New-York tribune., 1918-04-07

balances through crowded thoroughfares dis
tributng literature, and everywhere women
working away with that clear, earnest look in
the eyes which comes of the knowledge that
one is doing ones duty Can any one seeing
all this doubt for an instant that the drive
for the third Liberty Loan will break all
records?
The women Of the committee for the third
Liberty Loan who directing the activities
of the women of the state in this campaign
are not amateurs They have most of them
served in the same capacity during the cam
paigns for the first and second Liberty Loans,
and they know every inch of the way to the
goal. With record of S40,954,845 raised
in the last campaign by the women of the
Second Federal Reserve District (Which, by
the way, includes the whole of New York
State Fairfield County, in Connecticut, and
twelve counties in New Jersey), they are
straining every effort to make the result of
their present drive reach the $5O,00O,O00
mark, and it's up to US, every last mothers
daughter of US, to take hold and help them
to do it!
In formulating their plans for the cam
paign the Women's Liberty Loan Committee,
under the craftsmanship of Mrs Courtland D.
Barnes, called a meeting of representatives
of all the women's organizations of the dis
trict and asked their help and cooperation.
Each of these organizations was asked to form
its own Liberty Loan committee to work in
connection with the main committee, which
means that wherever there is woman's
club there is also a committee whose object it is
to further the work of the campaign for the
third Liberty Loan.
The help which has come from the New
York State Suffrage Association alone is al
most incalculabe. Here is an organization,
fully equipped for service, which has been
placed for these three weeks absolutely at
the disposal of the Womens Liberty Loan
COMMITTEE. When you realize that the tiniest
hamlet in the most remote corner of the state
has its own little suffrage society and it's own
suffrage leader and that all these different
leaders have been accustomed for years and
years to work together for common cause
you will understand what powerful ma
chime this can be in the work of raising the
loan The suffrage party was by no means
idle during the last two campaigns but it's
members at that time could not give their
whole attention to the loan; they had their
own cause to think Of; they were divided, as
1t were, twiXt love and duty" but now that
they have won their fight and earned the
right to vote, they are concentrating all their
forces on the work of raising the third Lib
erty Loan. In rural districts a house to house
canvas is being carried on, besides the public
meetings which are being held in conjunction
with the local Liberty Loan committee The
suffrage organization, too, has in it's ranks
some of our very best woman orators, and
these are being kept busy these days not only
by their own associations, but by the calls
for speakers which come from the headquar-
ters of the Womens Liberty Loan Committee.
One very important branch of the work is
that which is being carried on by the Ameri-
canlzatlon committee of the suffrage asso-
citation, which has done such splendid work
IN rounding up and educating the new voters
among our foreign-born women. This COM
mittee is now taking charge Of the selling of