The evening world. Newspaper, February 21, 1918, Page 13

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1918 Women Can Do Men’s Work Unless They Are Forced Superior to Men Physically, but Labor Conditions Must Be 1 7 Women Mg d athe hada WHAT wie DR. MARY Safeguarded and Their Workday Must Not | d Ea Tanase Ce te } Be Over Eight Houra, Says Dr. Mary Halton. By Marguerite Mooers Marshall | Soprright, 1918, by the Press Publirbing Co. (The New York Evening World) OMEN muat not work over right hours a dav Women must not do very hard work before r age of twenty-one, mohing the Women must be protected carefully against indus trial hazards. Women who are doing men's work must not try to do women's work also. Women should not be asked to do work calling for great strain pon the tensile m es 4 With these five exemptions continually borne tn oat mind, women may be drafted fnto any sort of war AFTER DOING A MAN'S WORK work, thinks Dr. Mary Halton, and nelther women Aut DAY SHe Swovcon’r GO nor the next generation will suffer any injury HOME AND DO A WOMANS JOG I had gone to Dr, Halton’s office, at No. 17 Last 88th Street, to ask her how far women ought to go in war work. As the physician of many New York women and the medioal adviser for the Board of Health of some 7,000 mothers and babies, it seemed to me that Dr. Halton was qualified to discuss the possible physic. | strain upon our women of the new Industrial burdens which the war is forcing them to assume. ‘ ANY of the organizations of the City Federation of Women's Clubs are protesting vehemently against the Brown bill, now pend ing before the Legislature In Albany, which would suspend during the war all the laws enacted for the protection of women and children WOMEN UNDER, | TWENTY : Mre. Hilda Mublhauser Richards, Chief of the Women's Division of the SHOULD. NOT - . Department of Labor, has questioned the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Cour Do. HEAVY Cai ‘ \ pany’s policy of keeping women conductors on their feet for twelve wort IN hours a day, and sometimes until 1 or 2 o'clock in the morning The Women’s Trade Union League of New York also is exercised about the conditions of employinent, moral and physteal, for women on street oars and in messenger service But Dr. Halton belleves women may do pretty much anything men may do, provided hours and working conditions are properly safe guarded, and provided the women have not to do another day's work at home after leaving shop or field or railroad yard. “ MEN should have an eight-hour day.” she declared earnesily nd yet so many women are working a six “[ have had a gseat deal of experience among the poor women New York, women who, even before the war, were laboring in shops And I have come to the conclusion that the reason why the buuies o eo many of these women are poisoned before birth by’ fatigue t } ei fs simply because the mothers must cook, wash, clean @ la or for Y, a hours in the tenement before they go to work in the morning and i * aM yt ¥ after they come home at night. It Is the strafn of thelr double job | . , \ 1 he which does the harm \ m-lour day “Even unmarried girls who work downtown owed toh | mother get dinner as soon as they get thelr things oif at night, while their brothers linger in the poolroom at the corner’ The working da la) of the woman employed outside the home can be shortened legally, but WE what are we going to do about the household toil? The old adage ts / > as (rue to-day as it ever was ‘Man's work is (vom sun Py RRA arate ie uexpe dan} WOMEN CAN STAND A FARIA WORK IS SPLENDID IF “ E women the physica! equals of men?” 1 asked Dr. tuiton - AS LONG AS A MAN THEY HAVE REGULAR, HOURD “Women are superior to men, physically, in everything ex cept tensile strength,” she replied. “Women should be exempted fro: work which requires a great deal of heavy lilting and shoving and eee eo If Teacher Were Only Alive more quickly, more dexterously, than men, and their endurance and nerves are stronger “The noise and confusion of a munitions factory have no terrors But She’s Playing Her Celestial Ukelele Now, or She Would Be Able to Tell Us re acl tal SO SEAS ROMERISALY SH merge Lots of Things That Are Puzzling Us These Days She Could Bare the y 4 eno reason why women should not be ‘ - A = : _ ; hp g00d conductors on railways. A healthy, normal woman can stand on | Secret of Why Coal Is Dear, Could Explain the Mysteries of B. R.T, Trans- her feet for inh hours ‘ day without Bureinn } r. Through the age: portation and Unravel the Red Tape in Washinglon Bul She Has Joined she has evolved, as surely as man, into a two-legged animal eas : a, Rt : Mice Aca CVoung woman ierwean twenty aod thirty eka apereio olovators the Ultimate Orchestra, Where Everybody Has a Harp and There Are without injuring