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 RECONSTRUCTION 
 PROGRAM 
 
 Women's Committee 
 
 of the 
 
 State Council of Defense 
 
 of 
 
 California 
 
 Headquarters 
 
 719 South Hill Street 
 
 Los Angeles 
 
 December, 1918 
 
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 WOMEN'S COMMITTEE OF THE STATE COUNCIL OF 
 DEFENSE OF CALIFORNIA 
 
 SUGGESTIONS FOR RECONSTRUCTION 
 
 The Women's Committee of the State Council of Defense of 
 CaHfornia was organized at the direction of the National Govern- 
 ment, in order that machinery might be provided to convey to the 
 women of the State instructions and messages from Federal Agen- 
 cies, indicating the manner in which the women of the State could 
 help the Government in the crisis created by the war. In addition 
 to this machinery for special campaigns, the Women's Committee 
 has dealt constantly with social welfare problems intensified by the 
 war. 
 
 As the work has gone on from day to day, carried out by the 
 various Departments under which the Committee's work was pro- 
 grammed at Washington, the Committee have come to certain con- 
 clusions about the problems which confront the State of California, 
 as definitely and distinctly in times of peace as in time of war. 
 
 It has been possible, through these various departments, to 
 carry on education throughout the State with regard to these prob- 
 lems and it is hoped that, in making plans for reconstruction, the 
 suggestions embodied here, formulated after the study of a year and 
 a half of conditions in California, may be included. 
 
 The Committee offers them, believing that they are constructive 
 for all time and are in line with the progressive development and 
 permanent welfare of the State. 
 
 WOMEN IN INDUSTRY 
 
 Industrial conditions in California were not so disturbed as in 
 some other States during the war period, and it was not necessary to 
 call into unusual occupations as many women as the war industries 
 demanded in other localities. However, there have been women fill- 
 ing men's places in industrial, commercial and professional positions. 
 There has been a demand that these women should be required to 
 retire from these positions, leaving them free for the returning 
 soldiers. 
 
 1. Wherever women are retained in the positions they now 
 hold, the Women's Committee of the State Council of 
 Defense of California believes that if they can fill the posi- 
 tions satisfactorily, they should be given a similar wage to 
 that which a man would receive in the same position, thus 
 
 . \ safeguarding industry against unfair competition l)y under- 
 I bidding. 
 
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» 2. The Eight-hour law should be rigidly enforced : 
 
 3. There should be an extension of the minimum wage to em- 
 brace all classes of women in industry and a sufficient 
 number of inspectors employed to enforce the law. 
 
 In all consisderations of women in industry, they must be con- 
 sidered as part of a conservation program, for they are the mothers 
 of future citizens and on their health and welfare depend the future 
 strength of the State. 
 
 In order to safeguard the conditions for women, we urge that : 
 I 1. A woman be appointed to the State Labor Bureau. 
 2. A more equitable distribution of the employees of the Labor 
 Bureau in its service throughout the State. 
 I 3. A woman be named as Assistant-Director of Women's work 
 on the LTnited States Employment Service, according to 
 Federal provision. 
 
 CHILD WELFARE 
 
 The necessity for consideration of "Child Welfare" has been 
 amply demonstrated during the period of the war, by the large num- 
 ber of men who were rejected for military service because of physical 
 defects, most of which could have been remedied in childhood. The 
 Program of "The Children's Year" Committee has made possible 
 the education of large numbers of people throughout the State in 
 this subject. 
 
 The work of "The Children's Year" Committee should be con- 
 tinued and made permanent by: 
 
 1. A well-equipped Child Hygiene Bureau under the State 
 
 Board of Health. 
 
 2. Public Health Nurses established in every County of the 
 
 State. 
 
 3. The establishment of Children's Health Centers where the 
 
 weighing and measuring of children, the guidance of their 
 •diet, and advice to the mothers can be carried on steadily 
 and permanently throughout the year. 
 V 4. Under the University of California there should be a College 
 \ of "Home Economics" to give education and training in 
 
 ' home-making and the care of children. There should also 
 
 be complete courses for teachers in order to furnish prac- 
 tical teaching for the Public Schools. These courses should 
 include training in hygienic living and diet as well as 
 thrift and economy in household matters ; education for 
 motherhood should be provided by extension courses and 
 lectures. 
 
