D REPORT of the Woman's Section of the Indiana State Council of Defense LIBRARY OF CONGRESS tober, 1917, DDD13flflli7D ^ ,^11^ jgjg ^ Book -iSj^ 4 JL.«0- ^~_^ Q REPORT I9?X OF THE Woman's Section OF THE Indiana State Council of Defense Wor From October, 1917, to April, 1919 INDIANAPOLIS: WM. B. BURFORD, CONTRACTOR FOR STATE PRINTING AND BINDING 1919 K"^' LIBRARY Or CONGRESS 1V1AR3-1921 DOCUMENTS D.VtSlON Mrs. Anne (Charles A.) Studebaker Carlisle, Chairman Woman's Section, Indiana State Council of Defense, (3) ORGANIZATION OF THE COUNCIL OF NATIONAL DEFENSE THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES COUNCIL OF NATIONAL DEFENSE Composed of the Secretaries of War, Navy, Interior, Agri- culture, Commerce and Labor, and an Advisory Commission WOMAN'S COMMITTEE COUNCIL OF NATIONAL DEFENSE Chairman, Dr. Anna Howard Shaw 1814 N Street, NW., Washington, D. C. WOMAN'S SECTION INDIANA STATE COUNCIL OF DEFENSE Appointed by Governor James P. Goodrich, May, 1917 COUNTY WOMAN'S SECTION Ninety-two Counties TOWNSHIP WOMAN'S SECTIONS (5) FOREWORD The Indiana State Council of Defense was organized in May, 1917; the members were appointed by the Governor of the State. The Council consisted of nineteen men and one woman, the woman member being also the Chairman of the Woman's Section of the State Council of Defense. The woman member as first appointed by Governor Goodrich was Mrs. Caroline Fairbanks, who was then President of the State Federation of Women's Clubs. Shortly after her appointment Mrs, Fairbanks became ill, and as it was believed from time to time that she would soon be able to assurrie the duties of the head of the Woman's Section, no change was made. How- ever, after a time it became apparent that she could not act in this capacity, so she resigned, and in October, 1917, Mrs. Anne Studebaker Carlisle, of South Bend, Ind., was appointed. When this occurred Mrs. Carlisle was in the East and there was a delay pending her return. Immediately upon her return, however, she assumed the duties incident to the appointment, went to Washington to consult with the Woman's Committee of the Council of National Defense, and from that time on the work progressed with the greatest possible dispatch. The organization was completed after a state-wide meeting in Indianapolis early in November, to which were invited the heads of all the wonien's organizations in Indiana, whether of state-wide or national scope. All of the committees suggested by the Woman's Committee of the Council of National Defense were organized, with the heads of such committees as the Executive Committee of the Woman's Section. Besides the Executive Committee, the State Committee at Large was com- posed of the Chairmen of the Woman's Section of the ninety- two County Councils of Defense and the heads of the women's organizations in Indiana. From time to time in addition to the committees already in the field coming under the various heads of the departments designated by the National Com- mittee, six new committees were organized: the Socks for Soldiers Committee, the "Fourteen-Minute Women," Ameri- canization, Motor Corps, Entertainment, and Liberty Loan. (6) The County Councils of Defense in Indiana consisted of one woman and six men, the woman member of each County Council being the Chairman of the Woman's Section of such county, and local committees were appointed by her corre- sponding exactly with the committees of the Woman's Section of the State Council of Defense. The purpose of the Woman's Section was not to create new committees, but to use existing organizations, direct their activities in so far as possible, and act as a clearing house for all women's organizations, thus avoiding duplication. The Woman's Section of the County Councils was considered the head of women's activities in the county and reported these activities (giving credit to the organizations) to the Woman's Section of the State Council of Defense, and was by them for- warded on to the National Committee each month in a report covering all the counties. All messages to the women of the State from the Woman's Committee of the National Council were transmitted to the Woman's Section of the State, by them to the Woman's Section of the County Councils, and by them to the women of the townships, and in this way women in the most remote parts of the State were reached. The Woman's Section upon different occasions held state- wide meetings in Indianapolis, at which time we had the priv- ilege and pleasure of having for our speakers : Captain Hugh Knyvett of Australia, who Iiad but recently returned from service overseas; Dr. Anna Howard Shaw, Chairman of the Woman's Committee of the Council of National Defense ; Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt of Washington, Miss Mary Garrett Hay of New York, Mrs. Stanley McCormick of Washington, Mrs. Percy Pennybacker, Mrs. Walter McNab Miller, Mrs. Henry Wade Rogers of New York, Mrs. Guilford Dudley of Tennes- see, and Miss Helen Fraser of London, England. OFFICERS AND MEMBERS OF THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE OFFICERS Chairman Mrs. Anne (Charles A.) Studebaker Carlisle, South Bend Vice-Chairman Mrs, Fred A. Gregory, Indianapolis Assistant Vice-Chairman Mrs. Jaquelin S. Holliday, Indianapolis Treasurer Mrs. Samuel M. Ralston, Indianapolis Secretary Miss Mary Helen Boyd, Indianapolis Until May, 1918, Mrs. Jessie Herron Stutesman, Crawfordsville, was Secretary, resigning to take up her residence in New York. Executive Committee Mrs. Albion Fellows Bacon Evansville Miss Eleanor P. Barker Indianapolis Mrs. Arthur Charles Richmond Mrs. Stuart Dean Indianapolis Miss Katharine Merrill Graydon Indianapolis Mrs, Arthur B. Grover Indianapolis Mrs. George C. Hitt Indianapolis Mrs. Julia C. Henderson Indianapolis Mrs. Ovid B. Jameson Indianapolis Dr. Amelia R. Keller Indianapolis Prof. Mary L. Matthews Lafayette Mrs. Alice Foster McCulloch Fort Wayne Mrs. R. Harry Miller Indianapolis Mrs. Hortense Tapp Moore Indianapolis Miss Vida Newsom Columbus Mrs. Albert Rabb Indianapolis Co-operating Woman's Organizations Alliance of Unitarian and other Liberal Christian Women. American Fund for French Wounded. Colanthe Court, K. of P. Women. (Colored.) Colonial Dames of America. Collegiate Alumn£E Association of Indiana. Daughters of American Revolution. Daughters of the Union. Daughters of Isabella. Daughters of Pocahontas. Daughters of Ruth. (Colored.) Catholic Women's Service League. (8) 9 Eastern Stux. Daughters of the Revolution. Girls National Honor Guard of Indiana. Girl Scouts. Home Economics Association. Indiana Federation of Clubs. Indiana Equal SuiTrage Association. Indiana Mothers' Congress. Indiana Christian Woman's Board of Missions. Indiana Federation of Public School Teachers. Indiana State Teachers' Association. International Federation of Catholic Alumnse. International Kindergarten Union. Indiana Nurses Association. Ladies of the Macabees. Medical Women's Association. National Association of Colored Women. National Federation of College Women. National Federation of Musical Clubs. National League for Woman's Service. National Federation of Temple Sisterhoods. National Society of United States Daughters of 1812. Needlework Guild of America. Rebekahs. Pythian Sisters. Sons and Daughters of Liberty. Stage Women's War Relief. State Federation of Colored Women's Clubs. State Teachers' Association. United Daughters of the Confederacy. Woman's American Baptist Foreign Missions Society. Woman's Benefit Association of the Macabees. Women's Christian Temperance Union. Woman's Franchise League of Indiana. Woman's Home Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Woman's National Rivers and Harbors Congress. Woman's Press Club of Indiana. War Mothers of America. (Headquarters at Evansville, Ind.) Woman's Relief Corps. Woman's Section of the Navy League of the United States. Woman's Synodical Society for Home Missions of the United States. Woman's Auxiliary Railway Mail Association. Young Women's Christian Association. Mrs. Fred A. Gregory, Vice- Chairman Mrs. Samuel M. Ralston, Treasurer Miss Mary Helen Boyd, Secretary (10) REPORTS OF STATE COMMITTEES SOCKS FOR SOLDIERS Miss Mary Helen Boyd, State Chairman The Socks for Soldiers Committee, under the supervision of Miss Mary Helen Boyd, was organized early in the summer of 1917 for the purpose of knitting socks for the Indiana men who went into service. Its first consignment of work was that of furnishing 4,000 pairs of socks for the -men then stationed at Fort Benjamin Harrison before the first of September. Centers for the dis- tribution of yarn, instruction in knitting, and receiving the finished socks, were organized over the State, and before the date set for the completion of this first task, not only was the quota reached but there was also a surplus of 1,000 pairs of socks, imperfect in some slight detail which might render them unfit for use by marching men, which was turned over to the Red Cross for a consideration covering the cost of the wool, to be used by them for hospital convalescents. Because of the inability of this committee to secure yarn in sufficient quantities to warrant the continuance of it as a separate organization, its operations were discontinued. The available yarn for knitting was at that time in the possession of the Red Cross. ORGANIZATION COMMITTEE Dr. Amelia R. Keller, State Chairman During the month of April, 1918, there was perfected an Organization Committee, consisting of a chairman and six assistants. Under this committee townships were organized, with a chairman of the woman's work in each township. In the larger cities the organization extended down to the block, with a block chairman, who had her lieutenants, and was, therefore, ready to put through any drive on very short notice. In the smaller cities and towns the organization was by precincts. Ninety of our ninety-two counties were organ- ized. This close organization was perfected for the registra- tion drive and was retained as a permanent organization. (11) 12 REGISTRATION When the Woman's Committee of the Council of National Defense created the Department of Registration for the Woman's Committee of the State Councils of Defense they had in mind that the women of each State in the United States should be intelligently registered for work during the war, for reconstruction work immediately following the war, and for work as long as the present registration was deemed practical. Mrs. R. Harry Miller, State Chairman The women of Indiana used the registration card sent out by the Woman's Committee of the Council of National De- fense. This card consisted of ten divisions: Agricultural, Clerical, Domestic, Industrial, Professional, Public Service, Social Service, Red Cross and Allied Relief, Miscellaneous and Contributions. These divisions were divided into classes, trained and untrained workers — workers ready to be called upon at a moment's notice for all kinds of woman's activities in the industrial world. There were 172 occupations for women listed under the ten divisions of the registration card, while large numbers of additional vocations were sent in by 1 o each county chairman. All students of women's colleges in Indiana were registered for war work. The State Registra- tion Committee sent out 700,000 registration cards. The work for registration of women in Indiana was given to Miss Julia Landers in January, 1918, and under her super- vision the registration organization of the State was almost entirely developed. County Chairmen were appointed, who in turn appointed Township and Precinct Chairmen. As a result the organization for registration was splendidly developed throughout the State. The failure of the official registration cards to come from the national headquarters after the State organization for registration was almost in perfect condition, retarded the registration work in Indiana to such an extent that many counties in the State were compelled to limit their registration work owing to the fact that they organized on the ten days basis as outlined by the National Registration Committee. Miss Landers resigned as State Chairman of the Regis- tration Committee, and on September 11, 1918, Mrs. R. Harry Miller, of Indianapolis, was appointed to succeed her. The new chairman, upon assuming her duties, made every effort to finish the state registration work. The registration cards have been filed in cabinets and are in most counties kept in the court house, and always in a safe and convenient place. This registration proved most valuable during the influenza epidemic, when many women were needed to act as emergency nurses and relief workers, and they were found immediately by referring to the registration cards. These cards have been used in a like manner upon other occa- sions, and we feel that the registration has been very much worth while. Following is a summary of the report as sent in by the ninety-two counties in Indiana: Number of counties organized for registration, 89. Full report with Summary received from 66 counties. General report without Summary from 18 counties. Registration taken but no report sent to State Chairman, 4 counties. Organized but no registration taken, 1 county. No organization, no registration, 3 counties. Total registration from 84 counties, 626,292. Indiana at the close of its registration of women for war work was second only to Michigan in the percentage of women registered. 14 The following letter received from Washington was a splendid testimonial to the patriotism of the women of Indiana : Council of National Defense, Field Division. Washington, February 27, 1919. Mrs. Charles A. Carlisle, 83 State House,- Indianapolis, Ind.: My Dear Mrs. Carlisle — We are very glad to have your registration report, which came in yesterday, in time to be included in our reports of the Woman's Committee work which are now being completed. We were very much gratified to learn of the excellent results of your campaign, and I know that you will be pleased to know that Indiana stands second only to Michigan in the percentage of women registered. Let me also compliment you and Mrs. Miller most warmly on the form in which the returns have been tabulated. With thanks for this record, I am Very truly yours, (Signed) Hannah J. Patterson, Associate Director. FOOD PRODUCTION The Food Production Committee of the Woman's Section of the Council of Defense, organized January, 1918, to con- form to all war activities, by having a state, county, town- ship and precinct chairman. This committee had for its object several definite things: To stimulate food production among women by encourag- ing all clubs, leagues and garden associations to get in touch with the state agricultural college, the agricultural agents and home demonstration agents, and get all aid and advice first hand. The advantage of this procedure was to avoid duplication of organization for food production; to avoid duplication of reports and duplication in the mailing list of the Department at Washington, D. C, and Purdue University. An attempt was made to avoid the mistake of 1917, when the same gar- dens were reported several times, making a splendid report as a whole, but not borne out by facts. Another purpose of this committee was to get as much patriotism in the back yard, with the hoe and rake, as there was on the street and platform. The reports from all over the State show that women did respond to the appeal, and the number of gardens in 1918 over 15 1917 were three thousand and eighty. Women cultivated gardens who had never made one before; others who had gotten out of the way, because labor was cheap or the gar- deners could furnish all vegetables at a very minimum cost. The County Chairmen, almost without exception, reported an enthusiasm to carry out all plans for more and better gardens, and the local papers without dissent carried garden Mrs. Hortense Tapp Moore, State Chairman "Notes and Hints." The county agents in two counties were the garden supervisors themselves, and the county superin- tendents of schools, Sunday schools and clubs did everything asked of them in distributing seeds and taking the surveys. The County Chairmen compiled new mailing lists for Purdue University and Washington, formed an exchange for garden seeds, and furnished plans for cold frames. HOME ECONOMICS Your Chairman was also the Home Economics Director for Indiana under the Food Administration, and combined this work with the work of the Home Economics Committee of the Woman's Section of the State Council of Defense, using 16 the work was largely co-operative with the agents. Many of the counties did excellent work, but were negligent about sending in reports to the chairman, so the report of the year's work is not as complete as it should have been, one chairman in each county for both lines of activity. In the counties where there were Home Demonstration Agents The following were some of the activities of the committee : Mary L. Matthews, State Chairman First. The Potato Campaign, which was a piece of work which the Food Administration asked to have carried out. The County Chairmen were all sent literature giving direc- tions for the use of potatoes, suggestions for the campaign, etc., and were asked to work out methods for promoting the campaign which were adapted to their own counties. A great deal was done through the schools and by giving demonstra- tions before various women's organizations. There was a very large increase in the use of potatoes, and the crop was pretty well utilized before the new potatoes came on the market. Second. The Wheatless Campaign, in which we urged the women to put on a series of demonstrations in each county showing the use of the wheat substitutes. The County Chair- 17 men were asked to arrange the meetings and look after the local expenses in connection with the demonstrations. The demonstrators were as a rule sent out from Purdue Univer- sity. Many of the women were active in putting on demon- strations themselves, and in some places the college girls helped them. Third. During the county fairs all counties in which fairs were held were asked to put on a conservation exhibit. These exhibits were many of them extremely good and most of them were put on by the Home Economics Chairman unless there was a Home Demonstration Agent in the county. Fourth. A column was kept running by the Home Eco- nomics Chairman in the Indiana Bulletin, issued by the State Council of Defense. This column was copied in many of the county papers and seemed to be of a good deal of value. A good many of the County Chairmen have edited columns in the local newspapers giving recipes and points about conser- vation of food. Fifth. A Sugar Saving Campaign was put on during the canning season. Literature on the use of sugar substitutes was sent to all chairmen cind they were urged to put on demonstrations showing the use of sugar substitutes. Hun- dreds of bulletins on sugar saving were distributed. Sixth. A great many bulletins were distributed, most of these being supplied by the United States Food Administra- tion and the Extension Department of Purdue University. Seventh. Miscellaneous work done. In some of the coun- ties the women arranged to help in doing the canning in the factories during the busy season when enough regular help was not available. The conservation of textiles and clothing was the work outlined for the fall, and many counties prepared for exhibits of made-over clothing, talks on conservation of textiles, etc. The conservation of health through better home manage- ment was the subject of many talks during the year. In many cases the Food Clubs organized by the Food Administration were very helpful in organizing and carrying out the various campaigns. Much other work was done, it varying with the need of the county. The chairmen in the counties were most of them very active and did excellent work. 2— 1C363 CHILD WELFARE The Child Welfare Committee was organized in the Woman's Section of the State Council of Defense, January, 1918. Mrs. Albion Fellows Bacon, of Evansville, was made chairman of this committee. Mrs. Bacon's life-long devotion to the interests of children, her org-anizing ability, and the love and respect in which she is held over the whole State, down to the lowliest hamlet, combined to make her choice for this place a most happy one, as the success of Children's Year in Indiana has proved. Mrs. Albion Fellows Bacon, State Chairman Organization The state organization is made up of three committees: Executive, Advisory, and Honorary Committees. Mrs. James P. Goodrich, the wife of the Governor, is Honorary Chairman for the whole state child welfare work. The middle of No- vember, 1918, a Field Secretary was added to the staff. These state committees include representatives of the chief agencies in the State doing child welfare work: the two State Universities, the Board of State Charities, the State 19 Board of Health, the State Industrial Board, the State De- partment of Public Instruction, the Indiana Anti-Tuberculosis Society, the Public Health Nursing- Association, the Indiana Girls' School, the Indiana Boys' School, the Indiana Federa- tion of Women's Clubs, the American Red Cross, the Asso- ciation of Indiana Secretaries of Charity Organizations, the State Association of City Superintendents of Schools, the In- diana Children's Bureau, and the Boys' Working Reserve. Eighty-nine counties are organized with a Child Welfare Chairman and sub-committees reaching to all the townships. These chairmen report to the State Chairman, who is respon- sible to the Child Conservation Section of the Council of Na- tional Defense, through Mrs. Anne Studebaker Carlisle, Chair- man of the Woman's Section of the State Council of Defense. Plan op Work The committee receives general plans for work from Wash- ington and, after changing these plans to suit Indiana con- ditions, passes them on to the county organizations. It ini- tiates plans of its own for dealing with child welfare needs in the State and urges its county organizations to plan as much local work of their own as possible. It co-operates with other child welfare agencies. State and national; aids and encourages all proper kinds of child welfare work in the State, and reports the work of other agencies. State Meetings May 9, 1918, a state conference on child welfare was held in Indianapolis, with a program of state speakers and Miss Julia C. Lathrop of the Federal Children's Bureau. At Evans- ville in October, 1918, an entire evening session of the Indiana Conference of Charities and Correction was given over to child welfare with state speakers and Dr. Jessica B. Peixotto of the Child Conservation Section on the program. In Indian- apolis in December, 1918, an all-day meeting was held of the state committees and others interested in child welfare. At Indianapolis, the 17th of April, the work of Children's Year was reported by Mrs. Bacon at a meeting of all women war workers of the State called by Mrs. Anne Studebaker Carlisle to mark the formal closing of the Woman's Section of the State Council of Defense. At this meeting Mrs. Bacon stated 20 that the work of the Child Welfare Committee would go stead- ily on and announced plans for the future of the work in Indiana. Work Undertaken The first task undertaken by the committee was a brief survey of school attendance. This survey showed that prac- tically all children of legal school age were in school. The second task was the weighing and measuring drive. This drive roused an interest in child welfare that swept the State from end to end, even the backward counties joining the movement with the greatest enthusiasm. Total numbers have not yet been reported, but definite figures have been received that 94,814 children under six were weighed and measured. It is estimated that from 33% to 50% of these were in some way below normal. The chief defects discovered were diseased tonsils, adenoids, undernourishment, bad teeth, circumcision needed, hernia, tuberculosis, defective eyes, heart trouble, defective hearing. Definite results of this drive were apparent immediately. Operations were performed, defects corrected and medical attention secured. The follow-up work is still continuing. Many communities realized, as not before, the importance of baby health centers and public health nurses, and are making- efforts to secure these. The third task for the committees was the recreation drive. Counties were asked to appoint Recreation Directors. A num- ber of counties held patriotic celebrations the Fourth of July and a number celebrated "Patriotic Play Week" in the late summer and early fall, with various exercises, exhibits, pageants, etc. The fourth task undertaken was the Back-to-School and the Stay-in-School Campaigns. Because of the influenza epi- demic this work could not be started until the spring of 1919. The months of April and May find the committee still engaged in an investigation of the number of children between the ages of fourteen and sixteen out of school, and in an intensive publicity campaign to rouse interest in returning and retain- ing these children in the schools, thus laying a foundation for the Back-to-School Campaign to be conducted again next autumn. During January and February, 1919, the committee joined 21 forces with other agencies of the State and gave its entire attention to securing child welfare legislation. Some of the most important measures secured were: $20,000 appropria- tion for the fight against venereal diseases, $10,000 for a Department of Child Hygiene in the State Board of Health, $10,000 for a Division of Tuberculosis in the State Board of Health, $5,000 for the distribution of the Indiana Mothers' Bal:y Book, a provision for a Bureau of Women and Children in Industry in the State Industrial Board, a law for the main- tenance and supervision of courses in physical education in the elementary and high schools, a provision for the estab- lishment of a state farm colony for feeble-minded, a bill pro- viding for commitments of patients to the Indiana School for Feeble-Minded Youth by the circuit courts, the ratification of the Federal Prohibition Amendment, the establishment and maintenance of a free employment service, which will include junior placement, a bill creating a commission to study child welfare and social conditions, and an amendment to the Board of Guardians Act to permit boarding children with their own mothers. Plans for the Future The committee will continue as a State Committee of Child Welfare, working directly under the National Child Conser- vation Section. The immediate tasks before it are: First, the finishing of the Stay-in-School Campaign in preparation for a second Back-to-School Campaign in the autumn; second, a recreational program for the summer; third, a Baby-Saving Campaign for the summer, and, fourth, preparation for a legislative program for 1921. HEALTH AND RECREATION COMMITTEE The work of the Health and Recreation Committee has been, primarily, to guard the physical and moral welfare of our soldiers and sailors in every possible way while they have been stationed in Indiana, and to provide for them such pleas- ant and healthful recreation as would make them happy, con- tented and cheerful. President Wilson very wisely said : "The spirit with which our soldiers leave America, and their efficiency on the battle fronts of Europe, will be vitally affected ty the character of 22 the environment surrounding our military training camps." As more and more young men joined the service of the army and navy, and new camps were constructed all over the United States, the verj^ natural problem of the young girls and their proper relations to the men arose, and protective work on behalf of some of the girls became a part of the task of the Health and Recreation Committee. Mrs. George C. Hitt, State Chairman It is most important that the men and women of our State should understand that the Woman's Section of the State Council of Defense was a "clearing house" for the patriotic activities of women. The intent was to make use of any existing organizations, thus conserving the force of all women, and not creating new ones for doing the work unless it was absolutely necessary to do so. In some of the woman's com- mittees, and notably the Health and Recreation Committee, the work was almost entirely co-operative and not initiative. Through the Chairmen of the Woman's Section of the County Councils of Defense a Health and Recreation Chair- man was appointed in practically every county early in the year, and over fifty important state organizations of women 23 offered the patriotic services of their members in any way or at any time in which they might be needed. A great part of the health and recreation work in the camps has been done by the Commission on Training Camp Activities, which was appointed by the War Department in 1917. This commission was composed entirely of men under the chairmanship of Mr. Raymond Fosdick. The War Camp Community Service Board of Indiana, under the enthusiastic leadership of Mr. Walter P. Pfaff and an efficient corps of assistants, was untiring in its efforts to furnish every form of entertainment and pleasure to the men stationed in Indianapolis and in four or five other cities in the State. Mrs. Ralph Kennington of this board was the Marion County Chairman of the Health and Recreation Committee. The soldiers and sailors have especially appreciated and enjoyed the cordial and friendly hospitality they have received in many private families during their stay in Indiana. The Woman's Civic League volunteered to take over the delicate and important "protective" work which might be necessary in the care of young girls who were about the camps and en the streets without chaperonage. In response to a bulletin that was sent out by the State Chairman to the county chairmen of the Health and Recrea- tion Committee in April, 1918, many thousands of good books were secured for the service libraries, and the chairmen of Lagrange and Dearborn counties sent generous checks for the purchase of the newest books on technical subjects for the use of the soldiers. Women from all over the State gladly sent contributions of soap, jelly, fruits, eggs, butter, etc., to be used for the comfort of the invalids during the influenza panic. In the limited space of this report it is impossible to speak of all the organizations and individuals who have so compe- tently assisted the Health and Recreation Committee to ac- complish its work, but the State Chairman of this committee desires to thank every one who has helped in this patriotic task. She desires to state, in conclusion, that the Hotel Albert on East Ohio Street has been fitted up for a club house for soldiers and sailors as long as it may be needed, and the Y. W. C. A. built a "hostess house" at Fort Benjamin Harrison. 