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This is a call for man-power in addition to that suggested by the Fuel Administrator to the effect that lack of coal is partly lack of cars and that "back of the transportation shortage lies labor shortage." An order was sent out by the Director General of Railways, soon after his appointment, that mechanics from the ...	Mobilizing Woman-Power	Blatch, Harriot Stanton	1856	1940	['en']	24	{'World War, 1914-1918 -- Women'}	PG10080
The Labor Administration announced on its creation that its "policy would be to prevent woman labor in positions for which men are available," and one of the deputy commissioners of the Industrial Commission of the State of New York declared quite frankly at a labor conference that "if he could, he would exclude women...	Mobilizing Woman-Power	Blatch, Harriot Stanton	1856	1940	['en']	24	{'World War, 1914-1918 -- Women'}	PG10080
The farmer in his turn does not find himself part of the wider relations that attract and support the manufacturer. Crops are not grown on order. The marketing is as uncertain as the weather. The farmer could by higher wages attract more labor, but as the selling of the harvest remains a haphazard matter, the venture ...	Mobilizing Woman-Power	Blatch, Harriot Stanton	1856	1940	['en']	24	{'World War, 1914-1918 -- Women'}	PG10080
Our winning of the war depends upon the full use of the energy of our entire people. Every muscle, every brain, must be mobilized if the national aim is to be achieved. III MOBILIZING WOMEN IN GREAT BRITAIN [2] In no country have women reached a mobilization so complete and systematized as in Great Britain. This mob...	Mobilizing Woman-Power	Blatch, Harriot Stanton	1856	1940	['en']	24	{'World War, 1914-1918 -- Women'}	PG10080
Women are dock-laborers, some seven thousand strong. Four thousand act as patrols and police, forty thousand are in banks and various financial houses. It is said that there are in Great Britain scarce a million women--and they are mostly occupied as housewives--who could render greater service to their country than t...	Mobilizing Woman-Power	Blatch, Harriot Stanton	1856	1940	['en']	24	{'World War, 1914-1918 -- Women'}	PG10080
What more thrilling example of courage and forethought has been shown than by the Scottish Women's Hospitals in putting on the western front the first X-ray car to move from point to point near the lines? It but adds to the appeal of the work that those great scientists, Mrs. Ayrton and Madame Curie, selected the equi...	Mobilizing Woman-Power	Blatch, Harriot Stanton	1856	1940	['en']	24	{'World War, 1914-1918 -- Women'}	PG10080
If Britain has a lesson for us it is an all-hail to non-official societies, an encouragement to every idea, a blessing on every effort which has behind it honesty of purpose. Great Britain's activities are as refreshingly diversified as her talents. They are not all under one hat. In the training for new industrial op...	Mobilizing Woman-Power	Blatch, Harriot Stanton	1856	1940	['en']	24	{'World War, 1914-1918 -- Women'}	PG10080
The part-time workers in a locality are obtained by the wife of the squire or vicar acting as a volunteer registrar. Many of these part-time workers register to do the domestic work of the lusty young village housewife or mother while she is absent from home performing her allotted task on a nearby farm. The full-time...	Mobilizing Woman-Power	Blatch, Harriot Stanton	1856	1940	['en']	24	{'World War, 1914-1918 -- Women'}	PG10080
But it must not be supposed that the magnificent service of British women, devoted, efficient and well-organized from top to bottom, realized itself without friction, any more than it will here. There were certainly two wars going on in Great Britain for a long time, and the internal strife was little less bitter than...	Mobilizing Woman-Power	Blatch, Harriot Stanton	1856	1940	['en']	24	{'World War, 1914-1918 -- Women'}	PG10080
The strongest element in the women's trade unions takes the same stand. The great rise in the employment of women is not regarded as a "war measure," and all the suggestions made to meet the hardships of readjustment, such as a "minimum wage for all unskilled workers, men as well as women," are based on the idea of th...	Mobilizing Woman-Power	Blatch, Harriot Stanton	1856	1940	['en']	24	{'World War, 1914-1918 -- Women'}	PG10080
