Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1919-03-10
Webster City Woman At
tends Important Meeting
OF Illinois Dr.
vision.
REPORTS IOWA'S WORK
Is Guest Of Mrs. Joseph T.
Bowen of Chicago,
State Chairman.

ssMfS. r. r. whitley, Iowa chairman
of the women's committee of the ma
tioual council Of defense, attended the
notable meeting Of the Illinois division
last week and shared in the inspira-
ton Of hearing what, has been done in
neighbOring states along the line Of
better conditions and better health for
children. With officers of other states
Mrs. Whitley was guest of Mrs.
Joseph T. Bowen Of Chicago, the state
chairman, and attended luncheon
given by Mr.. and Mrs. Cyrus Nc
Cormick to child welfare workers Of
! Illinois.
The luncheon was given Thursday
in the institution maintained by Mr..
and Mrs. Mccormick for child welfare
as memorial to their 12-year-old
daughter who died several years ago.
This Institution is directed by Mrs. Ira
Couch Wood and furnishes many re-
! markable and effective plans for edu-
eating the public in the care of chill
{, dren
DR.. Anna Howard Shaw Speaks.
The same evening Mrs. Bowen pre-
sided at banquet attended by 100.
at which addresses We're made by
representatives from the federal bu-
reaus at Washington, including the ma
tional chairman, DR.. Anna Howard
Shaw. She stated that Miss Julia
Lathrop, head Of the federal children's
bureau, believed after a study of the
reports from all over the country that
the efforts of the women's committee
tdid more to advance the cause Of
improved conditions for children and
general welfare work than fifty years
work preceding it could have done.
Mrs. Whitley received many con-
gratulations on the report from Iowa,
which showed from actual figures
what Iowa women accomplished in the
food conservation work, in child vel
fare work and in the campaign for
{ student nurses.
Appear 70 Al0 SOA0lerS.
A strong appeal was made that
women, as well as men, interest them
selves more actively in assisting re-
turned sol 4iers find employment and a
place for themselves again. Attention
was called to the fact that there is
something absolutely wrong in the i'll
difference shown, in some localities,
where soldiers have been left to look
out for themselves with no attention
from the people who gathered to
cheer them as they marched away
to risk their lives in fighting our war.
1t was the sentiment of the conference
that this is duty from which we are
not discharged and each individual
owes it to his own self-respect that he
should spare no effort to treat these
men as their records deserve.
To Have Educational Campaign.
According to Mrs. Whitley, the
women's organizations of the state
are responding cordially to the re-
quests of the war savings Organiza-
ton of which Mr.. Homer A. Miller
is again to act as director, to assist
in carrying on this work, which is
just as much needed to pay for the
war as it was to furnish funds with
which to carry it on.
The help Of the women is asked
this year, not to sell stamps, but to
carry on campaign of education in
the value of thrift and the advanta sc
OF this form Of investment, which viii
lead many more citizens to form the
War Savings Stamp habit.