 Child Labor: 
 
 ^ 1. An earnest effort should be made to take out of labor and 
 industry, the children who, on account of war conditions, 
 
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have gone into work. These children should be returned 
 to their schools to complete their education and training, 
 in order that they may take a better place in the world. 
 This would release their jobs for adult workers. 
 Legislation regarding raising the age of children in street 
 trades should be passed. At present, the children in Cali- 
 fornia may enter into street trades at the age of 10. This 
 age should be raised to 14, and no child should be allowed 
 to sell papers, or other merchandise, on the streets, with- 
 out a license and badge from the School Department. This 
 is done in the State and City of New York and could be 
 done in California. 
 
 PUBLIC HEALTH 
 Tuberculosis : 
 
 There should be : 
 
 1. Increased provision made for taking care of tuberculosis, 
 not only among the returning soldiers, but in the civil 
 population of California. The epidemic of Influenza, 
 with its accompanying pneumonia, will, undoubtedly, be 
 productive of many cases of tuberculosis, which, added to 
 the already large number in California, is bound seriously 
 to afifect the prosperity and welfare of the State. Every 
 County should have free provision for the care of the 
 tubercular, if the disease is to be controlled and finally 
 eradicated from this State.) 
 
 Under the State Board of Health: 
 
 There should be : 
 
 j 1. A Bureau for venereal diseases which would be a continua- 
 . tion of the work of the Military Welfare Commission 
 which has been in existence during the period of the war, 
 as a part of a National policy. Probably every efifort will 
 be made by commercialized vice to restore red light dis- 
 tricts and wide-open vice conditions. 
 
 \ 2. Free clinics for education and treatment. 
 
 I 3. Supervision of men and women suffering from these social 
 diseases, to continue the work which has been begun dur- 
 ing the war period. 
 
 EDUCATION 
 
 The Federal Board of Vocational Education proposes to rehab- 
 iUtate the men injured in the war. As a reflex and a side issue of 
 such education, it would be beneficial to the State of California if 
 those injured in industry (which number annually far exceeds the 
 number of injured soldiers), could also be given an opportunity to 
 
learn a trade or occupation to take the place of the one to which 
 they cannot return after accident. 
 
 1. Normal and Technical Schools, also a lart^^e number of High 
 
 Schools and Junior Colleges, should be prepared to furnish 
 education for returning soldiers who have previously had ' 
 no skilled occupation, in order that they may become effi- 
 cient in a trade or profession to improve their prospects. 
 
 2. Agricultural education in High and Xornl^l Schools and^ 
 
 Colleges should be developed and freely afforded to re- 
 turning soldiers. In the event of the development of idle 
 lands, they cannot be used to their full extent for the bene- 
 fit of the soldiers unless these men have some understand- 
 ing of scientific cultivation of land. 
 
 3. There should be compulsory education of illiterates, both 
 
 children and adults. 
 
 4. Home and School Gardens should be maintained and en- 1 
 
 couraged. 
 
 5. Young people under 21 should be registered that they ma}' 
 
 be located and their educational status ascertained. (There 
 is no census of the school population of the State.) 
 
 6. Provision should be made by which the child who takes out 
 
 a permit to work under the age for which the school 
 authorities are legally responsible for him, could be fol- 
 lowed up. There is now no adequate provision for keeping 
 in touch with a child who has been granted a work permit 
 and knowing his physical and mental progress from that 
 time on, no follow-up work and no advice from educational 
 authorities. 
 
 7. A re-organization of the educational curriculum should be 
 
 made in order that the training the children receive in the 
 schools may be more practical. 
 
 8. Both boys and girls should be equipped and trained for some, 
 
 skilled occupation. A Pre-nursing course, covering thel 
 scientific study which would lead to six months' credit in 
 accredited schools of Nursing, is recommended, to be added 
 to the High School curriculum, wherever possible. 
 
 9. Vocational education should be developed to the full extent 
 
 under the Smith-Lever and Smith-Hughes Laws, for the 
 benefit of both girls and boys. 
 
 10. The development of Continuation Schools should be hastened 
 
 during the .reconstruction period, for the children and 
 youths who cannot return to School : these should be pro- 
 vided in a way to afford real educational advancement. 
 Legislation is needed to push the further development of 
 Continuation and part-time schools. 
 