To meet the threatening rebellion, a Health of Munition Workers Committee under the Ministry of Munitions was appointed to "consider and advise on questions of industrial fatigue, hours of labor and other matters affecting the physical health and physical efficiency of workers in munition factories and workshops." On ...	Mobilizing Woman-Power	Blatch, Harriot Stanton	1856	1940	['en']	24	{'World War, 1914-1918 -- Women'}	PG10080
While the friction in the ranks of industrial women workers was still far from being adjusted, the government met its Waterloo in the contest with medical women. The service which they freely offered their country was at first sternly refused. Undaunted, they sought recognition outside the mother country. They knew th...	Mobilizing Woman-Power	Blatch, Harriot Stanton	1856	1940	['en']	24	{'World War, 1914-1918 -- Women'}	PG10080
The first woman I met on my last visit to England upset my expectation of finding that war pushed women back into primitive conditions of toil, crushed them under the idea that physical force rules the world, and made them subservient. I chanced upon her as she was acting as ticket-puncher at the Yarmouth station. She...	Mobilizing Woman-Power	Blatch, Harriot Stanton	1856	1940	['en']	24	{'World War, 1914-1918 -- Women'}	PG10080
There was no discipline in the pension system. No work was required. The case of a girl I met in a country town was common. She was working in a factory earning eleven shillings a week. A day or two later I saw her, and she told me she had stopped work, as she had "married a soldier, and 'e's gone to France, and I get...	Mobilizing Woman-Power	Blatch, Harriot Stanton	1856	1940	['en']	24	{'World War, 1914-1918 -- Women'}	PG10080
Perhaps of greater significance than just how separation allowances are being spent is the fact that women have discovered that their work as housewives and mothers has a value recognized by governments in hard cash. It makes one speculate as to whether wives in the warring nations will step back without a murmur into...	Mobilizing Woman-Power	Blatch, Harriot Stanton	1856	1940	['en']	24	{'World War, 1914-1918 -- Women'}	PG10080
Compared with the friction in the mobilization of woman-power in Great Britain, the readjustment in the lives of women in France was like the opening out of some harmonious pageant in full accord with popular sympathy. But who has not said, "France is different!" It is different, and in nothing more so than in its at...	Mobilizing Woman-Power	Blatch, Harriot Stanton	1856	1940	['en']	24	{'World War, 1914-1918 -- Women'}	PG10080
One of the admirable private philanthropies was the canteen at the St. Lazarre station in Paris. I am tempted to single it out because its organizer, Countess de Berkaim, told me that in all the months she had been running it--and it was open twenty-four hours of the day--not a single volunteer had been five minutes l...	Mobilizing Woman-Power	Blatch, Harriot Stanton	1856	1940	['en']	24	{'World War, 1914-1918 -- Women'}	PG10080
To do something for France--that stood first in the minds of the initiators of this commercial project. They knew her people must be employed. And next, the desire to bring back charm to an old art prompted their effort. Mlle. Thomson fully realizes just what "Made in Germany" signifies. The peoples of the world have ...	Mobilizing Woman-Power	Blatch, Harriot Stanton	1856	1940	['en']	24	{'World War, 1914-1918 -- Women'}	PG10080
A word more about her business, for she is playing an economic part that brings us up at attention. She may be solving the problem of adjustment of home and work so puzzling to women. There are just such domestic shops dotted all over the map of France; in the Paris district alone there are over eighteen hundred of th...	Mobilizing Woman-Power	Blatch, Harriot Stanton	1856	1940	['en']	24	{'World War, 1914-1918 -- Women'}	PG10080
