Salt Lake Tribune | 1917-10-07 | Page 13 | Women's Committee to Meet Tomorrow

JOMEFf S COMMITTEE ... TO MEETTOMORRDW Co-operation of Utahns in Defense Council Work to Be Discussed, In order that women of the nation might be brought together to consider and advise how the assistance of the v women of America might be made avail- able in the prosecution of the war, the women's committee of the council of national defense was appointed. Under this national committee state divisions have been organized, which, in turn, are organizing local units of all wo-men wo-men 's associations and societies. " o-men o-men not belonging to any organized societies are also eligible to membership. member-ship. Plans are now under consideration by which the power of the women of this state may be immediately utilized in time of need. In this work the j women's committee of the council of ' national defense, Utah division, de-jres de-jres to secure the friendly and ef-Tii.'ient ef-Tii.'ient co-operation of all of the wo-men's wo-men's organizations in the state of Vtah. For this purpose the chairman is -inviting representatives of all state organizations of women, all clubs, religious re-ligious denominations,, fraternal socie-ties socie-ties and other associations to attend a ' conference to be held tomorrow, beginning begin-ning at 2 at the stac capitol, in the chamber of the house of representatives. representa-tives. , The object of this conference, is to secure the interest and hearty co-operation of all these organizations in the work of the women's committee and to receive and discuss suggestions and outline plans for tho prosecution of the work in the most effective manner. man-ner. ' The departments of the women's committee are: Kegistration for 'service, 'ser-vice, food protUietion and home economics,1 eco-nomics,1 food administration, women in, f industry, child -welfare, maintaining ex- ; isting social service agencies, health and recreation, education, Liberty loan, Red Cross and foreign relief. ly Tho work of the women's committee of the council of national defense concerns con-cerns itself only with the defense work 1 of these organizations and will in no i way interfere with their regular work ' and individual purposes.