the object of the nlws was to coordinate and standardize the work of women of america along lines of constructive patriotism; to develop the resources, to promote the efficiency of women in meeting their every-day responsibility to home, to state, to nation and to humanity; to provide organized, trained groups in every community prepared to cooperate with the red cross and other agencies in dealing with any calamity-fire, flood, famine, economic disorder, etc., and in time of war, to supplement the work of the red cross, the army and navy, and to deal with the questions of "woman's work and woman's welfare." the slogan of the organization was "for god, for country, for home."