Wages perform their material share in spurring the worker. Louis Barthou says that the woman's average is eight francs a day. Long ago--it seems long ago--she could earn at best five francs in the Paris district. She works on piece work now, getting the same rate as men. And think of it!--this must indeed be because o...	Mobilizing Woman-Power	Blatch, Harriot Stanton	1856	1940	['en']	24	{'World War, 1914-1918 -- Women'}	PG10080
"It is not for you, but for her, that I appeal to your hearts. "You must safeguard your own living, the feeding of the urban populations and especially the feeding of those who are defending the frontier, as well as the independence of the country, civilization and justice. "Up, then, French women, young children, dau...	Mobilizing Woman-Power	Blatch, Harriot Stanton	1856	1940	['en']	24	{'World War, 1914-1918 -- Women'}	PG10080
And the mairie holds a spirit of experiment. It houses not only courage and sympathy, but progress. The "XIV" has ventured on a Cuisine Populaire under Mme. Brunot's wholesome guidance. And so many other arrondissements have followed suit that Paris may be regarded as making a great experiment in the municipal feeding...	Mobilizing Woman-Power	Blatch, Harriot Stanton	1856	1940	['en']	24	{'World War, 1914-1918 -- Women'}	PG10080
France is profoundly, infinitely sad. She has cause. I shall never forget looking into the very depths of her sorrow when I was at Creil. A great drive was in progress, the wounded were being brought down from the front, troops hurried forward. Four different regiments passed as I sat at déjeuner. The restaurant, full...	Mobilizing Woman-Power	Blatch, Harriot Stanton	1856	1940	['en']	24	{'World War, 1914-1918 -- Women'}	PG10080
Slowly, through the last half of the nineteenth century, there had grown up clubs among German women focusing on a definite bit of work, or crystallizing about an idea. Germany even had suffrage societies. Politics, however, were forbidden by the government; women were not allowed to hang on the fringe of a meeting he...	Mobilizing Woman-Power	Blatch, Harriot Stanton	1856	1940	['en']	24	{'World War, 1914-1918 -- Women'}	PG10080
Germany faced the same critical moment for decision. The government wanted efficient use of woman-power on the land, in the factory, in the home, and that quickly. It made use of the best existing machinery. Dr. Gertrud Baumer visited the Ministerium des Innern, and on August 1 she issued a call for the mobilization o...	Mobilizing Woman-Power	Blatch, Harriot Stanton	1856	1940	['en']	24	{'World War, 1914-1918 -- Women'}	PG10080
The adjustment to war requirements went on more quickly in Germany than in any other country. Before a year had passed the surplus hands had been absorbed, and a shortage of labor power was beginning to be felt. And now opens the war drama set with the same scene everywhere. Women hurry forward to take up the burden l...	Mobilizing Woman-Power	Blatch, Harriot Stanton	1856	1940	['en']	24	{'World War, 1914-1918 -- Women'}	PG10080
Agriculture claims more women than any occupation in Germany. They were always on the farm, perhaps they are happier there now since they themselves are in command. It is said that "the peasants work in the boots and trousers of their husbands and ride in the saddle." War has liberated German women from the collar and...	Mobilizing Woman-Power	Blatch, Harriot Stanton	1856	1940	['en']	24	{'World War, 1914-1918 -- Women'}	PG10080
"Among us Germans not only the national but even the commercial franchise is denied, and even a share in the industrial and commercial courts. In the demand for the democratization of German public life our legislators do not seem even to admit the existence of women. "But during the war the cooperation of women in pu...	Mobilizing Woman-Power	Blatch, Harriot Stanton	1856	1940	['en']	24	{'World War, 1914-1918 -- Women'}	PG10080
In the machine shops where more skill than strength is called for, the American element with its quick wits and deft fingers predominates. Young women are working at the lathe with so much precision and accuracy that solicitude as to what would become of the world if all its men marched off to war is in a measure assu...	Mobilizing Woman-Power	Blatch, Harriot Stanton	1856	1940	['en']	24	{'World War, 1914-1918 -- Women'}	PG10080
