Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 258, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 November 1918 — High Tribute Paid to American Women for Wonderful War Work [ARTICLE]

High Tribute Paid to American Women for Wonderful War Work

By MISS HELEN FRAZER.

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The American women are wonderful, and it * a pity our people know eo little of what they are doing. Do you know, for example, that there are 5,000,000 American women engaged in war work, that their Red Cross supplies work is simply admirable, that their war savings organization has raised a third of the Liberty loan ? Do people here understand that ever since America came in, and even before, millions of American women voluntarily stinted themselves of beef, flour and wheat in order to save it for us ? ( They feel that this war for the first time in history is a woman’s war as well as a man’s war. lam returning to the flnited States for another aeries of conferences in the autumn. The more the women of the two nations understand one another the better it will be for us. It was • man’s work that'separated Great Britain and America in the old days. It is for the women now to bring them together again.