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World War I Song.

As in 1914, U. S. women of means and leisure are by now well mobilized to express their war sympathies, chiefly for the Allies, in tangible ways. Apart from help for Finland, which, being financial for the most part, is run by men, and the nationwide weekly bandage-rolling, diaper-hemming sessions of local Red Cross chapters, there are more than a score of war-relief organizations, mostly headquartered in Manhattan. The time has come when no movie star, foreign or domestic, who knows her publicity onions fails to show her war knitting as well as her knees to the news-camera. Example: British Madeleine Carroll, arriving last week on the Conte di Savoia.

"Bundles for Britain" is a prominent U. S. agency whose products, all knitted, all for the British Navy, are distributed through a London depot supervised by Mrs. Winston Churchill. To date: five and a half tons of bundles. British War Relief Society, Inc., sanctioned by Great Britain's Consul General Godfrey Haggard, sends money, clothing, medical supplies for all the armed forces.

Sympathizers with France appear to outnumber the British specialists. J. P. Morgan's maiden sister Anne sailed last week to supervise the field work of her American Friends of France, Inc., a revival of her American Committee for Devastated France in and after World War I. On Miss Morgan's list of officers are such social lionesses as Mrs. William K. Vanderbilt, Mrs. Ogden Armour of Chicago, Mrs. George A. Crocker, the Misses Elizabeth Perkins, Maude Wetmore and Daisy Fiske Rogers. They send blankets, clothes, ambulances, entirely for civilian relief. Le Paquet au Front--clothes, toilet articles, sweets, tobacco, games for French soldiers at the front--was organized by Mrs. Seton Porter (National Distillers). More than 20,000 paquets worth $5 each have been shipped.

The beauteous Mesdames Ector Munn & Harrison Williams are U. S. chiefs for the pet French war work of the Duchess of Windsor and Lady Mendl: Les Colis de Trianon Versailles (packages and knitting for French soldiers; workroom in John Wanamaker's department store, second floor). The late John D. Rockefeller's heiress (granddaughter), the Marchioness de Cuevas, is a patron for Mrs. David Randall MacIver's American Association for Assistance to French Artists. The Committee of Mercy, Inc., founded in 1914 by the late Elihu Root and August Belmont, has been revived. It helps both French and British civilians with money spent through seven subcommittees. So far raised: $65,000.

On May 10, the Manhattan sympathy front will all push forward together with a grand Allied Ball at the Hotel Astor, organized by Mrs. Howard Dietz, wife of the publicity chief of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.

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