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Show WO KNEW FIELD ONE MILLION STRONG, SHE 13 READY TO BOOM THE FOURTH LIBERTY LOAN. HER FORCES ALL MOBILIZED Remarkably Success in th Three Previous Loans Despite Unfamiliar-ity Unfamiliar-ity With National Finance Organization Organ-ization Reaches Every City and Village. Vil-lage. Under the banner of the fourth Liberty Lib-erty loan are enlisted one million women. wom-en. Like soldiers at attention they await the coming drive, ready to talk bonds and sell bonds and buy bonds. Ever since the first bugle call sounded the women have been mobilizing their forces. Through the National Woman's Wom-an's Liberty Loan committee new vistas vis-tas of activity were opened to the women of the country and marching through three loans along previously unexplored roads of national finance they have advanced to a significant place in the front lines of government endeavor. In May, 1917, the secretary of the treasury staked his belief in thepa-triotism thepa-triotism and ability of the women of America. At that time he appointed the National Woman's Liberty Loan committee, the first and only executive committee of women in the history of the United States government. Two days after their appointments were made eleven women met and made their plans in the treasury at Washington. Wash-ington. These plans were the inspiration inspi-ration for an organization that has spread all over the country, until today to-day 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 campaign cam-paign should be directed toward general gen-eral aid in the districts rather than to Intensive organization work of women. Nevertheless, in the two weeks allotted al-lotted to them, women from coast to coast, rallied to the colors. In this short time the women in the New York district raised more than eight millions of dollars; the women of Pittsburgh raised one-third of that city's large subscription, excluding cor-Iorations; cor-Iorations; New England's hastily gathered group of women swelled the 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 men buying Liberty bonds. The original plan of the committee had to meet two conditions. The federal fed-eral reserve districts were the unit of financial organization but the st.-'ea were the unit of the women's organizations. organi-zations. These two had to be correlated. cor-related. Hundreds of Thousands Are Helping. To accomplish this two sets of chairmen chair-men were appointed, twelve to the various federal reserve districts and 49 to the states and the District of Columbia. The federal reserve chairmen chair-men are regarded as ambassadors to the federal reserve banks rather than organization promoters. Under the direction di-rection of the state chairmen, the national na-tional organization has been evolved, so that in the second loan sixty thousand thou-sand women were working as fiscal agents of the government, and in the third loan over five hundred thousand women were augmenting subscriptions. This new field of endeavor has revolutionized revo-lutionized the American women. With one million women making house-to-house canvasses, working in booths in department stores, making mtomobile campaigns, and talking bonds from every ev-ery street corner, the old idea has been eliminated that the American woman is a pampered, parasitic pet. The machinery of the National Woman's Liberly Loan committee is already in action for the fourth Liberty Lib-erty loan, and in every federal reserve district and in every state the million workers stand ready to fusillade with their energy and patriotism the ammunition ammu-nition stores of wealth for the fighting men of the nation. |
