Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-05-02
LEAGUE OUTLINES
WORK FOR WOMEN
Mrs. S. w. Parish Tells Scope
and Object Of National
Service Body.
TO COORDINATE EFFORTS
Will Fill Positions of Men at
the Front and Promote
First Aid.

To combat the general misunder-
standing about the work of the Ma
tional League for Women's Service, a
statement regarding its scope was
made yesterday by Mrs. S. w. Parish,
state chairman Of the organization.
THE league" said Mrs. Parish, lis
by far the most comprehensive body
of all the war relief bodies that have
been organized. 1t is, in fact, the
clearing house for womans efforts
and woman's contribution to war. 1t
is to other war relief organizations as
housekeeping is to cooking. or as
housekeeping is to cleaning, or as
housekeeping is to sewing"
Mrs. Parish then gave the "object"
as set forth in the information blank
sent out from the leagues headquar
ters in New York City, as follows:
Cooperate With Red Cross.
ITO coordinate and standardize the
work of women of America along
lines of constructive patriotsm: to
develop the resources and to promote
the efficiency of women in meeting
their responsibilities to home, to state.
to nation and to humanity; to CO.
operate with the Red Cross and other
agencies in meeting any calamity
fire, flood famine economic disorder,
etc, and in time Of war to supplement
tDe WOTk OF llle lNtu tIOSS, tIc army
and navy, and to deal with the ques-
tons of women's work and womens
welfare
"rhe war activities of the Red Cross
society and the national league in no
wise overlap. The American Red
Gross helps provide the troops with
comforts and necessities both in the
field and in transit, assists the army
medical corps and raises funds to
s..lf . nsly In nt
flood or pestilence, the Red Cross
takes charge of the organization of
local committees TO develop the need
ed facilities and continues in charge
as long as the occasion demands.
Detail Work of Each.
Thru the organization and direction
of the League for National Service a
woman's talents and abilities are ap-
piled at whatever point will give the
best returns. Thus the efforts of an
already expert stenographer Will not
be dissipated in elevator service,
while woman with genius for me-
chanics will not be put to needlework.
Where the National League enrolls
women or detachments who are fitted
for and willing to do Red Cross work
(home nursing, first aid, hospital sup
plies and dietetics) they must take
their courses of instruction and also
act under the Red cross.
The Slogan.
The slogan of the National League
is "For God! For Country! For
Home,"
The resolutions adopted at the first
National meeting in Washington,
April g. 1917, which shed light upon
their objects and also upon their ear
nestness. in part are:
Resolved, That this League OF
Woman's Service shall be the conse-
Grafton of woman's power, that 1t
shall be kept free from self-seeking
and from politics. that it will never
lose sight of the necessity of contin-
ued relief for France and her allies
where vast areas are devastated and
destroyed and where suffering men,
unprotected women and helpless chill
dren are silently awaiting our aid, and
that thus 1t shall be as a star in the
desert, guiding its members to L high
er spirit of patriotism, to a clearer
vision of service and to purer
standard of living: thus justifying the
aim and the existence of this associa-
ton established For God, For Coun-
try and For Home"