 11. There should be a systematic education in patriotic citizen- 
 
 ship, in American history and in American institutions and 
 ideals. 
 
Ways and means should be devised to continue the community 
 interest and community service w^hich has been developed during" 
 the war by the Nation's problems. One of the methods which is 
 receiving increasing recognition is that of Community Singing. The 
 power of song to encourage and cheer the boys has been recognized ; 
 it can perform the same mission for the whole people if properly 
 organized and directed. The time calls for Community Choruses and 
 some way should be devised to organize them throughout the State. 
 
 AMERICANIZATION 
 
 We are deeply interested in Americanization and recommend as 
 basic to the assimilation of the immigrant now here and to come : 
 
 First: 
 
 a. Opportunity to settle on the land with proper State assist- 
 
 ance in choosing and securing that land, and with addi- 
 tional assistance from the County Farm Advisor in the 
 farming methods necessary in a new country. 
 
 b. Industrial justice in wages, hours and sanitary surroundings, 
 \ and safety conditions in shops and camps. 
 
 j c. Proper housing. 
 
 Second : 
 
 Educational Opportunity : 
 
 a. In schools and libraries. 
 
 b. In shops, manufactories and camps. 
 
 c. In homes and neighborhood centers. 
 
 This educational opportunity should recognize the helplessness 
 of adults who do not know our language and prepare them for prac- 
 tical life. This will require a new educational scheme, new hours, 
 and above all, new and practical methods; all of which requires 
 knowledge of the psychology of the immigrant. 
 
 Unless the basic recommendations (First, A. R. C), are met, 
 there will be failure in assimilation, as it is impossible to secure 
 loyalty and love of country in people who are social discontents. 
 No amount of English education will overcome un-American con- 
 ditions offered by employers. American standards in industry are 
 the swiftest possible Americanizers. 
 
 The Women's Committee is especially interested in the Ameri- 
 canization of the homes of California and for that reason recom- 
 mends that all possible effort be made to reach the foreign-speaking 
 women. 
 
 a. In their homes by home teachers. 
 
 b. In groups in schools, clubs, libraries, neighborhood centers 
 
 for general education and by Community singing and 
 pageants. 
 
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SOCIAL AGENCIES 
 Dependent Children: 
 
 The law now permits the State to contribute to the support of 
 needy children to the amount of $6-25 per month for a child with one 
 parent living, and $8.33 for an orphan. The County may supplement 
 this by an equal amount. 
 
 The majority of children being cared for by Counties of the 
 State are paid for at a maximum rate of $11.00. 
 
 So far as the so-called Mother's pension — State aid to children 
 in the care of their own mothers — is concerned, the State allowance > 
 is inadequate. California is not being fair to her own needy little 
 children or to the institutions, agencies and homes engaged in their 
 care, and she will not be doing them justice until State and County 
 face their obligations and increase the allowance to at least $15.(X) 
 a month per child. 
 
 Institutional Care for Children : 
 
 There are many children in the State sadly in need of institu- 
 tional care, for whom no provision is made. We believe there should 
 be: 
 
 1. Preventoriums for children of tuberculous tendencies. 
 
 2. Colonies for the actively tuberculous. 
 
 3. Hospital schools for crippled children. 
 
 4. Homes for mentally defective and homes affording good care 
 
 for limited numbers of adolescents presenting special prob- 
 lems. Some of this work could be done by existing insti- 
 tutions. 
 
 5. Better-balanced diet in children's institutions. Through co- 
 
 operative buying by different children's institutions, econ- 
 omy could be effected which would make possible a better 
 and more generous diet for the children. There should not 
 be rigid economy and retrenchment in this direction. The 
 State of California is responsible for the children in insti- 
 tutions and it should appreciate its responsibility that these 
 children, at least, should be adequately fed. 
 
 6. Recreational equipment for institutions. There is often in-' 
 
 adequate space for play, with no apparatus and no direc- 
 tion. Play is a constructive force in the development of 
 children and it is especially necessary in the restricted life 
 of the institutional child. 
 
