Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 201, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 September 1917 — HOW SHE DOES HER BIT [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

HOW SHE DOES HER BIT

Anxious to do her bit. and make it the most valuable deed she is capable of rendering the nation, Miss Lucille Patterson, a twenty-three-year-old artist: of prominence, ts-Aevoting her artistic talent to war work. She is now at work on a gigantic service poster for the National League for Women’s Service, and to paint it she has to work on a scaffold high above the busy throngs in the street below. poster is 20 feet high and will take the patriotic young artist at least three days to finish her task. It depicts a modern Joan of Arc holding aloft a banner and leading an army of American women in various necessary branches of the service in aid of their country. The poster will appear on the “busiest corner in New York.” The use of the billboard at Forty-second street and Fifth avenue was donated to the league.