There is no difficulty in getting women to work together in our country.  We have a link in our Roll of Honor that is more unifying than any words or arguments or appeals can be.  Our women of every rank of life are closely drawn together.

The appeal to women is to organize for National Service and to realize that work of national importance is likely not to be at all important work.

The women in important places in all our countries will be few in proportion, but the struggle will be won in the Nation, as in the Army, by the army of the myriads of faithful workers faithfully performing tasks of drudgery and quiet service—­and a realization of this is the greatest need.

Sticking to the work is of supreme importance.  We do not want people who take up something with great enthusiasm and drop it in a few months.  Nothing is achieved by that.

The good organizer sees her workers do not “grow weary in well doing.”

Another important work in organization is to prevent waste of material, effort and money, by co-ordination whenever possible, though I should say, as a broad principle, co-ordination should not be carried to the point of merging together kinds of work that make a different appeal for work and money and require different treatment and knowledge and powers.  The best results are reached by securing concentration of appeal and organization on one big issue and getting the work done by a group directly and keenly interested in the one big thing and with enthusiasm for it and knowledge of it.

In the personnel of committees and their composition our women have made it a definite policy to secure the appointment of women to all Government and National Committees on which our presence would be useful and on which we ought to be represented and we always prefer committees of men and women together, unless it be for anything that is distinctly better served by women’s committees.

There is one pitfall in organization into which women fall more readily than men in my experience.  Our instinct as women is to want to make everything perfect.  We instinctively run to detail and to a desire for absolute accuracy and perfection.

This is invaluable in many ways, but in organizing on a big scale may be a serious fault.  There must, of course, be method, order and accuracy, but the great essential to secure in big things is harmonious working—­not to insist on a rigid sameness but to allow for widely divergent views and attitudes and ways of doing things so long as the essential rules are observed.  We should not insist too much on identity in the way of work of different places and districts.  In essentials—­unity; in non-essentials, liberty; in all things, charity—­that might well be the wise organizer’s motto.