 The County is the logical unit for the consideration of local 
 social problems. We believe there should be in each County : 
 
 1. An unpaid County Welfare Department, employing paid, 
 
 trained workers to handle all public relief and welfare prob- 
 lems. 
 
 2. Under the County Welfare department, the development of 
 
 the boarding out system of standardized foster homes for 
 children in co-operation with Juvenile Courts and private 
 charities. 
 
3. County clinics and dispensaries and out-patient work at 
 
 County Hospitals. Public Health Nurses are especially 
 needed in rural communities where there are no clinics, no 
 milk-stations and no School nurses. 
 
 4. State Agricultural and industrial institutions for the care of 
 
 misdemeanants. 
 
 5. A woman's reformatory. 
 
 6. Abolition of the system whereby Sheriffs are compensated 
 
 for providing- food, clothing and bedding for County jail 
 prisoners. 
 
 7. Psychological clinics in court and education centers; also 
 
 the establishment of a rural, psychological clinic which 
 could be of a travelling nature. 
 
 8. There should be a survey of the feeble-minded made by one 
 
 of the existing State agencies, to be followed by adequate 
 provision, both custodial and educational, for such num- 
 bers of the feeble-minded as the survey shows is necessary. 
 The Pacific Colony should be given a generous appropria- 
 tion by the coming Legislature in order that the institution 
 may be completed and prompt segregation be made of the 
 feeble-minded. 
 
 ECONOMIC PROBLEMS 
 
 In response to the request contained in the first paragraph of 
 (Governor Stephens' letter — viz. — for recommendations along the 
 lines of new^ constructive work in California, three suggestions have 
 been sent to this Committee from its various County Chairmen : 
 
 I 1. The Iron Canyon Irrigation Project. 
 
 2. The impounding and conservation of the waters of the King's 
 River. 
 
 \ 3. The Imperial irrigation plan. 
 
 All of these have had the sanction of the Federal Government 
 
 and are in line with the plan of Secretary Lane for reclaiming idle 
 
 lands for settlement by returned soldiers. 
 
 They would not only furnish employment to these men and 
 
 hnng under cultivation thousands of acres — hitherto unused — but 
 
 would develop much hydro-electric power. 
 ^Ve recommend : 
 
 That the Land Settlement Board be empowered to investi- 
 gate the status of these projects and to suggest a plan whereby 
 the co-operation of the State and Federal Governments may be 
 used for their furtherance under public control. 
 
 Distribution of Food Products: 
 
 Increased food production brings the problem of its distribution. 
 The operations of the Food Administration have shown the possi- 
 bility of a National system of rapid and balanced distribution. 
 
We recommend : 
 
 That a Committee be appointed to look into National and 
 State marketing systems in order to bring about more direct 
 connection between producer and consumer. 
 
 Trade Relations: 
 
 \\"e recommend : 
 
 That the Chambers of Commerce of the State be asked to 
 formulate a plan for educational propaganda as a basis for the 
 establishment of increased trade relations with Mexico, and a 
 friendly understanding between that country and California. 
 
 CONCLUSION 
 
 In order to put through a program of social seryicc such as is 
 here outlined, it will not be necessary to create new and expensiye 
 machinery, as already there exist in this State agencies created ex- 
 ])ressly for such purposes : The State Board of Education : State 
 Board of Charities and Corrections: Industrial Welfare Commis- 
 sion : State Labor Bureau : State Board of Health : Commission of 
 Immigration and Housing and the University of California. The 
 achievements and potentialities of these are too little known. There 
 should be greater publicity given to their operations, and the citi- 
 zens of the State should learn to use them. 
 
 The Women's Committee appreciates that social work and 
 social problems have been given greater consideration during the 
 war than ever before in the history of the country. They know that 
 greater progress has been made in the consideration of these prob- 
 lems than could have been hoped for in fifty years in normal times. 
 
 This has been largely due to the fact that the putting through of 
 these measures of social reform has been on a "Win the War" basis. 
 — It has been possible because of the intensified community interest 
 aroused and because the Community has taken part where formerly 
 a few social workers were giving their minds and time to this effort 
 for the betterment of conditions. 
 
 The suggestions for reconstruction which are presented by the 
 Women's Committee cannot be carried out, and the ends at which 
 the suggestions aim accomplished, without community support and 
 community interest. 
 
