The evening world. Newspaper, June 24, 1918, Page 14

¥ ES the mustering in of @ huge industrial army of women, | } MONDAY, JUNE 24, 1918 “When Men Go a-Warring | Women Must Go to Work,” | Says Harriot Stanton Blatch Woman-Power of America Must Be Mobilized, as It Is in! England and France, and Do Its Full Part in Winning the War by Shouldering Its Share of the Industrial Burdens. By Marguerite Mooers Marshall Copyright, 10.5. te The Prone Publishing Go, (The New York Brening World), “ec MERICAN women have bogun to go over the top. They are going | ry up the scaling-ladder and out into All Man's Land. When men go a-warring women go to work.” Mrs. Harriot Stanton Blatch, daughter of Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and | Derseif one of the most intelligent and balanced of American feminists, thus epigrammatically summarizes the war service of our; women in her new and stimulating book, “Mobilizing Woman-Power.’ It is brought out by the Woman's Press| of the Y. W. C. A., one of the organizations of women which hos given itself most wholeheartedly and effective- ly to the business of winning the war, “Mobilizing Woman-Power” is a call for feminine volunteers for the home trenches, At the same time, Mrs. Blatch makes a logical, earnest, excellently written ap- peal to those in command of the national resources for | Before she wrote her book she conducted a survey, on the ground, of how | Great Britain and France sre using their women, and she learned, in her ) own phrase, “how Germany {s working as one man and one woman to ‘win the war.” ur women must work as the ES {it i# sought for them by women of | leisure or by union oMcials who are | en are working in Europe, _ told me in her home at No. 15 West) no longer shop or factory workers. | § Mat Street. “They must work,” she|On the one hand, these women de- | q led incisively, “if we are not to be} Mand equal pay for equal work; on! ana the othe y weck Bl i oud Weesic go loading alone other, they seck to surround | bee : women with such exceptional condi- | jes they have done In te past, We) cons that they cannot do work equa! | sball go under : toun| ¢0, that of men, } “America is facing a tremendous! «phere must be a de stb ° tand| Yabor shortage,” Mrs. Blatch con- sega lari Against the movement to class to- vic! “ een! tinued, with conviction. “I have seen! seiner women and children in devie.| Tr re \Goadz ‘Dress in old gold velours de laine intee cps ‘collar and cuffs of Hudson seal, Advanced Paris Models for Autumn Dresses \FLAT SEMI-FITTED BACKS WITH TRIMMED FRONTS, FULNESS AT THE HIPS, HIGH COLLARS, LOW OR NORMAL WAIST LINE, DISTINCTIVE FEATURES IN NEWEST DESIGNS FOR FALL WEAR. velours de laine, with panel effect. AY Walt a \\\ Dress in plain jand , checked Gray green duvetyne on rose trimmed with skunk fur. In- teresting feature is three-tier spiral cut in front and double basque at back. * MONDAY, JUNE 24, ‘Little Stories From the Movies The Violin of M’steur 1918 Featuring Clara Kimball Young.and Etienne Girardot. | THE LITTLE FEET OF YVONNE TWINKLED SO FASCINATINGLY | HER DANCING CLASS HAD MANY PUPILS, The Evening World to-day publishes th t of a series of motion Picture stories in the synopsis form accepted by producers and dirce- tors as best for authors to use in submitting their storics to the studios. WILLIAM ADDISON LATHROP cessful motion picture playwrights of to-day ttle Stories From the Movies” is a | collection of several of his synopses sn exactly the form in which they were submitted to the studios, All ha 8 one of the most su ¢ been produced as motion pic. | ture plays, and each one featured some screen star with whose acting |) many attempts to camouflage it 1D) ing industrial safeguards, Our women | you are probably familiar ' must realize that they are grown up. | | By Permission of Britton Publishing Company) fours and conditions of labor