New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-03-15
Rifles in Hands, They Are
Eager for Fight with
Foes of u. S.
HUNDREDS VOLUNTEER
FOR SUMMER CAMP
Fifth Avenue Branch of Red
Cross Prepare to Help
America First.

There's new song out, now. Line
Up for Uncle Sam" is its name, and II
summons the women, as well as the
men, TO
answer Present. to the rollcall
For the Red, White and Blue
As matter Of fact, the women all
over the city seem 20 be getting IN
their answers first, in the preparedness
rollcall. II there Is woman in New
York who is giving no heed TO war and
the rumors OF war, she did not put in a
public appearance yesterday afternoon
in any Of the circles where women are
accustomed eto meet. From society
women to shopgirls, from Red Cross
workers TO their more military sisters
of the American Woman's League for
Self-Defence preparedness was the
word you heard on every feminine
tongue.
There is TO be summer training
camp on Long Island, wher women Will
be given ten sans drills and target
practice. with exactly the same kind OF
rifles as those used y the man soldier.
Mrs. Lee c. Boardman, second wee
president of the American Woman 3
League for Self Defence. has plot OF
ground near Port Jefferson, which. she
has offered for that purpose, and nun
dreds of girls and women have already
written. asking TO be taken as pupils.
Women Praise Preparedness.
OTIS the greatest movement that has
ever been known in America, this thlng
Of preparedness for women" said Miss
Ida Vera Simonton, secretary or the
society, yesterday afternoon.
I'VE are being simply overwhelmed
with applicants. The wives of cavalry
men. women lawyers, society women,
business women, designers of women 9
clothes. managers. all the women, in
fact, who have their fingers on the
pulse OF the world. are writing TO US.
We receive at least a hundred letters a
day from women who desire TO JOIN IN
the movement"
Here are two or three excerpts from
some of the letters received yesterday;
"Your movement is precisely the
thwing I have been looking for and
hoping for all my life. ! consider my
self as capable of fighting for. my
country as any man. Written by a
woman lawyer
81 desire to be enrolled among those
who believe in American rights.
Written by mother in The Bronx
who wkants her daughters 70 join.
"Our motto is American Womanhood
First" and our slogan Line up for
Uncle SAM" said Miss Stanton. I'VE
don't say that we want 20 make ANA
IONS or soldiers out Of all women. but
that we desire TO fit them to do their
utmost in shelf-defence. Preparedness
in every shape, manner and form Is
our creed. Miss Martha Sawyer Gle
low, an honorary member of the league.
has written our new song, which Is
just out"
Mrs. T.. Vandergook Browne. presi-
dent of the organization, and Miss Ida
Ellsworth Lowber, first vice president.
are its founders. One of its leading
members is Mrs. j. Hungerford Mil
bank, the first woman in this country
20 head an organization of women to
drill in armories and to handle United
States army guns.
America First in War.
The Fifth Avenue branch of the Red
Cross Society was not talking about
rifles, but they were arguing prepared
ness most eloquently. More than 100
women were rolling bandages under
the leadership Of their chairman, Mrs
Leonard Wood. There was nothing I'M
usual in the occupation. but there was
something unusual in the fact that at
least a part Of those bandages are de-
signed for the use OF American sol
diers. Instead OF sending all the fruits
Of their labor 10 Europe, as formerly
the Red Cross Society is keeping a,