24 LIBERTY LOAN COMMITTEE Mrs. Alice Foster McCulloch, State Chairman The Woman's Liberty Loan Committee of Indiana was created late in September, 1917, just as the second Liberty Loan Campaign opened. With so Httle time to create an organization it was impossible to appoint county chairmen for all the counties in the State, and in only about a third of the counties were there active branches of this committee. Even with such a small percentage of the women at work, the Woman's Liberty Loan Committee was able to report that the bonds sold through that committee amounted to over $6,000,000. The work of this committee for the year from January, 1918, to January, 1919, has included two Liberty Loan cam- paigns — the third and fourth. In the first campaign, which extended from April 6th to May 4th, every county in the State, with one exception, had an active chairman, who per- fected and directed an organization composed entirely of v/omen in her county. The sales of the women's organization were kept separate from the men's organization and totaled $23,596,850, 37% of the entire quota and 25% of all bonds actually sold. With few exceptions, county chairmen were reappointed to serve during the Fourth Liberty Loan Campaign, only six- teen chairmen out of the entire ninety-two handing in their resignations, either because of ill health or because of a change in residence. The women showed the same devotion to the cause and worked as untiringly as during the third drive. Because of the decision of many counties to use the volunteer or allotment plan, the women's organization was merged more closely with that of the men. In many counties no separate account was made of the women's sales, an agree- ment having been made to credit the women's organization with 50% of the total receipts. This was true in fifty- three counties. The amount of sales credited to the women's organ- ization for these counties was $51,098,030. In the remaining counties, the women had well-defined women's organizations and sold only to women or made a house-to-house canvass and the totals are for actual sales. These amount to $17,822,191. From data which has been collected we find that over 22,000 25 women in Indiana were actively engaged in the work of float- ing Liberty Bonds. During both campaigns Mrs. Jessie Fremont Croan, of Anderson, served as state organizer, conducting helpful meet- ings in the different counties, at which she explained the organization and work of the Woman's Liberty Loan Com- mittee and brought home to the workers the great part that the women might play in this particular form of war work. Mrs. William Herschell, of Indianapolis, directed the Pub- licity Bureau and was able to reach the women of the State by sending articles to papers in every county in the State. In this way everj^ county knew what was being done in the other counties and a friendly spirit of rivalry was created. Mrs. Fred W. Lauenstein, as one of the vice-chairmen of the state committee, assumed active supervision of the twenty- four counties in the southern part of the State which lie in the Eighth Federal Reserve Banking District. The women in that district sold $3,348,400 in the Third Liberty Loan. Their sales in the Fourth Loan amounted to $6,172,786. Miss Mabel C. Pettigrew and Mrs. Horace C. Stillwell, of Anderson, also served as vice-chairmen, each of them super- vising work in a part of the counties in the Seventh Federal Reserve District. The Woman's Liberty Loan Committee is indebted to the Woman's Section of the State and County Councils of Defense for the help and co-operation which they gave, both in the organization of the county units and in the active work of floating the loan. The Fourteen-Minute Women spoke at meetings both large and small in both loans. Women's organizations all over the State aided materially by canvassing their organizations as such and encouraging their members to take part in the local campaigns. The splendid results by this committee are due not to any one woman or group of women, but to all the women of Indiana who worked faithfully and conscientiously, whether their part was to sell bonds, to do clerical work, to make speeches, or to act on the Advisory Committee. 26 HOME AND FOREIGN RELIEF Mrs. Arthur B. Grover, State Chairman The report of the Home and Foreign ReUef Committee is necessarily brief, because the work which would naturally be taken care of by this committee is practically covered by the American Red Cross, Y. W. C. A., War Work Council, Travel- ers' Aid, French Relit^f and other organizations. Not only does the stupendous task of caring for the military forces and the refugees overseas belong to -the Red Cross, but also caring for those in service in this country and the families left behind. The work of the Red Cross Home Service includes not only material helps, but other services, such as correspond- ence concerning allotments or allowances, locating soldiers or the relatives of soldiers. In July, 1918, the announcement came from the Woman's Committee of the Council of National Defense that they had been instructed to secure 25,000 student nurses to be assigned to the military and civilian hospitals throughout the United States, and advising that Indiana's quota was 1,500. The drive to secure this number continued from July 29th to August 11th, and the result was 1,030 applicants, which we considered a good showing when taken in connection with the fact that the applicants were asked to defray all expenses of equipment and transportation, etc. The Woman's Com- mittee of the Council of National Defense advised us that three States surpassed the quota assigned to them, three others made over 85%, and sixteen States over 50%. Indiana secured practicalh'' 69% of her quota. The report from the Indianapolis Chapter of the Father- less Children of France shows that by their efforts during the past year over 800 orphans have been adopted in this State. This number includes new names and the renewal of previous annual pledges. The French Relief, branch of the American Fund for French Wounded, reports an average monthly shipment of 1,254 hospital garments, 674 miscellaneous articles and 565 civilian garments. 27 COMMITTEE ON MAINTENANCE OF EXISTING SOCIAL SERVICE AGENCIES (Abbreviated Eeport, November, 1917-November 12, 1918.) The purpose of this committee was that of maintaining the same standards of social service activities during- the war as existed during peace. The first duty of the State Chair- man of this committee was that of securing the appointment of a representative of the committee in each county, and as a result of much correspondence the committee consisted of seventy-five County Chairmen. Miss Vida Newsom, State Chairman 1. The first work of the committee was to ascertain to what extent the social service agencies in the State were affected by the w^ar. Accordingly, a questionnaire, prepared by the Council of National Defense, was sent to each County Chairman, requesting that a copy of same be forwarded to each social service agency in her county and that a report be made to the State Chairman of the results thus obtained. Forty-seven more or less complete reports were received from County Chairmen. Many of these note that the resources of certain social service agencies, financially and in workers, had been curtailed on account of the war. Besides the lack of funds for carrying' on the work properly, among the spe- cific needs of the various agencies listed in the replies to the questionnaire were those for the district nurse, for volunteer workers, assistance with clerical work, and for motor service. The county members were referred to the records of the County Chairman for registration of women for war service, in the hope that these might supply the helpers for the par- ticular service needed. A few County Chairmen were fairly successful in supplying volunteer workers, auto service and clerical aid to the social service agencies in their communities. 2. The committee emphasized the importance of conserv- ing these agencies for safeguarding the public welfare, at as many public meetings as possible. To this end the State Chairman presented this subject at several of the waj; con- ferences earh^ in the year. She gave a short talk on the purpose, plans and accomplishments of the committee, in June, at Washington, Ind., at the annual meeting of the Municipal League of Indiana, making a plea for the co-operation of the mayors and other city officials in the work of this committee in their own communities. At the request of the local com- mittee of the recent State Conference of Charities and Cor- rection, the State Chairman of this committee gave a fifteen- minute talk on the importance of the committee work, on Sunday evening, October 7, at the Olivet Presbyterian Church in Evansville. During the months of April and May the subject was presented by the County Chairmen of the Com- mittee at seven conventions of the District Federation of Women's Clubs and at one County Federation convention. 3. A Luncheon Round Table of the committee was held on October 7 at the Y. W. C. A. building at Evansville during the State Conference of Charities and Correction. Short addresses were made by Mr. Amos W. Butler, Mrs. Anne Studebaker Carlisle, Prof. Donald DuShane and Miss Virginia R. Wing, of Cleveland, Ohio, who spoke on "The Co-operation of the Home Service and the Maintenance of Existing Social Service Agencies Committee." Mr. Butler's topic was "The Tools That We Have." An informal discussion followed, in which every member of the committee and many others took part and during which time Mr. Butler rendered much assist- 29 ance in answering questions and making- suggestions about various phases of the committee work. The meeting was a success in point of attendance as well ^s- in interest. Fourteen County Committee Chairmen were present, besides a number of others interested in the com- mittee work, making a total of about forty-five women and men, representing twenty-five dilferent counties, in attend- ance at the Luncheon Round Table. 4. This committee was recognized by the Board of State Charities in the conference program, about fifteen members of the committee, representing different sections of the State, having been listed as one of the State Conference committees, and the State Council of Defense Committee meetings, at Evansville, being scheduled as one of the sessions of the State Conference of Charities and Correction, all of which served to emphasize our committee efforts and create interest in the work. Through the courtesy of the Board of State Charities, also, our committee members have each been supplied with a copy of the State Directory of the Charitable and Correc- tional Social Agencies, which has been very helpful to the State Chairman and the committee members in carrying on the committee work. 5. At the request of the Secretary of the Board of State Charities, the State Chairman of this committee prepared an article of about 300 words on "The Importance of Recrea- tion in the Prevention of Juvenile Delinquency," as one of the contributions from social workers in the State and else- where, to be included in the publication of a pamphlet on "Juvenile Delinquency," to be used by the ministers of the State in the observance of "Prison Sunday," October 27. A copy of this pamphlet with a letter was sent to each member of my committee, requesting their co-operation with the Board of State Charities in the distribution of the literature among the ministers of their county, in order that "Prison Sunday," a social service agency of long standing, might be observed this year as heretofore. 6. While this committee was concerned more especially with the maintenance of existing social agencies, where the agencies authorized by law do not exist it is the desire and purpose of the committee to have them appointed. To this • 30 end a letter was sent to each of the fourteen County Chair- men whose counties lack either a Board of County Charities or a Board of Children's Guardians, or both, referring them to the laws pertaining to the appointment of these county boards, requesting that they take up the matter with the judge and endeavor to have the boards appointed, and that they report to the State Chairman of this committee the results of their efforts. EDUCATIONAL PROPAGANDA (November, 1917-November, 1918.) The object of this department as set forth by the National Headquarters was "to strive to counteract the anti-war feel- ing and the existing apathy toward the war." To spread Katharine Merrill Graydon, State Chairman authoritative information seemed the best method for accom- plishing this purpose ; therefore, to her organized counties the Chairman made the following suggestion: 1. That the reading list of books and articles on "Pa- triotism" issued by the New York Public Library be spread 31 among the schools and be used in connection with the Eng- lish Departments. 2. That the pupils of every school should hear at least once a term a stirring address on patriotism or some subject pertaining to the cause for which the Allies were fighting. 3. ''An Appeal to the Patriotism of Students" to remain in school was widely distributed to the students of the State. 4. The forming of adult classes for women for the study of current topics and vital questions of the war was en- couraged. 5. All clubs were encouraged to present programs which would have bearing upon the war. As assistance to those clubs which cared for it, a list of suggestive subjects was prepared, and in pamphlet form under the title of "War Sub- jects for Club Programs" one thousand were sent out. 6. As no institution plays a more conspicuous part in the spreading of information and the forming of intelligent opinion than the library, all County Chairmen were urged to see that the libraries in their domain were meeting their largest privilege. 7. The War Information Series was encouraged to be in every school, in every library, in every home. 8. The Chairman brought to Indianapolis, on February 12, Miss Helen Fraser, of London. Miss Fraser was sent by Mr. Lloyd George to carry a message from the women of England to the women of America. 9. Twenty-five thousand letters were written by the Chairman and sent to the children of the State. 10. A program of educative value, consisting of moving pictures of the war and a patriotic address, was prepared and encouraged, especially for rural districts. 11. A list of themes for graduating essays was sent to high schools as suggestive. 12. In May a report was asked for from each County Chairman. The work done by this committee has been his- tory, and the im.portance of keeping an account of it seemed self-evident. A solemn appeal was made to each Chairman to enter into this work with all the enthusiasm, resource, devotion of her nature, and with county pride and genuine patriotism to give expression in this report worthy of the work done. 32 13. Encouragement was given to each Chairman to bring into her Fourth of July celebration all foreign-born elements in her community. 14. It was suggested that throughout the summer, in any gathering of people, there become during the day some patriotic exercises in which all join, as singing, speeches, pageants, plays, etc. 15. As in the summer it became daily more apparent that educational information about the war should be carried to every rural community, suggestion was made that a quiet, tactful, informal, personal campaign be carried on, not only in schoolhouses, but in yards and hayfields and even by the roadsides. 16. At the request of the Association of American Col- leges, the Chairman was asked to see how many Indiana col- leges would grant scholarships sufficient in value to cover all collegiate expenses for French young women whom the Gov- ernment of France would send to the United States. In addi- tion to Earlham College and DePauw University, which had already expressed a willingness to grant two scholarships each, the following institutions granted scholarships: Butler College, two scholarships. Franklin College, two scholarships. Purdue University, two scholarships. St. Mary of Notre Dame, two scholarships. St. Mary of the Woods, seven scholarships. In all, nineteen scholarships for Indiana. 17. A pamphlet of "War Readings" was prepared by the Chairman for the use of colleges and schools and distributed throughout the State. PUBLICITY COMMITTEE The Publicity Committee of the Woman's Section, State Council of Defense, was organized May 1, 1918, for the pur- pose of disseminating over the State instructions on war work for women from the National Council at Washington and the Woman's Section, State Council of Defense, at Indianapolis, and of giving the women of each county in Indiana informa- tion as to what the women of other counties were doing in the way of war work, thus aiding in the co-ordination and 33 proper carrying' on of the work of every committee of the Woman's Section. The committee consisted of Mrs. Albert Rabb, Chairman, assisted by Mrs. Bernard Korbly, Miss Myrtle Johnson, Miss Fay Banta and Miss Sue Howe. During the enforced absence of the Chairman during the months of August and Septem- ber, the entire work was done by Mrs. Korbly and Miss Johnson. Mrs. Albert Rabb, State Chairman The purpose of the committee was to make the State Publicity Committee a clearing house for news from the vari- ous counties of the State and from Washington headquarters. The working plan was, briefly, as follows: To have a pub- licity chairman appointed in every county by the woman member of the County Council of Defense, whose duties should be to publish in the county papers whatever news was sent to her by the State Publicity Committee, and in turn to send to the State Committee all items of interest concerning the war work of the women of that county. To assist in the work, the Publicity Committee sent out to the County Publicity Chairmen each week a News-Letter 3-1 366 34 containing items of interest concerning war work over the State and news and instructions from Washington headquar- ters. These items the Pubhcity Chairman was instructed to have pubhshed in her county papers each week. The State Committee carefully went through, each week, the reports sent in from the counties, each member of the committee having certain subjects assigned to her, as food production, registration, etc., and from these reports prepared articles for the Indianapolis papers and for the National News Committee at Washington, and chose items for use in the News-Letter. Contributions were made each week also on reports of the county work to the Woman's Section column of "The Indiana Bulletin of War Activities and Food Regulations." Each week the State Publicity Committee sent to the Washington News Committee brief statements of unique and interesting work along various lines, and was assured that all these items were made use of in various publications. Accounts of the Fourteen-Minute Women's Speakers' Bu- reau, with a picture of its organizer, appeared, through the committee, in the Woman's Home Companion and The Pic- torial Review. The first number of the Community Department of The Delineator (March, 1919), was devoted entirely to Indiana women's war activities, containing an account of Spencer County's Community Canner and a gardening experiment at Richmond, Indiana. Acknowledgment must here be made of the co-operation of the city and county papers of this State, to whose gen- erous help in every way, particularly in the many drives, child welfare. Red Cross nurses, etc., much of the success of the work was due. In a fine and comprehensive article, entitled "State Press Mirrors Women's Work," by Miss Myrtle Johnson of the Pub- licity Committee, published in The Indianapolis Star, she pays tribute to this co-operation of the press of the State and also to the efficient publicity women of the counties, saying: "The record of Indiana women's war work accumulated by the publicity women of our State alone, makes unique and inter- esting history." 35 WOMEN IN INDUSTRY When the Indiana Committee on Women in Industry of the State Council of Defense was first appointed Mrs. Mabel Many, head of the Garment Workers' Union, was made Chair- man. Finding that she would be unable to give the needed time to the work, Mrs. Many resigned late in December, 1918, and Miss Eleanor P. Barker was made Chairman. Miss Eleanor P. Barker, State Chairman The Women in Industry Service, United States Depart- ment of Labor, had just completed its survey of industrial conditions in Indiana, and the Indiana committee immediately availed itself of the help and material so generously supplied from Washington. Nine conferences were planned for the largest industrial centers in the State. Here the state com- mittee tried to bring together union and nonunion workers, employer and employee, representatives of civic and social organizations, for a free discussion of the following bills: 1. A limitation of the hours of labor for women, the eight-hour day being the ideal toward which all should work. 2. An adequate child labor bill. 3. A bureau of women and children created under the Industrial Board, to consist of a woman director and three assistants. 36 4. A bill reorg-anizing the Industrial Board, giving it power to make rulings over conditions. Such conferences were held at Richmond, Fort Wayne, South Bend, Hammond, Kokomo, Terre Haute, Evansville, Anderson and Indianapolis. Miss Agnes Peterson of the Women in Industry Service, United States Department of Labor, and Miss Anne Davis of the Children's Bureau spoke at each of these conferences. A two-day conference was held in Indianapolis, and this committee was able to present to the delegates such speakers as Miss Mary Van Kleeck, National Chairman of the Women in Industry Service, United States Department of Labor; Miss Agnes Nestor, President of the Woman's Trade Union League of Chicago, and Mrs. Raymond Robins, together with repre- sentatives from our neighboring States of Ohio, Illinois and Kentucky. One of the most unique and successful meetings of the Indianapolis conference was the army dinner at Tomlinson Hall. A canteen supper was served and the women war work- ers from all the leading industries came directly from their work, some in overalls, to join in the community sing and together consider the industrial problems of today. Over three thousand copies of the industrial survey made in Indiana by the Women in industry Service were distributed through the Indiana committee, and enough public interest aroused to establish permanent committees in a number of the conference towns. Only one bill on the industrial program was passed by the Legislature, and that in such form that its value is extremely doubtful. Passed as a part of the appropriation bill was a provision for a division of women and children under the Industrial Board, with a woman director as head of the divi- sion. No definite number of assistants is named and no spe- cial appropriation is made to carry on the work. This means that the whole fight must come again in the next Legislature, but the value of the work done by this committee lies in the fact that enough interest has been aroused to keep the prob- lems alive in the public mind, so that when these same bills again come up for consideration there will be sufficient under- standing of their importance to insure their passage in the next session. "FOURTEEN-MINUTE WOMEN" SPEAKERS' BUREAU OF INDIANA Believing that the women speakers of Indiana could and should be an influence in disseminating knowledge and facts concerning the world war and in arousing the people of the State to a sense of their duty in carrying out war measures, Mrs. Julia C. Henderson of Indianapolis conceived the idea and began the organization of a group of speakers known as the "Fourteen-Minute Women" of Indiana. Mrs. Julia C. Henderson, State Chairman The organization was begun in Marion County to advance the work of the Food Administration, and so effective and so helpful was the bureau found to be that suggestion was made by Dr. H. E. Barnard, Federal Food Administrator for Indiana, that the State be organized as had Marion County. At about the same time Mrs. Anne Studebaker Carlisle, Chair- man of the Woman's Section of the State Council of Defense, realizing that the work was most important and helpful, appealed to the Chairman to bring the work under the Wom- an's Section of the State Council, where she felt it rightfully belonged, since it was distinctly a woman's work. 38 After conferring- together, Dr. Barnard and Mrs. Carlisle decided that the bureau should have its place in the Woman's Section, with the consent of its Chairman, but that the food work should be advanced by the speakers along with the many other war activities in which the women were so vitally in- terested. Consequently the organization of the State was begun by counties, each County Chairman of the Woman's Section being asked to appoint at least ten speakers for her county, the County Chairman or her appointee to schedule such speakers where most needed, the State Chairman to furnish them with such data in the way of literature and helps as would equip them for the work in hand. The work of the bureau was, largely, to advance the interests of the various committees of the Woman's Section. The speakers have been especially successful in advancing the Child Welfare Work, the Registration of Women for War Service, Food Conservation, United States Student Nurse Re- serve, Red Cross, United States Boys' Working Reserve, and like war activities. The bureau was also in demand by large organizations, formed for the furthering of war interests and war meas- ures, in which it was desired the whole people should have a part. To this end the speakers were used in two Liberty Loan Campaigns, were sought by the "United War Work Campaign" and the "War Victory Commission" of the Gen- eral Federation of Women's Clubs, and stood ready at all times to raise their voices in behalf of their country's good. At a state conference of the bureau held in May, 1918, at the Claypool Hotel, Indianapolis, reports showed that the remotest parts of every county organized had been covered by the "Fourteen-Minute Women" speakers. A yearly report of work actually accomplished reveals the fact that thousands of speeches have been made throughout the State, with results which have been far beyond the high- est hopes of the Chairman or those most interested. The number of county v/ar conferences covered by capable women speakers from the bureau was seventy-four out of the ninety- two counties of the State. In some of the counties the war conferences were not held. The women of Indiana, thus unified and equipped for effec- tive, concentrated war service, made a remarkable record. 39 The work of the bureau was purely voluntary, from the Chairman to the last woman appointed. The tremendous work in putting such a venture through, the talent, time and energy of the speakers, all has been given most generously, as a patriotic contribution by the women of Indiana to their country and to their State in its hour of need. AMERICANIZATION On May 2nd, 1918, at a meeting called by Mrs. Carlisle, representatives of the different state women's organizations met to organize for concerted work in Americanization. Mrs. I^^^^^^^^Hf ■^ ^^^^^^^1 ■ ■^^M ^i^P t|p^ ^H| Sh ^^^^^m. »>''^^*^0'' ^hIHh ^^^^^^^^HB^hI '*\f^wu ^H ^^mM HH ^H^Bh J^f'M w^mK ''Fmm ^^^^^^^^mmlM f ^Bk /JBb b^^b ^^^^Wf ^^F- 'M^K Mm^M ^mmi mi Mrs. Arthur Charles, State Chairman Arthur S. Hurrell of Indianapolis was elected permanent Chairman and became a member of the Executive Committee of the Woman's Section. A committee was appointed to divide the organizations into units, each unit to be responsible for a definite phase of the work and the combined units to make a complete whole to cover the field, the purpose being to unify our nation in language, ideals and allegiance. The working basis of Mrs. Hurrell's plan consisted of six 4U essential units: Educational extension^ social service, indus- trial work, health standards, naturalization, and war infor- mation. The Americanization work was well under way when Mrs. Hurrell, on August 17th, resigned to take up her residence in the East. A State Chairman to succeed her was not appointed until October 14th, when Mrs. Arthur Charles of Richmond accepted the chairmanship. Mrs. Charles took up the work where Mrs. Hurrell had left it, issued bulletins and was get- ting her committee well in hand when the armistice was signed, after which our part of the work was taken over by other agencies. ENTERTAINMENT COMMITTEE Mrs. Ovid B. Jameson, State Chairman The Entertainment Committee was organized in April, 1918, with Mrs. Ovid B. Jameson as Chairman. This com- mittee took over the management of the social affairs in con- nection with conferences, meetings, luncheons, etc., that were held by the Woman's Section. 41 THE MOTOR CORPS OF INDIANA In May, 1918, the Woman's Section of the Indiana State Council of Defense appointed Mrs. Samuel Ralston and Mrs. Helen Dean to organize the Motor Corps of Indiana, with Mrs. Dean as Commanding Officer. In accordance with the policy of the State Council to assist all branches of war work, the purpose of this organization of women motor drivers was to expedite war work by serving all accredited war organizations. Colonel Helen Dean, State Commanding Officer In June, owing to the scope of the work, the State was divided into three sections, with Miss Catherine Oliver of South Bend in command of the northwestern section. Mrs. Dean was commissioned Colonel and Miss Oliver, Major, by Governor Goodrich. Each county corps was organized with the co-operation of the woman member of the County Council, and the Com- mander of the corps was appointed on her nomination. All officers, after giving satisfactory service foi' a specified period, received commissions from the Governor. 42 The two branches of .service were military and auxihary. The service was the same for both, except in amount, but the miHtary wore regulation khaki uniforms. Drill and a mechanical course were compulsory for the military and optional with the auxiliary members. Mr. Carl Fisher donated beautifully equipped headquarters for the State Commander and the Marion County corps. Mr. Harry Stutz gave the corps a splendid Stutz ambulance. In order to bring the corps into even closer touch with the organizations it served, the Woman's Section in August appointed an Advisory Board, including Mrs. Samuel Ralston (representing the Council), Mrs. William Elder (representing the Red Cross), Mrs. Samuel Murdock (representing the Canteen), Mrs. Thomas Kackley (representing the Young Women's Christian Association), and the wife of the Com- mandant at Fort Harrison. On October 10th the Woman's Section offered the State Corps to the Lake Division of the Red Cross. This action was taken because, on account of the Red Cross hospital and canteen work, it was necessary for the Red Cross to have its own motor corps, and the Council of Defense believed, in the interest of patriotic efficiency, there should not be two corps in the State. Word of the acceptance of the corps was received October 28th, and, on the recommendation of Mr. Foley and Mrs. Carlisle, the Red Cross appointed Colonel Dean to organ- ize a Red Cross Motor Corps in Indiana. During the five months of its organization and service under the Woman's Section, the corps made fine progress. It grew to a membership of about 700 members, including corps in seventeen counties. Additional corps were in the process of organization. In September the corps answered over 700 calls, served about 2,500 hours, with a mileage report of about 8,500 miles. It received commendation for service during the Fourth Liberty Loan. During the recent influenza epidemic some county corps were on night duty with ambulance calls and transportation of doctors, nurses and oxygen tanks, in addition to the heavy day service necessary. REPORTS OF COUNTY COUNCILS Women's Section, State Council of Defense ADAMS COUNTY Chairman, Mrs. Mary E. Artman, Decatur Executive Committee, County Chaio-vien of Com^mittees Registration for Woman's Service. . .Mrs. Anna E. McConnell, Decatur. Food Production .' . . , .Miss Leota Beery, Decatur. Home Economics Mrs. Mary E. Artman, Decatur. Child Welfare Mrs. William A. Lower, Decatur. Health and Recreation Dr. Elizabeth Burns, Decatur. Food Administration Miss Leota Beery, Decatur. Liberty Loan ' . Fay Smith Knapp, Decatur. Maintaining Existing Social Service Agencies Mrs. Paul Marsh, Decatur. Educational Propaganda Mrs. E. K. Shalley, Decatur. Home and Foreign Relief Dr. Elizabeth Burns, Decatur. Publicity Jesse Magley, Decatur. Americanization Mrs. Canna Fritztoe, Decatur. Fourteen-Minute Women Mrs. Cora Downs, Decatur. Adams County was further organized by townships, a Chairman in each township. Following is a partial report of what was accomplished through the splendid co-operation of all the women: In Socks for Soldiers' Campaign, 300 pairs were made. Women registered for war service, 4,009. Babies examined, 2,460. Speeches by Fourteen-Minute Women, 28. Food demonstrations, 2 days. Attendance at demonstrations, 100 women. Food clubs, 10. Collected for Red Cross, Decatur Chapter, $26,033.03. In the Liberty Loan drives the women exceeded their quota in every instance. (43) 44 ALLEN COUNTY Chairman, MRS. A. J. Detzer, Fort Wayne Executive Covtmittee, County Chairmen of Committees Registration for Woman's Service. . .Mrs. E. M. Wilson, Fort Wayne. Food Production Mrs. H. G. Keegan, Fort Wayne. Home Economics Mrs. F. M. Cutshall, Fort Wayne. Child Welfare Dr. Jessica C. Calvin, Fort Wayne. Liberty Loan Mrs. J. B. Crankshaw, Fort Wayne. Food Administration Mrs. F. H. Cutshall, Fort Wayne. Educational Propaganda Miss Margaret McPhail, Fort Wayne. Home and Foreign Relief Miss Margaret Vesey, Fort Wayne. Publicity Mrs. A. J. Detzer, Fort Wayne. Women in Industry Miss Ignota White, Fort Wayne. Americanization Mrs. Paul Mossman, Fort Wayne. Fourteen-Minute Women Mrs. Robert Harding, Fort Wayne. Number of women registered for service, 23,259. Excellent results were obtained from the examination of children under six years of age, the most important of which was the establishing- of a new swimming pool, well supervised, and a free clinic. The free clinic was equipped and is main- tained by the Junior Red Cross. Women were most active in Red Cross work and the various drives. In the Fourth Liberty Loan there were 797 women workers, who were credited with $3,882,500. In the Third Liberty Loan the Woman's Committee was credited with subscriptions amounting to $1,542,700. BARTHOLOMEW COUNTY Chairman, Mrs. Herriott Crump Overstreet, Columbus; Mrs. Mary Best, Columbus Executive Committee, County Chairmen of Co'>nmittees Registration for Woman's Service. . .Mrs. 0. G. Patterson, Columbus. Food Production . Mrs. Will Newsom, Columbus. Home Economics Mrs. Elnora Herzsch, Columbus. Child Welfare Mrs. S. H. Morrison, Columbus. Health and Recreation Dr. Bertha A. Clouse, Columbus. Food Administration Mrs. Franz Best, Columbus. Liberty Loan Miss Vida Newsom, Columbus. Maintaining Existing Social Service Agencies Miss Vida Newsom, Columbus. 