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Show JUMERIGJUI WOMEN PREPMKG FDR WAR Nation-wide Organization Being Formed Under Auspices Aus-pices of Relief Society. By International News Service. NEW YORK, Aug. 10. American women are to be aroused to a realization realiza-tion of the need of immediate preparedness prepared-ness for war and induced to join a nation-wide organization to lend aid to American forces in case of war, through a movement Just started by the Special Relief society, which has been sending kits to the soldiers of Europe. Mrs. Willis Wil-lis m Alexander is president of the society. so-ciety. On the general committee are fifty-nine well-known women of New York City, many of great wealth, including Mrs. John Jacob As tor, Mrs. William Rockefeller, Rocke-feller, Mrs. George Jay Gould, Mrs. Charles M. Oelrichs, Mrs. Peter CooDer-Hewitt, CooDer-Hewitt, Mrs. James Brown Potter, Mrs. T. J. Oakley Rhinelander, Mrs. John A. Logan, Jr., the Duchess de Chaulness and Miss Louise Iselin. At a meeting several members of the society, including Mrs. A. D. B. Pratt. Mrs. John A. LogRn, Mrs. St owe Phelps and Mrs. Vivian Spencer made offers of their summer homes for emergency hospitals hos-pitals if war were declared between the United States and any other country. Already Al-ready the society has prepared specimen kits for the regular and volunteer army and also kits for hospitals and convalescents. |