should ili 1 | Ba lGiads} fale 40 Goward; teint By William Addison Lathrop. } jand women; and if one sex is to be | HEN Pere Gerome bent his fine, classic old face over his violin and | ae Bia meee E es broad played “The Last Rose of Summer,” anybody would stop to listen. j think special protection should be} And alway » When he played this air, little Yvonne, his daughter | |given to the men! They are few and] | with the “flower face,” would cre@p up beside him in the firelight and lay | |scurce; they will be scarcer. Wrap her curly head on Napoleon's shaggy coat and drink in the melody as tt a them up in cotton-wool! welled out of the bosom of the Cremona, as only maidenhood 4nd eighteen } “T believe in the physical capabili- jcan. Sixty-five years of life—good, pure, sweet life—had given Pere i tes of Women. I should just like tol see men endure the strain of corsets and high beela! Women are put into, and on these things, and then the re- sult is called ‘feminine delicacy.’ As a war measure, women farmers and other workers are learning to dress sensibly. Freed from the handicap of | Jabeurd clothing they will be fit for jerome more than most men get—the love of his friends, the adoration of his daughter and the worship of his dog. If there had been a valet, Pere would probably have been a hero to him, The family purse was somewhat |slim, but the landlord didn't have to wait—long; and as the famuly tastes |were simple and inexpensive, the one extravagance was the Cremona—~ | somebody was always wanting to buy it. Might as well have asked to buy Yvonne, or Napoleon! Mon Dieu! of Yvonne twinkled | y when she danced that | but a and ¢ del anything.” i Ke : : mes Me fs st met dign ase wait feat | 1 asked Mra Blatch how she would iene Digg cop evpalp fe pulse zerstaha boar Sere apart oints eae i |defend the new industrial army of sabiede! ikl ‘hat—and when the old man need of plenty of children, “I don’t notice that the persons who| try to bar women from new wage- earning occupations are making any Special effort to pass a mothers’ pen- 2 law," she answered dryly. “of course I ain « firm believer in such « law. I do not advocate hitching a young mother toa plough. But neither do I think she should be stall-ted Work is a splendid physica! and mep.| tal tonic, and work for pay rejuven- ates the soul State and Federal reports, to argue} that thero agp enough men to do our Work, and that the whole question is | one of proper distribution of workers. | That is the veriest nonsense. “Stop and think that for four years we have tad no immigration, Not only that, but the countries across the @cean have been calling back their gons who were already here. Now we re sending into the army all physi- cally ft men between twenty-one and : thirty-one. We may have to take|Toll |® ‘he Women's Land Army and SEES cer thirtysone. France bas put fae nip aber on the farms, where | @ fifth of her her], .* 2 Dedly needed. We must feed | fighting ranks. *|the world, yet it is harder for the And when our s farmer to procure help than ever be $e as, for example, an accepted prac. |f"* The units of farm women solve thee for the French and British to send eee apiege The loneliness of | Rome many men on furlough at bar-|_ 70) 178 18 Mot felt by these women Vest time Our men unnot be sent) scien Jand prepare home to gather the crop The IAD) aie work “The most impertant new war work for women to do at this moment, from the standpoint of the Nation, is to en- population into Idiers go, they 90 | 1 by a train shipbuilding, uniform-making and so on, If this war lo Jin the fall wi ls five or ten years} & gain in health and Tele de negre dull finished | supple satin, girdle of blue rib- | bon, braided in red and gold, Skirt in triple-tier tunic effect, Closing at the side, Just an Eye Test Your Duty Lies—Your Lamps May Be Dim Enough to Win You Exemption }would look just