45 Educational Propaganda Mrs. H. C. Clay, Columbus. Publicity Mrs. Mary Best, Columbus. Women in Industry Mrs. Lucretia Condo, Columbus. Americanization Mrs. Mai-y Best, Columbus. Fourteen-Minute Women Mrs. E. E. Edenburn, Columbus. The Woman's Section of this County Council was organized in November, 1917, with Mrs. Harriott Crump Overstreet of Columbus as the Chairman, The organization developed under Mrs. Overstreet's direction, but on account of ill health she was forced to resign in May, 1918, when Mrs. Mary Best was appointed to succeed her. Women registered for war service, 7,846. Amount credited to women in Liberty Loan drives, $718,575. Speeches by Fourteen-Minute Women, 14. Food canning demonstrations, 16. Cook books and leaflets distributed (approximately), 3,500. Food clubs, 35. Through the examination of children under six years of age many children with adenoids, bad teeth, infected tonsils, etc., were discovered and helped. BENTON COUNTY Chairman, Mrs. Lilly Petree, Oxford Executive Comwdttee, County Chairmen of Committees Registration for Woman's Service. . .Mrs. A. J. Kitt, Fowler. Food Production Mrs. James Barr, Earl Park. Home Economics Mrs. James Barr, Earl Park. Child Welfare Mrs. Nelle Vannatte, Earl Park. Health and Recreation Mrs. David Heath, Oxford. Food Administration Mrs. Fannie McConnel, Oxford. Liberty Loan Mrs. James E. Petree, Oxford. Mrs. Samuel Witrow, Oxford. Maintaining Existing Social Service Agencies Mrs. Margaret Blessing, Oxford. Educational Propaganda Mrs. James Petree, Oxford. Home and Foreign Relief Mrs. Everett Mavity, Fowler. Women in Industry Mrs. Florence Smith, Otterbein. Publicity Mrs. Lilly W. Petree, Oxford. Americanization Mrs. Lilly Petree, Oxford. Fourteen-Minute Women Mrs. A. J. Kitt, Fowler. Women registered for war service, 2,843. Amount credited to women in Fourth Liberty Loan, $393,825. Third Liberty Loan, $157,100. 46 BLACKFORD COUNTY Chairman, Mrs. C. V. Ritter, Hartford City Executive Committee, County Chair7nen of Committees Registration for Woman's Service . . . Mrs. L. A. Burk, Hartford City. Food Production Mrs. Josephine Clippinger, Hart- ford City. Home Economics Miss Nellie Favorite, Hartford City. Child Welfare Mrs. A. G. Lupton, Hartford City. Health and Recreation Dr. Ella Hollis, Hartford City. Food Administration Mrs. Lew Wooster, Montpelier. Liberty Loan Cynthia Willman, Hartford City. Maintaining Existing Social Service Agencies Mrs. Anette Kerr, Hartford City. Educational Propaganda Minta Fordney, Hartford City. Home and Foreign Relief Mrs. Gustav Andre, Hartford City. Publicity Mrs. C. Ritter, Hartford City. Special Committee Mrs. Carrie Nolan, Hartford City. Americanization Mrs. Emma R. Meyers, Hartford City. Fourteen-Minute Women .Miss Margaret Harvy, Hartford City. Women registered for war service, 2,543. Babies examined, 1,000. Speeches by Fourteen-Minute Women, 100. Canning and war bread demonstrations, 65. Leaflets distributed, 2,500. Food clubs, 34. Credited to women in Liberty Loan Drives, $485,000. Collected by women and children for War Savings Stamps, $8,000. Books sent to soldiers and sailors, 567. Magazines sent soldiers and sailors to value of, $48. First aid classes, 5. Made for Red Cross and Allied Relief, 41,974 articles. BOONE COUNTY Chairman, Miss Mayme E. Sheridan, Lebanon Eo:ecutive Conmdttee, County Chairmen of Committees Registration for Woman's Service. . .Mrs. W. O. Darnell, Lebanon. Food Production Miss Jane Wood, Lebanon. Home Economics Miss Lydia Bell, Lebanon. Child Welfare Miss Lydia Bell, Lebanon. Health and Recreation Miss Agnes Walker, Lebanon. Food Administration Mrs. Lillian Comley, Lebanon. Liberty Loan Mrs. Sam Heath, Lebanon. Maintaining Existing Social Service Agencies Mrs. Ben McKey, Lebanon. 47 Educational Propaganda Mrs. Ella Shumate, Lebanon. Publicity Miss Mayme E. Sheridan, Lebanon. Women in Industry Miss June Flannigan, Lebanon. Fourteen-Minute Women Miss Ruth Campbell, Lebanon. Women registered for war service, 4,846. Credited to women in Fourth Liberty Loan Drive, $465,950. Third Liberty Loan, $185,300. BROWN COUNTY Chairman, Mrs. Estella Hooper, Nashville; Mrs. Ada W. Shulz, Nashville. Executive Covimittee, County Chairmen of Committees Registration for Woman's Service. . .Mrs. Ada W. Shulz, Nashville. Food Production Mrs. Grace Turner, Nashville. Home Economics Mrs. Katie Woods, Nashville. Child Welfare Mrs. Vivian Miller, Nashville. Food Administration Mrs. Leila David, Nashville. Liberty Loan Mrs. Vivian Miller, Nashville. Educational Propaganda Mrs. George Allison, Nashville. Home and Foreign Relief Miss Olive Kelp, Nashville. Publicity Mrs. Helen Allison, Nashville. Fourteen-Minute Women Mrs. Scott Moser, Morgantown. Women's Section organized March, 1918. Women registered for war service, 1,490. Collected for War Savings Stamp Campaign, approximately $4,990. Speeches made by Fourteen-Minute Women, 20. Food demonstrations, 4. Cook books and leaflets distributed, 3,855. Food clubs, 11. Third Liberty Loan Campaign, $3,750. Mrs. Estella Hooper was appointed Chairman of the Woman's Section of this county, but soon removed from the county, and at the request of the Woman's Section of the State Council of Defense, Mrs. Ada Shulz of Nashville as- sumed charge. Under Mrs. Shulz's direction the Woman's Section became very active and excellent results were ob- tained. We must not fail to take into consideration the fact that Brown County has no railroads, and has many hills, which makes it extremely difficult to go from place to place. To overcome this difficulty Mrs. Shulz organized what she called her "messengers." These messengers were girls and boys who rode horseback and who were ready at all times to carry her messages, etc., to the members of her food clubs and other committees. The largest town in this county has less than three hundred inhabitants. 48 CLARK COUNTY Chairman, Mrs. Fannie Pile Sparks, Jeffei-sonville First Vice-Chairman, Mrs. Newton Myers, Jeffersonville. Second Vice-Chairman, Mrs. Harry Fry, Jeffersonville. Third Vice-Chairman, Miss Clara Warman, Jeffersonville. Recording Secretary, Mrs. George Dunham, Jeffersonville. Corresponding Secretary, Miss Katherine Goodwin, Jeffersonville. Treasurer, Mrs. Lawrence Zimmer, Jeffersonville. Executive Committee, County Chairmen of Comm,ittees Registration for Woman's Service . . . Miss Katherine Pawson, Jefferson- ville. Miss Margaret Hines, Jefferson- ville. Food Production, Jefferson Township Home Economics Club Miss Mabel Goodwin, Jefferson- ville. Home Economics Mrs. W. E. Sauer, Jeffersonville. Food Administration Miss Esther Price, Jeffersonville. Child Welfare, Ensemble Club Miss Emma Leeper, Jeffersonville. Liberty Loan Mrs. W. E. Heaton, Jeffersonville. Educational Propaganda, Current Events Club Mrs. N. H. Myers, Jeffersonville. Home and Foreign Relief, Tri Kappa Sorority Miss Helen Armstrong, Jefferson- ville. Maintaining Existing Social Service Agencies Mrs. Homer Heller, Jeffersonville. Health and Recreation ) t-> a d /^ ™™-j-+ ^ , V D. A. R. Committees. Women m Industry j Publicity Mrs. Laura Kelly, Jeffersonville. Fourteen-Minute Women Miss Mary K. Voigt, Jeffersonville. Motor Corps Mrs. Albert White, Jeffersonville. Americanization Mrs. Evelyn Carr, Jeffersonville. Women registered for war service, 6,819. In the Third and Fourth Liberty Loan campaigns the Women's Committee secured subscriptions amounting to $351,750. The Fourteen-Minute Women answered all calls, and the results of their efforts were very gratifying. The Child Welfare work is unfinished and will be con- tinued by the Ensemble Club. The Tri Kappa Sorority had charge of the Student Nurse drive and secured more than their quota. 49 While there was no City Demonstration Agent, the com- munity was in direct touch with the County Agent, and dem- onstrations were held in schools and clubs. Until the armistice was signed several thousand women were employed by the Government through the Quartermas- ter's Depot. These women were employed as seamstresses, clerks, stenographers, maids, inspectors, chauffeurs, mounted and unmounted guards, and as laborers. These women were subject to government inspection even when working in their homes sewing. Their hours were good and their pay liberal. CARROLL COUNTY Chairman, Mrs. N. J. Howe, Delphi Executive Committee, County Chairmen of Committees Registration for Woman's Service. . .Mrs. James P. Wason, Delphi. Food Production Mrs. Chas. Buckley, Delphi. Home Economics .Mrs. Chas. Murphy, Delphi. Child Welfare Mrs. Frank Lyon, Delphi. Health and Recreation Mrs. Edward F. Bowen, Delphi. Food Administration Miss Lillian Blythe, Delphi. Liberty Loan Mrs. Edward Blythe, Delphi. Maintaining Existing Social Service A^^^cies Mrs. Wm. Brackenridge, Delphi. Educational Propaganda Mrs. Albert C. Clauser, Delphi. Special Committee Mrs. Albert McPherson, Delphi. Publicity Mrs. Mindwell C. Wilson, Delphi. Fourteen-Minute Women Mrs. Auda Gee Studebaker, Delphi. Women registered for war service, 5,105. Vacant lot gardens (approximately), 1,000. Home Demonstration Agent — Held meetings and lectures, 32; at- tendance, 3,272; demonstrations, 30; attendance, 1,670; made home visits, 102. Girls' Canning Club of 11 members canned fruit, vegetables, etc., 1,1051/2 quarts, at a cost of $169.71, making profit of $135.45. Books sent soldiers, 700. Money for soldiers, $200. Talks by Fourteen-Minute Women, over 200. Credited to women in Liberty Loan drives, $601,525. Two women received credit for 1,600 hours' work for Red Cross. Six women received credit for 800 hours' work for Red Cross. French orphans adopted, 22. Large quantities of clothing sent to French. Baby clinics held with satisfactory results. 4— 1636G 50 CASS COUNTY Chairman, Mrs. Pearl Wright, Logansport Eocecutive Committee, County Chairmeyi of Committees Registration for Woman's Service. . .Mrs. D. C. Arthur, Logansport. Food Production Mrs. John Lairy, Logansport. Home Economics Mrs. Richard Hazel, Logansport. Child Welfare Mrs. W. A. Gremerspacker, Lo- gansport. Health and Recreation Mrs. Laura A. Howe, Logansport. Food Administration Mrs. Marion Swadner, Logansport. Liberty Loan Mrs. C. W. Graves, Logansport. Home and Foreign Relief Mrs. Cora Garland, Logansport. Maintaining Existing Social Service Agencies Miss Laura Howe, Logansport. Educational Propaganda Miss Anna Gibson, Logansport. Special Committee Mrs. W. T. Wilson, Logansport. Publicity Miss Helen Kuppenheimer, Logans- port. Americanization Mrs. Henry M. Shultz, Logansport. Fourteen-Minute Women Mrs. John S. Lairy, Logansport. Transportation Mrs. Michael Fansler, Logansport. Women in Industry Mrs. O. P. Smith, Logansport. Woman's Section organized November 1, 1917. Women registered for war service, 10,079. Babies examined, 2,294. Amount credited to women in Liberty Loans, $1,316,000. Collected by women and children for War Savings Stamps, $340,000. Speeches made by Fourteen-Minute Women, 126; number of women present, 132,000. Food and canning demonstrations, 16; exact number in attend- ance, 624. Cook books and leaflets distributed, 8,000. Estimated home and vacant lot gardens, 90 acres. Books sent to soldiers and sailors, 2,435. Magazines sent to soldiers and sailors, 2,000. Amount collected with which to buy technical books for soldiers and sailors, $1,003. Output of Red Cross Workshop to August 1, 151,102 articles. Food Clubs — Every township organized; fourteen Town- ship Presidents, fifty-four Club Presidents. Entire work was two months ahead of schedule. Women replaced men in factories and railroad shops. The Industrial Committee worked for the betterment of condi- tions and protection of the women. 51 CLAY COUNTY Chairman, Mrs. J. B. Mershon, Brazil Executive Cofmnittee, County Chairmen of Committees Registration for Woman's Service. . .Mrs. Eugene Wardlow, Brazil. Food Production Mrs. Minta Love, Lewis. Home Economics Miss Waneta Kidd, Brazil. Child Welfare Mrs. Tillie Lewis, Brazil. Health and Recreation Mrs. Mae Thacker, Brazil. Food Administration Mrs. J. B. Mershon, Brazil. Liberty Loan Mrs. Fannie Zeller, Brazil. Home and Foreign Relief Mrs. Ethel Spears, Brazil. Maintaining Existing Social Service Agencies Mrs. Julienia Moore, Brazil. Educational Propaganda Miss Agnes McCrea, Brazil. Publicity Miss Lora Leonhart, Brazil. Americanization Miss Agnes McCrea, Brazil. Fourteen-Minute Women Mrs. Sam. Grimes, Brazil. Woman's Section organized August, 1917. Women registered for war service, 8,765. Babies examined, 900. Credited to women in Liberty Loan drives, $500,000. Food and canning demonstrations, 15; exact number in attend- ance, 1,023. Cook books and leaflets distributed, 5,000. Food clubs, 75. Output of Red Cross Shop to August 21, 1918, 161,200 articles. Clay County women formed a "District Club" composed of mothers, who offered their services at the time of birth of babies and any time afterward when needed by the mother. A group of younger women made the clothing- and another group prepared food. The services of the best doctors were procured and specialists for unusual cases. CLINTON COUNTY Chairman, Mrs. W. S. Paris, Frankfort; Mrs. Chas. S. Ashman, Frankfort Executive Covimittee, County Chairmen of Committees Registration for Woman's Service. . .Mrs. W. A. Irwin, Frankfort. Food Production . .Mrs. A. A. McClamrock, Frank- fort. Mrs. S. A. Morrison, Frankfort. Home Economics Mrs. G. D. Byrd, Frankfort. Miss Mary Heavelan, Frankfort. Child Welfare Mrs. Horace F. Campbell, Frank- fort. Health and Recreation Mrs. W. A. Doty, Frankfort. 52 Food Administration Mrs. A. A. McClamrock, Frank- fort. Mrs. S. A. Morrison, Frankfort. Liberty Loan Miss Sylvia Grove, Frankfort. Educational Propaganda Miss Jeanette Dunlap, Frankfort. Publicity Mrs. N. B. Claybaugh, Frankfort. Fourteen-Minute Women Mrs. M. B. Thrasher, Frankfort. Woman's Section organized September 24, 1917, with Mrs. W. S. Paris as the County Chairman. Mrs. Paris resigned the chairmanship in May, 1918, and Mrs. Charles S. Ashman was appointed to succeed her. Women registered for war service, 8,000. Talks by Fourteen-Minute Women, 76. Cook books and leaflets distributed, 40,000. Estimated home gardens, 1,000. Books sent to soldiers, 6,000. Red Cross work, 16,777 articles. Collected for Belgian Relief, 3,229 articles. Food and canning demonstrations, 2 ; approximate attendance, 50. All-day demonstrations given at county fair. Credited to women in Third Liberty Loan drive, $228,450. The War Service Volunteers, a group of eighty young- women organized to do a form of canteen work, met all troop trains with food, postcards, etc. ; stamped and mailed 1,000 postcards and letters for soldiers passing through the city; furnished 2,000 postcards to troop trains ; furnished from four to seven girls a day for one week in the conscription office; furnished from one to four girls during entire month to assist Food Administration office; furnished two to four typists in each of the registration precincts on registration day ; assisted Child Welfare Committee in registration of children ; addressed all letters sent out by Boys' Working Reserve Committee to farmers in the county; had charge of fruit seed campaign, also of collection of clothing for French and Belgian refugees ; served coffee, ice cream and cake to Marine Band when it was in Frankfort for Liberty Loan program. Also had per- manent soldiers' rest room and established a rest camp, "Kamp Komfort," for truck drivers passing through the city. By means of refreshment tent at fair and sale of knitting- bags, they made more than $400 for their work. The Matinee Musicale of Frankfort gathered over 500 slacker records for the camps. Clinton County, with a quota of twenty, secured thirty-six applicants for the Student Nurse Reserve. 53 CRAWFORD COUNTY Chairman, Mrs. Harris Brown, English Executive Committee, County Chairm,en of Committees Registration for Woman's Service. . .Mrs. Harris Brown, English. Food Production Miss Nell Thornburg. Home Economics Mrs. Margaret Bird Funk, Eng- lish. Child Welfare Mrs. Horace F. Campbell, Frank- fort. Health and Recreation Mrs. Stewart Beals, English. Food Administration Mrs. Edna Helmbsecht, English. Liberty Loan Mrs. Charles Temple, English. Home and Foreign Relief Mrs. Elma Tucker, Taswell. Maintaining Existing Social Service Agencies Mrs. Dr. Dean, Leavenworth. Educational Propaganda Mrs. Elmer Stewart, English. Publicity Mrs. Harris Brown, English. Fourteen-Minute Women Mrs. John Luckett, English. Talks by Fourteen-Minute Women, 22. Cook books and leaflets distributed, 3,000. Food and canning demonstrations, 5. Children examined, 346. Books collected for soldiers, 250. Magazines collected for soldiers, 475. Collected by women in Third and Fourth Liberty Loan drives, .$161,150. DAVIESS COUNTY Chaii-man, Mrs. Frances Rodarmel, Washington Executive Committee, County Chairmen of Committees Registration for Woman's Service. . .Miss May Lyhen, Washington. Food Production Mrs. Rose Nugent, Washington. Home Economics Mrs. Grant Keith, Washington. Mrs. E. E. Forsyth, Washington. Child Welfare Mrs. Elizabeth Sellnian, Washing- ton. Health and Recreation Mrs. O. P. Scudder, Washington. Food Administration Mrs. D. M. Kelso, Washington. Liberty Loan Mrs. M. F. Burke, Washington. Home and Foreign Relief .Mrs. Fred Scotts, Washington. Maintaining Existing Social Service Agencies Mrs. -Jake Beltman, Washington. Educational Propaganda Mrs. Ezra Mattingly, Washington. Miss Ira Spitz, Washington. Special Committee Mrs. P. A. Hastings, Washington. Publicity Mrs. John T. Harris, Washington. Fourteen-Minute Women Mrs. Grant Keith, Washington. 54 Women registered for war service, 7,453. Children registered, 2,070. Children examined, 400. Talks by Fourteen-Minute Women, 108. Eed Cross articles shipped, 4,906. Food clubs, 97. Credited to women in Liberty Loan drives, $430,800, Food demonstrations were held and cooking classes or- ganized. Twenty applicants received for the Student Nurse Reserve. A War Mothers' Club was organized and did excellent and greatly appreciated work. DEARBORN COUNTY Chairman, Mrs. Theodore Burkham, Lawrenceburg Executive Committee, County Chairmen of Committees Registration for Woman's Service. . .Mrs. O. T. Ludlow, Lawrenceburg. Food Production Mrs. P. G. Braun, Lawrenceburg. Home Economics Mrs. Hewson Wright, Lawrence- burg. Child Welfare Miss E. G. Bielby, Aurora. Miss Fannie Foulk, Aurora. Health and Recreation Mrs. F. M. Mueller, Lawrence- burg. Food Administration Mrs. W. Leyman. Liberty Loan Mrs. H. H. Sutton, Aurora. Mrs. Harry McMullen, Aurora. Home and Foreign Relief Mrs. George E. Willers, Lawrence- burg. Maintaining Existing Social Service Agencies Miss Calla Kassebaum, Aurora. Miss Fannie Foulk, Aurora. Educational Propaganda Mrs. George C. Cole, Lawrence- burg. Special Committee Mrs. George H. Lewis, Lawrence- burg. Publicity Mrs. Orlando Kellar, Lawrence- burg. Fourteen-Minute Women Mrs. 0. T. Ludlow, Lawrenceburg. Women in Industry Miss Fannie Foulk, Aurora. Motor Corps Mrs. George Lewis, Lawrenceburg. Woman's Section organized November, 1917. Women registered for war service, 5,700. Babies examined, 1,084. Credited to women in Liberty Loan drives, $1,035,700. Collected by women and children for War Savings Stamps, $215,000. Talks by Fourteen-Minute Women, 135. 55 Cook books and leaflets distributed, 26,000. Food and canning demonstrations, 11; number in attendance, 700. Home and vacant lot gardens, 2,000. Food clubs, 36. Books sent to soldiers and sailors, 1,000. Collected with which to buy technical books for soldiers and sailors, $42. Red Cross articles shipped, 9,822. Jams and jellies sent to Camp Taylor, 2 bags, 2 boxes. For Belgian Relief, Lawrenceburg Red Cross Chapter col- lected six tons of clothing and Aurora Chapter two tons, mostly warm woolen garments, all in excellent condition. For the Red Cross linen shower, Aurora collected 1,068 articles, all of which, with few exceptions, were new. Law- renceburg Chapter also collected a large number. Food Club presidents were appointed in every township, which gave them a 100% score. During the potato campaign a different potato recipe was given in every room of the schools throughout the county. Patriotic meetings were held in every township, and the benefit derived therefrom cannot be estimated. In the Liberty Loan drives excellent work was done by the women of Dearborn County under the leadership of Mrs. Harry McMullen, who worked indefatigably. The influenza epidemic delayed the work of the Child Wel- fare Committee. However, an intensive follow-up campaign is planned in order that children found defective by the baby clinic, and whose parents are financially unable to give them medical attention, might have the proper care. Up to No- vember, 1918, $568.66 had been raised for this purpose. The Health and Recreation Committee, through the efforts of the War Mothers, raised $1,086.58, which was sent to Rus- sia to the U. S. S. Olympia and Brooklyn. The money was wired to the commanders of these vessels as a gift from the people of Dearborn County, Indiana, with instructions that gifts for Christmas and Christmas celebration be furnished the men. During the epidemic of influenza twenty-four volunteer nurses assisted in the care of helpless families. These women gave their services not only during the day but the night. One woman, finding a father, mother and six children ill with influenza and another daughter with typhoid fever, had this daughter removed to her own home and cared for her. Such was the spirit of the women of Dearborn County. 56 DECATUR COUNTY Chairman, Mrs. Kate Emmert, Greensburg Executive Committee, County Chairtnen of Committees Registration for Woman's Service. . .Mrs. Alex Parker, Greensburg. Food Production Mrs. P. D. Brown, Greensburg. Home Economics Miss Carrie Stewart, Greensburg. Child Welfare Mrs. Jethro C. Meek, Greensburg. Food Administration Mi-s. Edward Kessing, Greensburg. Liberty Loan Miss Mary Rankin, Greensburg. Home and Foreign Relief Miss Kate Emmert, Greensburg. Maintaining Existing Social Service Agencies Mrs. Taylor Meers, Greensburg. Educational Propaganda Mrs. Ida Ewing, Greensburg. Publicity Miss Blanche McLaughlin, Greens- burg. Fourteen-Minute Women .Mrs. John T. Goddard, Greens- burg. Women registered for war service, 2,249. Babies examined, 1,689. Collected by women for Liberty Loan, $213,950. Collected by women and children for War Savings Stamps, $3,194.39. Talks by Fourteen-Minute Women, 51. Food and canning demonstrations, 23; approximate number in at- tendance, 634. Cook books and leaflets distributed, 9,242. Food talks and conferences with clubs, 26; number in attendance, 698. Home and vacant lot gardens, 2,500. Books sent to soldiers and sailors, 1,140. Magazines sent to soldiers and sailors, 100. Food clubs, 47. Red Cross articles, 79,278. The "Girl Volunteers for War Work," an organization having for its object personal and co-ordinate service, when called upon by an organization, committee or authorized per- son, did splendid work. DEKALB COUNTY Chairman, Mrs. Monte L. Green, Auburn Executive Committee, County Chairmen of Committees Registration for Woman's Service. . .Mrs. Nora Ramston, Garrett. Food Production Mrs. James Weeks, Auburn. Home Economics Mrs. Bessie Tustison, St. Joe. Child Welfare Dr. Bonnell Souder, Auburn. Food Administration Mrs. Margaret Collet, Auburn. Libei'ty Loan Mrs. Monte L. Green, Auburn. 57 Home and Foreign Relief. . .'. Mrs. Mabel Erick, Spencerville. Maintaining Existing Social Service Agencies Mrs. Scott Forney, Ashley. Educational Propaganda Mrs. Lida Leasure, Auburn. Publicity Mrs. J. E. Buchanan, Auburn. Health and Recreation Mrs. Josephine Brinkerhoff, Gar- rett. Women in Industry Miss Nora Brown, Butler. Fourteen-Minute Women Mrs. -J. H. Leasure, Auburn. Women registered for war service, 5,769. Credited to women in Fourth Liberty Loan drive, $102,400; Third Liberty Loan, $135,450. A good record was made in distribution of Hoover food cards; about 1,500 cards were signed. DELAWARE COUNTY Chairman, Miss Genevieve H. Hanna, Muncie Executive Committee, County Chairmen of Committees Registration for Woman's Service. . .Mrs. Harriett Bowman, Muncie. Food Production Mrs. E. E. Pickard, Selma. Home Economics Mrs. A. F. Meeks, Muncie. Mrs. J. I. Bender, Muncie. Child Welfare Mrs. D. T. Stephenson, Muncie. Health and Recreation Mrs. M. T. Hanley, Muncie. Food Administration Mrs. J. L Bender, Selma. Liberty Loan .Mrs. Fred Heath, Muncie. Home and Foreign Relief Mrs. Chas. Van Matre, Muncie. Maintaining Existing Social Service Agencies Mrs. E. W. Barrett, Muncie. Educational Propaganda Mrs. Rose Budd Stewart, Muncie. Publicity Mrs. Mary Carmichael, Muncie. ' Americanization Mrs. Elmer Botkin, Muncie. Fourteen-Minute Women Mrs. Frank Claypool, Muncie. Woman's Section organized September 30, 1917. Women registered for war service, 17,500. Babies examined, 1,525. Collected for Third and Fourth Liberty Loans, $1,623,200. Collected by women and children for War Savings Stamps, $1,140,000. Talks by Fourteen-Minute Women, 90. Books sent to soldiers and sailors, 1,700. A great many magazines were collected but no account kept of them. A large number were given to soldiers en route. Partial list of articles made for Red Cross, 59,917. Food and canning demonstrations, 30. Cook books distributed, 1,000. Leaflets distributed, 5,000. 58 A large food exhibit was given sit War Conference, also at Farmers' Institute. The Muncie Garden Association estimated there were 75,000 gardens in Center Township. Under the County Chair- man of Food Production of the Woman's Section, effective work was done in every township. It was conceded that 80% of the work of the War Savings Stamp campaign was done by women. The Educational Committee was divided into six sub- committees: Church, Lodges, Movies, Clubs, Schools, and Factories. This county has eighty or more active food clubs and 120 garden clubs which also did canning. One hundred seven canners entered the National War Garden and Canning Con- test. Six weeks of research work was well attended by the children of the various county schools under the National War Council's supervision. DUBOIS COUNTY Chairman, Mrs. Sarah Cooper, Jasper Executive Committee, County Chairmen of CoTnryiittees Registration for Woman's Service. . .Mrs. Mildred McKinney, Hunting- burg. Food Production Mrs. H. C. Knapp, Huntingburg. Home Economics Mrs. Bonar Traylor, Jasper. Child Welfare Mrs. Estelle Lukemeier, Hunting- burg. Food Administration Miss Genevieve Williams, Hunting- burg. Liberty Loan '. Mrs. W. A. Wilson, Jasper. Home and Foreign Relief Mrs. H. M. Kean, Jasper. Maintaining Existing Social Service Agencies Mrs. L. C. Lukemeier, Hunting- burg. Educational Propaganda Miss Anna Hunter, Jasper. Publicity Miss Genevieve Williams, Hunting- burg. Health and Recreation Miss Margaret Wilson, Jasper. Americanization Mrs. Mary L. Eckert, Jasper. Women in Industry Mrs. George R. Wilson, Jasper. Mrs. J. L. Bretz, Jasper. Fourteen-Minute Women Miss Norma Milburn, Jasper. Woman's Section organized March 9, 1918. 59 Women registered for war service, 1,675, Babies examined, 1,200. Talks by Fourteen-Minute Women, 23. Cook books and leaflets distributed, 100. Books sent to soldiers and sailors, 245. Articles made for Red Cross, 51,204. Subscriptions secured in Third and Fourth Liberty Loans, $223,800. The Motor Corps was organized the latter part of August, 1918; services were available for all patriotic and war organi- zations and greatly expedited all war work. ELKHART COUNTY Chairman, Mrs. J. A. S. Mitchell, Goshen Executive Coniinittee, County Chairmen of Committees Registration for Woman's Service. . .Mrs. J. A. S. Mitchell, Goshen. Food Production \ Mrs. William Haines, Elkhart. Home Economics Mrs. D. W. Hawks, Goshen. Child Welfare Mrs. Bernice Riley, Goshen. Mrs. Geo. Richardson, Goshen. Health and Recreation Mrs. Elizabeth Zook, Nappanee. Food Administration Mrs. Diana Rowell, Goshen. Liberty Loan Mrs. L. 0. Wood, Goshen. Mrs. A. H. Beardsley, Elkhart. Home and Foreign Relief Mrs. Robert Jepson, Goshen. Maintaining Existing Social Service Agencies Mrs. Frank Coppes, Nappanee. Educational Propaganda Mrs. J. S. Drake, Goshen. Miss Margaret S. Wilson, Elkhart. Special Committee Mrs. Albert Mutchler, Nappanee. Publicity Miss Nellie Albright, Goshen. Fourteen-Minute Women Mrs. W. O. Vallette, Goshen. Women registered for war service, 4,735. Credited to women in Liberty Loan drives, $1,330,475. Talks by Fourteen-Minute Women, 54. Books sent to soldiers and sailors, 1,426. Food and canning demonstrations held, 31; approximate number in attendance, 750. Cook books and leaflets distributed, 700. Elkhart, with a population of less than 50,000, had fifty garden clubs and something over 3,500 town gardens. 