off. If we have to eat rye flour to send wheat across
the sea they must stop smoking to send smokes across the sea.

There is no end to the things that women are asked to do. I know
this is true because I have read the newspapers for the last six
months to get my duty before me. The first thing we are asked to
do is to provide the enthusiasm, inspiration and patriotism to
make men want to fight, and we are to send them away with a
smile! That is not much to ask of a mother! We are to maintain a
perfect calm after we have furnished all this inspiration and
enthusiasm, "keep the home fires burning," keep the home sweet
and peaceful and happy, keep society on a level, look after
business, buy enough but not too much and wear some of our old
clothes but not all of them or what would happen to the
merchants?... We are going to rise as women always have risen to
the supreme height of patriotic service....

The Woman's Committee of the Council of National Defense now asks
for your cooperation, that we may be what the Government would
have us be, soldiers at home, defending the interests of the
home, while the men are fighting with the gallant Allies who are
laying down their lives that this world may be a safe place and
that men and women may know the meaning of democracy, which is
that we are one great family of God. That, and that only, is the
ideal of democracy for which our flag stands.

The National Anti-Suffrage Association took this time to hold its one
day's annual convention in a Washington hotel and re-elect for
president Mrs. James W. Wadsworth, Jr., wife of the New York Senator,
and elect as secretary Mrs. Robert Lansing, wife of the Secretary of
State. Mrs. Wadsworth at this time sent to the members of Congress and
circulated widely a pamphlet entitled Consider the Facts, in which she
charged the suffragists with being pacifists and Socialists and
asserted that the recent New York victory was due to the Socialist
vote. Miss Mary Garrett Hay, who was chairman of the campaign
committee in New York City, where the victory was won, expressed her
opinion from the platform in this fashion:

Senator Wadsworth and his wife announced that they weren't going
to give any entertainments till the war was over, nevertheless
they are dining tonight the Senators and Representatives who are
opposed