Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-06-10

the Secretary OF the Treasury, and
youngest daughter of
An Intensive tho President. is &C
lively heading an in
oomPaiSh' tensive campaign of
SOC. 900 women scattered throughout the
country who are working for the lib
erty loan. making speeches in every
hamlet and city and enlisting co-work-
ers in the insular possessions Of the
United States.
When she was made chairman Of the
woman's liberty loan committee she
said: The woman who buys a bond
is no less a defender of her home than
her foremother was who carried her
old ashioned musket and. hiding her
children in the hills. fought the wild
| beasts and savaEes that beset her. The
woman who buys liberty bond stands
behind a soldier.
LAT no time in the worlds history has
there been a crisis when women have
not been called upon for service. and
at no time have women failed the
world. Woman's work can be made the
deciding factor in winning the war
In America, as we'll as in the countries
with which we are making common
cause"
When Mrs. McAdoo accepted the chair
manship of the woman's liberty loan
/ committee she Immediately surrounded
herself Sin the work of pushing the
sale OF bonds among women with
prominent women from different parts
Of the country who had experience In
campaigning and public duties of diff
ferent kinds-women who were accus-
those familiar with business affairs.
Mrs. Antoinette L. Funk of Chicago.
Of the distinguished family of lawyers
Of that name. is vice
Commiftee chairman of the commit
tee. and at the request Of
MemoeIs. the Secretary Of the
Treasury. the following women have con-
scented to serve on the committee: Mrs.
George Bass of Chicago. Mrs. Carrie Chap
man Gait Of New York. Mrs. Kellogg Fair
bank Of Chicago. Mrs. ]. Q. Miller Of
Pittsburgh. Pa; Mrs Guildford Dudley
of Nashville. Tenn; Mrs. Frank A. Van
derlip of New York. Mrs. Frank S.
Higginson of Boston and Mrs. George
T. Guernsey of Independence, Kan.
president general National Society,
Daughters Of the American Revolution.
The woman's liberty loan committee
has asked for the cooperation of the
womans national defense committee.
and the executive committee of the
liberty loan committee has formed an
cations in which women hold member
ship. Comprehensive plans have been
worked out for the utilization of prac-
tically every existing woman's organi-
cation in the United States in behalf
Of the liberty loan. Secretary McAdoo
addressed this committee at the Treasury
June l to explain the scope Of the liberty
loan.
Mrs. vanderlip at this meeting re-
ported an organization in the federal
reserve b a n &
An Extensive district of New
York that had al
ofsanlzation. ready enlisted the
services of hundreds of women's clubs
and societies and has sold more than
81 10000 in liberty loan bonds exclu
sively to women during the last two
weeks in May. Mrs. Higginson. wife
of the Boston banker. Frank S. H.g-.
ginson. has perfected similar organi!
cation for the New England states, and
Mrs. Guernsey reported the sale of
more than $1,000,000 in bonds to mem
bers of the D. A. r.
Mrs. Guernsey is a practical business
woman. She is the wife of prominent
banker. Mrs. Guernsey is forceful pub
lie speaker and a woman of wide influence
through the west and middle west, having
the farming and Industrial affairs Of that
part of the country at her finger tips
When President Wilson called on the
women of the nation to organize into a
citizen army for service on industrial.
economic, agricultural and all patriotic
lines, Mrs. Guernsey, as president gen.
eral of the D. A. R., appointed war
relief service committee to formulate
la practical plan for active service. this
committee to succeed the committee on
war relief service plan," appointed by
the former president general at the
first session of the twenty-sixth Con-
which committee made its final report
to the congress later in-the week.
A comprehensive organization Of the
middle west has been set in operation
by Mrs. Funk. Mrs.
Using the Mail Bass and Mrs Fair
banks. who are
Uroer Houses. waging a gigantic
campaign of publicity through the large
mail order houses of that part of the
and subscription blanks to every wom
an on the farms and in the isolated
places. They are to follow up this
propa ganda with motor trips through
the different districts. in which they
will personally talk to the women and
impress upon them how they can serve
their country and send a soldier to the
war without leaving their firesides or
neglecting their families.
This whirlwind campaign, planned by