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Show Women Who Worked for Liberty Loan No 1 Mrs. James JL Curtis. No. 2 Mrs. Francis Buirall Hoffman. WOMEN prominent in philanthropic, social, political, professional and artistic circles have done their bit, and have done it well, for the Liberty Loan. The committee, of which Mrs. John T. Pratt is chairman, was one of the best organized bodies women have formed together for the furtherance of any cause. Nearly all arc practical workers, and their team work has caused the men's committee to realize that a good deal of the success of floating both the first and second bond issues has depended not a little on the activities of the members of the Woman's Committee of the Liberty Loan. With the idea of buving the committee representative of not one class or opinion, but of woman's citizenship, Mrs. Pratt has had Interested in the work women of widely different activities. The following list of some of the most pt'omiuent and active workers shows the tremendous field the group covered. Mrs. James F. Curtis was an ardent worker in behalf of the Liberty Loan. Her husband, who was Assistant Secretnry of the Treasury, is now the secretary of the Second Federal Reserve Bank. Mrs. Henry P. Davison, wife of the head of the Red Cross, is assisting her husband in that special branch of war work. Mrs. Daniel Guggenheim is the wife of the "copper king" and was one of the most active members of the last Liberty Loan Committee. She raised several hundred thousand dollars last spring at a Liberty Loan meeting held at her home. In Great Neck, L. I., and obtained signatures for bonds amounting to $107,000 for the second Liberty Loan. Mrs. Guggenheim is on the board of many Jewish as well as non-sectarian philanthropies., philan-thropies., Mrs. Francis Burrall Hoffman Is the president of the National Organization of Catholic Women. She was appointed by Cardinal Farley as president of the Woman's Auxiliary of the National Catholic War Council. She is a woman of unusual executive ability and capucity'for rinauce. She raised half a million dollars in the first Liberty Loan campaign. |