Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1918-06-28
KEEP THE LOYALTY
LINE UNBROKEN

The Women of ehe American Army.
organized as a division Of the Fed
eral Food Administration for New
Mexico, is composed Of the women Of
blood kin to men in military service
The American women have a keen
appreciation of the high stakes for
which the men are called upOn to
fight, their homes, their women-kind.
and their ideals of free government
Knowing these things, they are Civ
ing, not only honor, but active aid
to those men who are fulfilling the
part of real man, in making the
world safe for women and children.
American women have always been
quick to honor their soldiers. The
Daughters of the American Revolu-
tion is today a living tribute to men
OF revolutionary fame. Every army
IN the past has had it's allied organi-
zatiohs Of women, showing il to be
psychologically inevitable that the
American army fighting for the free
dom Of the world, in this, the great
estof all liberty wars, should be hon
ored by its women of blood kin, as
our armies in the past have been
honored.
The Federal Food Administrator
for New Mexico foresaw this move
ment, and discerning it's capacities
for infinite service, allied its power
with the Food Administration by ap-
pointing state recruiting officer, and
having the first unit, Company A,
First New Mexico Regiment, Women
of the National Army, organized at
Albuquerque, October 8, 1917. We
maintained headquarters at the
Hoover demonstration booth in Pa
triotic hall all during Patriotic Week
The name has since been changed to
Women Of the American Army, be-
cause the term american" is all
inclusive, and is applied to our whole
military force
The plan is to organize companies,
form regiments. state division and
arrange for the extension Of the
Women Of the American Army as a
national organization throughout the
United States. We have enlisted to
put New Mexico "over the top" as
the originator of this great patriotic
organization for women.
There are now eight companies;
located at Albuquerque, Deming,
Lordsburg. Silver City, LRs Cruces,
Magdalena, Socorro and Roswell.
These companies are obeying the in
structions and carrying out the poll
cies of the Federal Food Administra-
ton in ways best suited to the indi-
yiduRl communities. The state re-
cfIiiting officer has Travelled over
three thousand miles in behalf of this
organization and has done much re-
cruiting work that will bear fruit in
new companies throughout the stele.
The organization is giving direct
service to our soldiers from New
Mexico.
True aid to the American military
forces at this time is to keep the
loyalty line unbroken that the battle
line may hold.
These women realize that every
ounce Of food produced is an ounce
of mercy to those stricken people, our
brave allies, who so long have held
the front line for us, and every OUNCE
of food saved is an ounce of ammunk
tiOn for our own men, who, in the
mud and blood of the trenches, midst
the blast of the artillery and the hail
of bullets. looking across the deso'a-
ton of No-Man's-Land, are proving
daily by self-denial. self-sacrifice and
self-renunciation, that "greater love
hath na man than this, that a man
lay down his life for his friends" and
we are his friends.
Composed of the wives, mothers,
sisters, daughters and other women
of blood kin to men in military serv-
ice, the Women of the American
Army will justify it's name by its |
work, and will fulfill the high pur-
poses for which it is pledged; namely, /
to aid the American military forces !
during the world war, and to per- !
petuate their glory ever after.
To those women whose mon are 1
forth to victory on she'll /
torn battle fronts, who are plotting [
our aviation forces to the supremacy /
of the air and establishing our navy /
in the freedom Of We seas; TO these /
women who have given the highest /
made the supreme sacrifice, /
paid the blood tax from their own |
families, the Federal Food Admins |
tration of New Mexico deems it an
honor 10 offer this new patriotic or
the "Women Of the Amer
lean Army"
For further particulars address
MRS. ARTHUR A. KELLAM,
State Recruiting Officer,
Federal Food Administration Office,