60 FAYETTE COUNTY Chairman, Mrs. George Cain, Connersville; Mrs. F. I. Barrows, Connei'sville Executive Conunittee, County Cliairmen of Committees Registration for Woman's Service. . .Miss Essie Mae Frazee, Conners- ville. Food Production Miss Mary Rieman, Connersville. Child Welfare Miss Blanche Stoops, Connersville. Food Administration Mrs. W. E. Ochiltree, Connersville. Liberty Loan Mrs. E. C. Earl, Connersville. Home and Foreign Relief Mrs. Thiebaud, Connersville. Mrs. F. B. Amsted, Connersville. Educational Propaganda Miss Minnie Terr, Connersville. Publicity Miss Jean Porter, Connersville. Fourteen-Minute Women . . . ; Mrs. Lewis Robinson, Connersville. Health and Recreation Mrs. W. J. Porter, Connersville. Maintaining Existing Social Service Agencies Mrs. B. F. Thiebaud, Connersville. Home Economics Miss Irvin, Connersville. War Savings Stamps Mrs. McKennan, Connersville. Motor Transport Miss Broaddus, Connersville. Mrs. George Cain was the first Chairman of the Woman's Section of Fayette County, and most efficient work was done under her direction. In August, 1918, on account of ill health, Mrs. Cain was forced to resign, and Mrs. F. I. Barrows was appointed to succeed her, and the work went on in the same splendid manner under Mrs. Barrows' direction. Women registered for war service, 4,500. Talks by Fourteen-Minute Women, 80. Credited to women in Liberty Loan drive, $499,000 (partial). Clubs organized to sell War Savings Stamps, 72. Families of soldiers aided, 203. Lunches furnished to departing soldiers, 72. Books sent to soldiers, 900. Red Cross articles, 19,409. Belgian Relief (old clothing), 5,495 pounds, 4,013 articles. Because Fayette was the first county to go over the top in the War Savings Stamp Campaign, they had the honor, through the courtesy of Mrs. Woodrow Wilson, of christening the good ship Connersville. Among the war activities of this county was a military organization of young women called "Joans of Arc." This was an auxiliary branch of the Liberty Guards, and their purpose was to render assistance in any local or nearby catas- trophe. Some of the members were versed in first aid. 61 We regret that we have not space to give a detailed account of the excellent work that was done and reported to us by the women of Fayette County. Not one committee lagged; they not only did everything asked of them, but much besides. Mrs. John Miller, Chairman of East Connersville Town- ship, reported the organization of a Red Cross Sacrifice Club. Members of this club received donations from 1 cent,to $1.00; the major number of contributions were for 5 cents to 10 cents. During the months of July and August these women collected $106.29. Mrs. Miller also reported every home in her township bought at least one thrift stamp a week. The Tri Kappa Sorority gave valuable assistance. The Children's War Gardens report for the summer of 1918 is as follows: Number of children enrolled, 50. Number of children reporting, 35. Age of children enrolling, 11 to 15 years. Total number square feet of gardens, 32,363. Total cost of gardens, $131.56. Net profit on gardens, $289.51. List winner: Mildred Tate, age twelve, with record of 4,000 square feet of garden at cost of $8.75, profit of $25.50. Miss Stoops, the Chairman of our Child Welfare Com- mittee, is also public health nurse and probation officer with police powers, and the work performed under her direction was marvelous. All children under seven years of age were examined; about 20% were found under weight and parents informed. Planned, solicited money for and secured the co- operation of parents, physicians and trustees for relief cases; glasses for children, dental work, tonsil and adenoid opera- tions, operation, and extended hospital service for two cripples (prospective hunchbacks). The Tuberculosis Society helped finance the work of the examination of school children. Dur- ing the influenza epidemic Miss Stoops was especially assisted by the Transport Committee and five volunteer nurses, two of whom, Thelma George and Wilma Miller, were sixteen- year-old high school girls, and Margaret Ariens, Mrs. Hensley and Mrs. Anna Fox. These volunteer nurses performed every service necessary; sweeping and scrubbing played as heavy a role in their days' duties as nursing itself. Miss Stoops also organized a Girls' Patriotic Club, which gave financial as well as other assistance to her committee. 62 FLOYD COUNTY Chairman, Mrs. Fred Kurfess, New Albany; Miss Edith Gwin, New Albany Executive Committee, County Chairmen of Committees Registration for Woman's Service. . .Miss Estella Rockenback, New Albany. Food Production Miss Alice Green, New Albany. Home Economics Mrs. Fred Kurfess, New Albany. Child Welfare Miss Adah Groh, New Albany. Health and Recreation Mrs. Lillie Hall Smith, New Al- bany. Food Administration Mrs. William Receveur, New Al- bany. Liberty Loan Miss Mayme Cardwell, New Al- bany. Home and Foreign Relief Miss Mayme Clark, New Albany. Educational Propaganda Mrs. S. T. Rogers, New Albany. Publicity Mrs. Fred Bi-own, New Albany. Women in Industry Miss Mary Kelley, New Albany. Fourteen-Minute Women Mrs. John Paris, New Albany. Woman's Section organized December, 1917, with Mrs. Fred Kurfess as Chairman. It became necessary for Mrs. Kurfess to resign, and in August, 1918, Miss Edith Gwin was appointed to succeed her. Mrs. Kurfess appointed efficient women to serve on her committees, and much splendid work was done, and since Miss Gwin's appointment the work has gone on in the same efficient manner. Under the leadership of the Chairmen of the various de- partments of the Red Cross, and the untiring assistance of hundreds of patriotic women, the chapter sent to headquar- ters 15,079 finished garments and 2,557 surgical dressings. The Chairman of the Food Production Committee had charge of the home gardens, of which there were about 250. The Chairman of the Liberty Loan Committee appointed capable assistants, and in each loan they collected several thousand dollars in excess of their quota. Miss Minta McQuiddy served as Chairman of the Food Administration Committee for several months, during which time the work was organized and cooking demonstrations held, food cards were signed and 30,000 cook books and leaflets distributed, as well as seventeen presidents of food clubs ap- pointed. At this time Miss McQuiddy was compelled to resign and Mrs. William Receveur was appointed to succeed her. Thirty-four additional food club presidents were appointed. 63 The work of obtaining money and books for soldiers and sailors was in the hands of the Librarian, and the result was 350 volumes for Camp Taylor and $1,250 with which to buy books. The Chairman of Educational Propaganda and her able helpers arranged a large and most successful meeting, which aroused much enthusiasm and patriotism. The Health and Recreation Committee arranged with the clubs to keep open house for the soldiers. The Tri Kappas, under the leadership of Miss Rockenback, Mrs. S. E. Stout and Mrs. Frank Wells, registered 4,800 women for war service. These .same women had charge of the Stu- dent Nurse drive and secured twenty-four applicants. It isn't the individual soldier Nor the army as a whole, But the everlastin' teamwork Of every bloomin' soul. FULTON COUNTY Chairman, Mrs. Perry Heath, Rochester Executive Committee, County Chairmen of Committees Registration for Woman's Service. . .Mrs. Chas. Emmons, Rochester. Food Production Mrs. Carl Van Trump, Rochester. Home Economics Mrs. Ray Brown, Rochester. Child Welfare Mrs. Enoch Myers, Rochester. Health and Recreation Mrs. Fred Paramore, Rochester. Food Administration Mrs. Perry Heath, Rochester. Liberty Loan Mrs. Lucile Leonard, Rochester. Maintaining Existing Social Service Agencies Mrs. A. E. Babcock, Rochester. Educationa.1 Propaganda Miss Rose Wile, Rochester. Publicity Mrs. Dean L. Barnhart, Rochester. Fourteen-Minute Women Mrs. Arthur Metzler, Rochester. Woman's Section organized January 24, 1918. Women registered for war service, 4,850. Babies examined, 1,050. Liberty Loan (Third and Fourth), $92,500. Talks by Fourteen-Minute Women, 75. Food and canning demonstrations, 29; approximate attendance, 650. Cook books and leaflets distributed, 5,000. Home and vacant lot gardens, 2,000. Books sent to soldiers (report from one center only), 804. Red Cross articles, 25,799. 64 Seventy-five per cent of all children under six years of age were weighed and measured. The work was finished in nine days, due to the careful plans made and the fine co- operation of the physicians. The examinations disclosed de- fects, 95% of which were adenoid troubles, many cases of which have been operated upon. Due to facts brought out in these examinations it was hoped to get medical and dental inspection in the schools. In the registration for war service, one town of about 1,000 registered to a woman, and one township of 300 lacked only one to complete the registration. FOUNTAIN COUNTY Chairman, Mrs. Rachel Levor, Attica Executive Committee, County Chairmen of Committees Registration for Woman's Service. . .Mrs. Anna Grigson, Veedersburg. Food Production Mrs. Mary Roberts, Attica. Home Economics Mrs. Edmund Stafford, Attica. Child Welfare Mrs. Michael Mayer, Covington. Food Administration Miss Helen Martin, Veedersburg. Liberty Loan Mrs. Rachel Levor, Attica. Home and Foreign Relief Mrs. James Scribner, Attica. Educational Propaganda Miss V. Glasscock, Covington. Fourteen-Minute Women Miss Verna Glasscock, Covington. Publicity Mrs. Emma Ray, Attica. Women registered for war service, 5,398. Liberty Loan, Third and Fourth, $530,600. One thousand one hundred seventy-seven children were registered and about 300 examined. Very few defects and diseases were found, and it was felt that much tenefit was derived from this registration and examination of children. FRANKLIN COUNTY Chairman, Mrs. L M. Bridgeman, Brookville Executive Committee, County Chairmen of Committees Registration for Woman's Service. . .Mrs. George E. Mullin, Brookville. Food Production Mrs. F. W. Hathaway, Brookville. Home Economics Mrs. Wilbert Rogers, Brookville, R. 8. Child Welfare Mrs. Charles L. Masters, Brook- ville. 65 Health and Recreation Mrs. Wayne Hubbard, Brookville. Food Administration Mrs. Lewis Federman, Brookville. Liberty Loan Mrs. Will Baker, Brookville. Maintaining Existing Social Service Agencies Mrs. Sarah Harrell, Brookville. Educational Propaganda Miss Mary J. Hornung, Brookville. Publicity Mrs. I. N. Bridgeman, Brookville. Fourteen-Minute Women Miss Dorothy Pippin, Brookville. Women registered for war service, 2,953. Children examined, 1,100. Credited to women in Third and Fourth Liberty Loan drives, $327,400. Talks by Fourteen-Minute Women, 60. Cook books and leaflets distributed, 2,000. With very few exceptions every family in the county cul- tivated a garden; the Chairman of the Food Production Com- mittee personally distributed approximately 2,000 packages of seed. This county considers that much good has resulted from the weighing and measuring of children, many of whom were given medical attention. Many parents, who were unmindful of the dangers to which their children were exposed, have had the children operated upon for various defects which were discovered in the examination. GIBSON COUNTY Chairman, Mrs. Fred Riggs, Princeton Executive Committee, County Chairvien of Com,mittees Registration for Woman's Service. . .Mrs. C. O. Baltzell, Princeton. Food Production Mrs. O. M. Kolb, Princeton. Home Economics Mrs. Nora Walker, Princeton. Child Welfare Mrs. M. J. Welborn, Princeton. Food Administration Mrs. O. M. Kolb, Princeton. Liberty Loan Mrs. M. P. Hollingsworth, Prince- ton. Maintaining Existing Social Service Agencies .Mrs. Jas. R. McGregor, Princeton. Educational Pi'opaganda Miss Mabel Tichenor, Princeton. Publicity Miss Julia Mason, Princeton. Women registered for war service, 7,071. Subscriptions secured in Third and Fourth Liberty Loan drives, $330,050. 5—16366 66 GRANT COUNTY Chairman, Mrs. George A. Southall, Marion Executive Committee, County Chairmen of Committees Registration for Woman's Service. . .Mrs. George A. Southall, Marion. Home Economics Mrs. Kate Stevens, Sweetser. Child Welfare Miss Florence Case, Marion. Dr. Nettie B. Powell, Marion. Food Administration Mrs. G. A. Southall, Marion. Liberty Loan Mrs. Bernard B. Shiveley, Marion. Home and Foreign Relief Mrs. John Rhue, Marion. Maintaining Existing Social Service Agencies Mrs. Bechtol, Marion. Publicity Mrs. C. B. Stephenson, Marion. Miss E. L. Goldthwaite, Marion. Americanization Miss E. L. Goldthwaite, Marion. Fourteen-Minute Women Mi-s. Cora B. Stephenson, Marion. Motor Corps Mrs. Love Caulkins, Marion. Women registered for war service, 10,702. Babies examined, 2,571. Collected for Liberty Loan, $585,675. War Savings Stamp campaign, $35,000. Food and canning demonstrations, 10; attendance at demonstra- tions, 500. Cook books and leaflets distributed, 45,000. War gardens in Marion, 14,081. War gardens in Gas City, 1,061. Books sent to soldiers, 1,130. Cash collected for books for soldiers, $504.98. Red Cross articles, 380,495. The first work undertaken was the food conservation. From June, 1917, to December, 1918, was a continual propa- ganda of food conservation thi'oughout the county by the Township Chairmen and Food Administration Chairman, which was of the greatest vahie, as in this way some of the strongest prejudices in the county were overcome. Addresses were made at every gathering where an entrance could be had — at the public schools and churches, teachers' and farm- ers' institutes and farm clubs, as well as all the women's organizations. In September, 1917, Mrs. Fred Stephenson organized a Speakers' Bureau of young women, which later was merged into the Fourteen-Minute Women. This body of women helped in every campaign for war work and were of inestimable 67 value, going at any time into any part of the county to fill appointments and keeping informed on all the questions to be raised in every campaign. One of the most helpful organizations was the Motor Corps, which had motors ready for any call, day or night, and gave excellent service in every campaign. The Liberty Loan campaigns were carried through with efficiency through the Township Chairmen of the Woman's Section of the County Council of Defense and were directly affiliated with the men's committee. GREENE COUNTY Chairman, Mrs. Fannie Bain, Linton Executive Committee, County Chairmen of Committees Registration for Woman's Service. . .Mrs. Gertrude Beasley, Linton. Food Production Mrs. Max Stein, Lyons. Child Welfare Mrs. Marion Thomas, Jasonville. Food Administration Mrs. Guy Whitaker, Linton. Liberty Loan Mrs. D. R. Scott, Linton. Mrs. Jesse F. Weisman, Linton. Home and Foreign Relief Mrs. Grace Creeg, Linton. Maintaining Existing Social Service Agencies Mrs. L. Booze, Worthington. Publicity Miss Grace Hopkins, Linton. Fourteen-Minute Women Mrs. Estella Hannah, Linton. Women in Industry Mrs. W. T. Gushing. Home Economics Miss Effie Hendricks, Linton. Organized January, 1918. Women registered for war service, 9,219. Credited to women. Third and Fourth Liberty Loan drives, $422,150. Collected, War Savings campaign, $20,000. Talks by Fourteen-Minute Women, over 100. Food and canning demonstrations, 2; attendance at demonstra- tions, 50. Cook books and leaflets distributed, 1,000. Food clubs, 15, Collected for books for soldiers, $75. Red Cross, 50 to 100 garments per week. Every home had a garden and in addition there were eighteen vacant lot gardens. 68 HANCOCK COUNTY Chairman, Mrs. H. T. Roberts, Greenfield Executive Committee, County Chairvien of Comtnittees Registration for Woman's Service. . .Mrs. Robert I. Bell, Greenfield. Food Production Mrs. Henry Pennington, Green- field. Child Welfare Mrs. J. P. Black, Greenfield. Health and Recreation Mrs. William A. Hough, Green- field. Food Administration Mrs. Earl Wolfe, Greenfield. Liberty Loan Miss Marion Bottsford, Greenfield. Mrs. O. S. Heller, Greenfield. Home and Foreign Relief Mrs. Allen Cooper, Greenfield. Maintaining Existing Social Service Agencies Mrs. Cora Orr, Greenfield. Publicity Miss Grace Husted, Greenfield. Fourteen-Minute Women Mrs. O. P. Eastes, Greenfield. Educational Propaganda Mrs. Iduna Barrett, Greenfield. Home Economics Mrs. E. V. Toms, Greenfield. Organized November, 1917. Women registered for war service, 5,285. Babies examined, 899. Collected for Liberty Loan campaigns, $502,757. Estimated vacant lot gardens, 1,550. Books sent to soldiers and sailors, 600. Food clubs, 1,000. Articles for Red Cross, 49,708. A general agitation for "better babies" is being kept up. It is thought that the greatest benefit from the weighing and measuring of children has been in calling attention to indi- vidual cases of defects and in urging parents to secure proper attention before it is too late. HARRISON COUNTY Chairman, Mrs. Verna Wright, Corydon Executive Committee, County Chairmen of Committees Registration for Woman's Service. . .Mrs. Verna Wright, Corydon. Food Production Mrs. Rose Gwartney, Coi-ydon. Child Welfare Mrs. Annis McGrain, Corydon. Home Economics Mrs. Hazel Bussabarger, Corydon. Health and Recreation Mrs. Nellie Jordan, Corydon. Food Administration Miss Madeline Connor, Corydon. Publicity Mrs. Verna Wright, Corydon. 69 Liberty Loan Mrs. Grace D. Applegate, Corydon. Home and Foreign Relief Mrs. Fannie Huff, Corydon. Maintaining Existing Social Service Agencies Mrs. Mary Cassaboom, Corydon. Educational Propaganda Mrs. Clara Hays, Corydon. Women in Industry Mrs. F. A. Ulen, Corydon. In the Fourth Liberty Loan campaign thirty-five women workers collected $100,112. In the Third Loan $42,250 was collected by the Woman's Committee. HENDRICKS COUNTY Chairman, Mrs. Mary J. Christie, Danville Executive Committee, County Chairmen of Committees Registration for Woman's Service. . .Mrs. Mary J. Christie, Danville. Food Production Mrs. Mary J. Christie, Danville. Child Welfare Mrs. Julian Hogate, Danville. Liberty Loan Mrs. Kate H. Smith, Danville. Home and Foreign Relief Mrs. E. W. Shirley, Danville. Home Economics Mrs. W. Franklin, Danville. Publicity Miss Ruth Adams, Danville. Americanization Mrs. Kate H. Smith, Danville. Fourteen-Minute Women Mrs. Will King, Danville. Women in Industry Mrs. Walter Hadley, Danville. Women registered for war service, 5,617. Babies examined, 1,935. Of the total number of 2,002 children under six years of age in Hendricks County, 1,935 were examined. In the Third and Fourth Liberty Loan campaigns the Women's Committee v/as credited with subscriptions totaling $551,000. HENRY COUNTY Chairman, Mrs. Chas. J. Wintherbotham, Newcastle; Mrs. Estella LOER, Newcastle Executive Covunittee, County Chairtnen of Comm,ittees Registration for Woman's Service. . .Mrs. Frank Stanley, Newcastle. Food Production Mrs. Rose Pickering, Middletown. Home Economics Mrs. Will L. Cory, Newcastle. Child Welfare Mrs. Jessie French, Jr., Newcastle. Health and Recreation Mrs. Charles Lynn, Newcastle. Food Administration Mrs. H. L. Burr, Newcastle. Mrs. W. 0. McGeath, Newcastle. 70 Liberty Loan Mrs. H. E. Jennings, Newcastle. Mrs. Milton Lamb, Newcastle. Home and Foreign Relief Mrs. Maurice Goodwin, Newcastle. Maintaining Existing Social Service Agencies Mrs. S. H. Clif t, Newcastle. Educational Propaganda Mrs. E. E. Kemp, Newcastle. Publicity Mrs. Chas. Felt, Newcastle. Fourteen-Minute Women Mrs. Frank Edwards, Knights- town. Women in Industry Miss Emma Nicholson, Newcastle. The Woman's Section of this county was organized in November, 1917, with Mrs, Estella Loer, the woman member of the County Council of Defense, as Chairman. Mrs, Loer served until business interests made it necessary for her to resign, when Mrs. Charles J. Wintherbotham was appointed to succeed her, in February, 1918. Seven thousand women registered for war service, and the cards were very helpful in organization of departments of work as well as securing more than their quota of student nurses. Mrs. Edwards, Chairman of the Fourteen-Minute Women, in connection with Mrs. Cory, Chairman of the Home Econo- mics Committee, and Mrs. French of the Child Welfare Com- mittee, formed a little troupe of speakers, which visited every town in the county, each presenting the work of her depart- ment. Their favorite plan was to arrange for the closing hour of the day at the Red Cross shops. The Department of Food Clubs, in charge of Mrs. McGeath, also worked at times with the above-mentioned department. The food clubs were organized in thirteen townships of the county, with a total of forty-six clubs. The Food Production Committee, with the aid of County Agent W. H. Prigg and others over the county, was able to report 400 war gardens for the summer of 1918, The value in Middletown alone was estimated at $750. In the Third and Fourth Liberty Loan campaigns the Woman's Committee was credited with subscriptions totaling $782,600. 71 HOWARD COUNTY Chairman, Mrs. Nellie Dawson, Kokomo; Mrs. Alfred T. Snoke, Kokomo. Executive Coinmittee, County Chairmen of Committees Registration for Woman's Service. . .Mrs. A. H. Hunt, Kokomo. Food Production Mrs. Harry Mick, Kokomo. Home Economics Mrs. Clarence Hunt, Kokomo. Child Welfare Mrs. W. G. Kitselman, Kokomo. Health and Recreation Mrs. M. F. Brand, Kokomo. Liberty Loan Mrs. Dr. Knepple, Kokomo. Educational Propaganda Mrs. Edgar Apperson, Kokomo. Publicity Mrs. E. E. Russell, Kokomo. Women in Industry Miss Burnice Haynes, Kokomo. The Woman's Section of Howard County Council of De- fense was organized with Mrs. Alfred T. Snoke as Chairman. Mrs. Snoke resigned, and Mrs. Nellie Dawson was appointed to succeed her in June, 1918. Women registered for war service, 10,050. In the Fourth Liberty Loan campaign 500 women workers were credited v/ith $961,975. In the Third Loan 109 workers were credited with subscriptions totaling $240,000. HUNTINGTON COUNTY Chairman, Mrs. Frank Felter, Huntington Executive Committee, County Chairmen of Committees Registration for Woman's Service. . .Miss Dilla Stults, Huntington. Food Production Mrs. O. W. Whitelock, Huntington. Home Economics , Miss Emma Kline, Huntington. Child Welfare ; Mrs. S. E. Cook, Huntington. Health and Recreation Mrs. John P. Kenower, Huntington. Food Administration Mrs. Fred H. Bowers, Huntington. Liberty Loan Mrs. J. W. Ford, Huntington. Home and Foreign Relief. ......... .Mrs. W. H. Barnhart, Huntington. Maintaining Existing Social Service Agencies Mrs. Dora Crites, Huntington. Educational Propaganda Mrs. Charles E. Grayston, Hunt- ington. Special Committee Mrs. Sadie Schoenell, Huntington. Publicity Mrs. Edith Wright Matts, Hunt- ington. Fourteen-Minute Women Mrs. Oliver Kline, R. 3, Hunting- ton. Women registered for war service, 5,917. 72 In the Fourth Liberty Loan campaign 175 women workers were credited with $726,575, in the Third Loan with $338,050. The total number of children registered was 2,260. Through the efforts of the Child Welfare Committee one child will be sent to the School for Blind Children. As an illustration of what was done in the way of home gardens, the Food Production Committee reports that one woman who had never had a garden before had grown enough for family use and had canned 400 cans of vegetables for winter use from her garden. From the sale of surplus vege- tables, premiums at county fairs on canned goods, and bread and cakes made over Liberty or conservation recipes, she and her daughter bought a Liberty Bond. Through the generosity of citizens of Huntington, thou- sands of magazines were sent to the library and were dis- tributed to soldiers on troop trains. During a lull in the transportation of troops the library shipped 2,000 magazines to Camp Shelby. Over 500 gift books were shipped to points of embarkation in July. JACKSON COUNTY Chairman, Mrs. Lynn Faulkconer, Seymour; Mrs. Catherine KocHENOUR, Seymour Executive Committee, County Chairmen of Committees Registration for Woman's Service. . .Mrs. Lynn Faulkconer, Seymour. Food Production Mrs. A. D. Cobb, Brownstown. Home Economics Mrs. James Clements, Brownstown. Food Administration Mrs. George Hamilton, Browns- town. Child Welfare Mrs. Sarah Findley, Brownstown. Maintaining Existing Social Service Agencies Mrs. J. F. Shiel, Seymour. Educational Propaganda Mrs. J. M. Robertson, Browns- town. Special Committee Miss Ellen Welsh, Brownstown. Publicity Mrs. H. H. Prince, Brownstown. Mrs. T. A. Mott, Seymour. War Mothers Mrs. Edwin Vermilya, Browns- town. Fourteen-Minute Women Mrs. J. S. Clements, Brownstown. Liberty Loan Mrs. James Clements, Brownstown. The Woman's Section was organized in June, 1917, with Mrs. Catherine Kochenour as Chairman, under whose direc- 73 tion excellent results were accomplished. Late in 1918 it became necessary for Mrs. Kochenour to resign, when Mrs. Lynn Faulkconer, who had done such excellent work as Chair- man of the Registration Committee, was appointed to suc- ceed her. Women registered for war service, 6,544. Babies examined, 1,200. Collected for Third and Fourth Liberty Loan, $161,200. Talks by Fourteen-Minute Women, 45. Food clubs, 25. Food and canning demonstrations, 25. Number in attendance, 3,500. Cook books and leaflets distributed, 10,500. Home and vacant lot gardens, 4,000. Books sent to soldiers and sailors, 700. Red Cross articles, 7,810. Christmas packages, 100. Spent for civilian relief. JASPER COUNTY Chairman, Mrs. Ora T. Ross, Rensselaer Executive Covtmittee, County Chairtnen of Committees Registration for Woman's Service. . .Mrs. Ora T. Ross, Rensselaer. Food Production Mrs. L N. Meader, Rensselaer. Home Economics Mrs. Ora T. Ross, Rensselaer. Food Administration Mrs. Oscar Hauter, Rensselaer. Child Welfare Mrs. John Gwin, Rensselaer. Maintaining Existing Social Service Agencies Mrs. A. P. Burton, Rensselaer. Liberty Loan Mrs. Judson J. Hunt, Rensselaer. Home and Foreign Relief Mrs. A. H. Hopkins, Rensselaer. Educational Propaganda Mrs. C. Ross Dean, Rensselaer. Women in Industry Mrs. .J. D. Allman, Rensselaer. Fourteen-Minute Women Miss Harriet Shedd, Rensselaer. Publicity Mrs. E. M. Graham, Rensselaer. Woman's Section organized June, 1917. Entire county organized into food clubs, seventy in all, and they did excellent work in preaching and practicing food conservation. After a campaign of education with noted speakers, and with co-operation of physicians, 1,000 children under six years of age were examined. As a I'esult of this campaign the serv- ices of a county community nurse were secured. A County Recreation Supervisor is a member of the Child Welfare Com- mittee. 74 The Committee on Maintaining Existing Social Service Agencies saw to it that the sixteen social agencies already in the county were not neglected during the war. The Educational Committee worked chiefly through the schools. In the Fourth Liberty Loan campaign, women were cred- ited with $258,150. In the Third Loan the women were as- signed one-fifth of the whole quota and went over the top several thousand dollars. In the Second, 1,000 women sub- scribed $90,250 or double the allotment, Fourteen-Minute Women report ninety-eight speeches, though more were actually made. Working with this com- mittee was the committee of singers, one quartette singing eleven consecutive nights during the Liberty Loan campaign, sometimes driving as far as twenty-five miles. Most appreciative credit should also be given the Trans- portation Committee, consisting of women who registered their cars and held themselves ready to drive anyone any- where for patriotic purposes. The women of this county co-operated with the men in all the big drives for money and books, the adoption of French and Belgian orphans, and the Home Service Department of the Red Cross. One of the first group of women to organize was the Com- forts Committee of the Navy League, April 21, 1917. This committee raised money to buy 134 pounds of yarn and knitted it into mufflers, 123 sweaters, 110 wristlets and 8 helmets. In the Socks for Soldiers Campaign, Jasper County was asked to buy yarn for and knit 70 pairs of socks; they sent 135 pairs before the required date. The output of the various Red Cross workshops was 31,469 articles. They also shipped 1,000 pounds of contributed cloth- ing for refugees and 117 pieces of linen. The War Mothers gave over 400 men kits filled with ar- ticles of comfort. They also took charge of the distribution of the county socks, 350 pairs; knitted 73 pairs of socks, 107 sweaters and 26 helmets to send the boys, and performed various other services for men in service. It is estimated there were 4,000 gardens in the county. One hundred nine food and canning demonstrations were held, with 6,112 women in attendance. 75 JAY COUNTY Chairman, Mrs. A. H. Backus, Dunkirk Executive Commiitee, County Chairmen of Committees Registration for Woman's Service. . .Mrs. S. W. Haynes, Portland. Food Production Home Economics Miss Mary E. Boltin, Portland. Child Welfare Mrs. Jason Henley, Portland. Home and Foreign Relief Dr. Harriett Wiley, Portland. Educational Propaganda Mrs. A. H. Backus, Dunkirk. Publicity Mrs. W. C. Simmons, Portland. Fourteen-Minute Women Mrs. S. W. Haynes, Portland. Liberty Loan Mrs. James A. Limle, Portland. Wom.en registered for war service, 6,868. In the Fourth Liberty Loan campaign 116 women workers were credited with $467,500, and in the Third Loan $58,700. The Child Welfare Committee considers the examination and registration of children under six years of age of great benefit to the community. Mothers have been awakened to the real condition of their children, and through this regis- tration much will be accomplished in the future. JEFFERSON COUNTY Chairman, Mrs. M. C. Garber, Madison; Vice-Chairman, Mrs. W. G. Rogers, Madison Executive Commiitee, County Chairmen of Committees Registration for Woman's Service. . .Mrs. M. C. Garber, Madison. Food Production Mrs. R. W. Cochran, Madison. Home Economics Mrs. M. R. Sulzer, Madison. Child Welfare Mrs. W. O. McLelland, Madison. Health and Recreation Mrs. W. D. Ogden, Madison. Food Conservation Mrs. W. G. Rogers, Madison. Liberty Loan Mrs. J. W. Tevis, Madison. Home and Foreign Relief Mrs. E. R. Trow, Madison. Miss C. E. Ford, Madison. Maintaining Existing Social Service Agencies Mrs. W. O. McLelland, Madison. Educational Propaganda Mrs. E. B. Sheldon, Madison. Women in Industry .Miss Elinor Wade, Madison. Publicity • Mrs. E. E. Scott, Madison. Fourteen-Minute Women Miss Ella Porter Griffith, Madison. Organized May, 1917. Women registered for war service, 4,447. Collected for Third and Fourth Liberty Loan campaigns, $349,000. Collected for War Savings Stamps, $329,900. 76 Talks by Fourteen-Minute Women, 50. Food demonstrations, 6; number in attendance, 500. Space in county seat covered by war gardens in yards and vacant lots, 25 acres. Books sent to soldiers and sailors, 317. Food clubs, 12. Partial list Red Cross articles, 55,455. The Home and Foreign Relief Committee reports box sent to Francis Janard, a Frenchman, who had been a prisoner of war for fourteen months; hterature to a French soldier who wished to perfect his English; yarn for a French orphan who wished to knit, but had no material; secured the adoption of three French orphans. Posters were distributed throughout the county to give information regarding sending mail to prisoners, also to aid the Government in procuring walnut logs for gun stocks. Definite report of number of children examined cannot be had, owing to the fact that cards were forwarded to Wash- ington and no records kept. Plans are being made for a visit- ing nurse and public playgrounds. The Junior Red Cross units in the schools gave an hour each week to hemming napkins, towels and handkerchiefs. Girls and boys knitted rugs and ambulance covers, some of the needles having been made by boys in the manual training department. The higher grammar grades and high school girls made layettes and refugee garments. All pupils in these grades received instructions in surgical dressing, in which they showed earnestness and efficiency. St. Michael's paro- chial school did its "bit" in response to the country's call. JENNINGS COUNTY Chairman, Mrs. Margaret A. Cone, North Vernon Executive Committee, County Chairmen of Committees Registration of Woman's Service. .. .Mrs. H. E. Barth, North Vernon. Food Production Home Economics Miss Harriett Powell, North Ver- non. Child Welfare Mrs. J. D. Cone, North Vernon. Food Administration Miss Isabella Overmyer, North Vernon. Maintaining Existing Social Service Agencies Mrs. Charles Weber, North Ver- non. 77 Educational Propaganda Mi's. Jay Hargesheimer, Vernon. Publicity Mrs. Charles Weber, North Ver- non. Women in Industry Mrs. Viola Ewan, North Vernon. Fourteen-Minute Women Mrs. Alice Whorer, North Vernon. Liberty Loan Mrs. Agnes Hooton. Women registered for war service, 3,620. Work of examining children under six years of age was carried on, but complete returns not received. In the Third and Fourth Liberty Loan campaigns the Woman's Committee securued subscriptions amounting to $180,000. JOHNSON COUNTY Chairman, Mrs. A. N. Crecraft, Franklin Executive Committee, County Chairmen of Comm^ittees Registration of Woman's Service. .. .Miss Harriett Clare Palmer, Franklin. Food Production Mrs. Sarah Sibert, Franklin. Home Economics Mrs. S. A. Wilson, Franklin. Child Welfare Mrs. Charles Drybread, Franklin. Food Administration Mrs. R. M. Miller, Franklin. Liberty Loan Mrs. C. L. Van Nuys, Franklin. Home and Foreign Relief Mrs. S. A. Wilson, Franklin. Maintaining Existing Social Service Agencies Mrs. Edward Bailey, Franklin. Educational Propaganda . Mrs. John S. Williams, Franklin. Publicity Miss Esther Aikens, Franklin. Fourteen-Minute Women Mrs. A. T. Belknap, Franklin. Motor Corps Miss Helen Whitesides, Franklin. Woman's Section organized June, 1917. Women registered for war service, 4,034. Babies examined, 1,501. Collected for Third Liberty Loan, $299,950 (three times the ap- portionment). Collected for Fourth Liberty Loan, $413,800. Collected by women for War Savings Stamp campaign, $75,000. Talks by Fourteen-Minute Women, 63. Food and canning demonstrations, 9; approximate attendance, 700. Cook books and leaflets distributed, 1,000. Estimated home and vacant lot gardens, 1,200. Books sent soldiers and sailors, 279. Magazines sent soldiers and sailors, 400. Collected with which to buy technical books for soldiers and sailors, $308.83. . Food clubs, 35. 