Show MILLION STRONG SHE READY TO BOOM THE FOURTH LIBERTY LOAN HER FORCES ALL MOBILIZED remarkable in th chri previous loans despite ity with national finance organ reache every city and all lage under the banner of the fourth lib arty loan are enlisted one million boio en like soldiers at attention ther await the coming drive ready to talk bonds and sell bonds and buy bonds bance the first bugle call sounded the women have been mobilizing thelt forces through the woo ans liberty loan committee new vistas of activity were opened to th women of the country and marchl nr through three loans along previously unexplored roads of national fidanc they have advanced to a significant place in the front lines of government endeavor in may 1917 the secretary of th treasury staked his belief in the pa and ability of the women of america at that time he appointed the national woman a liberty loaa committee the firs and only committee of women in the history of the united states government two day after their appointments made eleven women met and mad their plans in the treasury at wash ington these plans were the insel ration for an organization that ha spread all over the country until today it reaches into every city every town every village and hamlet and crossroads fine work on former loans when the first loan was announced the committee decided that the work done by its members during that cam palan should be directed toward gen oral aid in the districts rather than to intensive organization work of women nevertheless in the two weeks al blotted to them women from coast to coast rallied to the colors in ehlt short time the women in the hew york district raised more than eight millions of dollars the women of pittsburgh raised one third of that cites large subscription excluding corporations po rations bew england s hastily gathered group of women swelled th bulk of the returns and the women of southern california outdid the rest of the country by establishing a ratio of seven women to every three me buying liberty bonds the original plan of the committe had to meet two conditions the federal reserve districts were the unit of financial organization but the state were the unit of the women s these two had to be correlated hundred of are helping to accomplish this two sets of chairmen were appointed twelve to the various federal reserve districts and 49 to ahr and the district ft columbia the federal reserve chairmen are regarded as ambassadors federal reserve banks rather than organization promoters under the direction of the state chairmen the national organization has been evolved so that in the second loan sixty thou sand women were working as argenta of the government and in the third loan over five hundred women were augmenting subscriptions this new field of endeavor has revolutionized lut ionized the american women with one million women making house to house canvasses working in booths in department stores making campaigns and talking bondar tram every street corner the old idea has been eliminated that the american woman Is a pampered parasitic pet the machinery of the comans womans liberty loan committee H already in action for the fourth liberty loan and in every federal emrict and in aery state the million workers stand ready to fusillade with their energy and patriotism the aniau netlon stores at ealan tor the men of the nation |