chairman of Literature.
[108] On the list were: All the members of the Cabinet except
Secretary of State Lansing; nineteen U.S. Senators and fourteen
prominent Representatives; Speaker Champ Clark; U.S. Commissioner of
Education Philander P. Claxton; Assistant Secretary of Agriculture
Carl Vrooman; Justices of the Supreme Court of the District Wendell P.
Stafford and Frederick L. Siddons; Secretary to the President Joseph
P. Tumulty; Commissioners of the District Louis Brownlow and W. Gwynn
Gardiner; former Commissioners Henry F. MacFarland and Simon Wolf;
Major Raymond S. Pullman, Chief of Police; Resident Commissioner and
Mme. Jaime De Veyra (Philippine Islands); Resident Commissioner Felix
C. Davila (Porto Rico); John Barrett, director of the Pan-American
Union; Major-General W. C. Gorgas; the Reverends U. G. B. Pierce,
Henry N. Couden, chaplain of the House of Representatives; James Shera
Montgomery, Rabbi Abram Simon, John Van Schaick, president of the
School Board; Theodore Noyes, editor of the _Evening Star_; Arthur
Brisbane, the _Times_; C. T. Brainerd, the Washington _Herald_; W. P.
Spurgeon, the Washington _Post_; Gilbert Grosvenor, editor of the
_National Geographic Magazine_; J. Leftwich Sinclair, president, and
Thomas Grant, secretary of the Washington Chamber of Commerce; Dr.
Harry A. Garfield, president Williams College and director Fuel
Administration for the United States; Edward P. Costigan, U. S. Tariff
Commission; Frank A. Vanderlip, V. Everit Macy, on War Boards; Samuel
Gompers, president American Federation of Labor; Alexander Graham
Bell; Gifford Pinchot; Dr. Ryan Devereux; General Julian S. Carr,
commander-in-chief United Confederate Veterans.
Miss Julia Lathrop, chief of the Children's Bureau; Mrs. Mary C. C.
Bradford, president, and Mrs. Ella Flagg Young, secretary National
Education Association; Mrs. George Thacher Guernsey, president-general
Daughters of the American Revolution; Mrs. Cordelia R. P. Odenheimer,
president-general Daughters of the Confederacy; Miss Janet Richards;
Mrs. Charles Boughton Wood; Mrs. Blaine Beale; Mrs. Ellis Meredith;
Mrs. Christian Hemmick; Mrs. Herbert C. Hoover; Mrs. A. Garrison
McClintock.
[109] The names of the thirteen were given as follows: Miss Heloise
Meyer of Massachusetts, first auditor of the association, scheduled
for canteen work in France. Mrs. J. Borden Harriman, member of the
Congressional Committee of the association, now on governmental
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