78 Red Cross work, 691,851. Army shirts made for Government supply house, 150. Collected for Y. W. C. A., $1,500. The work done by the Motor Corps girls was invaluable. While the "flu" epidemic raged among the S. A. T. C. men of the college, bedding, food and delicacies of all kinds were transferred by their untiring eflforts to the hospital. KNOX COUNTY Chairman, Miss Margaret C. Holland, Vincennes Executive Committee, County Chairmen of Committees Registration for Woman's Service. . .Mrs. Frank Curtis, Vincennes. Food Production Mrs. Frank Miller, Vincennes. Home Economics Miss Ida B. Wilhite, Vincennes. Child Welfare Mrs. D. Frank Culbertson, Vin- cennes. Health and Recreation Miss Eleanor Beach, Vincennes. Food Administration Mrs. W. Vollmer, Vincennes. Liberty Loan Mrs. B. B. Griffith, Vincennes. Home and Foreign Relief ....Miss Zelia Slocomb, Vincennes. Maintaining Existing Social Service Agencies Mrs. H. D. Ridenour, Vincennes. Educational Propaganda Mrs. M. E. Becker, Vincennes. Special Committee Mrs. A. F. Hartman, Vincennes. Publicity Mrs. W. A. Cullop, Vincennes. Fourteen-Minute Wom.en Miss Margaret C. Holland, Vin- cennes. Motor Corps Mrs. Stella Alsop, Vincennes. Women in Industry Miss Margaret C. Holland, Vin- cennes. Organized July, 1917. Socks for soldiers, 443. Women registered for war service, 13,846. Babies examined, 2,917. Collected in Liberty Loan drives, $478,600. Talks by Fourteen-Minute Women, average of 3 per week. Cook books and leaflets distributed to exceed 40,000. Estimated war gardens, 2,500. Books sent to soldiers and sailors, 1,395. Magazines sent to soldiers and sailors, 50. Collected for technical books for soldiers and sailors, $320. Food clubs, 45. Red Cross work, $23,095.29. Manufactured by Red Cross Chapter, 72,206 articles. Applicants to Student Nurse Reserve, 43. 79 The Motor Corps was organized in February, 1918, with 200 members. They furnished cars for the Council of De- fense, Red Cross, French Relief and War Savings, Nurses, Liberty Loan, Child Welfare, War Mothers' parade, Red Cross and K. of C. parade. Motor Corps luncheon and parade. The War Mothers, with a membership of 150, were ap- pointed by the Food Administrator to take charge of con- servation work in the county. The War Mothers raised money in various ways, with which they sent 335 Christmas boxes and 288 Easter boxes to United States camps, and 61 to France; made 423 housewives and 115 comfort kits; made 150 pairs of socks and 12 sweaters of yarn purchased; sent flowers to funerals; contributed to United War Work Cam- paign and the fund for purchase and preservation of the old Legislative Hall. They also have a registry of between 2,700 and 2,800 Knox County men in military service, erected an Honor Roll for their boys and sent a pennant to their boys in France bearing the inscription "Vincennes War Mothers," and have placed $600 in a building and loan association as a permanent fund for a community home for the Knox County boys who have been in military service. The examination of children under six years of age stimu- lated an interest in children which will result in a great deal of follow-up work. KOSCIUSKO COUNTY Chairman, Miss Harriett D. Frazier, Warsaw Executive Committee, County Chairmen of Committees Registration for Woman's Service. . .Mrs. Walter Wallace, Leesburg. Food Production Miss Oria Simmons, Warsaw. Home Economics Miss Rolston, Warsaw. Child Welfare Mrs. Elmer B. Funk, Warsaw. Health and Recreation Dr. Lydia Copper, Warsaw. Food Administration Miss Rosella Ford, Warsaw. Liberty Loan Mrs. W. W. Reed, Warsaw. Home and Foreign Relief Mrs. Clark Mumaw, Warsaw. Maintaining Existing Social Service Agencies Mrs. Owen Switzer, Warsaw. Educational Propaganda Mrs. Parly E. Zartman, Winona Lake. Special Committee Mrs. W. D. Frazier, Warsaw. Publicity Mrs. J. R. Hoover, Pierceton. Fourteen-Minute Women Mrs. Adda Nichols, Warsaw. Organized January, 1918. 80 Women registered for war service, 5,182. Collected for Third and Fourth Liberty Loan campaigns, $615,800. Collected for War Savings Stamps, $20,000. Talks by Fourteen-Minute Women, 43. Cook books and leaflets distributed, 1,200. Estimated home and vacant lot gardens, 1,500. Red Cross work, 18,718 garments. A Baby Week was held in Warsaw in which examinations of children were made by a fine corps of physicians and nurses. The Child Welfare Committee will use the records of the children so obtained, will look after babies born since these examinations were made; will, when necessary, arrange for further tests and examinations of individual cases, and will follow up the cases of defects disclosed by these exam- inations. LAKE COUNTY Chairman, Mrs. Jennie Ward Wheeler, Crown Point Executive Committee, County Chairmen of Committees Registration for Woman's Service. . .Mrs. O. C. Wicks, Gary. Food Production Mrs. H. W. Pacton, Hobart. Home Economics Mrs. Starr Brownell, Lowell. Child Welfare Mrs. A. H. Jones, Gary. Health and Recreation Mrs. Geo. W. Lewis, East Chicago. Liberty Loan Mrs. Grace S. Ericson, Whiting. Home and Foreign Relief Mrs. Frank Lewis, Whiting. Maintaining Existing Social Service Agencies Mrs. E. L. Shortridge, Crown Point. Educational Propaganda Mrs. Otto C. Matthies, Hammond. Miss Maud A. Williams, Crown Point. Publicity Miss Gwen Parry, Crown Point. Women in Industry Mrs. J. A. Teegarden, Indiana Harbor. Americanization Mrs. J. A. Patterson, Gary. Fourteen-Minute Women Mrs. J. C. Gibbs, Crown Point. Organized December, 1917. Women registered for war service, 21,741. Babies examined (partial list), 12,931. Credited to women in Second, Third and Fourth Liberty Loan cam- paigns, $6,820,100. Collected for books for soldiers, $3,075. Books sent to soldiers, 5,406. Talks by Fourteen-Minute Women, 146. Food clubs, 35. 81 Hammond has an all-time Home Demonstrator. Gary held one food demonstration, with 1,200 women present; eleven demonstrations reported, with average attend- ance of fifty women. As the result of one drive 5,200 pounds of second-hand clothing were sent to the refugees. The Food Production Committee reports all available ground under cultivation. Specific things the Children's Year Committee has accom- plished are as follows: Examined 12,931 babies; secured cleaning up of streets- and alleys of congested districts; two extra child welfare nurses were put on by the city the past summer at the request of the Child Welfare Committee, one remaining in the employ of the city. This nurse visits homes; also is in attendance at a settlement house, where through her help a baby hospital was maintained during the summer. The head of this house is a trained nurse and has always cared for sick children in the summer, but has never cared for so many as were brought in during the past summer. A letter was prepared to invite all Gary doctors to send there all babies who would not receive proper attention at home; $50 was secured for a milk station at this settlement house; the nurse conducted the station, using equipment already provided. Ten graduate nurses were secured to visit the homes in the congested districts sur- rounding the settlement house and to report the sick babies found and general conditions in homes of children under two years of age. A protest was made against an army camp for children planned to accommodate 2,000 children, 200 at a time, with only two people to care for them, and insufficient funds, and were successful in preventing the undertaking. Secured the appointment of a milk inspector for the summer, the appointment backed by the mayor; a weekly milk report was published in both daily papers, giving per cent of butter fat, bacteria count, and degree of cleanliness, and, with the assistance of the Chamber of Commerce, arrangements were made to have milk brought in on motor trucks from districts ten to twenty miles distant, whereas formerly it was brought from twenty to sixty miles by the railroads. The infant death rate in Gary- the past summer has been negligible, almost non-existent, whereas in former years it has been very high. 6— 163e(i 82 LAGRANGE COUNTY Chairman, Mrs. Alice D. Ballou, Lagrange Executive Committee, County Chairmen of Connnittees Eegistration for Woman's Service. . .Mrs. Alice D. Ballou, Lagrange. Food Production Mrs. John Fellers, Lagrange. Home Economics Myrta Van Kirk, Lagrange. Child Welfare Mrs. E. J. Brown, Lagrange. Health and Recreation Mrs. H. O. Eldridge, Lagrange. Food Administration Mrs. Chas. Eoyer, Lagrange. Liberty Loan Mrs. Clyde A. Walb, Lagrange. Home and Foreign Relief Mrs. R. L. Porterfield, Lagrange. Educational Propaganda Mrs. E. A. Streeter, Lagrange. Maintaining Existing Social Service Agencies Mrs. C. C. Rozelle, Lagrange. Publicity Miss Lenore Smith, Lagrange. Fourteen-Minute Women Miss Lenore Smith, Lagrange. Women registered for war service, 3,874. In the Fourth Liberty Loan campaign, eighty- two women workers were credited with $361,250. In the Third Loan the Woman's Committee was credited with $175,550. Reports show that in all but two townships every child under six years of age was examined by a physician, 1,280 in all. One child, suffering from tuberculosis, was secured admission to the State Tuberculosis Hospital. LAPORTE COUNTY Chairman, Mrs. Frank J. Pitner, Laporte; Mrs. Jno. E. Winn, Laporte. Executive Committee, County Chairmen of Committees Registration for Woman's Service. . .Mrs. W. W. Chapman, Laporte. Food Production Mrs. E. G. Small, Laporte. Home Economics Mrs. John Emery, New Carlisle. Child Welfare Mrs. Harry M. Barnes, Michigan City. Health and Recreation Mrs. Dr. Nelle Cole Reed, Michi- gan City. Food Administration Mrs. Van Riper, Laporte. Liberty Loan Mrs. David McGill, Laporte. Home and Foreign Relief Mrs. A. Somerfield, Laporte. Maintaining Existing Social Service Agencies Mrs. J. B. Benson, Laporte. Educational Propaganda Mrs. Walter Fox, Laporte. Publicity .Mrs. Albert Carstens, Michigan City. Fourteen-Minute Women Mrs. J. V. Dorland, Laporte. Americanization Miss Ruth Seymour, Laporte. 83 This Woman's Section was organized in November, 1917, with Mrs. Frank J. Pitner as Chairman. In June, 1918, ill health forced Mrs. Pitner to resign, when Mrs. John E. Winn was appointed to succeed her. Four thousand eight hundred nine women registered for war service, and these registration cards were successfully used in securing applicants for the Student Nurse Reserve, also nursemaids, housekeepers, etc. The War Mothers of this county rendered valuable assist- ance to the Woman's Section. The Food Demonstrator, Miss Gladys Snapp, gave demon- strations in use of substitutes, canning without sugar and drying vegetables, in different sections of the county, at fre- quent intervals, and a Food Administration room was main- tained in Laporte, where demonstrations were held. In the Fourth Liberty Loan drive 300 women workers were credited with $1,150,000. In the Third Loan fifty-four women workers were credited with subscriptions amounting to $170,000. LAWRENCE COUNTY Chairman, Mrs. H. P. Pearson, Bedford; Mrs. Herschell Moore, Bedford. Executive Cow/mittee, County Chairmen of Committees Registration for Woman's Service ... Mrs. J. M. Wells, Bedford. Food Production Mrs. Will Meglemere, Bedford. Home Economics Mrs. Will Meglemere, Bedford. Child Welfare Mrs. S. E. Avery, Bedford. Health and Recreation Mrs. Frank L. Reed, Bedford. Food Administration Mrs. Stanley Chrisler, Bedford. Liberty Loan Mrs. Dan Tofaute, Bedford. Home and Foreign Relief .Mrs. Rose Reed, Bedford. Maintaining Existing Social Service Agencies Mrs. W. E. Clark, Bedford. Educational Propaganda Mrs. Katherine W. Voris, Bedford. Publicity Mrs. Chas. P. Butler, Bedford. Fourteen-Minute Women Mrs. Katherine W. Voris, Bedford. Nurses' Reserve .•. . .Mrs. Emma Harding, Bedford. Historian Mrs. Harry Askew,. Bedford. Woman's Section was organized in November, 1917, with Mrs. H. P. Pearson as Chairman, In February, 1918, Mrs. Pearson resigned, and Mrs. Herschell Moore, who was ap- pointed to succeed her, has served up to the present time. Women registered for war service, 4,025. Children examined, 1,920. Food Clubs, 39. Home and vacant lot gardens, 1,000. Cook books and leaflets distributed, 3,000. Canning demonstrations, 52. Number in attendance, 1,500. Talks by Fourteen-Minute Women, 125. Collected in Liberty Loan campaigns, $163,100. Pupils of the schools in Bedford made more than 2,250 cirticles for the Red Cross during the school year 1917-18. At the same time Liberty Bonds owned by teachers and pupils amounted to $16,800, and War Savings and Thrift Stamps $14,498. More than 500 pupils were members of the Junior Red Cross. MADISON COUNTY Chairman, Mrs. James W. Sansberry, Anderson Executive Committee, County Chairmen of Committees Registration for Woman's Service. . .Miss Mary Mulligan, Anderson. Food Production Miss Evangeline Lewis, Pendleton. Home Economics Mrs. A. T. Dye, Anderson. Child Welfare Mrs. Nellie Warren, Anderson. Health and Recreation Mrs. E. B. Kehrer, Anderson. Food Administration Mrs. J. M. Larmore, Anderson. Liberty Loan Mrs. R. O. Bright, Anderson. Home and Foreign Relief Mrs. D. J. Crittenberger, Andei'- son. Maintaining Existing Social Service Agencies Mrs. Lew Palmer, Anderson. Educational Propaganda Miss Ranna Creson, Anderson. Special Committee Mrs. W. L. Taylor, Anderson. Publicity Mrs. W. E. Kimble, Anderson. Fourteen-Minute Women Mrs. Edgar Chittendon, Anderson. Americanization Mrs. J. F. Croan, Anderson. Women in Industry Miss Edna L. Wilson, Anderson. Motor Corps Captain, Mrs. James W. Sansberry, Anderson- Canteen Mrs. Howard Witt, Anderson. During the Fourth Liberty Loan Drive 1,000 women workers were credited with $1,150,000. In the Third Loan 204 workers with $484,300. The Fourteen-Minute Women made approximately 400 talks, giving their assistance to every need. 85 After a very thorough publicity campaign the examining of babies was begun, and more than 3,000 babies were ex- amined. Transportation committees were appointed to bring mothers and babies to centers; it is reported that from one district of the county came a Ford bearing to the center eighteen babies in market baskets to be examined. The work of examining the children was done at night and on Sundays in addition to the regular working hours. When parents could not bring their children to the centers, doctors, nurses, scales and entire equipment were sent to them in automobiles. A successful effort was made to interest fathers of children. This made follow-up work much easier, for when a father learned first-hand that his child was suffering from some defect he immediately took the child to a physician and made efforts to have the defects corrected. For this campaign they had seven examining centers; 15 physicians gave their services; 1 dentist; 3 registered nurses; 3 practical nurses; 21 girls assisted; there were 18 hostesses; 11 served on Equipment Committee, and there was one general Chairman of the Committee. It was reported that every vacant lot was a war garden. In the canning schools 3,350 quarts of fruit were canned, and in addition to this hundreds of women attended public demonstrations. During the summer, when there was a short- age of help in the canning factorj^ due to the fact that many children had returned to school, the Chairman of the Wom- an's Section appealed to the women through the newspapers, and under her leadership the first day seventeen women went to work at 6:30 a. m. and worked until 4:30 p. m. when all the corn in the factory had been canned. Almost every day after that a squad of women helped in the factory, conserv- ing the fruit and vegetables, and earning 20 cents an hour, which they turned over to the Canteen, The Canteen did excellent service and was assisted by the Motor Corps. Besides transporting the Canteen, the Motor Corps served the Liberty Loan and Red Cross., etc., and during the Belgium Relief campaign served eighty-five hours in gathering clothing. All Red Cross quotas were more than filled, and many Red Cross workers earned the pin for 800 hours of service. 86 MARION COUNTY Chairman, MRS. William L. Elder, Indianapolis Executive Comviittee, County Chairmen of Committees Eeg'istration for Woman's Service. . .Mrs. S. E. Perkins, Indianapolis. Child Welfare Mrs. William S. Thornton, Indian- apolis. Health and Recreation Mrs. Ralph E. Kennington, Indian- apolis. Liberty Loan Mrs. Joseph N. Kealing, Indian- apolis. Educational Propaganda Mrs. Angelina Carey, Indianapo- lis. Food Production Mrs. Harry Miesse, Indianapolis. Home Economics Mrs. W. C. Teasdale, Jr., Indian- apolis. Home and Foreign Relief Mrs. David Ross, Indianapolis. Maintaining Existing Social Service Agencies Mrs. A. E. Butler, Indianapolis. Women in Industry Miss Edna Jay, Indianapolis. Americanization Miss Anna Brockhausen, Indian- apolis. To accomplish the work of the Registration Committee a committee of twelve Vice-Chairmen were appointed, being one for each township except Center, which was divided into four sections, a Vice-Chairman to each section. The Vice-Chair- men each appointed a Township Chairman, a resident in the township, who in turn appointed her registrars. Another committee of four colored women, also called Vice-Chairmen, were appointed to attend to the registration of the colored women. Total number of women registered, 61,630. In the weighing, measuring and examining of children under six years, in the Children's Year program, 212 clinics were held from May to August, in which 5,347 children were examined and 2,864 reported free from physical defects; 51,203 were enrolled. The keynote of this work was quality and not number of children examined. There were ninety- seven volunteer physicians, the best in the city, at a time, too, when physicians were leaving in large numbers for the army. Nurses were not less faithful, one assistant in each clinic, recruited from hospitals, schools, private duty nurse lists and from the home. The Children's Bureau made no provision for a file to be kept in the local districts as a basis of follow-up work. Accordingly, the Child Welfare Committee 87 completed a double file, one giving the physical defects oi each child examined, each township filed separately, the other of children registered but not examined. These are in a filing case in the Juvenile Court room for the use of all entitled to examine them, and especially useful to the Child Welfare nurses, who are to find and bring into the clinics the defective children. Arrangements have been completed with the City Hospital, City Dispensary, medical and surgical specialists and dentists for all possible correction of these defects. The Educational Propaganda Committee gathered the fol- lowing report from blanks sent out. These figures are correct as far as they go, but are incomplete, and if understood to represent only a part of the school activities, will serve to show the value of the schools as an agency for war work. This report is limited to pupils and does not include teachers: $444,925 worth of Liberty Bonds owned by 6,902 pupils. $393,661.87 worth of W. S. S. sold by schools; 12 schools had not preserved records. $285,962 worth of Thrift Stamps sold by schools. 30,000 pupils reported as savers. $8,789.27 given for Foreign Relief work. $4,684.24 contributed to Y. M. C. A., Y. W. C. A. and K. of C. $5,287.64 contributed to other public enterprises, including In- dianapolis War Chest. Contributions made to hospital at Fort Benjamin Harrison. 9,761 pupils and two parochial schools contributed clothing, toys, etc. 593 orphans adopted by schools and by individual pupils. 19,218 books contributed for soldiers. 800 or more Smileage books bought. Commercial departments contributed cards, letters, mimeographing. Art departments contributed war posters and maps. 6,212 pupils members of American Red Cross. 17,928 pupils members of Junior Red Cross. 883 worked in surgical dressings. 8,095 pupils and six parochial schools sewed for Red Cross. 6,285 pupils and eleven parochial schools did knitting for Red Cross. 222 had use of car for war work. 15,627 did successful gardening in 1917. 21,402 had gardens in 1918. 100% furnished homes with thrift cards. 28,000 worked for conservation of food and waste material. Some interesting work was done in educational propa- ganda by the colored women, Mrs. Ella Clay being a member of the committee and represented the colored women. Mrs. Clay org-anized twelve colored women in the work of com- munity units. Each of the twelve prepared a paper upon one of the war measures, each taking a different measure, and read the paper to a company called for that purpose or to some regular neightorhood meeting, such as a literary or church club, thus teaching the meaning of the different fed- eral commissions and the necessity for obeying them. The following subjects were taught: Registration of men for draft; registration of women for war service; registration of children for record; the commission controlling public utili- ties; fight or work order; the issue of Liberty Loan Bonds, War Savings Stamps and Thrift Stamps; the meat, wheat and sugar commissions and use of substitutes; the coal com- mission; the national prohibition measure; the control of labor ; the farming army ; the duty of reporting disloyal words and acts, and of refraining from idle talk and censure. Reporting to the Home Economics Chairman was the Liberty Kitchen, which opened in Indianapolis July 8, where they held public demonstrations in cooking and the use of substitutes, in canning and drying fruits and vegetables, etc. They also gave demonstrations in homes, settlement centers, food clubs and church organizations. The trained domestic science workers in charge of the kitchen also had articles daily in our newspapers. During the influenza epidemic the kitchen was turned into a diet kitchen, where proper food was prepared for the men in service as well as civilians. The kitchen also served as a clearing house for supplies which were sent for the sick. The yearly report of the Home Demonstration work in Indianapolis from December 1, 1917, to December, 1918, shows that 23,449 people have been reached directly by demonstra- tions or talks. This does not include telephone or office calls, literature distributed, and exhibits, of which thirteen have been prepared. Mrs. MiessQ, Chairman of the Food Production Committee, reported that the Patriotic Gardeners' Association of Indian- apolis was so successful in its work and covered the ground so thoroughly it seemed unnecessary to undertake anything herself. This association estimated between 70,000 and 80,000 gardens under cultivation in the city of Indianapolis for the year 1918, with a total value of $1,500,000. 89 The Red Cross work, including the Canteen, which was done in Indianapolis was so stupendous it is impossible for us with our limited space to give a creditable and adequate account of it. The Marion County Motor Corps drilled twice a week and had instructions in auto mechanics. They answered Canteen calls, met troop trains in conjunction with the Canteen, drove Canadian soldiers to factories and churches where they spoke, di'ove French soldiers on tour of city and French officers to official dinner and military ball, and two cars drove French officers to Terre Haute to parade. They also rendered invalu- able assistance during the Liberty Loan drives and in taking- soldiers and officers to and from the camps. This organiza- tion was taken over by the Red Cross and has greatly in- creased its activities. The Travelers' Aid met thousands of trains and gave as- sistance of every nature to women and children, and too much cannot be said of the value of the work performed. Mrs. Ralph Kennington, County Chairman of the Health and Recreation Committee, was a member of the War Camp Community Service Board of Indiana and had under her care and direction the recreation houses — the Propylaeum, Wood- ruff Place Club House and ihe Riverside Canoe Club. The recreation houses offered facilities to the men for rest, letter- writing, for reading all the latest papers and magazines, and for meating their friends. Dances were given every Saturday night in these recreation houses, where the men had the pleasure of meeting young women and girls who had been properly vouched for and received cards of admission. Holi- days were observed by serving of delicious suppers before the dances began. Through the Hospitality Committee of the recreation houses hundreds of men were invited into private homes for dinners. The Y. V/. C. A. erected and maintained a Hostess House at Fort Benjamin Harrison and placed one of their secretaries in charge. The Daughters of Isabella, the Catholic League for Wom- an's Service, and several other societies of Catholic women have ably assisted the Knights of Columbus in furnishing delightful dances, concerts, plays, picnics and suppers to the men in service, and in addition to this entertained a great 90 number of soldiers at dinner in private homes. Every Sunday morning the women of the difl'erent Cathohc parishes served breakfast for the men, after eight o'clock mass, in the Knights of Columbus building at the Fort. Also, at the Knights of Columbus building was maintained a registry, where men who were expecting relatives to visit them registered and, if they desired, the Daughters of Isabella met these relatives at the train and in many cases entertained them in their homes. The Jewish Council of Women entertained soldiers at din- ner every Saturday evening in their club house, and many groups of soldiers were entertained at dinner at the Hotels Ssverin and Claypopl by clubs, organizations and individuals of Jewish birth, while a very large number entertained them in their homes. Mrs. Charles B. Foster gave delightful concerts weekly at the Fort and the Speedway, while the Little Theater Society presented plays at frequent intervals. The Army Adult Bible Committee of the Marion County Sunday School Association gave a series of entertainments in the Y. M. C. A. building at Fort Benjamin Harrison. The Woman's Civic Bureau of Indianapolis was organized with Mrs. Frank Lahr, president, and 150 members, each on the Mothers' Visitation and Lecture Committees. The pur- pose of this bureau was to do preventive work for the pro- tection of girls, the first step being to seek the co-operation of the mothers of the girls. Various organizations of women gave a very great amount of time performing the very useful task of sewing and mend- ing for the boys in khaki, and during the influenza epidemic they offered their invaluable services in nursing the sick. We regret that space will not permit us to mention the many additional groups and organizations that did so much for the men in service when they were in our midst. The Marion County Ladies' Auxiliary, Ancient Order of Hibernians, organized a Red Cross unit, with headquarters in the Occidental Building, and operated it at the expense of their organization. They had an average of twenty workers five days each week, and two of their members, Mrs. Mar- garet Sullivan and Mrs. Margaret Harrington, each had over 800 hours of Red Cross work to their credit. This organi- zation also entertained the men in service with musical pro- 91 grams and pie socials. They also took an active part in Red Cross memberships and Liberty Bonds, selling over $20,000 for the Third Liberty Loan. Also donated $200 for mass outfits for army chaplains. The Junior Red Cross of Indianapolis conducted a bargain store, which in seven weeks had total receipts of $2,124.24 and expenses of $64.70, and in addition to the store cleared $244.42 on salvage. The Junior Red Cross pupils of School No. 52 made a blanket sixty by sixty of spruce paper, which it was claimed was the first blanket of this kind to be made in America by the Junior Red Cross. For food conservation 7,000 women in the county were organized into food clubs under Mrs. Irene V. Webb. In the Third Liberty Loan Campaign the Woman's Com- mittee secured subscriptions amounting to $4,280,250, and in the Fourth Liberty Loan $8,000,000. MARSHALL COUNTY Chairman, Mrs. E. N. Cook, Plymouth Executive Cotnmittee, County Chairvien of Committees Eegistration for Woman's Service. . .Mrs. E. N. Cook, Plymouth. Food Production Mrs. Frank Pulver, Plymouth. Home Economics Mrs. C. W. Baker, Plymouth. Child Welfare Mrs. E. B. Milnor, Plymouth. Health and Recreation. . Mrs. S. N. Stevens, Plymouth. Food Administration Mrs. Julia K. Blaine, Plymouth. Liberty Loan Mrs. Floyd Bunnell, Plymouth. Home and Foreign Relief Mrs. Rev. W. J. Cordick, Ply- mouth. Maintaining Existing Social Service Agencies Mrs. Winnie L. Humrichouser, Plymouth. Educational Propaganda Miss Alice Langdon, Plymouth. Publicity Mrs. J. H. Willey, Plymouth. Women in Industry Mrs. C. F. Holtzendorf, Plymouth. Fourteen-Minute Women Mrs. S. N. Stevens, Plymouth. Americanization Organized January, 1918. This county was most thoroughly organized, with a Chair- man in each township, with the County Chairmen of the various woman's organizations, twenty-three in number, as members of the Advisory Committee. 92 Women registered for war service, 5,000. Talks made by Fourteen-Minute Women, 75. Food and canning demonstrations, 15; number in attendance, 1,500. Cook books and leaflets distributed, 10,000. Credited to women in Liberty Loan campaigns, $624,625. Clinics for the examination of babies were held in every township except three, and 1,100 babies were examined. Hearty co-operation of doctors and nurses was given in this great work. Food clubs were organized in every community in the county, and three trained food demonstrators gave their serv- ices free of charge. Vacant lots were systematized and farmed by the poorer class. War gardens were given a great deal of publicity and prizes given for the best gardens. The Home and Foreign Relief Committee in this county was very closely affiliated with the Red Cross, Mrs. W. J. Cordick serving as Chairman of both committees. These committees took in all charitable organizations in the county and organized them, with Mrs. Cordick as Chairman. With such an organization as this, excellent results were obtained and much accomplished without any duplication of effort. The Transportation Committee served wherever needed and rendered very valuable assistance. MARTIN COUNTY Chairman, Mrs. Mary Reynolds, Loogootee Executive Committee, County Chairmeyi of Coinmittees Registration for Woman's Service. . .Mrs. Virginia Steele, Loogootee. Food Production Mrs. Susie Brooks, Shoals. Home Economics Miss EiRe Williams, Shoals. Child Welfare Mrs. .James Clifton, Shoals. Health and Recreation Mrs. John Neighbors, Shoals. Food Administration Miss Agatha Risacher, Loogootee. Liberty Loan Miss Agnes Hughes, Shoals. Home and Foreign Relief Mrs. Eppie Reily, Loogootee. Maintaining Existing Social Service Agencies Mrs. P. P. Engleman, Shoals. Educational Propaganda Mrs. Charles Hall, Shoals. Special Committee Mrs. L. C. Brooks, Loogootee. Publicity Mrs. Harry G. Strange, Loogootee. Fourteen-Minute Women Mrs. Isom Ackerman, Loogootee. Americanization Mrs. Will Moser, Loogootee. Organized November, 1917, and was very soon completely organized with Township Councils. 