Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-08-26

C6NI\THtss ut, a1 until n'- every soSn.
\VtY every city, every hamlet
" " gives back answer to the
bugle of patriotism" said Mary Synon.
in late article on THE Vests Awake
in Scribner's Magazine And in recent
talk she supplemented that statement by
saying that the Canadian women have
been no less patriotic than the men
From her intimate knowledge Of the
north country displayed in her
charming tales Of Canada's great north
and west, many have thought that
Miss Synon was a Canadian, and 1t SO
happened that she was in that part
Of the world favored in her eyes when
the great war broke over Europe in
August. 1914. She stayed to see
what Canada would do in the circum-
stance. as well as to view conditions
chronicler of events. incidentally to
lend her hand, IL need be, to the wom-
ans end OF the problem.
From east to west. from north to
south Of the Dominion, she travelled.
studying and working, giving a lift
wherever it could help the cause of the
oattaions going overseas to fight their
cause against Germany. But Miss
Synon Is an American, a resident of
Chicago. and when her own country
threw down the gantlet to Prussianism
she felt 1t her duty to return home and
do her bit for her own land, and so
washington finds her now busy from
morning until night at a desk in the
United states Treasury building, where
she Is volunteering her services IS ex-
scuttve secretary for the women's lib
erty loan committee. Recently she has
been appointed to membership on the
Of ha
ury.
Correct one impression that find has
gained wide ground here" said Miss
Synon. Il have heard 1t said many times
mat canada went in to do battle in Eng
lands war Canada did not go to do bat
tie for England. From the very first
canada realized that this was her war
sne entered II. first Of all, for the right
OF small nations against ACKNOWLEDGMENT
Dy larger ones. Also she early realized,
as 1 heard again ana again. that If Brit
am lost she, as the greatest colony of
Britain, was one of the coveted prizes of
Tor herself. but as a vantage point for
future dealings with the United States
90 Canada has felt from the first that
this has been her own battle for her own
life and land as well as a conflict for the
right.
The Canadian women have been mag
nincent. and they lost not day in start
Ing their splendid lines of work after war
was declared. War work in Canada d.
Vides itself largely into two Hnes-one
connected with the patriotic fund the
other with the Red Cross
The patriotic fund is unique con-
tribution to the war by Canadian men and
women. II is fund which provides
Tor the care Of families of enlisted men
Canada's is a volunteer army and its
frst recruits came largely from the I'M
married men of the west-the ranchers.
railroad men, miners. prospectors and
others. a good proportion of them
were Englishmen born. and these i'm
mediateiy went home to fight with their
countrymen. The west gave of her
splendid sons out of all proportion to
her population, as you know, and Won
know how they have fought
The second force took out the men
OF families. and by the time they were
volunteering in large numbers the pa
triotic fund was in full operation and
ready for their need. Indeed, the pa
triotic fund of Canada was a smooth
ly running machine within a month
ii after the declaration of war Its OBJ
ject is to see that Immediate and ade-
qaate provision is made for the de-
pendents of soldiers who have gone to
war
The men and women of Canada feel
that the women who have given their
husbands and the children who have
given their fathers to the war must
suffer no unnecessary material want on
man or the man disqualified in some
other way. He can contribute to the
patriotic fund and so hearten the man
who goes by providing adequately for
his family. Women who have neither
husband nor sons to give to the cause
md In this . worthy substitute. for the
Operation Of the patriotic fund has had