| Show fine work on former loans when the first loan was announced the committee decided that the work done by its members during that campaign should be directed toward general aid in the districts rather than to intensive organization work of women nevertheless in tho the two weeks allotted 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 cites large subscription excluding corporations po rations new glands En hastily gathered group of women swelled tho 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 bands tile the original plan of the committee had to meet two conditions the federal reserve districts were the unit of financial organization but the states were the unit of the organizations zat ions these two had to be correlated hundreds of thousands are helping to accomplish this two sets of chairmen were appointed twelve to tho the various federal reserve districts and 49 to the states and the district of columbia the federal reserve chairmen are regarded as ambassadors to the 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 thousand 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 lut ionized tho the american women with one million women making house to house canvasses working in booths in department stores making ruto automobile mobile campaigns and talking bonds from every street corner comer the old idea has been eliminated that the american woman Is s a lampere pampered d parasitic pet the machinery of the national womans comans liberty loan committee is 19 already in action for the fourth liberty loan and in every federal reserve district and in every state tile the million workers stand ready to fusillade with their energy and patriotism the ammunition stores of wealth for the fighting mert men of the tha nation |