93 Women registered for war service, 3,000. Babies examined, 1,079. Collected by women for Liberty Loan campaigns, $86,175. Talks by Fourteen-Minute Women, 12. Food and canning demonstrations, 25. Approximate nmnber in attendance, 750. Food clubs, 5. Red Cross work January 15, 1918, to August 15, 1918, 1,084 articles. No record was kept of books and magazines sent to sol- diers and sailors, but a large number were sent. Special attention was given to gardens and the conserving of food by canning and drying all surplus. The Child Welfare workers consider much good was de- rived from the examining of children under six years of age, as the work was done by physicians, and parents were told of defects of which they were unaware. MIAMI COUNTY Chairman, Mrs. Jessie H. West, Peru Executive Committee^ County Chamnen of Committees Registration for Woman's Service. . .Mrs. Charles N. McClure, Peru. Food Production Mrs. Willis Flora, Chili. Home Economics Mrs. Riley King, Peru. Child Welfare Mrs. E. B. Wetherow, Peru. Health and Recreation Mrs. Berne Welch, Peru. Food Administration Miss Nell Peff erman, Peru. Liberty Loan Miss Carrie Rhein, Peru. Home and Foreign Relief Mrs. J. O. Cole, Peru. Maintaining Existing Social Service Agencies Miss Clara Mowbray, Peru. Educational Propaganda Miss Gertrude Thiebaud, Peru. Publicity Mrs. Mary Mowbray, Peru. Women in Industry Miss Louise Kinsey, Peru. Americanization Mrs. C. A. Baldwin, Peru. Fourteen-Minute Women Miss Harrriet Henton, Peru. Motor Corps Miss Louise Hoffman, Captain, Peru. Liberty Guards Miss Helen Sullivan, Captain, Peru. Liberty Chorus Miss Anna K. McLaughlin, Peru. Historian Miss Eleanor Kortholl, Peru. Organized November, 1917, being completely organized in every department. Eight thousand five hundred three women registered for War service. These registration cards were of great benefit when it was necessary to have a survey of the nurses in the 94 county, when it was found that 350 women had registered as trained and practical nurses, and twenty-two registered during the survey. The Chairman of the Registration Com- mittee also acted as Chairman of the committee in the drives for clothing for the French and Belgians, when 6,200 pounds of clothing were shipped. The organization work of the Child Welfare Committee, as also the examination of children under six years of age, was done by Mrs. William Barry, the first Chairman of this committee. When it became necessary for Mrs. Barry to resign, Mrs. Wetherow was appointed to succeed her. Mrs. Wetherow, with the help of high school girls, collected the data and transferred the material to a card, which was sent to Washington. Physicians and nurses were very generous with their services, and 1,687 children were examined. The Woman's Speakers' Bureau was in working order before the state organization of the Fourteen-Minute Women, but after this organization was completed the Woman's Speak- ers' Burau became the Fourteen-Minute Women of Miami County. These women responded to calls for addresses on war work on all occasions, speaking at War Chest meetings, food meetings, on W. C. T.U. programs, at Sunday-school conventions, at farmers' institutes, teachers' institutes, parent- teacher meetings, missionary meetings, lodge sessions. Red Cross and patriotic school meetings. Liberty Loan and Thrift Stamp drive meetings and at some regular church services. In July the Chairman was called to Washington for service as manager of the office of the News Department of the Woman's Committee of the Council of National Defense, the Fourteen-Minute Women being left in charge of the County Chairman of the Woman's Section. The Fourteen-Minute Women were well received, in some instances having the prin- cipal place on the program. At the beginning of the great war the first thought, next to men, was food. "Food will win the war." Naturally the leaders of our nation turned to the women to solve the prob- lem, and quickly the answer came: "We will plant gardens enough for our families and save transportation for war ma- terials." For this reason a committee was named with a Chairman of Food Production under the Woman's Section, and under the County Chairman the Township Chairmen were named. Many of these women did excellent work. Our slogan 95 was "Plant a Garden," and 85% of Miami County's families owned a garden. Many were the ways in which we worked to get results — through the papers, writing letters to Town- ship Chairmen, and talks by Fourteen-Minute Women. We planted and tended gardens ourselves and talked gardens to our neighbors. The idea was to induce ten women who had never made a garden before to do so, and less than ten were found who would not try. It is impossible in the limited space to give an account of the work done by the Educational Propaganda Committee, whose Chairman was also librarian of the Peru Public Library and for a time was loaned to the American Library Associa- tion to do some work in Washington, during which time Mrs. E. N. Wetherow took charge of this work. All suggestions made by the State Chairman of this committee were carefully followed, including the distribution of 5,300 copies of the letter "To the Children of Indiana" to all children in the public and parochial schools in the county; copies of "War Subjects for Club Programs" to all literary, franchise and parent-teacher clubs and missionary societies of the county; copies of the reading list "Patriotism," published by the New York Public Library, distributed to ministers, teachers, club members and business men and women. The A. L. A. work of the county was carried on by the local library, also the troop train work in Peru was carried by the library staff, aided by the girls of the Motor Corps, who collected late magazines from the homes on each Monday afternoon, bringing them to the library. Thousands of books were collected and shipped to camps and cantonments in this country and across the seas. Food clubs were organized all over the county. Food dem- onstrations were held at frequent intervals, and August 5th to 17th Miss Reba Smith gave a series of demonstrations. The Home Economics Committee Chairman arranged an ex- hibit at the Converse fair and demonstrated the use of sub- stitutes, and in connection with the Chairman of the food clubs arranged an exhibit and demonstrations at the great Apple Show held by the Northern Division of the Horticul- tural Association November 11 to 16, at which time Miss Alma Garvin of Purdue University gave the demonstrations. The Girls' Liberty Guard was composed of eighty-five young ladies organized for the purpose of assisting in war work. They also held meetings each week, at which drilling 96 and physical exercises were taught by men with mihtarj'' training and experience. This organization was continually called upon to take part in parades and patriotic gatherings, at which they performed their military tactics and made a striking and beautiful appearance in uniform. During the Fourth Liberty Loan Campaign they sold approximately $63,000 worth of bonds. They also assisted various patriotic organizations in their war work. It is the plan of the organi- zation to continue its work and perform canteen work upon the arrival home of soldiers and sailors. The members of the Woman's Section of this county adopted a French orphan for one year, thinking they could thus continue their war work together for a time. MONROE COUNTY Chairman, Mrs. Robert G. Miller, Bloomington; Mrs. John Kerr, Bloomington; Mrs. Thomas G. Karsell, Bloomington Executive Committee, County Chairmen of Committees Registration for Woman's Service. . .Miss Jessie Hogate, Bloomington. Food Production Mrs. F. A. Winslow, Bloomington. Home Economics Miss Martha Livingston, Blooming- ton. Child Welfare Mrs. Minnie Waldron, Bloomington. Health and Recreation Mrs. C. E. Harris, Bloomington. Home and Foreign Relief Mrs. Fred Batman, Bloomington. Maintaining Existing Social Service Agencies Mrs. C. E. Edmonson, Blooming- ton. Educational Propaganda Miss Mary Kerr. Publicity Miss Lena Bright, Bloomington. Women in Industry Mrs. Minnie Waldron, Bloomington. Fourteen-Minute Women Mrs. W. W. Black, Bloomington. Liberty Loan Mrs. John A. Hunter, Bloomington. The Woman's Section was organized in November, 1917, with Mrs. Thomas G. Karsell as Chairman, who served until March, 1917, when ill health forced her to resign. Mrs. John Kerr, who was Secretary of the Monroe County Council of Defense and a member of the council, took charge of the work. In May, 1918, Mrs. Robert G. Miller was appointed to succeed Mrs. Karsell as a member of the council, after which time Mrs. Miller and Mrs, Kerr worked together as Chairman and Assistant Chairman of the Woman's Section. The various committees were well organized and did their work very thoroughly. 97 The Chairman of the Food Production Committee was also County Organizer of Federal Food Clubs. The plan for organizing the food clubs was to establish a community club of women to do all kinds of war work for women in every school district in the county. Thus a very close and inclusive organization was effected. The food clubs had committees on both conservation and production and were furnished a suggested program which assigned for discussion a topic on production at alternate meetings. The committee encouraged the general increase in production and secured and distributed for educational purposes government bulletins and other au- thentic instructions and information. The Food Conservation Committee held public demonstra- tions, distributed recipes, and in every way urged the use of substitutes and the conservation of food. The Registration Committee registered 4,460 women for war service. For the Fourth Liberty Loan forty women workers were credited with subscriptions to the amount of $224,250, in the Third with $54,100. Nine hundred ninety-one children under six years of age are reported examined and the work not yet completed. The Children's Year work was started with a large parade of school children bearing banners marked "The Child, the Na- tion's Last Reserve." On this day letters were sent to trustees of each township asking them to organize for the weighing and measuring tests. The Child Welfare Committee imme- diately organized its corps of workers: physicians, eight registered nurses, medical students from the Indiana Univer- sity School of Medicine, a number of nurses' aids recruited from students and Bloomington women who had had courses in first aid and in home care of the sick, clerks and hostesses. For this group of workers the committee conducted a two weeks' training school, to which the public was also invited. There were lectures and demonstrations by sociologists, social workers, dentists, physicians, dietitians and home economics specialists, teachers in the public schools, the juvenile judge and educators on such subjects as: "The Purposes of the National Baby Campaign," "The National Council of Defense and the Federal Children's Bureau," "Mouth Hygiene," "Baby Hygiene," "Food for Babies and Grown Children," "The Birthrate and the Standard of Living," "Work and a Living 9S Wage," "Infant Mortality," 'The Child in the Schools," 'The Child in the Courts," 'The Undernourished Child," "Eugenics and Causes of Waste of Human Life," "The Work of the Home Health Volunteers," and "Infants and Infants' Dis- eases." These lectures were given in addition to instructions and demonstrations on the weighing and measuring tests. During the time of this school of instructions a vigorous publicity campaign was carried on. The lectures were re- ported in detail in the local papers and special articles were also put in the papers in regard to the weighing and measur- ing, and various other means employed to give it wide pub- licity. The Committee feels that the greatest general result of the weighing and measuring test has been the awakening of the community to the physical, mental and spiritual needs of the child. MONTGOMERY COUNTY Chairman, Mrs. S. C. Rowland, Crawfordsville Executive Committee, County Chairmen of Comm,ittees Registration for Woman's Service . . . Mrs. John Brown, Ladoga. Food Production Mrs. John Warner, Crawfordsville. Home Economics Mrs. J. J. Wingert, Crawfordsville. Child Welfare Dr. Martha Griffith, Crawfords- ville. Health and Recreation Mrs. Ella Myers, Crawfordsville. Food Administration Miss Elizabeth Cowan, Crawfords- ville. Liberty Loan Mrs. S. C. Rowland, Crawfords- ville. Home and Foreign Relief Mrs. Chas. Ross, Crawfordsville. . Maintaining Existing Social Service Agencies Mrs. E. E. Ballard, Ci-awfordsville. Educational Propaganda Miss Anna Wilson, Crawfordsville. Publicity Miss Katherine Pickett, Crawfords- ville. Miss Harriett Hill, Crawfordsville. Americanization Mrs. Emerson E. Ballard, Craw- fordsville. Fourteen-Minute Women Mrs. Frances Abraham, Crawfords- ville. Organized December, 1917. Women registered for war service, 6,257. Babies examined, 1,616 (to be completed). Collected by women for Liberty Loan campaigns, $930,950. Talks by Fourteen-Minute Women, 56. i 99 Food and canning demonstrations, 40. Number in attendance, 1,826. . Cook books and leaflets distributed, 19,728. Estimated home gardens, 1,454. Books sent to soldiers and sailors, 1,066. Magazines sent to soldiers and sailors, 1,400. Collected with which to buy technical books for soldiers and sailors, $550. Red Cross work January 1st to July 1st, 11,804 articles. MORGAN COUNTY Chairman, Miss Mary Bain, Martinsville Executive Committee, County Chairmen of Committees Registration for Woman's Service. . .Mrs. J. E. Robinson, Martinsville. Food Production Mrs. John Cantasey, Morgantown. Home Economics Mrs. Vern Macey, Mooresville. Child Welfare Miss Myrtle C. Cantasey, Morgan- town. Health and Recreation Miss Dorothy Cunningham, Mar- tinsville. Food Administration Mrs. E. C. Shireman, Martinsville. Liberty Loan Mrs. Everett R. Ryan, Monrovia. Home and Foreign Relief Mrs. C. A. Hubbard, Martinsville. Maintaining Existing Social Service Agencies Mrs. Mattie Hodges, Paragon. Educational Propaganda Miss Mary Ellis, Martinsville. Special Committee Mrs. N. H. Gano, Martinsville. Publicity Mrs. A. G. Rose, Martinsville. Fourteen-Minute Women Mrs. H. L. McGinnis, Martinsville. Organized December, 1917. During the Fourth Liberty Loan Campaign eighty-eight women workers sold subscriptions amounting to $290,975; in the Third Loan with $112,700. From April, 1918, to April, 1919, 29,379 articles were made for the Red Cross. This does not include number of quilts made and donated nor linen shower from Mooresville and Morgantown. War Mothers donated 237 articles, besides thirty-six dozen eggs and 195 cans of jelly and $1.50 cash to the hospitals at West Baden and Fort Benjamin Harrison. The Registration Committee registered 5,580 women for war service. The Chairman of Food Production, also Conservation, organized food clubs throughout the county, sent directions for making cheese, and packing butter, etc. 100 NEWTON COUNTY Chairman, Miss Ada E. Bush, Kentland; Mrs. Adda V. White, Kentland Executive Committee, County Chairmen of Committees Registration for Woman's Service. . .Mrs. Harry F. Little, Goodland. Food Production Mrs. Young Dearduff, Brook. Home Economics Mrs. Lenore Allen, Kentland. Child Welfare Miss Frances Ott, Morocco. Health and Recreation Mrs. R. C. McCain, Kentland. Food Administration Mrs. R. R. Cummings, Kentland. Liberty Loan Mrs. Adda V. White, Kentland. Home and Foreign Relief Mrs. Frank Kennedy, Goodland. Maintaining Existing Social Service Agencies Mrs. Thomas H. Dixon, Kentland. Educational Propaganda Mrs. Wm. O. Schanlaub, Kentland. Publicity Mrs. C. M. Davis, Kentland. Fourteen-Minute Women Mrs. John G. Davis, Kentland, Organized December, 1917, with Miss Ada E. Bush as Chairman. Miss Bush resigned, and in July, 1918, Mrs. Adda V. White was appointed to succeed her. Women registered for war service, 3,352. During the Fourth Liberty Loan Campaign there were seventy women workers, who were credited with securing subscriptions amounting to $265,000 ; during the Third with S95,000. More than 700 children were examined in this county. The greatest problem revealed was that of feeding. The Chairman of the committee, who is a registered nurse, worked out a dietary for three child ages — for the child under one year of age, for the child three years, and for the child six years — and had this published. This dietary was made as simple as possible, so that any mother without further train- ing could follow the directions. The Chairman also instructed the mothers in methods of feeding especially designed to over- come the indifference to food often shown by delicate chil- dren. The Chairman of the committee gave special talks to mothers in libraries, churches, schools, etc. The recreational program has been given over to the teachers. NOBLE COUNTY Chairman, Mrs. M. C. Beck, Albion; Mrs. W. B. Van Gerder, Albion Woman's Section not organized. 101 OHIO COUNTY Chairman, Mrs. Louise Cooper, Rising Sun; Mrs. Ella G. Stewart, Rising Sun Executive Committee, County Chairmen of Committees Registration for Woman's Service. . .Mrs. Sadie Green, Rising Sun. Food Production Mrs. Elmer Bailey, Aurora. Home Economics . .Miss Edna North, Rising Sun. Child Welfare Mrs. Emma Gibson, Rising Sun. Health and Recreation Mrs. George H. Hansell, Rising Sun. Food Administration Mrs. Fannie Green, Rising Sun. Liberty Loan Miss Adaline Griswald, Rising Sun. Home and Foreign Relief Mrs. Nettie McConnell, Rising Sun. Maintaining Existing Social Service Agencies Miss Christine North, Rising Sun. Educational Propaganda Mrs. Henry B. Sparks, Rising Sun. Special Committee Mrs. Lewis C. Cowen, Rising Sun. Publicity Mrs. Mary Perkins, Rising Sun. Ohio is the smallest county in the State. The Woman's Section was organized in September, 1917, with Mrs. Louise Cooper as Chairman. After Mrs. Cooper's resignation, Mrs. Ella C. Stewart was appointed to succeed her. Collected by women for Liberty Loan campaigns, $160,050. Collected by women for War Savings Stamps, $30,000. Cook books and leaflets distributed, several hundred. Estimated number of home gardens, 500. Food clubs, 4. Books sent to soldiers and sailors, 27. Red Cross Avork done, 1,664 articles. Women registered for war service, 1,381. The Registration Committee had its work so well in hand and advertised that it was unnecessary to have a house-to- house canvass, all of the women coming to the registration booths in the various townships. It is estimated that prac- tically 100% of the women registered for war service. ORANGE COUNTY Chairman, Mrs. Thos. B. Buskirk, Paoli; Mrs. Evalou Stephenson, Orleans Woman's Section not organized. 102 OWEN COUNTY Chairman, Mrs. John M. Smith, Spencer Executive Cofmnittee, County Chairmen of Committees Registration for Woman's Service. . .Mrs. T. H. Cochran, Spencer. Food Production Mrs. E. E. McCord, Spencer. Home Economics Mrs. Perry Mcintosh, Freedom. Child Welfare Mrs. T. G. Pierson, Spencer. Food Administration Mrs. 0. F. Gray, Spencer. Liberty Loan Miss Ura Sanders, Gosport. Educational Propaganda Mrs. Willis Holliman, Spencer. Publicity Miss Myrtle Griffin, Spencer. Fourteen-Minute Women Mrs. N. D. Cox, Spencer. Organized February, 1918. Women registered for war service, 3,250. Collected for Liberty Loan campaigns, $172,500. Collected by children for War Savings Stamps campaign, $2,000. Talks by Fourteen-Minute Women, 36. Canning demonstrations, 12. Approximate number in attendance, 350. Cook books and leaflets distributed, 500. Estimated number home gardens, 3,000. Food clubs, 32. Babies examined, 800. Red Cross work (including surgical dressings), 53,732 articles. Used clothing, 2,340 pounds. French Relief work included 1,250 hospital garments, 36 layettes, and 8 orphans supported. As a result of the examination of children under six years of age, the services of a trained nurse in the local hospital were secured for the follow-up work. This nurse gives every Wednesday afternoon for free consultations. Patriotic Play Week was observed at the time of the chautauqua in a Juvenile Week, terminating in a beautiful patriotic pageant preceding the regular chautauqua. PARKE COUNTY Chairman, Mrs. F. W. Leatherman, Rockville Executive Comviittee, County Chairmen of Committees Registration for Woman's Service. . .Mrs. John Glosson, Rockville. Food Production Miss Marian McMillan, Rockville. Home Economics Miss Marian McMillan, Rockville. Child Welfare Mrs. William Pease, Rockville. Health and Recreation Miss Mary E. Lambert, Rockville. 103 Food Administration Mrs. H. H. Dooley, Rockville. Liberty Loan Mrs. E. S. Brubeck, Rockville. Maintaining Existing Social Service Agencies Mrs. James Elder, Rockville. Home and Foreign Relief Mrs. A. H. Starke, Rockville. Educational Propaganda Mrs. Ella Nichols, Rockville. Publicity Mrs. I. R. Strouse, Rockville. Mrs. Frances Sherill, Rockville. Americanization Mrs. W. D. Adams, Rosedale. Fourteen-Minute Women Mrs. Rufus Dooley, Rockville. Organized July, 1917. Women registered for war service, 5,040. Babies examined, 500. Collected for Liberty Loan campaign, $236,050. Collected for War Savings Stamps, $300,000. Talks by Fourteen-Minute Women, 104. Canning and Food demonstrations, 111. Number in attendance, 6,152. Cook books and leaflets distributed, thousands. Books sent to soldiers and sailors, 96. Collected with which to buy books for soldiers and sailors, $168.80. Food clubs, 53. It is estimated that 75% of the people had war gardens. Red Cross work done: Hospital garments, 15,038; hospital sup- plies, 6,943; knitted garments, 2,050; surgical dressings, 17,333. Refugee garments, 3,054. Linen shower, 2,844 articles. PERRY COUNTY Chairman, Mrs. Lee Rodman, Cannelton Executive Committee, County Chairmen of Committees Registration for Woman's Service. . .Mrs. Edward Stitch, Cannelton. Food Production Miss Florence Weatherholt, Tobins- port. Mrs. Frank Sanders, Tobinsport. Home Economics Mrs. Wm. Krogman, Tell City. Child Welfare Mrs. Pearl Hafele, Cannelton. Health and Recreation Mrs. Wm. Bergenroth, Troy. Food Administration Mrs. Edward Stitch, Cannelton. Liberty Loan Mrs. Wm. C. Conway, Cannelton. Home and Foreign Relief Mrs. Lee Rodman, Cannelton. Educational Propaganda Miss Josie Nicolay, Cannelton. Publicity Mrs. Mary Cummings, Tell City. Fourteen-Minute Women Mrs. Mary Cummings, Tell City. Organized November, 1917. 104 Women registered for war service, 3,520. Collected for Liberty Loan campaign, $139,750. Collected by women and children for War Savings Stamp cam- paign, $74,360. Talks by Fourteen -Minute Women, 12. Food and canning demonstrations, 8. Approximate attendance, 260. Estimated home gardens in three towns, 500 (impossible to esti- mate gardens in entire county). Food clubs, more than 20. Books sent soldiers and sailors, 1,056. Magazines sent soldiers and sailors, several hujidred. Collected with which to buy technical books for soldiers and sailors, $4. Red Cross, 22,571 articles. PIKE COUNTY Chairman, Mrs. Philip Abel, Petersburg; Mrs. Edna Wilhite, Petersburg Executive Committee, County Chairmen of Cotnmittees Registration for Woman's Service. . .Miss Edna Bell, Petersburg. Food Production Miss Adda George, Petersburg. Home Economics Mrs. W. L. Clarke, Petersburg. Child Welfare Mrs. Elizabeth Thompson, Peters- burg. Health and Recreation Mrs. Alice P. Stoops, Petersburg. Food Administration Miss Edna Bell, Petersburg. Liberty Loan Mrs. Sylvester Thompson, Peters- burg. Home and Foreign Relief Mrs. Daisy Boonshot, Petersburg. Maintaining Existing Social Service Agencies Mrs. S. W. Chappell, Petersburg. Educational Propaganda Mrs. Anna Bowman, Petersburg. Special Committee Mrs. Frank Jean, Petersburg. Publicity Miss Edith Davidson, Petersburg. Fourteen-Minute Women Mrs. Elizabeth Thompson, Peters- burg. War Mothers Mrs. Emma Chandler, Petersburg. Thrift Stamps Mrs. Philip Kiefer, Petersburg. Motor Club Mrs. J. K. Chappell, Petersburg. Gifts to Soldiers Mrs. John Watson, Petersburg. Co-ordination Mrs. Daniel Bell, Petersburg. Y. W. C. A Mrs. Ben Ornbaun, Petersburg. Woman's Work Mrs. Joseph Johnson, Petersburg. Home Service, Civilian Relief Mrs. Alice P. Stoops, Petersburg. The Woman's Section of the Pike County Council of De- fense was organized in November, 1917, with Mrs. Philip 105 Abel as Chairman. It became impossible for Mrs. Abel to continue in this capacity after May, 1918, when Mrs. Edna Wilhite was appointed to succeed her. These able Chairmen very thoroughly organized the county for war work, and satisfactory results were obtained. Six hundred two children under six years of age were examined; the Chairman of the Child Welfare Committee went into every township and into some of them twice and held meetings. Each meeting was attended by a physician and -graduate nurse. Homes were visited where the women had assembled with their children, and in all cases a thorough examination was made. In some townships great difficulty was found in making the parents realize the importance of the work. The Registration Committee registered 4,570 women for war service. In the Third and Fourth Liberty Loan Campaigns the Woman's Committee secured subscriptions amounting to $205,550. PORTER COUNTY Chairman, Mrs. C. W. Boucher, Valparaiso Executive Committee, County Chairmen of Covimittees Registration for Woman's Service. . .Mrs. E. F. Van Ness, Valparaiso. Food Production Mrs. Will Gardner, Valparaiso. Home Economics Mrs. Will Gardner, Valparaiso. Child Welfare Mrs. D. E. Kelley, Valparaiso. Food Administration Mrs. Will Gardner, Valparaiso. Liberty Loan Mrs. Frank B. Chester, Valparaiso. Mrs. H. M. Beer, Valparaiso. Maintaining Existing Social Service Agencies Mrs. Wayne Wilson, Valparaiso. Special Committee Mrs. S. L. Finney, Valparaiso. Publicity Mrs. A. O. Bondy, Valparaiso. Women in Industry Mrs. Abe Lowenstine, Valparaiso. Home and Foreign Relief Mrs. L M. Tenney, Valparaiso. Organized November, 1917. It is estimated 1,000 children under six years of age were examined, though no exact count was kept. A record of all children needing follow-up work was kept. During the Fourth Liberty Loan Campaign 146 women workers were credited v/ith subscriptions totaling $404,675. In the Third Loan 108 women workers were credited with $97,000. 106 POSEY COUNTY Chairman, Mrs. Louis H. Keck, Mt. Vernon; Miss Annabelle High- man, Mt. Vernon Executive Com7niitee, County Chairmen of Committees Registration for Woman's Service. . .Mrs. Mary L. Conlin, Mt. Vernon. Child Welfare Mrs. C. M. McGreger, Mt. Vernon. Liberty Loan Mrs. George Zimmerman, Mt. Ver- non. , Mrs. Winston Menzies, Mt. Vernon. Publicity Miss Annabelle Highman, Mt. Ver- non. Organized in November, 1917, with Mrs. Louis H. Keck as Chairman. In February, 1918, Mrs. Keck resigned, Miss Annabelle Highman being appointed to succeed her. Four thousand four hundred eighteen women in this county registered for war service. During the Fourth Liberty Loan Campaign 240 women workers sold subscriptions to the amount of $491,450; in the Third Loan, $286,700. PULASKI COUNTY Chairman, Mrs. L. Huddleson, Winamac Executive Coramittee, County Chairtnen of Co7nmittees Registration for Woman's Service. . .Mrs. Ned Gorrell, Winamac. Food Production Mrs. F. L. Duckes, Winamac. Home Economics Mrs. L J. Matthews, Winamac. Food Administration Mrs. H. L. Rodgers, Winamac. Child Welfare Mrs. Luther Thompson, Winamac. Health and Recreation Mrs. Dr. Marshall, Winamac. Liberty Loan Miss Fern Ale, Winamac. Home and Foreign Relief Miss Josie O'Connell, Winamac. Miss Genevieve Brown, Winamac. Maintaining Existing Social Service Agencies Mrs. G. W. Thompson, Winamac. Educational Propaganda Mrs. Ralph Curtis, Winamac. Publicity Mrs. L. Huddleson, Winamac. Women in Industry Mrs. Dr. Collins, Winamac. Fourteen-Minute Women Mrs. E. C. Gorrell, Winamac. Organized March 6, 1918. Women registered for war service, 2,000. Collected by women and children for War Savings Stamp cam- paign, $50,000. Talks by Fourteen-Minute Women, 4. .107 Food and canning demonstrations, 90. Food clubs, 10. Estimated home and vacant lot gardens, 50. Books sent to soldiers and sailors, 106. Collected with which to buy technical books for soldiers and sailors, $90. Red Cross work March 26 to August 24, 1918, 2,051 garments, 486 knitted articles. The examination of children under six years of age has not been completed. The drive was considered very bene- ficial, as it was a means of informing the mothers as to what a normal child is as to weight and measurement, and those having children not up to the standard are beginning to find out why. In the Fourth Liberty Loan Campaign the Woman's Com- mittee was credited with securing subscriptions amounting to $154,675. PUTNAM COUNTY Chairman, Mrs. Lou Allen Baker, Greencastle; Mrs. N. C. O'Hair, Greencastle. Executive Committee, County Chairmen of Comm,ittees Registration for Woman's Service. . .Mrs. Oscar Thomas, Greencastle. Food Production Mrs. S. A. Hazlett, Greencastle. Home Economics Mrs. Clay Brothers, Greencastle. Child Welfare Miss Irene Huestis, Greencastle. Health and Recreation Mrs. Mack Jones, Greencastle. Food Administration Mrs. Clay Brothers, Greencastle. Liberty Loan Mrs. Aaron W. Cooper, Green- castle. Maintaining Existing Social Service Agencies Mrs. A. M. Hootman, Greencastle. Educational Propaganda Mrs. L. G. Wright, Greencastle. Publicity Mrs. N. C. O'Hair, Greencastle. Women in Industry Miss Josephine Donnohue, Green- castle. Americanization Mrs. R. A. Ogg, Greencastle. Fourteen-Minute Women Mrs. J. L. Randel, Greencastle. The first Chairman of the Woman's Section of the Putnam County Council of Defense was Mrs. Lou Allen Baker, who resigned in December, 1918, and was succeeded by Mrs. N. C. O'Hair, who has served as Chairman up to this time. Out of a total of 5,698 women over sixteen years of age in the county, 5,538 registered for war service. 108 The Fourteen-Minute Women did most effective work for the War Savings Stamp drive, the Child Welfare movement, the Student Nurse Reserve recruiting, for food conservation and production, and in every other movement in which edu- cation of the public was necessary. The County Chairman of Food Clubs had a President in seven townships and the city of Greencastle. In the Fourth Liberty Loan Campaign there were 200 v/omen workers, who were credited with subscriptions amounting to $415,000, and in the Third Loan with $176,000. Of the 700 children under six years of age examined, 569 had a medical examination. Only seven townships of the county held examinations, so the work is not yet complete. Two or three operations have resulted from the tests. Mothers are more on the alert to guard their children's health, and much benefit has been derived from this welfare campaign. Many mothers expressed their appreciation of the work. RANDOLPH COUNTY Chairman, Mrs. L. Ella Clark, Winchester Executive Cotnmittee, County Chairmen of Committees Registration for Woman's Service. . .Mrs. G. E. Leggett, Winchester. Mrs. Cora Veach, Winchester. Food Production Mrs. Ella Wilmore, Winchester. Home Economics Mrs. Elizabeth Ruby, Winchester. Child Welfare Mrs. H. S. Nickerson, Winchester. Health and Recreation Mrs. John Morris, Winchester. Food Conservation Mrs. J. A. Brown, Winchester. Liberty Loan Mrs. Grant C. Markle, Winchester. Home and Foreign Relief Mrs. J. L. Smith, Winchester. Educational Propaganda Miss Elsie Gerhard, Winchester. Maintaining Existing Social Service Agencies Mrs. W. W. Reed, Winchester. Special Committee Mrs. John P. Clark, Winchester. Publicity Mrs. Carl Puckett, Winchester. Fourteen-Minute Women Mrs. G. E. Leggett, Winchester. Organized in summer of 1917. Women registered for war service, 7,607. Babies examined, 1,790. Food and canning demonstrations, 43. Approximate attendance, 1,706. Cook books and leaflets distributed, thousands. 109 Food clubs, 50. Red Cross, 10,000 articles. Red Cross, $18,102.28. Thousands of books and magazines were sent to soldiers and sailors, and $266 was collected with which to buy tech- nical books for them. • It is estimated that every vacant lot was a garden. In the War Savings Stamp Campaign women and children collected $360,755.15. In the First and Second Liberty Loan Campaigns the women sold subscriptions amounting to $220,000, and in the Fourth Campaign 276 women workers were credited with $590,925, while in the Third Loan 115 women were credited with $150,000. RIPLEY COUNTY Chairman, Mrs. Laura Beer, Versailles Executive Cotnmittee, County Chairmen of Committees Registration for Woman's Service. . .Mrs. Laura Row Nelson, Osgood. Food Production Mrs. J. A. Hillenbrand, Batesville. Home Economics Mrs. J. H. Bergdall, Milan. Child Welfare Mrs. W. H. McMullen, Sunman. Health and Recreation Mrs. Chas. W. Gibson, Batesville. Food Administration Mrs. Laura Row Nelson, Osgood. Liberty Loan Mrs. D. C. Yates, Hollow. Mrs. Luella Butler, Versailles. Home and Foreign Relief Mrs. F. M. Laws, Versailles. Maintaining Existing Social Service Agencies Mrs. Charles S. Royce, Versailles. Educational Propaganda Miss Sophia Nickel, Batesville. Publicity Mrs. Peter Holzan, Batesville. Special Committee Mrs. James Hazerling, Napoleon. Fourteen-Minute Women Mrs. Monta Royce, Versailles. One thousand four hundred ninety-four children under six years of age were examined in this county, and a canvass of the county showed that all children between the ages of six and fourteen are in school. For the Third and Fourth Liberty Loan campaigns women workers were credited with securing subscriptions amounting to $516,450. 