The Special Aid Society of the American Preparedness Movement will hold a meeting in Sanders Theatre this evening at 8 o'clock. Professor Barrett Wendell '77 will preside, and Mr. Brooks Adams '70 will address the meeting. This is the first public meeting to be held in Cambridge in connection with national preparedness, for all other meetings have been held under the auspices of some part of the University.

The Special Aid Society purposes to give the women of this country an opportunity to organize in case of war or any other disaster. The idea is to have all women declare beforehand just what services they would be able to render in time of need, and thus great potential force is secured. These societies would be organized throughout the United States, and a much greater efficacy would be had for women to do their part during national calamities.

The plan was first brought to notice in England where similar societies have been doing valuable work in the present war. The societies there first started in seaport towns to give aid to shipwrecked sailors, and the work was so quickly and so well done, that the war societies turned it into a national movement.