 A few social workers, specializing in certain lines, cannot accom- 
 plish what we have here presented as necessary nor can these sug- 
 gestions be put into eff'ect immediately. — They mean : 
 
 1st: Further education on the part of the public as to the need 
 
 for these social, industrial and economic changes. 
 2nd : Education to convince the citizens that it is a part of 
 patriotic duty for them to share in the problems of 
 peace. 
 
 The Women's Committee asks the women in the organizations 
 who have co-operated to make the work of this Committee possible, 
 
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to make this program part of the continuing patriotic expression 
 of their organizations. It asks the un-organized women of the State 
 to join in this program and to help continue the soHdarity of patrio- 
 tic efifort which has marked the war work of the CaHfornia women. 
 We endorse the following from the reconstruction program of 
 the California Federation of Labor: 
 
 "We insist that there shall be no curtailment in the pro- 
 gressive and humanitarian work of our State Government. Cer- 
 tain reactionary forces, under the guise of economy, are right 
 now attempting to muddle and becloud this issue. But they 
 must not be permitted to make thrift and economy a slogan for 
 reaction." 
 
 It is evident that in order to carry out a program which will 
 endeavor to meet the needs of all the people, women should be placed 
 upon the various commissions and State agencies in sufificient num- 
 bers to deal effectively with matters of public policy. 
 
 EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE 
 
 Honorary Chairman Mrs. Frank A. Gibson, Los Angeles. 
 
 Chairman Mrs. Herbert A. Cable, Los Angeles. 
 
 Vice-Chairman Mrs. Robert 0. Moody, San Francisco. 
 
 Vice-Chairman Mrs. J. F. Sartori, Los Angeles. 
 
 Vice-Chairman Mrs. Edward F. Glaser, San Francisco. 
 
 Vice-Chairman : ..Mrs. F. T. Robson, San Francisco. 
 
 Vice-Chairman-at-large Mrs. Robt. J. Burdette, San Francisco. 
 
 Mrs. Shelley Tolhurst, Los Angeles. 
 Miss Ethel Moore, Oakland. 
 
 Secretary Mrs. Seward A. Simons, Los Angeles. 
 
 Assistant Secretary Mrs. Frances M. Carlton-Harmon, Los 
 
 Angeles. 
 
 Assistant Secretary Miss Anne M. Mumford, Pasadena. 
 
 The Executive Committee also includes the following Department 
 
 Chairmen : 
 
 Americanization Mrs. Frank A. Gibson, Los Angeles. 
 
 Food Administration and Regis- 
 tration .Mrs. Robt. J. Burdette, San Francisco. 
 
 Women in Industry Mrs. Katherine P. Edson, Los Angeles. 
 
 Children's Year Dr. Adelaide Brown, San Francisco. 
 
 Maintenance of Existing Social 
 
 Agencies Mrs. Carrie P. Bryant, Los Angeles. 
 
 Health and Recreation Miss Julia George, San Francisco. 
 
 Educational Propaganda Mrs. Mila Tupper Maynard. Los Angeles. 
 
 Liberty Loan Mrs. E. R. Brainerd, Los Angeles. 
 
 Red Cross Mrs. A. L. McLeish, San Francisco. 
 
 Publicity Mrs. Seward A. Simons, Los Angeles. 
 
 Information and Library Service. .Mrs. Frances M. Carlton-IJarmon, Los 
 
 Angeles. 
 
 Girls' Patriotic Service Miss Harriet Robbins, Los Angeles. 
 
 Education Mrs. O. Shepard Barnum, Alhambra. 
 
 Home Economics Miss Charlotte Ebbetts. 
 
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CENTRAL COMMITTEE 
 
 Alliance of Unitarian and other 
 
 Liberal Christian Women Mrs. L. N. Wyckoff, Berkeley. 
 
 Association of Collegiate Alumnae. .Mrs. F. C. Turner, Oakland. 
 
 Belgian Relief Committee Mrs. Willoughby Rodman, Los Angeles. 
 
 California Civic League Miss Marion Delaney, San Francisco. 
 
 California Federation of School 
 
 Women's Clubs Miss Margaret Burke, San Francisco. 
 
 California Fed. of Women's Clubs .Mrs. Herbert A. Cable, Los Angeles. 
 
