Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1918-06-14
MRS. WEEKS GETS
WOMEN'S TRIBUTE
Concluding Her Organization Work of
Council of Defense

The Vermont Woman's Division
Council of National Defense which
Mrs, John L. Weeks, as chairman for
the state, organized during the past
year, held its annual meeting in Bur
lington at the Klifa Club last Friday
with delegates present from all parts of
the state.
Mrs. John +. Weeks of Middlebury,
the chairman, explained the aims of the
Woman's division of the Council of
National Defense as being Ito do all we
can to make every other woman in the
United States know why we are in this
war; why it is necessary for us to win.
and what it will mean if we fail to win. "
And she added On all sections there are
good and true Americans who are in
different, who are annoyed because we
are in the war; and who cannot under
stand why we are not content to remain
neutral and comfortable They have
no understanding of the German idea
to conquer the world"
Mrs, Weeks quoted from a letter re-
ceived from President Wilson who said:
your state in extending its National
Defense organization through county
councils is i'll my opinion making an ad-
vance of vital significance 1t will help
to weld the nation together as no nation
of any size has ever been welded before.
You will find not so much a new task
as a unification of existing efforts; a
fusion of energies now so much scat
tered and confused into one harmonious
and effective power"
Mrs. c, H. Darling, chairman of
Chittenden county committee, reported
that her committees had distributed
the food cards last fall; had also dis
tributed the kitchen cards this spring;
had given demonstrations of wheatless
cooking, and are to conduct a series of
such demonstrations beginning next
week in the school buildings.
What Mrs Darling's committee had
been able to accomplish seemed to be
what all the Others who reported had
tried to do, many of them succeeding,
but Others being greatly handicapped
by bad roads during the winter. In
many counties the chairman of the
committee had conducted the liberty
loan campaign from the woman's side
and all were doing war relief work of
various sorts. Each spoke of the op-
position encountered to a greater or
less degree in the distribution of the
food cards last fall, and of the great
change in sentiment when the kitchen
cards were distributed this spring.
Lamoille county spoke of the ready
response of the school children in CON
serving food when they realized it was
to help the children of France.
Following the county reports, Miss
Bertha NJ Terrill spoke most interest
ingly of the work of her department in
the division-that of food production
and home economies. She spoke of the
young women engaged in farm work in
Brattleboro and Woodstock under the !
Womans Land Army of America and |
how successful both units are
BY a rising vote of thanks the women |
expressed their appreciation of the vast
amount of work and the untiring eff
forts of the chairman, Mrs Weeks in
her work of organization this year
Officers were elected as follows: State
Chairman, Mrs. Anna Hawkes. Putnam,
Bennington; vice chairman, Mrs. Ed
ward c. Smith, st, Adams; recording
secretary, Mrs, Gilbert F. Davis, Wind
sor; corresponding secretary to be APP
pointed by the chairman; treasurer,