Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-06-03

mittee of the national council of de-
Tense of that city.
The city committees are instructed to
proceed as rapidly as possible to es-
tabliSh auxiliary units in each ward.
The same process of the appointment
of a temporary chairman as was fol-
lowed in the organization of the state
and city, 1t Is advised, will prove the
most successful plan. The ward or
ganizatlon conference, however, should
be general meeting of the women
of the ward, and the unit should be
composed of individual members.
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This skillful. yet simple. plan of or
ganization outlined by the womans
committee merely links in complete
working cooperation existing organi-
cations of women. The woman's COM
mittees of states and cities are design
ed to be a federation of all organiza-
tions of women. For the benefit of
women who are not members of any
organization represented in the city
and town committees. freedom to form
other units will be allowed, the primary
object being to coordinate patriotic
service of as many women as possible.
Clubs, churches. societies and groups
of various kinds may also affiliate di-
rectly with department with whose
To coordinate the woman's war work
in rural districts. county committee
for each county will be appointed by
the state division, in which case it will
be the duty of the county committee to
establish units in villages and rural
townships. as it will be the ultimate
aim of each state division to secure a
good working committee in each
county.
The object of this plan of organiza-
woman's committee is to fulfill the OBJ
Ject of their appointment and to co-or-
dinate women's organizations and their
working forces, in order to enlist at
once the greatest possible number in
the service which the national crisis
demands
In order that no defense work of any
kind already under way shall be lost,
each state and division lis advised to
investigate the work started and to so
coordinate activities as to eliminate
duplication and overlapping. Each
state and city will find problems pecu-
liar to itself. but the judgment of all
women in charge of organized work
will so clearly realize the Importance
of unification that the solution should
readily be found The womans COM
mittee desires to conserve everything
useful in the way of work and organi-
cation. and the Capitalization advised
is in the interest of higher efficiency
Tie head of the committee, which
within three days had outlined this pre-
liminary program which is to enlist
the services of the great army of wom-
en- in every part of the United States
for definite and related war work, is
seventy years old, but spares herself in
no particular. AS an instance of Dr.
Shaw's intense activity and power of
endurance it may be recalled that in
the great suffrage parade held in New
York in October, 1915, she marched at
the head of the 10000 women in line
from Washington Square up to 5th ave-
nue. and 59th street. When the march
ers disbanded on reaching this point
most of them were exhausted and re-
tired to rest Not SO DIR. Shaw. She
stood for three hours and watched the
whole of that parade pass, and that
night she went to Brooklyn and made
speech.
On an earlier occasion. when she had
to meet an engagement to speak after
long journey. she became SO i'll en-
route that when she reached certain
point in her journey where a change
had to be made late at night she could
hardly walk She was helped to the wait
ing room and there lay on the floor for the
remainder of the night. To meet her
engagement she was obliged to continue
her Journey next morning, and, instead
OF canceling 1t and finding comfortable
stopping place, she took her train In the
early morning and was. on the platform
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