 California Nurses' Association Mrs. Louis Groth, Santa Clara. 
 
 California State Federation of 
 
 Colored Women's Clubs Mrs. Hettie B. Tilghman, Oakland. 
 
 Campfire Girls ..Mrs. Esther Schneider, Berkeley. 
 
 Catholic Ladies' Aid Society Mrs. Jos. Gabriel Kearney, Alameda. 
 
 Congress of Mothers and Parent- 
 Teachers' Association Dr. Jessie Russell, Glendale. 
 
 Daughters of the Am. Revolution. .Mrs. C. C. Cottle, Los Angeles. 
 
 Daughters of the Confederacy Mrs. C. C. Clay, Oakland. 
 
 Home Economics Association Miss Gertrude D. Graham, Los Angeles. 
 
 International Federation of 
 
 Catholic Alumnae ....' Miss Mary Malloy, San Francisco. 
 
 Jew^ish Council of Women Mrs. M. C. Sloss, San Francisco. 
 
 Ladies of the Maccabees Miss Alice Church, Los Angeles. 
 
 National League for Women's 
 
 Service Mrs. Duncan McDuffie, San Francisco. 
 
 National Society of Daughters of 
 
 Founders and Patriots of 
 
 America ...Mrs. Helen Crittenden Irvine, Berkeley. 
 
 National Society U. S. Daughters 
 
 of 1812 ...Mrs. R. G. Rhodes, Los Angeles. 
 
 National Women's Trade Union 
 
 League Mrs. Frances Noel, Los Angeles. 
 
 Native Daughters of the Golden 
 
 West - Mrs. Addie L. Mosher, Oakland. 
 
 Needlework Guild of America Mrs. E. Boyle Workman, Los Angeles. 
 
 Northern Women's Christian 
 
 Temperance Union Mrs. Sarah J. Dorr, San Francisco. 
 
 Pacific Coast Division of the 
 
 Federal Reserve Mrs. A. L. Baldwin, San Francisco. 
 
 Patriotic Mothers of Sons in 
 
 Service Mrs. Ralph Criswell, Los Angeles. 
 
 Southern Women's Christian 
 
 Temperance Union Mrs. Stella B. Irvine, Riverside. 
 
 State Fed. of Musical Clubs Mrs. Bessie Bartlett Frankel, Los Angeles. 
 
 State League of Nursing Edu- 
 cation Mrs. Mitchell, Los Angeles. 
 
 Woman's National Farm and 
 
 Garden Association Mrs. Myrtle Shepherd Francis, Ventura. 
 
 Woman's Relief Corps .....Mrs. Carrie L. Hoyt, Berkeley. 
 
 Woman's Auxiliary of the 
 
 Fraternal Brotherhood Mrs. H. V. Davis, Los Angeles. 
 
 Women's Legislative Council of 
 
 California Mrs. A. E. Carter, Oakland. 
 
 Young Ladies' Mutual Improve- 
 ment Association Miss Cora Hawley, Los Angeles. 
 
 Young Women's Christian Assn Mrs. Lawrence Draper, San Francisco. 
 
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LIBRftRY OF CONGRESS ^ 
 
 ADVISORY COMMITTEE q ^^j "j^J"''" g 
 County Chairman 
 
 Alameda Mrs. F. C. Turner, 1444 San Pablo Ave., Oakland, Gal. 
 
 Alpine 
 
 Amador Mrs. M. E. Tucker, Sutter Creek, Cal. 
 
 Butte Mrs. W. O. March, 632 Fifth Street, Chico, Cal. 
 
 Calaveras Mrs. Alice Halley, San Andreas, Cal. 
 
 Colusa Mrs. C. O. Jordan, Box 663, Colusa, Cal. 
 
 Contra Costa Mrs. H. J. Curry, 1212 Escobar St., Martinez, Cal. 
 
 Del Norte Mrs. James McNulty, Crescent City, Cal. 
 
 El Dorado Mrs. L. J. Dormody, Placerville, Cal. 
 
 Fresno Mrs. E. A. Williams, 223 Rowell Bldg., Fresno, Cal. 
 
 Glenn Mrs. C. L. Donohoe, 138 Plumas St., Willows, Cal. 
 
