rst desire of a loyal American, I nevertheless look upon this as the
beginning of the recognition by the country of the service and loyalty
of women, and above all that the part women are called upon to take in
times of war is recognized as equally necessary in times of peace.
This departure on the part of the national government through the
President and Secretary of War gives the greater promise of the time
near at hand when every citizen of the United States will be esteemed
a government asset because of his or her loyalty and service rather
than because of sex."

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Dr. Shaw was a valued member of the executive committee of the League
to Enforce Peace, under whose auspices she was making the tour with
former President Taft and President Lowell of Harvard University, and
it sent her a transcript of her speech to revise for publication. This
she did on the last Sunday of her life and the committee prepared tens
of thousands of copies of it for circulation. It was entitled What the
War Meant to Women and mere extracts can give little idea of its
strength and beauty. After speaking of the Woman's Committee of the
Council of National Defense, the Peace Treaty and President Wilson's
declaration that the United States did not want any material advantage
out of the war, she ended:

While Mr. Wilson declared we want nothing out of the war, I said
in my own heart: "It may be that we want nothing material out of
the war, but, oh, we want the biggest thing that has ever come to
the world--we want Peace now and Peace forever." If we cannot get
that peace out of this war what hope is there that it will ever
come to humanity? Was there ever such a chance offered to the
world before? Was there ever a time when the peoples of all
nations looked towards America as they are looking to-day because
of our unselfishness in our dealings with them during the war? We
have not always been unselfish but we have been in this war.

The war is over as far as the fighting is concerned but it is
only begun as far as the life of the people is concerned. What
would there be of inspiration to them to come back to their
ruined homes and build up again their cities if within a few
years the same thing could be repeated and homes destroyed and
cities devastated, the people outraged and made slaves as they
have been?

Men