like hers; and so|held up his tine wt ai “ | women from the couservative's charge would look just ' cand u fine white head and there was a dancing class that/squared his bent shoulders and that their families either would be a brougt 1 tle to add to what) started on a tour of F e to find {minus quantity or would be neglected 4 ey s hat va in re if ance to find |at a time when the State is in special re \ 8 aittl vyonne, Napoleon fell in stupid Pierre, who owned the vine-|behtnd as though he had been wait- yard next door—he waited patiently| ing all these years for this very for Yvonne to name the day. Funny|thing, a indeed it is quite likely he |how fellows like Pierre can always} had get them like Yvonne! That was the household—love, music and peace i} But that was 1870, and the war cloud hovered over France, The war ‘ord and his Iron Chancellor picked | the quarrel; and one day the Prus- ) Sians came before any one was |aware. They came into Pere Gerome's | house, and every one’s else; and a bi | Prussian pushed Pere out of the way and chucked little Yvonne under the Over the dusty roads, through the Pleasant villages, in the quaint old taverns, always toward Paris, west the vagabonds. n strange places, the plain- tive violin called People to their windows, and always the old man eagerly scanned their faces; and always he turned away in disap |Pointment and plodded on—and Napoleo! }) a Weir oav awa: atanal heridk Gan ekibers ‘apoleon fell in behind. Hard years ¢ : |they were for Pere and Napoleon. | And Pere Gerome drew back his good | (°° ' Pe wt hand, with the precious Gre- |S0mehow the centimes didn't fall ie . | Very often; and sometimes they slept | i 4 $600 worth of violin mona in it, and worth ‘aden a xi ip 2 : | went into 600 pieces over Herr Prus-|U"4¢rT @ haystack, .and Pere shared sian's head—and Pere Gerome was a|W!th Napoleon what he had hidden in the pockets of his faded blue coat when he played at the taverns, In Paris it was—a by-street, but clean little street, out near where tt ceases to be Paris, and you get the scent of the grass and the blossoms in the spring. But this was winter— inge pair of | prisoner of war. | Yvonne and Pierre went out the! ‘pack door, and never stopped until] lthey were well on the way to Avig- | non, where next day they clasped | hands and knelt before old Father| W transfer men of drart age trom) 7 Shan Ga Marcet, who had married thelr) winter in the air and winter Ime NON-exsential to essential upations| is workers n both college women R fathers and marie . Say ee heart and Napoleon's. A child came fe admirable, but how many new « nn my seasonal trades They sent ® letter 9 : diay to a window, and Peré paused. A | Cupations must be listed as essential | 00 Na el gk Try Out Your Optics and Maybe You Will Be Able to See Which Way Bourienn 5 child siled at him and Pere taid his by ast year came back done and where they were going to live, and he was to tcll Pere Gerome old, white head against. the violing : | weight : 4 s ‘ . Mt euliie Raatte ee avantae Gaaiichut theta, ara ng 8 ‘ old familiar melody welled longer, every man and every woman} hte is | in the Draft, but Look Hard, Strain a Bit if Necessary, an culist Bae Wont by and Pere did not come, ‘The {Out # Vision came {o hls closed, ttred fo this country must put his or her], | 4 woman 7 ry r * ‘ , eyes. Ho saw again, ever 0 real, Lite hole heurt into some sort of work." |h" OW 2. Urwing her to make Chart May Convey a Message That Will Mean Much to Uncle Sam and imprisonment and illness an | onan meee Over #0 realy Tite Ege ; ‘ y cook # » 7 : y ) q Germany do not form a very pretty |) i A 3 “And yet.” L pointed ou Y : May Even Help to Save Intact the Hearth on Which You Can Keep the jaarpeny £2 Bee Mate Bed | the grolight and’ lsten to. the: Laat almosi a concerted effor k propaganda Mh ; a igh [Rreres 8 ebro: i ,_ | Rose of Summer." And when the MUNTGA out of new jobs, Iieads MPLS, she should be Home Fires Burning—-May Even Save the Home. {tbls Gam fanent shat Bere, got ra throb bad quivers on ihe arte ‘ \ ‘ a i, 16: produde ese Jother violin from a Prussian with| Qn, nreD had quivered | n women’s trades unions are in opp ; - ys rae rtetaoul AROAC lit Kee | al opened his eyes, and lo Bee. There was u Federal labc ‘e-operate with other By Arthur \‘‘Bugs’’) Baer {mneio. 