 Humboldt Mrs. Eva Ricks, Eureka, Cal. 
 
 Imperial Mrs. Violette Campbell, El Centro, Cal. 
 
 Inyo Mrs. Bertrand Rhine, Bishop, Cal. 
 
 Kern Mrs. L. P. Guiberson, Taft, Cal. 
 
 Kings Mrs. Hope Pyburn Johnson, Hardwick, Cal. 
 
 Lake Mrs. Leonora May, Lakeport, Cal. 
 
 Lassen Mrs. C. E. Emerson, Susanville, Cal. 
 
 Los Angeles Mrs. J. F. Sartori, 719 S. Hill St., Los Angeles, Cal. 
 
 Madera Mrs. L. A. Covel, Madera, Cal. 
 
 Marin Mrs. Chas. Dodge, Larkspur, Cal. 
 
 Mariposa Mrs. Nell G. Thayer, Usona, Cal. 
 
 Mendocino Mrs. R. L. Richards, Box X, Talmage, Cal. 
 
 Merced Mrs. John Stebbins, Chamber of Commerce, Merced, Cal. 
 
 Modoc Mrs. Walter Sherlock, Alturas. 
 
 Mono Miss Mildred M. Gregory, R. D. Bodie Ranch, Haw- 
 thorne, Nev. 
 
 Monterey Mrs. W. V. Grimes, 206 Ninth St., Pacific Grove, Cal. 
 
 Napa Mrs. Percy S. King, Napa, Cal. 
 
 Nevada Mrs. James Watt, 506 Linden Ave., Grass Valley, Cal. 
 
 Orange Mrs. A. J. Lawton, 632 N. Main St., Santa Ana, Cal. 
 
 Placer Mrs. C. K. Schnabel, Newcastle, Cal. 
 
 Plumas 
 
 Riverside Mrs. Clark McEuen, Winchester, Cal. 
 
 Sacramento Mrs. C. D. Webster, 1321, 40th St., Sacramento, Cal. 
 
 San Benito Mrs. Katheryn Taylor, Box 392, Hollister, Cal. 
 
 San Bernardino ....Mrs. Robt. F. Garner, 498 D St., San Bernardino, Cal. 
 
 San Diego Mrs. A. L. Simpson, Rm. 5, Court House, San Diego, Cal. 
 
 San Francisco 
 
 San Joaquin Mrs. John Montgomery, 229 S. Hutchins St., Lodi, Cal. 
 
 San Luis Obispo ....Mrs. C. B. Hughston, 1234 Buchon St., San Luis Obispo, 
 Cal. 
 
 San Mateo Mrs. John L. McGinn, 70 Poplar Ave., San Mateo, Cal. 
 
 Santa Barbara Mrs. C. E. Herbert, 20 W. Islay St., Santa Barbara, Cal. 
 
 Santa Clara Mrs. J. P. Shambeau, Bx. 310, Rte. B, San Jose, Cal. 
 
 Santa Cruz Mrs. H. M. Tenney, Watsonville, Cal. 
 
 Shasta Mrs. Geo. Sechrist, 1 Pine St., Redding, Cal. 
 
 Sierra Mrs. F. H. Turner, Sattley, Cal. 
 
 Siskiyou Mrs. H. C. Patterson, Yreka, Cal. 
 
 Solano Mrs. F. A. Steiger, Vacaville, Cal. 
 
 Sonoma Mrs. J. S. Sweet, 607 Cherry St., Santa Rosa, Cal. 
 
 Stanislaus Mrs. Mollie Bloom Flagg, Turlock, Cal. 
 
 Sutter Mrs. Hugh Moncur, Yuba City, Cal. 
 
 Tehama Mrs. L. L. McCoy, Red Bluff, Cal. 
 
 Trinity Miss Alice Anderson, Weaverville, Cal. 
 
 Tulare Mrs. Geo. G. Hobbs, Dinuba, Cal. 
 
 Tuolumne Mrs. O. J. Mouron, Sonora, Cal. 
 
 Ventura Mrs. Frank Sifford, Ventura, Cal. 
 
 Yolo Mrs. Herbert E. Coil, 712 Main St., Woodland, Cal. 
 
 Yuba Mrs. L. R. Burgert, 719 H St., Marysville, Cal. 
 
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