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we ought to drop the women out of the title because many of the jobs that we had to do were jobs that required men or where men's organization were in a better position to do it. So we dropped the women out of the title without saying anything about it. It was just the New York Council of Organizations for War Service. You couldn't get into it as an individual, but organizations joined it in a kind of a federation. Then that organization provided volunteers for any kind of work that was regarded is necessary.

Women put forth such a tremendous effort in this organization partly because of their newly recognized status and because they were still in the midst of the fight for recognition of their status - not only political status, but economic and social status. They wanted the right to have something to do about life. There was a general feeling that if you thought you had the right to say something about life, you should contribute as much public service as a man would contribute. I think it was that and a deep-seated patriotism. After all, in every war that anybody had heard about - nobody took much interest in the Spanish-American War - going back as far as the Civil War, the women of the community, so far as the tradition was handed down to us, had done a great deal. They had borne the burden of keeping the home fires burning which was more than just keeping the children well fed. They had cut up their tablecloths, napkins, and everybody else's,