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circle and gave themselves the name of the Lafayette. Mrs. Ivy Lee was the president of it. They were nice women of the sewing circle type originally. They would never have done anything but make a few layettes for a few people that they knew about if they hadn't been brought into this large organization. We at once saw the possibilities of women who couldn't do anything but sew by hand and would have been alarmed at doing anything else. As the project of Red Cross Home Service, the problem of deserted women, the problem of illegitimate children with no clothes began, we spread out their activities and they made more than layettes. They made layettes for everybody. They made other kinds of clothes. They made of provided clothes for people of devastated areas in this country and other places. They were quite an element in Belgian Relief. By being in this big organization they made their kind of work and their peculiar little secret group of volunteers available to all the rest of us.

Among other things we had to get were absolutely guaranteed loyal people who would read letters of people in Germany to their relatives here. They had to censor them, but they had to read them to them. They used to read the letters that people here were writing to their relatives in Germany. They read them, gave a translation of them to the authorities and assisted with the censorship. Particularly they wrote