110 RUSH COUNTY Chairman, Mrs. Cora M. Stewart, Rushville Executive CoTnmittee, County Chairmen of Committees Registration for Woman's Service. . .Mrs. L. C. Lambert, Rushville. Food Production Mrs. C. L. Smullen, Mays. Home Economics Mrs. Burl Matney, New Salem. Child Welfare Miss Belle Gregg, Rushville. Health and Recreation Mrs. Stephen Kelly, Rushville. Food Administration Mrs. Burl Matney, Rushville. Liberty Loan Miss Anna Bohannon, Rushville. Mrs. Cora M. Stewart, Rushville. Maintaining Existing Social Service Agencies Miss Alma Green, Rushville. Educational Propaganda Miss Jessie Kitchen, Rushville. Publicity Miss Josephine Kelly, Rushville. Americanization Miss Jessie Kitchen, Rushville. Fourteen-Minute Women Miss Mary Sleeth, Rushville. Organized May, 1917. Since Rush County had for a number of years prior to the war been doing many of the things advanced by the Council of Defense as requiring special attention, when the Woman's Section was organized the agencies already in exist- ence carried on the work which they had been doing and became a part of the Council of Defense during its existence, in most cases, and in others reported their work to the Wom- an's Section, and through this channel it was reported to the National Council at Washington in connection with the report of the Woman's Section of the Council of Defense. Rushville has an organization of women whose members are elected each year from the women's clubs in the city: Social, fraternal, civic, religious, educational, etc. This or- ganization is called "The Woman's Council." It pays the salary of the visiting nurse and buys all the supplies she needs in her work. Every man, woman and child in the city who cannot afford to pay for the services of a trained attendant during sickness is given such services free of all cost by this nurse. The school teachers report every case of physical and mental deficiency of indigent children to this organization ; also, this organization gets the physical record of the school children each year after the physical examination, and each child whose parents are too poor to have these defects cor- rected is visited some time during the summer months and Ill given the opportunity to have this done without any expense to the parents. It has corrected hundreds of cases of defec- tive vision, had teeth filled, adenoids and tonsils removed, etc. This is not all done for children alone, but also for the parents of these children if they cannot afford to have it done for themselves. Rush County was one of the first in the State to take advantage of the valuable help offered to the poor by the Robert W. Long Hospital, Indianapolis. In the last year or so the poor have had all kinds of surgical help given by this benevolent institution. Mastoid operations have been performed, hip diseases treated, cataracts removed, goitre cured, etc. Other agencies are equally active for the welfare of the child ; some of the church women clothe entire classes of girls. The sororities of the county give scholarships each year, and the club women are also active in this form of work. For a number of years the women of this county have conducted a baby clinic, to which every mother in the county is invited to bring her children. During this clinic the com- munity and hospital nurses cared for the children and each child received a thorough physical and mental examination, the Binet-Simon system for testing for mental defect being- used. Physicians, surgeons and dentists give two or three hours a day each to this work some time during the day of the clinic. Such children whose parents are not financially able to bear the cost of treatment for the ailments found are offered such treatment free of all cost. The high school held a large number of patriotic pro- grams in which the main features of the war were explained. Patriotic poems were studied in the schools ; once a week each grade had a war story; community and life lessons were given once a month, many of these on war subjects. The high school owns a complete moving picture outfit of the latest type. Once a week the children from all the schools in the city were assembled in the auditorium of the high school for a moving picture show, each show depicting some war fea- ture. The films shown were the very best that could be obtained. During the War Savings Stamp Campaign the Chairman of that committee asked the women of the Council of Defense to assist in the drive. In two days' time an organization of 112 200 women visited every home in the county and $163,000 worth of stamps were sold. During the Third Liberty Loan Campaign women bought $190,000 worth of bonds, and in the Fourth Liberty Loan women purchased $300,000 of these bonds. It is estimated there were 800 gardens in excess of normal. Ten food and canning demonstrations were held, with an approximate attendance of 800. There were 1,000 cook books and leaflets distributed. More than 4,000 magazines and books were sent to soldiers and sailors. The Fourteen-Minute Women made eighteen speeches, and there were 4,500 women in the county who registered for war service. SCOTT COUNTY Chairman, Mrs. W. L. Hubbard, Scottsburg Executive Coininittee, County Chairtnen of Committees Registration for Woman's Service. . .Miss Permelia Boyd, Deputy. Food Production Mrs. Ralph Malick, Austin. Home Economics Miss Elsie Hughbanks, Scottsburg. Food Administration Miss Alice Gamble, Scottsburg. Child Welfare Miss Rhoda Hazzard, Scottsburg. Health and Recreation Mrs. Maud Hough, Scottsburg. Liberty Loan Mrs. C. C. James, Lexington. Miss Alice Gamble, Scottsburg. Home and Foreign Relief Mrs. L. B. Stewart, Scottsburg. Maintaining Existing Social Service Agencies Mrs. L. N. Mace, Scottsburg. Educational Propaganda Mrs. Elizabeth Badger, Scottsburg. Publicity Mrs. Ray P. Wells, Scottsburg. Women in Industry Mrs. H. H. McCormick, Scottsburg. Fourteen-Minute Women Mrs. Susie M. Davis, Scottsburg. In the Third and Fourth Liberty Loan campaigns sub- scriptions amounting to $82,600 were sold by the women workers. One thousand two hundred thirteen women registered for war service. 113 SHELBY COUNTY Chairman, Mrs. S. L. Major, Shelbyville; Mrs. John W. Rhodes, Shelbyville. Executive Committee, County Chairmen of CoTnmittees Registration for Woman's Service. . .Mrs. Cora T. Orebaugh, Shelby- ville. Food Production Miss Ola Billman, Shelbyville. Home Economics Mrs. S. L. Major, Shelbyville. Child Welfare Mrs. Frank Bass, Shelbyville. Health and Recreation Miss Ida J. McCaslin, Shelbyville. Liberty Loan Miss Betsy Edwards, Shelbyville. Publicity Mrs. Ed Lewis, Shelbyville. Fourteen-Minute Women Mrs. E. K. Montgomery, Shelby- ville. Mrs. S. L. Major, the first County Chairman of the Wom- an's Section of Shelby County, resigned in March, 1918, and Mrs. John W. Rhodes was appointed to succeed her. In the Third and Fourth Liberty Loan campaigns the women workers sold subscriptions amounting to $350,000. The city of Shelbyville responded to the child welfare work by co-operating through the schools in correctional work. There has been an increased interest in physical edu- cation, physical inspection and physical training of children, and playgrounds under supervision have been started in con- nection with the schools. Through the interest of the mothers the schools have organized "Little Health Soldiers." In the examination of the children under six years of age the schoolhouses were used as centers, 518 children were examined and a number of cases of serious physical defects discovered, a large number of which have since been cor- rected. The work in the county outside of Shelbyville has not yet been finished. SPENCER COUNTY Chairman, Mrs. Alberta K. Huffman, Rockport Executive Cominittee, County Chairmen of Committees Registration for Woman's Service. . .Mrs. Mary Ann Hill, Rockport. Food Production Mrs. L. B. Wilkinson, Rockport. Home Economics Miss Bonnie Jones, Rockport. Child Welfare Mrs. James Bartrim, Rockport. Health and Recreation Mrs. Bess H. Ehrman, Rockport. Food Administration Mrs. J. W. Strassell, Rockport. 8— 1636G 114 Liberty Loan Mrs. Arch Stevenson, Rockport. Home and Foreign Relief Dr. Eva Buxton, Rockport. Maintaining Existing Social Service Agencies Mrs. Lewis Woolf oik, Grandview. Educational Propaganda Mrs. Chas. E. Skinner, Rockport. Special Committee Mrs. Maud Lang, Rockport. Publicity Miss Laura Wright, Rockport. Special Committee Mrs. C. C. Mason, Rockport. Food Clubs Mrs. James Rimstedt. The Woman's Section of the Spencer County Council of Defense was organized in February, 1918. Prior to the or- ganization of the Woman's Section the Socks for Soldiers Committee was organized. They learned to heel and toe socks and instructed the knitters. Seventy pairs of socks were knitted at an expense of $41.70, which was raised by do- nations. Through the efforts of the Registration Committee 3,308 women registered for war service, and the cards were used very effectively during the influenza epidemic. There was scarcely a home in the county without its war garden, and all gardens were cultivated more intensively than in previous years. During the summer of 1917 a group of eight girls cultivated four acres and cleared $280. The Chairman of the Home Economics Committee worked with the other Food Administration committees. They se- cured a Home Demonstration Agent for the county, who is giving demonstrations and forming clubs in all parts of the county, so that this work is continuing to benefit the county. The Food Conservation Chairman reports a community canner established by the Parent-Teachers' Association in June, 1917. During this season the output was 1,000 cans for home use and seven barrels containing grape juice, catsup, apple butter, grape butter, grape jam, apple preserves, canned soup, corn, and pumpkin ; also one barrel of apples were shipped to the hospital at Camp Taylor. During the 1918 season the output was 100 cans for home use, and for the hospital at West Baden seventy-five cans of preserves, which were made by Mrs. R. E. Roberts and Mrs. James Karney. In Chrisney there were sixty members of the food club, with five kitchens. In the county were forty food clubs. The subject of food conservation was kept before the people always. J 115 One thousand three hundred ninety-nine children under six years of age were examined, twenty-one physicians and eight nurses giving their services. The subject is kept before the people through talks by doctors and nurses before food clubs, teachers' institutes and Red Cross units. A playground has been established in Rockport. Exhibits were made at the State Conference and Rockport Fair. Literature has been distributed. The Chairman of the Committee on Maintaining Existing Social Service Agencies sent requests for reports to the trus- tees of the nine townships and received four replies. The county was very thoroughly organized by the Chair- man of the Liberty Loan Committee. About 100 women worked in the two campaigns, all volunteering their services, with the following result: In the Third Liberty Loan the women's quota was $48,015, while they secured 1,069 subscriptions amounting to $163,000. In the Fourth Loan their quota was $88,250, and they secured 1,312 subscriptions, totaling $202,050. Spencer County won the supreme honor flag for the St. Louis district in the Third Liberty Loan. The Fourteen-Minute Women deserve special mention. The amount of good accomplished by the untiring efforts of these patriotic workers cannot be estimated. There were twenty-five women speakers, twenty-five men who helped, thirty machines loaned, 180 meetings in rural districts, and meetings in five towns. From two to six persons spoke at each meeting and all phases of war work were presented. ST. JOSEPH COUNTY Chairman, Mrs. K. C. De Rhodes, South Bend. Executive Committee, County Chairmen of Committees Registration for Woman's Service. . .Mrs. Thomas A. Olney, South Bend. Food Production Miss Amanda McCombs, South Bend. Home Economics and Food Conserva- tion Mrs. Victor L. Jones, South Bend. Miss Adah Hillier, South Bend. Child Welfare Mrs. George O'Brien, South Bend. Liberty Loan Miss Alice Jenkins, South Bend. Mrs. Victor Jones, South Bend. 116 Home and Foreign Relief Mrs. Horace L. Greene, South Bend. Maintaining Existing Social Service Agencies Mrs. A. J. Austin, South Bend. Educational Propaganda Miss Maud Heath, South Bend. Publicity Mrs. Maurice L. Kahn, South Bend. Women in Industry Miss Lottie Peffley, South Bend. Americanization Mrs. Homer Miller, South Bend. Motor Corps Geraldine Robertson, Captain, South Bend. Fourteen-Minute Women Mrs. K. C. DeRhodes, South Bend. The weighing and measuring of babies campaign was started with a big meeting of all the Children's Dispensary members, Ward and Township Chairmen and others inter- ested. The walls of the room were decorated with beautiful original posters, which are to form the nucleus for St. Joseph County's permanent collection of exhibit material. The physicians, nurses and volunteer workers were un- tiring in the work. Seven thousand four hundred thirty-three children under six years of age were weighed, measured and examined, each child being examined by a physician. One hundred seventy-five clinics were held ; seventy-five physicians and eighty-seven nurses gave their services, as well as 495 volunteer workers. The follow-up work will be done through the Children's Dispensary nurses. The Back to School Drive was sponsored by the Educa- tional Committee with the aid of the school authorities. This committee did the preliminary work of sending speakers to clubs, community center meetings and schools. Letters were sent to ministers asking their co-operation, and publicity given through the press. Children in all public and parochial schools were asked to write short essays on some phase of the question, and many of these were published in the Sunday paper on Child Labor Day, which made a special feature of the Back to School Drive. We have direct knowledge that this work alone was the means of keeping many children from leaving school who had previously intended doing so. The work is being continued through the school year by the Department of School Attendance. Hundreds of letters were sent out by this department to parents of children who had left school, and many of these have been personally inter- viewed. Also, the Educational Propaganda Committee re- 117 ports the Community Center work progressing. Speakers were assigned a certain subject to be presented in the dif- ferent centers and chibs, so that all sections would have the message some time during the year. Liberty choruses have been formed throughout the county in stores, factories, clubs and schools, and much enthusiasm manifested in the work. Although several townships had Americanization Chair- men, the main work was carried on in South Bend through community centers and playgrounds — existing agencies. July Fourth was observed by the regular municipal picnic with program consisting of three patriotic addresses, a pageant, and a pageant of citizenship given by new Americans who had shortly before become naturalized. This latter pageant was planned by the Women's Civic League. Americanization through the medium of playgrounds, play festivals and motion pictures in school buildings is being accomplished. A young woman in South Bend devoted much time to the teaching of foreign children and worked out a system that is very suc- cessful. This young woman has offered to help in every way in helping to teach others how to teach the foreigners the English language. The Chairman of this committee made calls on the foreign families and found them very anxious to learn our language. Women registered to the number of 27,575 for war service. Before this work was completed the Registration Committee had requests for workers from factories working on war con- tracts. These workers were furnished from the registration cards, and the employers expressed complete satisfaction. Also, the Registration Committee furnished the Liberty Loan Committee with clerical help; 500 cards were filled out and sent to drafted men for dental examination ; during the influ- enza epidemic the registration cards were used to find nurses to aid in families and the Visiting Nurses' Association. Classes were formed in connection with the public school night classes in typewriting, stenography, sewing, cooking, bookkeeping, French and English. Over 400 persons who signified a desire for these classes on their registration cards were notified. Food Production. In March a letter was sent to 1,740 women appealing to them for help in producing food for the nation's needs. At the meetings of the women's clubs atten- 118 tion was called to the scarcity of seed, and the women were urged to have root vegetables planted for seeds. The daily papers published articles throughout the growing season on planting of seeds and care of gardens. Later articles on storing of vegetables were published. In May a Chairman was appointed in each township with instructions to secure helpers to ascertain what the women were doing to help the country reach the standard set for it. Some of the points suggested were : The number of gardens ; extent of planting of cane for sorghum and sugar beets to help in the shortage of sugar; the names of the families who should have and were neglecting to have a garden, and the names of those who were planning to raise more than enough for their own consumption, and the products they would have for sale. Re- ports showed the efforts proved worth while and that the sugar beet was planted very extensively to experiment in making syrup and for vegetables, also cane for sorghum. The Garden Department of the Municipal Recreation Com- mittee estimated 15,615 gardens in the county. There were 111 food demonstrations, and 100 canning demonstrations were held with approximately 7,974 in attend- ance; 13,000 cook books sold and approximately 40,000 leaflets distributed; 103 food clubs were organized; 13,363 pledge cards were signed and handed in. The women of Olive Township took up the plan of a clear- ing house for fruits and vegetables and gave the result of their labors to the Orphans' Home. The Motor Corps took a truck to New Carlisle, a distance of fifteen miles, and brought the produce to the home. As a result of their labors the women had 300 quarts of fruit and vegetables, several sacks of apples, potatoes and other vegetables, and with money donated purchased chocolate bars for every child in the home. The Women in Industry Committee reports that the Public School Board has organized a continuation school for girls between fourteen and sixteen years of age who are employed in factories, 350 of these girls in the city of South Bend. Two of these classes are held in the factories. These girls are taught arithmetic, English, domestic science, sewing and other studies. The Public School Board, with the help of factory representatives, have organized night classes for women in 119 industry. Domestic science, millinery, sewing and English are taught. This is only a small part of what is being done to further the interests of women in industry. There are 2,713 employed in factories in South Bend. The Woman's Section of the county sent a box of Christ- mas gifts to the boys on the U. S. S. Indiana through the Navy Comforts Committee of Indianapolis. The Woman's Section also collected records to be sent to the Phonograph Recruiting Corps of New York and shipped 726 records and one machine. The Public Library reported 6,000 books sent to soldiers and sailors, and $2,288 collected with which to buy technical books for soldiers and sailors. It is impossible to estimate the value of the work done by the Fourteen-Minute Women, who made more than 200 speeches. The Motor Corps also rendered very valuable assistance, answering all calls for war service. In the Third and Fourth Liberty Loan campaigns the Woman's Committee was credited with securing subscriptions amounting to $3,241,900. STARKE COUNTY Chairman, Miss Agnes Laramorb, Knox. Executive Committee, County Chairmen of Covimittees Registration for Woman's Service. . .Mrs. M. J. Hartzler, Knox. Home Economics Miss Florence Siegrist, Knox. Health and Recreation Mrs. C. H. Peters, Knox. Food Conservation Mrs. W. S. Daniel, Knox. Liberty Loan Mrs. Hugh Kreuter, Knox. Home and Foreign Relief Mrs. J. L. Moorman, Knox. Maintaining Existing Social Service Agencies Mrs. H. F. Schricker, Knox. Special Committee Mrs. J. C. Fletcher, Knox. Child Welfare Mrs. Ada B. Hurley, Knox. Publicity Mrs. C. W. Cassmon, Knox. Two thousand one hundred forty-one women registered for war service. The Woman's Liberty Loan Committee was credited with securing subscriptions amounting to $91,900 in the Third and Fourth Liberty Loan campaigns. 120 STEUBEN COUNTY Chairman, Mrs. W. F. Shearer, Angola Executive Committee, County Chairmen of Committees Registration for Woman's Service. . .Mrs. H. S. Johnson, Angola. Home Economics Mrs. Rhoda Barren, Angola. Child Welfare Mrs. I. W. Pence, Angola. Health and Recreation Mrs. C. C. Redding, Angola. Food Administration Mrs. W. C. Patterson, Angola. Liberty Loan Mrs. Ezra Dodge, Angola. Mrs. O. H. Swantush, Angola. Home and Foreign Relief Mrs. W. A. Fox, Angola. Educational Propaganda Miss Sarah Powell, Angola. Publicity ; Mrs. W. H. Morley, Angola. Americanization Mrs. Ella Myer, Angola. Fourteen-Minute Women Mrs. F. A. Emerson, Angola. Organized November 21, 1917. Women registered for war service, 3,700. Babies examined, 1,150. Collected by women in Third Liberty Loan campaign, $90,000. Collected by women in Fourth Liberty Loan campaign, $250,000. Subscribed by school children in War Savings Stamp campaign, $12,000. No record kept of amount subscribed by women. Approximate talks by Fourteen-Minute Women, 30. Booklets and cook books distributed, 700. Estimated number gardens cultivated by school children, 72. Books and magazines sent to soldiers and sailors, 700. Food clubs, 24. It is estimated there were between 900 and 1,000 vacant lot and home gardens, 400 of which were supervised. Hospital garments made and supplied by Steuben County Chapter, A. R. C, from June 30, 1917, to June 1, 1918, totaled 5,712 articles, and report of the Chairman of the Knitting Department from June, 1917, to August, 1918, showed 5,369 articles made. SULLIVAN COUNTY Chairman, Mrs. H. C. Steele, Sullivan; Mrs. John Ersinger, Sullivan. Executive Committee, County Chairmen of Committees Registration for Woman's Service. . .Mrs. F. N. French, Sullivan. Food Production Mrs. R. L. Bailey, Sullivan. Home Economics Mrs. J. H. Riggs, Sullivan. Mrs. Joshua Beasley, Sullivan. Child Welfare Mrs. G. G. Carrithers, Sullivan. Health and Recreation Mrs. Alice M. Burns, Sullivan. 121 Liberty Loan Mrs. O. B. Harris, Sullivan. Home and Foreign Relief Mrs. Roy Kaufman, Sullivan. Maintaining Existing Social Service Agencies Mrs. Mary Willis, Sullivan. Educational Propaganda Mrs. Ed. P. Reed, Sullivan. Publicity Mrs. F. N. French, Sullivan. Fourteen-Minute Women Mrs. Jess Bolinger, Sullivan. The first woman member of the County Council of De- fense, Mrs. H. C. Steele, resigned early in March, 1918, when Mrs. John Ersinger was appointed to succeed her. There were 6,285 women who registered for war service. In the Fourth Liberty Loan Campaign 125 women assisted in the work and sold subscriptions totaling $175,000, v/hilc in the Third Loan the Woman's Committee sold $132,700. SWITZERLAND COUNTY Chairman, Mrs. Zella Beer, Vevay Executive Committee, County Chairmen of Committees Registration for Woman's Service. . .Miss Anna Sutherland, Vevay. Food Production Miss Annette Danglade, Vevay. Home Economics Miss Grace Stepleton, Vevay. Child Welfare Mrs. A. V. Banner, Vevay. Food Administration . Miss Laura Lamson, Vevay. Liberty Loan Miss Grace Griffith, Vevay. Home and Foreign^ Relief Miss Evelyn Craig, Vevay. Maintaining Existing Social Service Agencies Mrs. J. P. Brockschlager, Vevay. Educational Propaganda Mrs. Edna Meade, Vevay. Publicity Mrs. Zella B. Beer, Vevay. Women in Industry Miss Afra Brindly, Vevay. Two thousand five hundred fifty women registered for war service. Eight hundred sixty-four children under six years of age were examined, all the townships assisting in the work., A farmer's wife in this county called attention to the fact that, although a movement had been made to obtain business men and unemployed men to assist in farm work, the farm- er's wife had been forgotten. This woman stated that each year great quantities of vegetables and fruits perish on the farms because the farmer's wife is so busy she simply can not handle it. Her remedy was that patriotic women and girls organize a ciub and volunteer their services to the farmers' wives to assist them during the busy seasons. 122 As the result of the pubhcity given this, a number of such clubs were formed over the State. In the Third and Fourth Liberty Loan campaigns the Woman's Committee sold bonds amounting to $141,900. TIPPECANOE COUNTY Chairman, Mrs. Charles B. Stuart, Lafayette Vice-Chairman, Mrs. Virginia C. Meredith, Lafayette Executive Cotnmittee, County Chairmen of Committees Registration for Woman's Service. . .Mrs. Thomas Arthur Stuart, La- fayette. Food Production Mrs. Charles W. Bone, Lafayette. Home Economics Miss Mary L. Matthews, Lafayette. Child Welfare Mrs. Charles F. Weigle, Lafayette. Mrs. Charles B. Stuart, Lafayette. Health and Recreation Mrs. Arthur B. Westfall, Lafay- ette. Food Administration Mrs. Wm. P. Heath, Lafayette. Liberty Loan Mrs. Charles B. Stuart, Lafayette. Home and Foreign Relief Mrs. Frank Royse, Lafayette. Educational Propaganda Mrs. Virginia C. Meredith, Lafay- ette. Publicity Mrs. W. Bent Wilson, Lafayette. Americanization Mrs. Virginia C. Meredith, Lafay- ette. Fourteen-Minute Women Mrs. Charles B. Kern, Lafayette. Women registered for war service, 10,387. Eleven Fourteen-Minute Women addressed 186 audiences. The Socks for Soldiers Committee reports 2,055 pairs of socks knit for Indiana soldiers. There were held one county food exhibit, forty-one food demonstrations, and approximately 5,000 food bulletins were distributed. Red Cross supplies shipped totaled 317 standard boxes. There were 3,190 women subscribers to the Third Liberty Loan, whose subscriptions amounted to $526,617. In the Fourth Liberty Loan Campaign there were twenty-five women workers, who were credited with selling subscriptions amount- ing to $1,550,000. This is the only county in the State, and probably in the United States, where the War Savings Stamp work was wholly in charge of women, and the pledges in this county amounted to $905,679.25. 123 TIPTON COUNTY Chaii^man, Mrs. James R. Cochran, Tipton Executive Committee, County Chairmen of Co'inm.ittees Registration for Woman's Service. . .Mrs. Glen J. Gifford, Tipton. Food Production Mrs. J. D. Kleyla, Tipton. Mrs. John Kigin, Tipton. Home Economics Miss Neva Smith, Tipton. Food Administration Miss Neva Smith, Tipton. Maintaining Existing Social Service Agencies Miss Belle Waugh, Tipton. Educational Propaganda Mrs. A. S. Dickey, Tipton. Home and Foreign Relief Mrs. H. G. Read, Tipton. Publicity Mrs. Lulu Y. Hardy, Tipton. Americanization Mrs. Alice Waugh, Tipton. Fourteen-Minute Women Mrs. A. S. Dickey, Tipton. Health and Recreation Mrs. Dan Waugh, Tipton. Child Welfare Mrs. Will Innes, Tipton. Food Clubs Mrs. G. G. Davis, Tipton. Liberty Loan Mrs. Sam Matthews, Tipton. Fourteen-Minute Women .Mrs. Anna Dickey, Tipton. Organized October, 1917. Women registered for war service, 4,812. Children under six years of age registered, 1,677. Talks by Fourteen-Minute Women, 64. Books sent soldiers and sailors in May, 1918, 650. Collected with which to buy technical books for soldiers and sailors, $125. Red Cross work done August, 1917, to August, 1918: Hospital garments shipped to warehouse, 10,832; knitted articles shipped to warehouse, 6,912; surgical dressings shipped, 36,174. Estimated number home and vacant lot gardens, 1,200. Thirteen Girls' Canning clubs were organized with 100 girls as members; 42 food and canning demonstrations were given, with 905 women present. Ten thousand cook books and leaflets distributed. Forty-five food clubs were organized, with a membership of 4,000 women. Collected by women and children in War Savings Stamp campaigns, $11,450. Collected by women in Third Liberty Loan campaign, $150,000. In the Fourth Liberty Loan campaign sixty women workers were credited with subscriptions amounting to $380,000. In the work of examining the children under six years of age 533 loyal women of the county assisted, and the entire medical profession of the county rendered invaluable aid, not 124 one of them refusing when called for this service. In addi- tion to this, Dr. Emma Fitch of Indianapolis came at her own expense to assist in the clinics conducted at New Hope and at the Atlanta library. The Food Production and Home Economics Committees held cottage cheese markets semi-annually in the county seat as a means of conserving meat. They also assisted Miss Cole, the County Demonstrating Agent, in making arrangements for food demonstrations. The cheese markets yielded a profit of $29.90. The members of the girls' canning clubs canned approxi- mately 4,000 quarts of food. UNION COUNTY Chairman, Mrs. Will Morris, Liberty Executive Committee, County Chairmen of Committees Registration for Woman's Service. . .Mrs. Lottie Filer, Liberty. Food Production Mrs. Charles Mitchell, Liberty. Home Economics Mrs. Oliver LaFuze, Liberty. Child Welfare Mrs. Adelaide Dubois, Liberty. Health and Recreation Mrs. Hiner Hunt, Liberty. Food Administration Mrs. Lev. Wood, Liberty. Liberty Loan Mrs. Charles Bond, Liberty. Home and Foreign Relief Mrs. Elmer Post, Liberty. Maintaining Existing Social Service Agencies Mrs. Albert Bertch, Liberty. Educational Propaganda Mrs. Gilbert Chapin, Liberty. Special Committee Miss Tillie Lambert, Libei-ty. Publicity Mrs. C. A. Drapier, Liberty. Fourteen-Minute Women Mrs. C. C. Abernathy, Liberty. Women in Industry Miss Tillie Lambert, Liberty. Organized October, 1917. Women registered for war service, 3,000. Babies examined, 325. Talks by Fourteen-Minute Women, 120. Food clubs, 90. Cook books and leaflets distributed, 1,000. Collected by women in Third and Fourth Liberty Loan Campaigns, $253,100. Collected by women and children in War Savings Stamp campaign, $75,000. Four hundred seventy-five books, including technical books, were sent to soldiers and sailors. No record kept of the magazines sent. 125 The following was done for the Red Cross and French Relief: Surgical dressings, 128,466. Garments, 730. Knitted garments, 1,448. Old garments boxed, 2,124. Nuts collected, 5 barrels. Cash, $523.34. A patriotic organization of young girls, known as "Joans of Arc," was established to create community interest among the young women, while the "Camp Fire Girls," another or- ganization of young girls, had a very successful war garden. Women's meetings were held for the purpose of explain- ing the registration of women, getting up war garden enthu- siasm and exchanging of tried and practical food recipes. At these meetings, as well as at the food and canning dem- onstrations, there was good attendance and enthusiastic re- sponse. VANDERBURGH COUNTY Chairman, Mrs. F. M. Hostetter, Evansville Advisory Board — Mrs. Benjamin Bosse, Evansville. Mrs. J. J. Nolan, Evansville. Mrs. Albion Fellows Bacon, Evansville. Mrs. Charles Whittenbraker, Evansville. Mrs, Fred Lauenstein, Evansville. Mrs. Frederick Erlbacher, Evansville. Mrs. Leon Seigel, Evansville. Mrs. George S. Clifford, Evansville. Affiliated Organizations — War Mothers of America (National). Parent-Teachers' and Mothers' Congress (State). - Local Council of Women City Teachers' Federation. Parent-Teachers' Federation of City, County. Teachers and Parent Federation. Executive Committee, County Chairmen of Committees Registration for Woman's Service. . .Mrs. W. J. Torrance, Evansville. Food Production Miss Eva May Epperson, Evans- ville. Home Economics .Miss Emma Page, Evansville. Child Welfare Mrs. James Carter, Evansville. Educational Propaganda Mrs. Sam Clifford, Evansville. Miss Esther McCulloch, Evans- ville. Women in Industry Miss Frances Toy, Evansville. 