Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-06-10
WORKING FOR THE LIBERTY LOAN

Mrs. McAdoo and her assistants, while
II has been conducted through the lib
erty loan publicity bureau OF the Treas
ury Department. has had Its own thor
oughly organized working force. direct
ed by a woman who occupies q similar
position to Robert w. Woolley. director
of the main bureau. This woman Is
Miss Mary Synon of Chicago. who VOL
unteered her services for the work. CIV
Ing her entire time to her once duties,
just as the paid government clerks are
doing. Out Of once hours she makes
speeches on the side to enthuse for the
loan.
Miss Synon has been doing things
worth while all her life. and with that
happy lot that falls to few mortals she
has been able to see the results OF
much OF her work helpful to woman
kind. She is well known writer OF
fiction. magazine writer and q practical
newspa per woman.
Miss Synon comes we'll equipped for
the needs OF, service OF this kind Aside
from an alert understand
Publicity ing Of present conditions
confronting the country,
| se'' she brings the service Of
investigation into the methods employ
! ed bv the countries at war. She was
1
| to canvass the Dominion from coast
! to coast with a view to finding out
4 how the practical experience and the
results of the work in the war there
could be co-ordinated with the prob
| lens confronting America at that time
i This trip through Canada was made
| last February and March. before the
| entrance Of the United States into the
| war. But Miss Synon saw how the
| women there had adjusted economics
| to the exigencies OF war. She studied
| the marvellous results achieved by the
| Patriotic Society and the Red Cross
| the two organizations through which
| the women work in aiding the families
If the men at the front and those
| who had lost their main support: the
women who keep up the fences al homo
seas.
The women of Mrs McAdoos COM
| mittee on June s-the women's liberty
loan day throughout the United
States-drove their arguments home in
business as well patriotic way.
For the next few DAYS. to June 10.
when the loan closes. they will argue
bond will equip one soldier for the
| front. perhaps the very son of the
woman who buys that bond: that 1t
| modating thirty-two men: II will buy
| eight pairs of army blankets. buy
| 1000 rounds of ammupition, or three
| standard rifles. II this woman ywere
the means of keeping a soldier at the
r sfen' would loa Keep Keep s sne enemy from
Americas shores and help the soldiers
| finish the battles which mean the
| freedom Of the world.
The starving children and women Of
Belgium, who have been subjected to
atrocities such ~
What the Liberty would have caused
the supporters Of
Loan means. the Spanish inqui-
sition to stand aghast. are looking to
the women of America to help them and
to help them now. But food cannot
be carried to them in SUFFICIENT guam
titles because there are monsters under
the sea lying in walt to devour any
succor sent. There must be more ships
provided; while the women of the
| farms. factories and industries OF tho
country are doing their part money
must be furnished to carry on the work.
| On last Friday every telephone oper-
ator in the United States. who called
Buy liberty bond" whenever she was
asked for a number did a splendid work
of patriotism in helping sell bond.
Ruth Law, the woman aviator, scat
tered and is scattering dodgers broad
| cast calling upon women to respond to
! the cry for help. These dodgers were
/ inspiring. The woman next door has
given her son to carry the Red. White
and Blue into the trenches somewhere
| in France. What are you doing? Tho
boys in khaki are fighting your light
over there. Stand back of them here.
For them-for your country-for lib
erty-for democracy-for your chill
drens future-buy a liberty loan bond.
! 1t is the safest investment in the world.
| The United States government guar.
antees it, 1t pays ~ per cent interest.
| The income is not subject to taxation.
! Any woman can buy one. If you have
not $50 now buy on the installment
| plan"
June is the month of weddings. and
| women are asked to make their sons
and daughters gifts OF lib
Wedding erty loan bonds instead Of
other things. A smaller
Wills. trousseau may be given
, and bond put in the bank for rainy
day. Sensible economies are asked by
the women of this committee, and
there must be sacrifices. At the hnal
roundup of the present bond issue on
June Is it is hoped that the women of
will astonish the world. When they
have done this they have helped to do
a large part in prosecuting the war
for liberty and freedom by providing
food, shelter and munitions to our SOL
diers and for the soldiers of those
countries with which we are making
common cause.