Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-05-13
nm n OTHER is acting in
w iN\MI mighty fine manner. She
UHJl is absolutely firm in her
belief that it is our duty

belief that it is our duty
to our country in this crisis to do al
we can TO help. and it makes me proud
of her
Thus wrote the son of a mother who
saw her two boys of twenty and TWEEN
ty-two march away from New York
city with the list Battalion of Naval
Militia called TO the service.
TT was harder to have them go than
I imagined" wrote the mother. "but
their father and feel both proud and
glad that they were willing at once to
do their part at this time
The words of the son reflect the spirit
in which the ma iority of the sons of
America are volunteering for service
in this war. 'for the rights of mankind
and for the future peace and security
of the world while those of the mother
have been repeated hundreds of times
by other American mothers within past
months.
Mothers day, celebrated this second
Sunday in May throughout the length
and breadth of the land, sees the Amer
lean mother justly honored. for she is
not only giving her sons to do battle
for right. but, having sent them forth.
she is turning her own mind and hand
TO Individual or cooperative work for
her country in its hour of need. for the
mothers of the country have taken for
their own President Wilson'S words:
I'VE must realize to the full how great
the task is. and how many things, how
many kinds and elements of capacity
and service and self-sacrifice it in
wolves.
There was hardly a womans organi-
inr. of hi I, ia ln6 n
send a telegram of acknowledgment to
President Wilson on the deliverance of
his message to the American people on
their duty in war time, and these tele
grams were in almost every case ac-
companied by pledge of service along
one or more of the lines laid down in
the message. These pledges stand for
only for allegiance. but for the actual
and active work of millions of Ameri-
can mothers in the cause.
That the women of this country are
united in their endeavors for humanity
in this greatest crisis in all history had
women of the north. represented by the
Womans Relief Corps of the Grand
Army of the Republic. and the women
of the south. represented by the United
Daughters of the Confederacy. dedi-
Gated a memorial window which was
their joint gift to the new national
headquarters of the American Red
Cross in Washington.
The American Red Cross. with it's
work of tending and healing the sick
and wounded in the war and of helping
to care for those left destitute in con-
sequence of war. has appealed to every
mother with an enlisted son, to every
wife with a husband in war service, to
every sister with a relative or friend
engaged. and few womens organiza-
tions of any Importance have failed to
pledge it immediate and active sup
port.
The largest woman's organization
standing pre-eminently for the main
tenance of Americas traditions in the
cause of freedom is the National So
ciety of the Daughters of the American
with its membership COM
posed wholly of woman descendants of
the earliest Americans who fought in
the cause of liberty. The resolution
adopted by this society at it's twenty
sixth annual Continental Congress, as