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Show Record War Bond Sales Is Goal i Of Women At War Week Nov. 22 WASHINGTON, D. C. America's women in the cities and on the farms in war factories and in their homes are determined to make Women At War Week the greatest War Bond selling effort since Pearl Harbor. Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt sounded the keynote for the Treasury Department's Depart-ment's Women At War Week, Nov. 22 to 28, with an appeal to women to save I ' . f . ! 7. r ; on "little things" to provide pro-vide money for War Bonds. "We women want to ' work hard, we want to be a part of this strenuous period because unless we are, we will not be able to face the men when they return and claim our share of the future responsibility respon-sibility for building a peaceful world," the First Lady declared. The overall direction of Women At War Week rests with the Women's Section of the War Savings Staff under the leadership of Miss Harriet Elliott, Associate Field Director, and Mrs. Henry Morgen-thau, Morgen-thau, Jr., Chief of the Special Activities Unit. From coast to coast women in every community commu-nity have made plans for torchlight parades, fashion fash-ion shows, teas, rallies, store window displays, Stamp and Bond booths, Durinp Women At War Week volunteer War Bond saleswomen will wear an armband similar to the one being attached to the sleeve of Mrs. Henry Morgen-thau, Morgen-thau, Jr., by Miss Harriet Elliott. pageants, civic sings, balls and mardi gras. In each locality administration of the one week drive rests with the local War Savings Committee which has worked out activities adapted to their areas. Mrs. Morgenthau, in a special message for Women At War Week, declared de-clared that the spirit of America's pioneer women lives today more strongly than ever. "The average American woman began to rise to new heights on Sunday, Dec. 7, 1941," Mrs. Morgenthau said. "This winter the average American woman will be spending less in order to save more to invest in War Bonds and Stamps. She will not, please God, ever have to fire a gun or fly a bomber. But she will, please God, always do everything she can to help buy anything and the best of everything that fires or flies or floats in this terrible war." I ::v I 1 I vift -a: . ' j |