8 NORTH SHORE BREEZE and Reminder 
A Militia of Patriotic American Women 
This is the Object of a New Movement to be Given Birth in New York City Within a Few 
Days---Mrs. John Hays Hammond the Instigator 
LILLIAN McCANN 
RS. Joun Hays Hammonp has mothered many be- 
nevolent enterprises in her lifetime. At this crucial 
period in our ‘history, she and Miss Elizabeth Hammond, 
a sister of John Hays Hammond, are giving up all the 
pleasures of a summer on the North Shore to build up 
a “militia of patriotic American women” that will be per- 
manent and who “will be prepared for such service as 
women can render toward national needs.” 
Mrs. Hammond explains that they are not: supplant- 
ing any society. Their ‘‘object shall be to supply necessi- 
ties to the men at the front, and in mobilization camps ; 
to furnish needed assistance to families of soldiers in 
the way of work or relief; to furnish hospital supplies 
to the Red Cross and other war relief agencies, and to 
create and develop in the United States a Militia of Pa- 
triotic American Women, trained and prepared for such 
service as women can render toward national needs.” It 
will be known as the Woman’s American Supply League, 
and will have quarters in a house given by Mrs. Ogden 
Goelet at 4 West 49th street, New York. 
Mrs. Hammond has made it broad and democratic 
in its scope, just as she always makes everything she comes 
in touch with. It is hoped to gather American women 
from the Atlantic to the Pacific into this broad stream of 
work. There are no dues and no overhead charges, the 
work being supported entirely by voluntary contributions. 
Anyone can belong, from the ‘richest to the poorest. It 
is an opportunity for every American woman, without 
class or creed distinctions. Firom the large workrooms 
established in New York there will be entire cooperation 
with the Red Cross and other relief agencies, and the 
families of the soldiers will always find a welcome and 
a place to assist and be of the society, which is really the 
keynote of it all. The officers are Mrs. John Hays Ham- 
mond, president; Mrs. James R. McKee, treasurer, as- 
sisted by Miss Elizabeth Peabody Stewart; Mrs. William 
Kk. Harcourt, who spends the summers at Hawthorne Inn, 
East Gloucester, recording secretary; Mrs. Claude Pinney, 
corresponding secretary. 
Assisting Mrs. Hammond to form the league at this 
psychological moment were Miss Helen Frick of Pride’s 
Crossing, Mmes. William K. Harcourt, Charles E. Hughes, 
Champ Clark, Nelson O'Shaughnessy, Louis Livingston 
Seaman, Lindley M. Garrison and Thomas J. Preston. 
Others on the executive council are Mmes. George W.~ 
Wickersham, Ogden Goelet, Charles Hathaway, William 
Cumming Story, William Randolph Hearst, Charles D. 
Hilles, Lewis B. Woodruff, Harry Payne Whitney, James 
Speyer and Henry W. Taft. 
Mrs. Hammond and Miss Hammond left “Lookout 
Hill,” their Gloucester home at Fresh Water Cove, Tues- 
day afternoon, for New York, to spend ten days in special 
work for the society. Mrs. Hammond has not been on 
the Shore long, having remained in New York organizing 
the work, while the family had come on to their summer 
home. She will be making constant trips all season to 
the headquarters. The North Shore is fortunate in having 
two such prominent residents as Mrs. Hammond and Miss 
Helen Frick, who, through their prominence socially 
and benevolently, are linking the Shore with the origin of 
this “militia of patriotic American women,” pledged to 
help from the tiniest gift to the greatest. 
War Notes. 
The end of Mexic War no man can see; 
Better to cut out force and try diplomacy. 
Tfie surest antidote for war’s alarm— 
A peaceful heart and a strong arm. 
War has taught, 
That in ourselves our safety must be sought 
And by ourselves our freedom must be wrought. 
Much may depend 
On how the war shall end— 
‘The issue of the fight 
[In a new day or in a darker night. 
A nation without power must submit, 
Yet grit is sometimes overmatched by wit. 
Courage sans Science scarcely will avail 
And bravery unprepared will surely fail. 
War settles differences by force of might, 
Not by a fair arbitrament of right. 
And might again breeds -~war 
To end again in fight. 
Weakness or strength make not for lasting peace ; 
How then shall warfare cease? 
Not until Brotherhood increase. 
—JosepnH A. Torrey. 
July 21, 1916. 
43 
St 