themselves. And surely acting as engine wipers o No Second Fiddles. even handling baggage is no harder work for a woman than serubbing ’ on “ r “Ot course, the gallant Anti-Sulfrage Senate Leader, Elon Brown Prone Publishing ¢ i York Evening W pp on to and his friends, must be prevented from having abrogated all the in E LA dana nbers when they were kids in the ded nem t ould t f ta dustrial safeguards women and children have won In this State. Girls ; Redd. to: go: bout geography she 1 t "ar ae must not go to work too young. In a la investigation in England convenient object ' years ago women in the mines who had been vending over and push- | oa ; ing heavy coal cars from childhood were found suffering so badly from | °&# don ; a E ' itd postural defects that they could not stand upright and were almost | that Christopher : ; ; : four-footed animals again wit ur t teact way tr x, wher “Farm work is fine for women, provided the > not keep the h we tund ¥ awful hours imposed upon the average farmer's wife. She works so \ way, in which. the co 1 t all his in " ward much harder than ler husband,” | c should b 4 used a lemon. " 4 35 HEN [ had to tell Dr. Halton of the farmer in my own «malt New | : Hanelnuk cheicat lent iemtened 7 ale A Hampshire village who blandly used to tell his friends, “Well Beare Geten ad aa ‘ I've buried three dear wives, and, praise the Lord, V'll bury a fourth!” ; k shgenoaten us tow a M . f She insisted that story must go in this one. For a lust question : easeiaes I t hes asked her If she thought the morals of our future wives and mothers ee MR Ok a am ® only were going to be injured or subjected to undue strain in iheir new job. tor nad idan wore . t I co) “That cry isa piece of male hysteria,” she laughed. “It emanate ‘ : : trom the men who have an individval or a group fear that somehow v 6 ape TUKS, Rie sloth wit ie | they're going to lose us. It Was conside itfully immoral, sixt , » it laa ee (eo ° yeara ago, for a girl secretary ‘to sta ailiday win wean || Te aneaitl eee Proper Care Makes Shoes Wear Longer. Of course, women can do men’s work Who named it that, anyway? | r al baron wae ‘evr tr ene v a tnt Mem n The Lora didn't.” all Kiaeoniaswere keel Hilal tree | : ; Vhie t ac am 7 ec vo of ‘om nobody is frox a Por 4 tae Why Horses Sleep Standing Up. D {aps ali (narmasnsfahateantalt dae she folley aulileag ORSE® asidom lie down to nce been "foundered" tha f trate perfectly what wa neriy. ‘Woll ft ou sleep. Throughout their ent Up Unass No matter w y ‘ eat essed lives most of them sicep whil curious fact iia elaap she could always find an approy Raver vr a standing on their feet, The reason for|tr ® that ho seems alw nes vas a fine iy, even if she air t 1 n thie is believed to be that the horses |Keep his faculties working. Hix na 1 po laetit are afraid that an insect migat crawi | for instance, keep constantly t ¥ , . . 1 1 i into thelr nostrils, This is a very |ing and he seeme to hear the ‘anti x it uae et Pay ‘ Likely explanation when we consider | noise. Mecause of this, it woud prvi rita 6 AMES , , o . that a horse's nostrils are the most) ably be impossible for a om t ru : eonsitive part of his body, says Pop- enter a stable 4 enought | 0 ning both hin} 1 ular Science Monthly. If the | vent wal y horse | i " L Aud te 1 a could not be removed it could easiiy | 1H ¢ art peeulla H , P mix ke walnuts, pecans and er irritate @ horse to death. Many f They w men to de a r " t he Ht ne ifectu ' feegpes will not lip down because the; than /ush out from the stalls. ! Wt a subject on carts which teacher couldr ma ex are Ww ; drying ing ‘ si o wy To Do Women’s Work Also She Can Do Man’s Work, but Must Not Have a Double Job Thrills in the Escape Of Belgian Fishermen = Beat Movies or F iction: Under Death Sentence by the Germans for Trivial Offenses; Two Escape One Foggy Night ina Leaking Boat, Are Pur- sued by Patrol Boats and an Airplane, Strike a Sub- marine, Are Swept Into a Whirlpool and Fired On. By Bertha Bennett Burleigh ¥ The Prow Publizhing Co. (The New York Evening Work IX weeks ago, before I left London, | was able to get in touch S with 'wo Belgian fishermen, who had lived during the past terrible years along the coast under the German rule. The story f “| of their escape ts one of marvellous good luck and desperation and one listened with amazement to their story aus these men have left their families behind them) j and had suffered frequent imprisonments for honesty of their story, for they were well known to my Belgian friends before this war started. It eRe is impossible also for me to give their names, as the German does not hesitate to visit vengeance on a man's dependents if he cannot get hold of the man himself ‘Two of the men, before their escape, had been sentenced to death, one