The Nashville globe. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1906-193?, 1918-08-02
SERVICE
WATCHWORD
W omen Respond
NObly to Call
Council Of Defense in War
WOrk--Much Helpful Ser
vice Rendered--News
papers Assisting.
Financial COndi.
ton Excellent

Among no class of people has the
spirit of service, in these trOublOus
times, been more exempliied than
among the Colored Women of Nash
Vile From the first call sent out by
their Government they have respond
ed nobly. They gave their sons free
ly and willingly and after they had
marched away banded themselves in
to organizations for their mainte-
nance and support,
| Perhaps the strongest organization
for War Work among the women of
| the city of Nashville is the Colored
Womens Unit-Council National De-
| fense of which DR.. M. E. Coleman is
, Chairman, Mrs. P. r. Burrus Sec
retary and Mrs. A. N. Johnson, Chair
man of the Financial Committee. The
members of the Executive Board are
Chairman of the Various Committees
and Sectional Chairman. This or
| ganization was a success from the
| first day of its organization. The
various departments were placed in
the hands of competent women and
they in turn have appointed sub
committees, till at the present time
there is not a section of the city that
is not represented in one of the many
| committee meetings held weekly
The Financial Departmnt Of the
organization, under the efficient lead
ership of Mrs A. N. Johnson is the
strongest department in the organiza-
tion and its development has been
phenomenal. The first handicap that
stared the organization in the face
when it's started real work after Or
ganization was an empty treasury.
Mrs. Johnson, realizing the necessity
of funds, Immediately made plans for
Tag Day. After completing the
plans she started on the long Jour-
ney, that one must necessarily make
to official and semi-officials before per-
mission can be gotten to make an ap-
peal or demand on the purse of the
public. These miles and miles of red
tape having been successfully nego-
tiated, the appointment of workers
was the next serious problem. With
the members of the committee, Mrs.
Johnson with tact and true insight
into human nature got together a Tag
Day Committee that proved to be
the best aggregation of workers ever
: appointed by any Chairman for any
purpose in the city of Nashville. All
the organizations and civic leagues
of the city rallied to this earnest
woman, who never doubted for an in
stant that the plans formed would
be successful and by her very faith
and tenacity of purpose enthused
hundreds who otherwise would have
been Indifferent or disinterested. The
newspapers assisted her by editor
1 tally mentioning the effort and in
other ways placing the need and worth
;, iness of the organization before the
i public. Even the elements gave their
y approval and Tag Day dawned bright
|. and clear. The workers appeared at
3 headquarters at seven o'clock and
u u when returns were made in the even
u ing, the Colored Women's Unit-Nash.
. vile Chapter-Council of National De-
i fense had in their treasury $S21.00.
The elimination of the effort of the
: chairman of the Financial Com
Il mittee and her committees, women
y with mind to work.
- The Comfort Kit Committee has
- been hard at work also and it was
= due to their efforts that the 600 men
a and boys leaving the city Monday
- were given rousing celebration 600
- comfort kits, provided and made by
the women, $1,000 sandwiches and
- 10000 smokes. The Financial Com
o. mittee, lead by Mrs. Johnson were
10 able to raise money on this occa-
Is sion also. Banners appealing for help
81 were printed and several beautiful
le girls carried a sheet in the line of
II march, in which the generous public
" of the city placed, in coins of every
Il denomination, $1S1.00.
y At a meeting of the Committee at
- the headquarters of the Council OF
~ :, Defense, in the Colored Y. M. G. A.
u on Cedar street, the Comfort Kit
i, Committee of which Mrs. Bryant is
y Chairman, Mrs. H. A. Boyd Secretary
" and Miss Alice Gushing, Treasurer, in
!. making their report were enthusias'
% 20 tic in their praise of the help given
~ them in the making of the 900 com
n ,rt kits. The committee was under
III the impression when the work started
= that they were to make only IT'S kits
D. but later it was discovered that all
= of the 900 men would leave at the
r same time and the kits must be finish
ed on a certain day. To the call for
help noble response was given. Mrs.
Morgan Sectional Chairman Of East
Nashville organized a girls Emer'
le gency Club which made AZ pin
N cushions. Mrs. A. N. Johnson gather
d ed together a group of little girls
"a who could not sew, but who donated
Is their paper dolls and cut them up as
e. foundations on which to sew the silk
'e of which the cushions were made
AZ Many instances of help and interest
~ of this kind could be enumerated
" which shows that the colored women
H. of the city are in this war to win.