we should have
to withdraw from the war, at least temporarily, until we could
entirely readjust ourselves. One of the things this war is
bringing home to us is that men and women are essentially
partners in an industrial civilization, and by the end of the war
the women will be recognized as partners.

When the Secretary finished Dr. Shaw said: "May we not send a message
to President Wilson and say: 'Mr. President, as you came to our
convention a year ago to fight with us, so we come now to fight with
you. As you have kept your pledge of loyalty to us, so we shall keep
our pledge to you. We are with you in this world struggle.'" The
convention enthusiastically endorsed the message. Other speakers were
Mrs. McAdoo and Mrs. Bass--Financing the War; Miss Martha Van
Rensselaer, department of Home Economics, Cornell University--Food and
the War; Miss Jane Delano--The Red Cross and the War; Mrs. Laidlaw,
Mrs. Louis F. Slade--Women's War Service in New York; Dr. Shaw,
chairman Woman's Committee of the National Council of Defense. Mrs.
McAdoo, daughter of President Wilson and wife of the Secretary of the
Treasury, said that she was a resident of New York State and a voter
and that women were making a great fight for democracy but the thought
which should now be first in the minds of all of them was how to win
the war. She described briefly her work as chairman of the Women's
Committee of the Liberty Loan and told of its wonderful success in
raising millions of dollars. Mrs. Bass, the only woman member of the
War Savings Committee, added an earnest appeal to women to help
finance the war, and the other speakers on their several topics raised
the meeting to a high level of patriotic enthusiasm. In a stirring
address Dr. Shaw showed what the country expected of women at this
critical time, saying:

We talk of the army in the field as one and the army at home as
another. We are not two armies; we are one--absolutely one
army--and we must work together. Unless the army at home does its
duty faithfully, the army in the field will be unable to carry to
a victorious end this war which you and I believe is the great
war that shall bring to the world the thing that is nearest our
hearts--democracy, that "those who submit to authority shall have
a voice in the government" and that when they have that voice
peace shall reign among the nations of men.

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