Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-05-18
Women to Aid Liberty Loan.

plans for completing the organza
ton of the woman's liberty loan com
mittee designed to give the women OF
America an opportunity Tor patflotle
tribution of the securities We're an
nounced here today. Mrs W Imam u.
McAdoo will act as chairman OF ehe
committee and Mrs. Antoinette J: rum
of Chicago as vice CHAIRMAN. oliiei W
ficers and subcommittee will be named
later.
The committee issued an appeal TO the
women of the country today which fettds
in part as follows:
ssJNon,en cannot fight. The object OF
This committee is to urge upon women
the Importance of Seizing the oppof-
tunity to help equip and MAINTAIN our
army and navy and to offer suoStahllai
aid to our allies. The women oil f.uro oL
United States by self-deniai ara oeFo-
ton must prove themselves worthy 10
share this honorable service OF up
holding those ideals of democracy for
which men are giving up their lives.
.'The woman's liberty loan committee
will ask for the cooperation of the
woman's committee for national de-
Tense
of the country by states. Hundreds OF
speakers will tour the country this
summer in behalf of the movement
The executive committee of the or
ZanlZat1On Will 1OTn an duNlSoiS CUM
lnittee of heads of every national Or
ganization in which women hold mem
bership.
Blows Struck for Liberty.
AT dinner last night, rendered by
financial interests of Chicago, the Sec
rotary said every dollar subscribed to
this liberty loan is blow struck for
liberty throughout the world
Prompt financial assistance to the
to gain a decisive victory before an
American army is sent to Europe, Sec
rotary McAdoo declared.
Aid in Ending the War.
Every man and woman who buys a
liberty bond will contribute in the most
important and directly helpful way to
bring the war to a quick, conclusion"
Mr.. McAdoo said. mo one can doubt
the outcome of the conflict if the A,neri-
can people awake to the gravity of the
situation and organize the mighty re-
sources of the nation
The Secretary said it was difficult to
make the country people understand
that we are involved in the most CO.
lossal war of all time. 1t was no
longer true, he said, that the best
friends of the American people We're
the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. Sub
marines already had crossed the At
lantic and sunk vessels off our shores;
all modern science had nullified space
and no longer were We secure because
of our isolation.
IF military autocracies can be de-
stroyed the greatest menace to the
worlds peace and security will be re-
moved" Secretary McAdoo said. cal
ready as result of the war one great
military autocracy has been destroyed
-Russia-and on it's ruins there has
been reared the benevolent structure of
democratic institutions. Germany and
midable types of military autocracies.
They must be defeated in order that
liberty and peace may no longer be
imperiled.
What q. S. Is Fighting For.
This is what the United States is
fighting for-universal liberty. She
has no selfish end to serve; she has no
hostility to the German people. Her
battle is with the system which is eat
ing the very vitaIs out of the German
people-the Hohenzollern autocracy.
Prompt financial assistance to tie
allied governments by which they may
be able quickly to acquire the neces-
sary supplies and munitions of war
from this country may enable the allies
to- gain decisive victory before
American soldiers may be sent to
Europe the Secretary said. THE lib
erty loan will put the government in
position to extend this financial aid
Every man and woman who buys a
liberty bond will contribute in the most
immediate and directly helpful way to
bring this horrible war to a quick con-
clusion.'