The Monticellonian., 1919-04-25
By EDWARD B. CLARK.

By EDWARD B. CLARK.
 Washington.-The women of Wash 'ngton are hard at the preliminary work necessary to complete arrange ments for the Victory loan drive and for putting it through to q successful end in the District of Columbia.
 The wife of the president of the United States has consented to serve as honorary chairman of the Wash ington Woman's Liberty Loan commit tee. Mrs. Wesley M. Stoner will be the active chairman, and under her direction dozens of meetings of the women of the district already have been held with view to arousing warm enthusiasm and to the forming of plans for that simplicity of organ 1 ization which will make for the most effective work.
 Mrs. Charles w Hamlin, wife of member of the federal reserve board, and Mrs. Harriet Blaine Beale, daugh- ter of James c. Blaine, are honorary chairmen of two of the greater district committees charged with the work of expediting preparations for the loan and for making the campaign suc- cess.
 It was feared by some of the women in Washington that the enthusiasm in connection with war loan drives might be on the wane because so much en- ergy was, expended during previous campaigns. Such fears have proved to be without foundation. All the women's clubs of the District of Co., fumbia have responded splendidly to the appeals of Mrs Stoner.
 Women's Clubs All Helping.
 Every club of women in the District of Columbia has named chairman who will conduct the loan activities of the club in connection with the work of the greater district commit tee. Every woman's club in the city of Washington and every organization of whatever kind with which women are connected is hopeful that it will outdo all other clubs in effort and in results. Where there is such rivalry as this in good cause, results of high order always have been obtained.
 The women can be trusted to propose and to put into effect novel and attrac- tive means for arousing the interest of their sisters and to find the readiest means to show them that the properly patriotic place to put money is in the strong boxes of Uncle Sam who will pay interest thereon and give assur- ance that the treasure Is safer than any other strong box of the country.
 In the Liberty loan drives of the past in Washington the women gave the citizens of the city something to think about. For considerable time parts of the capital looked as if a patriotic carnival were in progress. The strong point about this endeavor of the women to raise funds for Uncle sam has been that they have never for one moment allowed any person to think that he or she was being begged for contribution. The fact that the purchase of Liberty loan bonds was a good investment always was impress ed upon the people. but with it there was always the companion statement
 
 duty in a broader sense to the country, hut a duty to the fathers, sons and brothers who had gone across the sea to bear the burden of the fighting.
 Novelties to Be Expected
 It is fully expected that before the Victory loan drive Is ended in the District of Columbia the women of the city again will have given its citizens some strilingly novel things to look on and to think about As yet just what these things are to be no one knows, but there are women all over this town today thinking on plans to make the campaign alluringly attrac- tive, which means plans to hold not only the passing but the continuing attention of men. women and children who need only a little stimulation to induce them to make Uncle Sam their debtor while doing him a proper serv- ice.
 The existence in this town of so many organizations of women helps the cause of the Liberty loan, for 1t is much easier to reach women when they gather together as they do in the clubs In groups once week, or at the out side once a month. to discuss means whereby they can help those who need help and to think of and to talk of the greater affairs of the nation.
 Plenty of Volunteers.
 The war department has asked for 5O.OOO United States volunteers to be used as replacement trops for the army of occupation in Germany and on station In France and else where abroad. The response to the plea for volunteers has been instant.
 Naturally enough. many of the sol diers of the army now fin Germany are anxious to come home. In the main part General Dickman's army of occu- patton is composed of veterans of the firing line in France. They have done their duty in a field of imminent dan