126 Liberty Loan Mrs. A. M. Dawson, Evansville. Fourteen-Minute Women Mrs. Frederick Erlbacher, Evans- ville. Maintaining Existing Social Service Agencies Mrs. S. V. Levi, Evansville. Home and Foreign Eelief Mrs. D. C. Chappell, Evansville. Americanization Mrs. E. A. Torrance, Evansville. U. S. Nursing Miss Allie Butler, Evansville. Motor Corps Mrs. Samuella Schmitt, Evansville. Food Administration Mrs. James Piatt, Evansville. Publicity Mrs. F. M. Hostetter, Evansville. Fourteen-Minute Women Mrs. F. F. Erlbacher, Evansville. Organized September, 1917. However, before being thor- oughly organized, the Council women did many things, not the least of which was the municipal canning. Much agita- tion and instructions were the result, besides 162 cans of cold pack foodstuffs, which were sold to the poor infirmary for a song. Six thousand seven hundred eighty-three women registered for war service. Seventy-five food clubs were organized in the county, and twenty-eight canning demonstrations were held in two weeks, at which 850 women were present. There were some 600 war gardens among the colored people. The Fourteen-Minute Women made more than 700 talks. An excellent Motor Corps gave invaluable assistance wher- ever needed. The members of the Woman's Section co-operated with the Library Commission in gathering books for men in serv- ice — 6,000 volumes were sent to men in France and 1,000 to the boys on the Mexican border. The Child Welfare Committee, with generous assistance, examined 3,000 children under six years of age. The Home Demonstration Agent has been of the greatest assistance to the Committee in its Child Welfare work, especially in teach- ing principles of diet for children and mothers. In the Third and Fourth Liberty Loan campaigns the Woman's Committee sold bonds amounting to $2,004,600. 127 VERMILLION COUNTY Chairman, Mrs. Will Wait, Newport Executive Cominittee, County Chairmen of Committees Registration for Woman's Service. . .Mrs. F. L. Swinehart, Newport. Food Production Mrs. Joseph G. Potts, Newport. Home Economics Mrs. C. N. Fultz, Newport. Child Welfare Mrs. H. H. Conley, Newport. Health and Eecreation Miss Alice J. Higgins, Clinton. Food Administration Mrs. Frank Harvey, Newport. Liberty Loan Mrs. Wm. H. Collier, Newport. Mrs. Oakey Collier, Newport. Home and Foreign Relief Mrs. Willard Ashley, Clinton. Educational Propaganda Mrs. Burnett R. Nixon, Newport. Publicity Mrs. B. H. Davis, Newport. Fourteen-Minvite Women Mrs. J. W. Robb, Clinton. Organized December, 1917. Women registered for war service, 7,649. Talks by Fourteen-Minute Women, 85. Food demonstrations, 10; attendance, 450. Canning demonstrations, 9; attendance, 300. Cook books and leaflets distributed, 5,000 (approximately). War gardens, 850 (approximately). Food clubs organized, 30. Babies examined, 1,500. In the Third and Fourth Liberty Loan campaigns, women were credited with subscriptions amounting to $622,875. In the War Savings Stamp campaign, $24,000. Four hundred eighty-five books were sent to men in serv- ice; $1,100 collected with which to buy technical books. Many magazines were sent, but no record of the number was kept. Red Cross articles made, including surgical dressings, 37,640; Red Cross knitted articles, 1,075. VIGO COUNTY Chairman, Mrs. J. S. Cox, Terre Haute Executive Committee, County Chairmen of Committees Registration for Woman's Service. . .Mrs. Daniel V. Miller, Terre Haute. Food Production Miss Iva Ryan, Terre Haute. Home Economics Mrs. Walter Clark, Terre Haute. Health and Recreation Mrs. H. W. Cohen, Terre Haute. Liberty Loan Mrs. Nicholas S. Mesirow, Terre Haute. Home and Foreign Relief Miss Lena Reading, Terre Haute. 128 Maintaining Existing Social Service Agencies Mrs. Harry Schloss, Terre Haute. Educational Propaganda Mrs. H. E. Anderson, Terre Haute. Publicity Miss Mary Grimes, Terre Haute. Fourteen-Minute AVomen Miss Ruby S. Fuhr, Terre Haute. Child Welfare Mrs. Rudolph Yung, Terre Haute. Mrs. Rudolph Acher, Terre Haute. The follov/ing report covers a period from November 1, 1917, to July 1, 1918: Women registered for war service, 20,540. Babies examined, 1,200. Talks by Fourteen-Minute Women, 50. Food and canning demonstrations, 65; attendance, 1,500 women. Lectures, 27; attendance, 2,209 women. Training classes, 18; attendance, 420 women. Cook books distributed, 900. Leaflets distributed, 4,550. Collected by women and children in War Savings Stamp campaign, $2,000,000. In the Third and Fourth Liberty Loan campaigns women wei'e credited with securing subscriptions totaling $5,227,500. Four thousand eighty-two books were sent to various cantonments and one ton of magazines collected for this purpose; $50 was collected with which to buy technical books for soldiers and sailors. Terre Haute Chapter of the Red Cross from November 16, 1917, to May 1, 1918, includes: Knitted articles, 7,660; surgical department, 131,431 garments, Mrs. Homer L. Williams, Chairman; hospital sup- plies, 25,000 garments, Mrs. Harlen Pritchett, Chairman. WABASH COUNTY Chairman, Mrs. James Wilson, Wabash Executive Comtnittee, County Chairmen of Committees Registration for Woman's Service. . .Mrs. Isaac Beitman, Wabash. Food Production Mrs. V. A. Place, Wabash. Home Economics Mrs. E. B. Rohbock, Wabash. Child Welfare Mrs. E. A. Lower, Wabash. Health and Recreation Dr. Minetha Flinn-Jordan, Wabash. Food Administration Mrs. Mark Honeywell, Wabash. Liberty Loan Miss Letha Urschel, Wabash. Home and Foreign Relief Mrs. Marland Gardner, North Manchester. Maintaining Existing Social Service Agencies Mrs. Frank Henley, Wabash. Educational Propaganda Miss Cornelia Blayney, Wabash Publicity "Mrs. Jno. A. Bruner, Wabash. Fourteen-Minute Women Allena Williams, Wabash. Woman's Section organized June, 1916; reorganized July, 1917. 129 Women registered for war service, 6,500. Subscriptions secured by women in Third and Fourth Liberty Loan campaigns, $993,625. Collected by women and children in War Savings Stamp campaign, $100,000. Talks by Fourteen-Minute Women, 40. Food and canning demonstrations, 71. Number in attendance at demonstrations, 2,769. Cook books and leaflets distributed, 6,019. Estimated home and vacant lot gardens, 725. Books sent to soldiers and sailors, 276. Collected with which to buy technical books for soldiers and sailors, $371. Fund for French Relief, $40. Babies examined, 1,800. Red Cross work done: Sewed garments, 4,730; pairs of socks, 5,000; knitted garments, 3,171; surgical dressings, 210,300. The United War Work Campaign was under the super- vision of the County Council of Defense. Miss Nell Lutz, representing the Y. W. C. A. on the county committee, used the Woman's Section of the County Council of Defense or- ganization in her part of the canvass. Three dozen comfort bags for the sailors on the battle- ship Indiana were made and filled by the Camp Fire Girls. Miss Cornelia Blayney and Mrs. John A. Bruner of the Woman's Section took charge of collection of Victrola records for camps, of which a large number were collected. The Home Economics Committee co-operated with school authorities and had a domestic science teacher hold classes in the high school. A Community Canning Kitchen was es- tablished in the basement of the First M. E. Church, under the supervision of Miss Gertrude Thompson, Emergency Home Demonstrator, A small fee was charged to cover oper- ating expenses, but all labor was voluntary. The kitchen soon became so popular that it was necessary for Miss Thomp- son to have an assistant, Miss Maud Sewell being appointed to fill this position. More than 700 cans of vegetables were canned and many pounds of corn dried. In addition to the kitchen, girls' clubs, canning clubs and home economics clubs were formed. The Food Production Chairman sent some 250 names to her congressman for free seeds, also distributed garden bul- letins prepared by the National Bureau of Food Production. This committee reports an exchange of seeds held in every 130 township. Many responded with their excess seeds, which were exchanged or distributed to those needing them. The Chairman of the Child Welfare Committee was also Truancy Officer. During the chautauqua the committee had a station on the grounds, where more than 300 babies were examined in the one week. Much interest was manifested and in all 1,800 babies were examined. WARREN COUNTY Chairman, MRS. J. F. Hildenbrand, Williamsport Woman's Section was not organized. In the Third and Fourth Liberty Loan campaigns, under the leadership of Mrs. Richard Stephenson, the women work- ers were credited with securing subscriptions amounting to $335,500. The Warren County Chapter of the American Red Cross was organized in June, 1917, and seventeen branch chapters were duly organized. The inspectors and directors of the woman's work in the county were: Mrs. M. A. Judy, Miss Martha Woodey and Mrs. F. L. Clark. Two surgical dressing shops were opened, under the supervision of Mrs. W. B. Durboro, and thousands of surgical dressings were sent abroad. Several thousand knitted articles also were made. Refugee garments, hospital supplies, soldiers' clothing and kits were made and sent out by the hundreds each month. Two drives for clothing for refugees and one for "linen for French" were made ; also membership drives and drives for free offerings were made, all with splendid success. Warren County's chapter is perfect in its organization and has worked faithfully from the beginning to the end of the world's great war. WARRICK COUNTY Chairman, Mrs. Esther Hoover Lewis, Boonville Executive Com/mittee, County Chairmen of Committees Registration for Woman's Service. . .Mrs. Esther Hoover Lewis, Boon- ville. Food Production Mrs. Lewis Taylor, Yankeetown. Food Administration Mrs. Lewis Taylor, Yankeetown. Home Economics Mrs. Lewis Taylor, Yankeetown. Child Welfare Mrs. Philip Lutz, Boonville. Health and Recreation Mrs. Edward Jarrett, Boonville. Home and Foreign Relief Mrs. George A. Roth, Boonville. Educational Propaganda Mrs. Florence Scales, Boonville. 13.1 Publicity Mrs. Earl Scales, Boonville. Fourteen-Minute Women Mrs. A. J. Hopkins, Boonville. Liberty Loan Mrs. Will Hatfield, Boonville. War Mothers Mrs. T. J. Lamar, Boonville. Organized August, 1917. Women registered for war service, 4,432. Babies examined, 1,892. Talks by Fourteen-Minute Women, 105. Canning demonstrations held, 138; attendance, 7,197. Cook books and leaflets distributed, 5,275. Estimated home and vacant lot gardens, 200. Books sent to soldiers and sailors, 375. Magazines sent to soldiers and sailors, no record. Collected with which to buy technical books for soldiers and sailors, $258. In the Third and Fourth Liberty Loan campaigns subscriptions secured by women amounted to $397,700. Mrs. Lewis Taylor, a member of the lecturing staff of Purdue University, took charge of all the food programs and was assisted by the Fourteen-Minute Women. Red Cross work done from September, 1917, to July, 1918, included 46,694 surgical dressings, 2,358 hospital garments, 1,416 hospital supplies, and 924 knitted articles. To Camp Shelby were sent twenty-four articles, and 329 kits were given boys leaving for service. The Junior Red Cross made twenty- three layettes, fifty hospital mops, ten joke books, and for the United States Navy they made eighteen checker boards and twenty-four joke books. WASHINGTON COUNTY • Chairman, MRS. H. C. Hobbs, Salem Executive Coynmittee, County Chairmen of Conmittees Registration for Woman's Service . . . Miss Mattie White, Salem. Food Production Miss Helen Reid, Salem. Home Economics Mrs. C. O. Thompson, Salem. Child Welfare Mrs. F. P. Cauble, Salem. Health and Recreation Mrs. Frank Houston, Salem. Food Administration Miss Florence Berkey, Salem. Liberty Loan .Miss Dora Etzler, Salem. Mrs. O. C. Zink, Salem. Home and Foreign Relief. Miss Cora Simpson, Salem. Maintaining Existing Social Service Agencies Mrs. W. L. Taylor, Salem. Educational Propaganda Mrs. E. D. Williams, Salem. Publicity Miss Minnie Clark, Salem. Fourteen-Minute Women Mrs. W, L. Taylor, Salem. 132 The county was splendidly organized for all drives, and there was the closest co-operation between all the women of the county. In the Registration for Woman's Service, 7,453 women registered for war service. The Food Production Committee affiliated with the Gar- den Committee of the county and gave attention to all re- quests for publicity and encouragement in this branch of work. It is estimated there were 600 home and vacant lot gardens. Home Economics and Food Administration work was combined, and the Chairmen took advantage of every oppor- tunity to show proper substitutes for food and encouraged the use of things most available in home production. This was done by public display of work and free distribution of recipes. During the Washington County Fair a part of In- dustrial Hall was made attractive with posters and pictures arranged to show what could be done with substitutes. Mrs. Thompson organized the women for food demonstrations, and Miss Berkey and Mrs. Childs gave invaluable assistance. Approximately 4,000 cook books and leaflets were distributed. Centers were established for the examination of children under six years of age, and the doctors and patriotic women freely gave their services. Nine hundred children were ex- amined and very much good resulted. The work of this com- mittee will be carried on by Mrs. Cauble through the Women's Club, assisted by other clubs. The Third Liberty Loan Drive was the first with the women organized and assisting. During this campaign the women raised $90,100. The Fourth Drive also proved a suc- cess, and $75,000 was raised by the women. The women were equally efficient in the drives for War Savings Stamps. The first work of the Home and Foreign Relief Commit- tee, composed of Miss Cora Simpson, Red Cross ; Mrs. Harvey Morris, D. A. R., and Mrs. Alpha Sullivan, W. R. C, was securing clothing for the Belgian Relief — 1,712 garments were sent in the first drive and approximately 2,000 in the second. This committee also had charge of the campaign for Student Nurse Reserves. The county was asked to support twelve French orphans, but due to the enthusiastic work of the Chairman of the Com- 133 mittee on Maintaining Existing Social Service Agencies eighteen children were placed. Four had been previously adopted, making a total of twenty-two French orphans being supported, mostly by clubs and church organizations. The Fourteen-Minute Women did fine work, responding to all calls, whether to large or small audiences, and patriot- ism was made a feature of all club and church work by these women. Much credit should be given to Miss Clark, Chairman of the Publicity Committee. It was her untiring efforts and enthusiasm that made this work a success. She was ever ready to present all bulletins, papers, announcements and pub- licity work of the different Chairmen of the Woman's Section to the public, and the press generously gave her space. WAYNE COUNTY Chairman, Miss M. E. B. Culbertson, Eichmond Executive Committee, County Chairmen of Committees Registration for Woman's Service . . . Mrs. Paul Ross, Richmond. Food Production Mrs. D. W. Scott, East Haven Asylum, Richmond. Home Economics Mrs. Paul Ross, Richmond. Child Welfare Mrs. Edgar F. Hiatt, Richmond. Health and Recreation Mrs. Walter Butler, Richmond. Mrs. Paul Comstock, Reeveston. Food Administration Miss Elsie Marshall, Richmond. Liberty Loan Mrs. Chas. Druitt, Richmond. Home and Foreign Relief Miss Margaret Starr, Richmond. Maintaining Existing Social Service Agencies Miss Flora May Green, Richmond. Educational Propaganda Miss Elizabeth Comstock, Rich- mond. Women in Industry Mrs. Dennis Coe, Richmond. War Mothers Mrs. A. W. Roach, Richmond. Americanization Mrs. Arthur Charles, Richmond. Publicity Mrs. Ella Bond Johnston, Rich- mond. Fourteen-Minute Women . .Mrs. F. S. Bates, Richmond. Motor Corps Mrs. Frank Druitt, Richmond. Student Nurse Reserve Miss Catherine B. Pond, Rich- mond. The Woman's Section was organized in June, 1917, with a perfect organization in the townships, the Township Chair- 184 men sending iiionthly reports of all war activities in their townships to the County Chairman, who forwarded the re- ports on to the state headquarters. The Registration Committee registered 10,580 women for war service and worked out the most complete method of filing the registration cards. By referring to the index cards it is possible to instantly locate those who are trained or un- trained in a given occupation. While this required the serv- ices of many volunteer workers for many weeks, the business men of Richmond assured the committee that to have these so filed would be worth considerable time and expense. Under the direction of the Child Welfare Committee 2,272 children under six years of age were examined. Of this num- ber 771 were found needing medical attention. The Social Service Bureau assumed the work of following up these cases, and through the kindness of women who volunteered their assistance several hundred of these children were visited in their homes. The children in urgent need of medical and surgical attention, which parents were unable to provide, were cared for through the bureau. This work was made possible by the co-operation of physicians and surgeons who gave their services, and the Reid Memorial Hospital, which cared for the cases without charge. The Educational Propaganda Committee every day placed literature in schools and ascertained that the teachers were giving a good deal of attention to the teaching of patriotism. Outside speakers frequently addressed the pupils and much enthusiasm was manifested. At the Day Nursery, conducted by the Domestic Science Association, the matron conducted four classes a week for children from the Junior High School, the girls coming two at a time for the actual experience in caring for little chil- dren. They were taught how to dress a baby, how to prepare its food, how to bathe him, how to shampoo his head, how to make his bed, how to avoid contagion, how to treat small ailments, etc. Children of the schools were active members of the Junior Red Cross. They invested in Thrift Stamps, War Savings Stamps and Liberty Bonds, gathered waste material, tinfoil, etc., and in cultivating gardens they were practically 100%. All the children in the grade schools in Richmond were mem- i;^5 bers of the United States School Garden Army. Mr. E. F. Murphy was Army Captain, and all the children wanted to "raise food over here for the boys over there." The size of the gardens varied from a window box on the back porch of a fiat to a vacant lot, and often one boy cultivated several lots. Gardening was taught in the schools in the spring of 1918, and this enabled each boy and girl to intelligently take care of his or her own garden. Though the mothers and girls canned the surplus produce, they were not able to con- serve a large quantity. Thirty girls belonging to a canning club each canned from twenty to 100 quarts of fruits and vegetables, and yet there was a surplus. To meet this need the City Market was opened to the public one day each week for six weeks, the children, ranging in age from seven to fourteen years, acting as salespeople. The sales were from 10 cents to $7 a day, with an average of $3 for each child. Both citizens and children agreed this was a great success. The Chairman of the Home Economics Committee reports that this subject was taught through the schools and clubs and demonstrations. More than fifty food clubs have been organized, some in localities where there have never before been organizations of any kind. There are two fine clubs among the colored women, who have had the County Dem- onstrator with them and have been much interested. The Better Homes Association was organized to assist the County Demonstrator. Approximately 150 food and canning demon- strations have been held, including cottage cheese demonstra- tions before the rural clubs, and war bread. More than 4,000 women attended these demonstrations, and 16,000 cook books and leaflets have been distributed. Of especial interest to the women from the country were the demonstrations which were arranged for Saturday afternoons. These demonstrations were given by the domestic science teachers of the public schools, assisted by their pupils. The Food Production Committee Chairman estimates 3,000 acres in gardens in Wayne County, not including the city of Richmond, as a result of the women's work. There were more than 332 acres devoted to sorghum. The gardens in the city of Richmond were under the supervision of Mr. E. F. Murphy, and according to Mr. W. E. Lommel, Assistant Emergency Agent of Purdue, who inspected the gardens of the city, they 136 were the best in the State. In some communities boys' and girls' clubs were organized for the raising of peanuts, poultry^ hogs and bees. The women organized threshing rings, to be termed "Hoe Brigades" or "Helpers' Brigades," the purpose being to assist the farmers' wives. The Washington Town- ship Chairman reports that the women of Milton went out into the country and assisted in cooking for threshers, while many of the women of Webster Township helped in the fields during harvest time when it was impossible to secure suffi- cient male help. The Motor Corps of the Woman's Section answered every call for war service. They have transported the Fourteen- Minute Women, sometimes taking them as far as seventy miles to an inaccessible township meeting. The Fourteen-Minute Women made approximately 200 speeches. Frequently a singer and a Four-Minute Man ac- companied the Fourteen-Minute Speakers and a patriotic pro- gram was given. A Community Chorus of forty of Richmond's best voices was organized, with Mrs. Fred J. Bartlet as Chairman, to take part in the Fourth Liberty Loan Campaign. Since then music has been supplied for organization meetings of food clubs and various other meetings of a patriotic nature. The Americanization activities include four afternoons a week given to cooking and sewing in the foreign districts. The social service part of the work is being pushed by the Social Service Secretary. Much emphasis is laid upon the importance of having a celebration and welcoming the new citizens when they are naturalized. The Fourth of July celebration emphasized the Americanization of the foreign-born citizens. One thousand two hundred seventy-six books were sent to soldiers and sailors, and $1,100 was collected with which to buy technical books for men in service. Red Cross work done from June 1, 1917, to June 1, 1918, included 17,009 surgical dressings ; 12,004 hospital garments ; knitted garments, 5,000; other articles made, 94,062. There were 2,000 workers, and the cost of material was $17,051.03. The Home Service Section of the Red Cross gave to the men in service and their families in this county a most generous and invaluable service. 137 In the Third and Fourth Liberty Loan campaigns the women's committee secured subscriptions amounting to $1,206,030. WELLS COUNTY Chairman, Mrs. Abram Simmons, Bluffton Executive Committee, County Chairmen of Committees Registration for Woman's Service . . . Mrs. Frank Ashbaucher, Bluffton. Food Production Mrs. A. A. Waugh, R. R. 5, Bluff- ton. Home Economics Mrs. J. E. Reynolds, Bluffton. Child Welfare Mrs. Jennie Justus, Bluffton. Health and Recreation Mrs. D. A. Walmer, Bluffton. Food Administration Mrs. Ervin Lesh, Bluffton. Liberty Loan Mrs. Charles Deam, Bluffton. Home and Foreign Relief Mrs. Clara Springstead, Bluffton. Maintaining Existing Social Service Agencies Mrs. Clara Springstead, Bluffton. Educational Propaganda Mrs. W. A. Patton, Bluffton. Publicity Mrs. Frank Engeler, Bluffton. Fourteen-Minute Women Mrs. W. H. Eichhorn, Bluffton. Four thousand nine hundred twenty-five women registered for war service. Two thousand children under six years of age were ex- amined, and arrangements were made to secure a visiting nurse. The Board of Children's Guardians of the county is doing splendid work wherever needed. The Home Economics Com.mittee carried out all instruc- tions received, and co-operated in making Potato Week a success. The need of food conservation was constantly emphasized both by press and verbal messages, and the people responded heartily. Food clubs were organized in every township. Everything possible was done to help advance the patriotic use of food. The county's quota of sewing and knitting, etc., as desig- nated by the Red Cross, was furnished. Fourteen-Minute Women were always ready to respond and did excellent work in giving publicity to those things to which the attention of the public needed to be called. In the Third Liberty Loan Drive the women of the county secured subscriptions totaling $103,350, and in the Fourth Loan $470,000. 138 WHITE COUNTY Chairman, Mrs. Emily C. Uhl, Monticello Executive Committee, County Chairmen of Committees Registration for Woman's Service. . .Mrs. Emily C. Uhl, Monticello. Food Production Mrs. Willis Baker, Monticello. Home Economics Miss Gladys Minch, Monticello. Child Welfare Mrs. Emily Uhl, Monticello. Health and Recreation Miss Nora Gardner, Monticello. Food Administration Mrs. Walter B. Schladerman, Sea- field. Liberty Loan Miss Mae Turner, Monticello. Miss Maude Simons, Monticello. Home and Foreign Relief Mrs. M. T. Didlake, Monticello. Maintaining Existing Social Service Agencies Mrs. C. D. Meeker, Monticello. Educational Propaganda Miss Margaret Roach, Monticello, Women in Industry Mrs. Fred Spencer, Idaville. Publicity Miss Ellen Cochran, Monticello. Americanization Mrs. Clyde Wheeler, Reynolds. Fourteen-Minute Women Mrs. Charles Preston, Monticello. Two thousand seven hundred forty-three women registered for war service. In the Third Liberty Loan Campaign the Woman's Com- mittee secured subscriptions totaling $90,850, and in the Fourth Loan $379,575. For the War Savings Stamp Campaign women and chil- dren collected approximately $22,891.43. Forty-five canning and food demonstrations were held, with an approximate attendance of 960, and 350 cook books and leaflets were distributed. The home and vacant lot gardens approximated 195 acres. Seventy-eight books and several hundred magazines were sent to soldiers and sailors, and the Library Board sent $5 to Fort Benjamin Harrison with which to buy books. Instead of food clubs in this county, home economics clubs were organized, and the County Agent, Miss Flanningham, worked with the Food Conservation and Food Production Chairmen. The Chairman of the Home Economics Commit- tee is a teacher in the high school and had seven cooking classes each week, when she used war recipes. The Chairman of the Educational Propaganda Committee used Miss Graydon's "Appeal to Students" in every school- room, and once a week had in every room in every school in 139 the county the singing of "America," "The Star Spangled Banner" and the reciting of "The Pledge of Allegiance." The primary rooms (first and second years) had this or its equiv- alent, considering the age of the pupils. The Chairman of this committee for West Point Town- ship, Wilma Verrill, a teacher in the township schools, sub- mitted the following plan to the teachers of the township: Children of the seventh and eighth grades in all the schools of the township were to be encouraged to write essays of not less than 250 words concerning the World War and many other topics of national interest, the essays to be in the office of Trustee Humphry not later than March 12th, and were to be judged by three people chosen by the trustee (either men or women) . Cash prizes were to be given for the first and second best essays, and for the third honorable mention. The teachers of the township were very eager to try the plan, for they felt that was a way by which their pupils could best learn and then pass the knowledge on to others. The fund for prizes was given by teachers. The results were far be- yond that which any of the teachers anticipated. The chil- dren eagerly scanned the daily papers, the magazines and current event papers for material, and were wide awake and ready to grasp the points as soon as they appeared in the papers. The judges gave their decisions on March 22d, the first prize being won by Velma Wynkoop of Brown Edge School, seventh grade, taught by Miss Ruth Wolfe. Her essay was "Wheatless and Meatless Days." The second prize was awarded Harry Janssen of Watson School, eighth grade, taught by Miss Hazel Chamberlin, whose subject was "Coal Shortage." The third award went to Esther Brehr of Wilson School, sixth grade, taught by Earl Sternes. Her subject was "How I Can Help Win the War." The trustees and teachers were of the opinion that this contest not only counteracted the anti-war feeling and apathy toward the war but it aided in spreading information of na- tional interest. Moreover, it brought the home and the school more closely together; it aroused an enthusiasm within the pupils that made them wide awake, earnest and anxious to know more. In the absence of nearby camps calling for the attention of the Health and Recreation Committee, this committee 140 turned its efforts to the children, and one afternoon each week was given to special entertainment, reading and explaining some good and instructive stories. The library grounds were made into public playgrounds for children, WHITLEY COUNTY Chairman, Mrs. Fred Morsches, Columbia City Executive Committee, County Chairmen of ComTnittees Registration for Woman's Service. . .Mrs. Fred Morsches, Columbia City. Food Production Mrs. Jno. Shinneman, Columbia City. Home Economics Mrs. Elmer Grant, Columbia City. Child Welfare Mrs. Sam Trembley, Columbia City. Health and Recreation Mrs. Chas. Snyder, Columbia City. Food Administration Mrs. John Keiser, Columbia City. Liberty Loan Mrs. H. D. McLallen, Columbia City. Home and Foreign Relief Mrs. David Grund, Columbia City. Maintaining Existing Social Service Agencies Mrs. A. S. Nowles, Columbia City. Educational Propaganda Mrs. Herbert Schig, Columbia City. Special Committee Mrs. John Guider, Columbia City. Publicity Mrs. J. F. Branneman, Columbia City. Americanization Mrs. Arthur S. Nowles, Columbia City. Fourteen-Minute Women Mrs. D. A. Swartz, South Whitley. Organized in August, 1917, with county and township organizations. The township organization consisted of Town- ship Chairmen with a woman from each school district form- ing a committee, and each woman member had her own com- mittee, composed of a woman from each section of land in her school district. In the registration of women for war service, 3,225 women registered. Under the direction of the Child Welfare Committee, 1,379 children under six years of age were examined, 113 being below normal. The county is bending every effort to secure a community nurse, and physical training has been introduced into the schools. 141 A patriotic pageant was given by the school children in August. At the County Old Settlers' Day celebration the Chairman of the Child Welfare Committee arranged a boys' frolic — all kinds of contests with prizes in the morning; in the afternoon there was a girls' white dress parade in which 500 girls took part. The woman County Agent was of great assistance to women along food conservation lines. A six weeks' course in food preparation, with an attendance of thirty-five, and two food demonstrations, with an attendance of sixty, were given. Approximately 5,000 cook books and leaflets were distributed in the county. It is estimated the home and vacant lot gardens approxi- mated 1,000. Two hundred fifty books and twenty-five subscriptions, were sent to soldiers and sailors. Women in the Thrift Stamp Drive, under Mrs. Frank Northam as Chairman, assisted in raising, at least, the coun- ty's quota. In the Fourth Liberty Loan Campaign the county's quota of $900,000 was all subscribed by September 27th, making^ this county the first in the State and the first in the United States to raise her quota. Of this amount 50% is credited to the women. The Fourteen-Minute Women offered their assistance to the Liberty Loan Committee, but the money was. secured without any effort. In the Third Liberty Loan drive the women of the countj^ oversubscribed their quota. The Fourteen-Minute Women gave invaluable assistance to all departments of work, making some fifty speeches. The Motor Corps did excellent work at all times, answer- ing all calls for patriotic service. For the month the Sep- tember alone they report the use of thirty-six cars, with a mileage of approximately 65,000 miles. There are two auxil- iary corps in the county. The following Red Cross work was done: 26,686 surgical dressings; 5,898 hospital garments; 3,454 hospital supplies; 2,517 knitted garments; sundries, 67; comfort kits, 175, and 5,064 refugee garments collected. I