Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 January 1918 — Name Dates For Eighty-Seven War Conferences In State. [ARTICLE]

Name Dates For Eighty-Seven War Conferences In State.

The State Council of Defense announced yesterday the places, speakers and dates for eighty-seven of the county war conferences to be held in each of the ninety-two counties of Indiana, Jan. 27 to Feb. 19. Some of the speakers are men and women who have just returned from France and will come to Indiana under the auspices of the Federal food administration. One or two of the other speakers appeared in Indianapolis as feature speakers during the big state-wide war conference held recently. • , It is planned to have a great demonstration in each of the county seats of this state so as to wake the state to the great war problems that confroht it. Each of the conferences will be conducted along the same lines that characterized the Indianapolis conference, which was so decided a success and the first of its kind in the United States. There are to be eight of the national speakers, including Edward F. Trefz, a publicist of Chicago Colby, an attorney of New Jersey; Julius Lincoln of Jamestown, N. Y., all of whom have been in France and returned only last week with burning messages; Mrs. Percy Pennybacker, formerly president! of the National Federation of Women’s Clubs; R. L. Wilbur, president of Leland Stanford University; Dr. Alexander Cairns, a lecturer for the food administration; W. J. McGlothlin and Mrs. Kate Barnard, both national figures in war propaganda work. .