18. Bia ape he r=] Yvonne stood behind the little ekitd, F port the other day condem BY community kitchens | Copyright, 1918, by ‘The Press Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World) buy ea war savings otamp, wm | “ , and big Pierre was hurrying toward J use of women on street railways sremenies in nalng LAT eyes exempt you from the army draft. If your eyepleces are legvnes (an clacens eieli ala aia t atare res emailer ' ike vs an r im him with open arms, 1) 1 Raila toa fs ‘| om stupid, you gum the parade, If your brogans are #0 flat that vee awful day when the Prussians came acetate cy mee ret H Y b uited fe , | The y nev yas suc! ; 4 ei Pia us ford any longer to| you can play ‘em on the graphanooza, you are also exempt from Buy a War Savings Stamp, to town, he hardly recognized the old | union there ien't time oe ee pia € frankly impatient 4 wome simply be-] the draft. I t won't go where you are looking, and flat eyes | mer awar cinema tt se pipas He fon 5 ae one whors he | about it, Only that "Grandpero” eat uf absurd! 1 had much 1 oes en un won't look where you are going. That combination stands Al in the | mn where Little Yvonne was, Few pat [many times in the frelight, with Na- $ © conductor than scrub floor n af What 5 { BUY A WAR SA VINGS STAMP t eset thar ch yan poleon at h € ind many times 1G lean out om than work in ‘ Wer Tonnnot | Bead jeagus - ple aren ered him: old the Big and Little Yvonnes came up a ces wn wo nlp h Sy vayieas i ; He a Anta chat oe ; . , - Neighbor Bourienne and Neighbor |and laid their heads up S faundry, There is no reason on earth |, womis el ce believe Bu ther flat peopers nor crippled arches exempt you from the | BUY A WAR SAVINGS STAMP. |Cailleaux, his lifelong friends, we calial oo while ] @hy the work Is unsuitable for wom: | cconem c pendence “they the | war savings draft, You ean hora into the war savings army wit | ails eee pis rave ea nyed the old song. P: ye Lo stan on, our, ri anew ay “ave 1 . | ? y J ,e ~ y is - —_ eee eee ORT 0 ala ng JPR DAUR, yon: 6 he employment of| ull vet of foolish eyes and @ complete outfit of loose: feet. | BUY A WAR SAVINGS STAMP. |nad fled that day never came back, APT PUPIL. 1 Ge °° a ee cee {e TH 4 } | women will throw men out of work— | The only exemption is a flat bank eccount, | | Seventy, penniless, alone, Alone? |¢¢ ELL, Dinah, how are man's first imp. dealing wit ponte ees ‘ he fi one | Alone you EE ocdes ‘ar aduaun induatey, 6 | oedee w rtain exploded If you can't(see, let the eagle on a silver dollar see for you RUY A WA R SAVIN Cs sta MP. Not multe. he via a me had pi ea W and your new husband : y eories about there being p in Germany was not like th getting along?” i te clean out the women, instead of | iy iibh na belo What difference does \t make {f you have no arch in your No, 14 ual MraMeRR TAT GF Ssivanca anne i As mat : ' 4 eleaning up tr ustr Jed up, What] brogans? You have an arch in your pocketbook that w make a R M | the thick he a but it} 'greeably s'prised in dat man.” been . wpecial protection fe wemen }mu " . Pa a if _ ould con 1 him from the| um. He sho' do, and 1 ain't Women. The working women them © wa on’ ike Here's the eye test for the war savings army Ravearhitl goad ala wat : ane ter hit im but one time. I nevew dates do 101 seek this protection: last woman.” Sn 4 Pick out the line you oan pead. And go tou 1 BUY A WAR SAVINGS STAMP. ety ge font mie ms n uh Os duick as he de,’