re-
fuse, to give Us. an opportunity to do
sos the only day we have to attend
tor shopping YOU close your doors on
uA Not for myself alone. but in the
interest Of the many thousands of
government employees I appeal to you
to change your day of closing to
Monday instead of Saturday. feel
confident that this would be to your
own financial interest also.
II hope tf.at you will submit this
suggestion to the association of which
you are president and 7 earnestly
about this change. as under the pres
ent arrangement it Is almost impos-
stoie to purchase even the bare neces-
Stiles
A WAR WORKER.
The chairman of the War Work
COMMITTEES of the Chamber Of Com
meree Is Col. Robert " Harper. The
chairman of the Salvage Division
OF this committee Is Mrs. Dougferty.
Members OF Committee
The committee follows:
Ira z. Bennett. Clifford Bergman,
Miss Mabel Boardman. DIR. J.. C.
Boyd. U. S. Navy: Mrs. Justice Bran
deis. Miss Mana Burroughs. Mrs
Thomas A. Carter. Mr.. William G.
Carter. Mr.. and Mrs. W. ]. Carr,
Hon NJ o. Chance. Rev. John B.
Clarke, Mrs. Howard CONN, Meyer
Cohen. Wade II. Cooper. W. s. Corby.
j. Harry Cunningham. James, NJ.
Denty. Mrs 4. J. Driscoll, W. w.
A1NCActN. lSddC OdnS. hfS. T.. n.
Green. l. GOldenberg. z. C. Graham,
Gilbert Grosvenor. Mrs. ]. B. Hend-
erson. Lewis Holmes. Mrs Herbert
c.. Hoover. DR.. Ralph Jenkins, Sig
nfond Kann. d. j. Kaufman, Rudolph
Kaufman. Harry King. ]. Leo Kolb,
Frank p. Leetch. John c. Let's, A.
Lener, Thomas W. Lockwood. ]. G.
McGrath. Townley Mckee, H. p. B.
Aacfarland. Arthur May. Harry May
nFd. Arthur Moses. H. S. Omohun-
dro. Louis Gutenberg. Mrs. Walter
Pen1eid. Mrs. Wallace Radcliffe, Col.
Ridley. U. s A: Miss Jane A. Riggs,
MIS- Riggs. Roland Robbins. DR.. p.
S-r Roy. B. T. Saul. Charles s.
Shnsve. John Smallwood. Frank T.
stone. Rev. James ii. Taylor. Mrs. r
H Terrell. E. L. Tucker. f. A. Walk
ers Mrs c. W. Wallace. Mrs. Charles
w Wetmore. George White. DIR. II.
8. Bennett, Joseph Berberich. George
HSBrown.. S. T. Cameron, Col. John
-Capers, Frank B. Crown, Levi II.
Dfvid. Allan Davis. James N. Denty,
Earl Goodwin. p. j. Haltigan, w. B.
Hardy. Melvin c. Hazen, DR.. r. T.
Holder. George H Lamar. Fleming
Newboid. faj. Raymond W. Pullman,
william II. Saunders. r. B. Stickney,
H c. c. Stiles. i. c. Weld, Martin
Weieand. Thomas Grant. secretary.
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