The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1917-04-01

woman who heard her, and she con-
WINGED them that she knew her bust
ness; that she knew the business of
the organization that sent her, in it's
every detail and above all, she con-
WINGED them that she was great
patriot, woman whose integrity of
purpose was convincing, and who,
with all her forces and directness,
was as womanly and sweet as every
note of her voice.
Mrs. Van Rensselaer, explained that
the organization of the National
League for Women's Service was or
ganized in Washington city in Febru-
airy, during the conference on con-
struetive patriotism called there by
the National Security League. The
organization of the National League
for Women's Service followed a pre-
liminary work already done by the
group of women leaders subsequently
organizing under the leadership of
Miss Maud Wetmore. Nearly two
years ago these patriotic women sent
study the work of the women there;
the demand made upon them, and the
plans upon which their activities were
based. The survey Miss Parker made
was under the two heads; what the
| government demands of women and
how they organized for the work.
Miss Parker made an exhaustive
investigation and returning, her re-
ports were looked over, conditions
here considered and an emergency
plan of work in the making when the
same group of women met and organ
lied for specifically patriotic pur-
/ poses under the head of the National
League of Woman's Service" Mrs.
Van Rensselaer, here related many in
cidents of Miss Parker's experience
upon which the plan of work for
American women is now being formu-
lated by the league.
The first purpose of the league is
to coordinate the forces of Amer
lean women, to know what they are
and where they are and when the
time comes to call them. England
had no registry or records of this
kind, she stated, but Germany had
such record for sixty years so that
when the government had to make
the actual call for woman's service
for industrial or other purposes the
government knew where they were
and called them into immediate civic
i. service.
; Every woman can be useful, ne
1, matter what her age, Mrs. Van Rens
selaer stated, and she made the home
service demands as stirring in theil
patriotic appea- as the appeal for tht
more activeservice which calls woman
away from home, into the very scene:
of warfare. She described the socia
service work, which must be initiated
in and near all mobilization camps
Il in the nature of rational recreation,
and amusements, in the establishment
of clubs, etc.
She told of the necessary trainin,
for the canteens which women entire
ly look after and which have alread,
been established by the women in thi
country near where large numbers o
our troops are at present stationed.
| She described, touchingly, here, tn
AID the leisure woman can give to tn
trained woman who takes the man
place in the industrial institution O
in activity where women NAV b
called to take mems places. Thes
trained women who are helping kee
the home together must leave it. Bu
the women not industrially traine
can step in and look after the car
, of the children of the women VIII
] are trained, and can thus serve the;
4 country. They can look after then
their training, their schooling ar
/ the preparation of usefulness whic
the mother can not give them b.
cause she has been called where he
training takes her.