The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-07-09
WAR WOMEN KEEN
FOR SHIP POSTERS
Mrs. Van Rensselaer, Of Ma
tional League Urges Artists
to Try Their Utmost.
PRIZE CONTEST WIDENS
Many Finished Works Have
Already Reached "The Sun"
Office-ClOses July %.

Mrs. c. Van Rensselaer,, who is vice.
chairman OF the National League for
. Womans Service. said yesterday that
|. the artist who can put over in a poster
. the idea that the man In the shipyard
. 10 as valuable cog in the nations
. machinery for winning the war as the
: man with the gun is going to accom-
: Dish much for his or her country.
: Mrs. Van Rensselaer, had a hundred
. different things on her mind when q
? SuN man called at the leagues head
quarters, 257 Madison avenue. to ask
= what she thought Of the competition
which the National Service Section OF
the United States Shipping Board Emer-
! Rency Fleet Corporation Is conducting
( through THE SUN for posters to speed
.. up the already speedy builders OF ships
She dropped everything TO put in a
. good word for the ship poster cam
|. paiGn."
, "It is a splendid patriotic effort"
. she said. land I most heartily approve
!. Of the contest. I hope that artists all
. over the country will respond to the call
. for service and that the National Ser
vice Section will get lot of effective
posters to aid II In increasing the en-
thusiasm OF shipyard men for the great
tasks that have been set before them, :"
Posters Stir Fighting Men.
That the National League for wom-
:. ans Service Is an advocate OF the
:. poster and believes that 1t Is playing n
mighty part in making the people OF
:, the nation understand what this war
means is very evident from the great
> numbers OF posters dealing with vari-
Gus war activities which adorn the in
terror walls of its headquarters.
These posters are always a source OF
= keen interest to the hundreds of SOL
.diers and sailors who drop in daily
at this busy place where women are
doing so much for their country. Their
shoulders get straighter when they look
at them, and many OF them have con-
fesed that fellow can't help being a
better fighter when il is brought home
to him in posters how much his coun-
try thinks OF him and what the folks
at home are trying to do to aid him
:. make a finish of the Kaiser and his
entire crew.
Great Opportunities for Artists.
Ship posters are going to add to the
- 5oys OF sailors and soldiers because
through them they are going to be able
70 visualize the mammoth operations OF
the shipbuilding industry and the de-
termination OF the workers to keep up q
succession Of launchings that will make
possible a continuous stream of men
-munition. food and supplies to the other
side Of the Atlantic.
Things must be visualized. even our
emotions.'' said Mrs. Van Rensselaer,
commenting on the purposes Of the COM
petition. when you make an appeal
through a poster people understand 1t a,
. glance: It gets into the brain and
stays there. People can be appealed to
through pictures more than in any other
way. and that's where the stupendous
power Of the poster comes in / believe
most thoroughly in the poster PROPOSE
ton.
"There are great opportunities FOL
artists in this contest. and the man oil
woman who can put over pictorially the
right kind OF ideas that will stir up ths
man in the shipyard to do his very bes
in the prosecution OF the shipbuildine
programme will be a genius"
Steady Stream of Posters.
william S. Denison & Co. represent
ing the New York Life Insurance Com
pany. has donated to the United State,
Shipping Board the use OF a suite Of
Offices on the sixth floor OF THE Sun
storing OF finished posters until suct
= time as the board Of Judges makes itI
awards of prizes.
Posters are being received at THE SUn
once in Hoodly numbers each day
rush Of posters from distant points Is ex
peoted in the near future. The contes
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