of them for striking a German soldier who had deliberately gona, out of his way to annoy and taunt him. He lost his temper and before he had realized what he had done he had struck the German, wa he re he was tied by the hands to another prisoner in the same un- happy plls and they riggled and turned to try and find some way of escape, The hefty fisherman saw in one of the corners a large ploughing machine and told the other fellow that if they brought their hands sharply down on one of the blades they could free themselves in this way. It Was a dangerous experiment, both knew ft, but nevertheless they preferred to make a desperate bid for liber shackled hands, brought them down on the glist tas himself, They were going to be shot next morning, They lived in one of the large fishing towns a along the coast (I cannot give the name of the town | trumped-up petty offenses. { can vouch as to thee 1 4 i arrested and thrown into prison, ‘The prison was an old mill, and- ost and, lifting thelr ning blade. They P evered the cords, but one man lost his hand. The fisherman did his ™ best to stop the bleeding, and bound the shattered stump as well as he? could. ‘The arm started to swell and the man became sick through the loss of blood and the pain. He couldn't move and begged the other man to leave him or th ils riflee would have been In vain. Reluctantly, the fisherman was forced to leave him. Three weeks It took him to get back to his home, for he had to hide and sleep in the open fields. Luckily, he added, he knew every blade of grass in the district, otherwise he would have been certainly caught again, When ho arrived home, his wife hid him away in @ little cellar under some bricks and planks HILE, he was there, news came to him that another man, who had been hidden away for two months on top of a large rafter in a house, was going to try and escape by sea with the aid of a fisher- » man and a very leaky boat. The boat they had hidden amid the piles of the old wooden pier, In a kind of aleove, Here, with cement, which was brought by the fisherman who was forced to do riveting work for he Gormans at Ostend, they managed, in the old primitive fashion, to meud They chose for their esea a dark, foggy nigh They crept wooden piles, and crossing from down to the pler; here among th one beam to another, (hey risked death at every step; cowering and clinging to th j reen seaweed stakes, as the sentry paced up 1 With hearts beating and trembling Mmbs. got at last to the place where the boat was hidden, In dragging it and down overhe they made too much noise and were heard by the sentry The game was up, they thought, and they jumped wildly into fh boat, not caring how much noise they made, while the sentry fired rans would find him in the morning and i } ; i at them blindly and spread the alarm, The fog was their ally and they managed to draw away in It, They could hear the alarms going, ment gave way and they had to set to and bail for all they were worth and were going splendidly, when the UDDENLY they heard the hum of the motor bouts which were search= ing for them, seeking to penetrate the dense fog by means of searchlights. They heard the motor boats zigzagging in their course) passing so near that it seemed they could touch them, Fate again erved them unkindly, for a sudden swirl made them loose one of thelr oars and now they had to propel the boat by means of one oar at the stern and use It in much the same asa fish does his tail. They seemed to he making f progress, when they bumped on of a submarine and they slid off again in a burry. Meanwhile, the ns were making strenuous efforts to find them, and had sent out aeroplanes in search of them. One aeroplane pilot found them, Gern and, swooping down, attempted to use bis machine gun. But he was ra ng fast, passed them and by the time he had turned round to pick them up again they were once more swallowed up in the for Pressing steadily ahead, before they know where they were they wera drawn [nto a whirlpool near Zeebrugge Harbor. Round and round they spun, dizaily caught in a vortex from which tt seemed impossible One of the men completely ost rve, and er hrieked and D 1 bottou t he ! 1 while the other f Q 1 away ad ‘ { hear them and were afra pproach f na ell, but they Li 1 nfte with mach hot touched them, th i} t wa id and id to ball hard an ¢ 4 mae ey ruggied hirlpool, wt he G ‘ ening And then, just as if been a cork, t 4 t t wirling water nto with the fog ¢ ‘ ‘ and thicke In early hours of the me g they fo elves in the 1, with not @ tofa f re, and not ght. They 1a oar, and toward midday } t ted a ship. 7 1 1ow what to do; they were t he boat might be German. Finally they decided to signal to’ and if necessary to ght f th ves. 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