When men go a-warring, women go to work. A distinguished general at the end of the Cuban War, enlarging upon the poet's idea of woman's weeping rôle in wartime, said in a public speech: "When the country called, women put guns in the hands of their soldier boys and bravely sent them away. After the good-byes were said...	Mobilizing Woman-Power	Blatch, Harriot Stanton	1856	1940	['en']	24	{'World War, 1914-1918 -- Women'}	PG10080
The rapidly increasing employment of women to-day, then, is the usual, and happy, accompaniment of war. But the development has its opponents, and that is nothing new, either. Let us look them over one by one. The most mischievous objector is the person, oftenest a woman, who says the war will be short, and fundamenta...	Mobilizing Woman-Power	Blatch, Harriot Stanton	1856	1940	['en']	24	{'World War, 1914-1918 -- Women'}	PG10080
But the ideals of yesterday fail to make their appeal. It is not the psychological moment to urge, on the ground of comfort, the woman's right to protection. The contrast between the trenches and the street car or factory is too striking. But it is, however, the exact moment to plead for better care of workers, both w...	Mobilizing Woman-Power	Blatch, Harriot Stanton	1856	1940	['en']	24	{'World War, 1914-1918 -- Women'}	PG10080
Most of the testers and inspectors are women. They measure the parts step by step, and weigh the completed fuse, carrying off the palm for reliability. The manager put it, "for inspection the women are more conscientious than men. They don't measure or weigh just one piece, shoving along a half-dozen untouched and let...	Mobilizing Woman-Power	Blatch, Harriot Stanton	1856	1940	['en']	24	{'World War, 1914-1918 -- Women'}	PG10080
As to how many women have supplanted men, or poured into the new war industries, no figures are available. One guess has put it at a million. But that is merely a guess. I have seen them by the tens, the hundreds, the thousands. The number is large and rapidly increasing. We may know that something important is happen...	Mobilizing Woman-Power	Blatch, Harriot Stanton	1856	1940	['en']	24	{'World War, 1914-1918 -- Women'}	PG10080
Another problem brought to us by women in industry is, how can we house them? The war industries have drawn large numbers to new centers. The haphazard accommodation which men win put up with, won't satisfy women. They demand more, and get more. To attract the best type of women the munition plants are putting up dorm...	Mobilizing Woman-Power	Blatch, Harriot Stanton	1856	1940	['en']	24	{'World War, 1914-1918 -- Women'}	PG10080
The story told at the employment bureaus in connection with professional societies and clubs such as the Chemists' Club is the same. Women are being placed not merely as teachers of chemistry or as routine laboratory workers in hospitals, but also as experimental and control chemists in industrial plants. In the great...	Mobilizing Woman-Power	Blatch, Harriot Stanton	1856	1940	['en']	24	{'World War, 1914-1918 -- Women'}	PG10080
The world is facing changes as great as the breaking up of the feudal system. Causes as fundamental, more wide-spread, and more cataclysmic are at work than at the end of the Middle Ages. Among the changes none is more marked than the intensified development in what one may call, for lack of a better term, the woman m...	Mobilizing Woman-Power	Blatch, Harriot Stanton	1856	1940	['en']	24	{'World War, 1914-1918 -- Women'}	PG10080
Each woman must prepare so that when the nation's need arises, she can stand at salute and say, "Here is your servant, trained and ready." Women are not driven over the top. Through self-discipline, they go over it of their own accord. VII EVE'S PAY ENVELOPE No woman is a cross between an angel and a goose. She is a...	Mobilizing Woman-Power	Blatch, Harriot Stanton	1856	1940	['en']	24	{'World War, 1914-1918 -- Women'}	PG10080
The verdict comes from all sides that women were never more content. Of course they are content. The weight of suppression is being lifted. For many their drudgery is for the first time paid for. Is not that invigorating? The pay envelope is equal to that of men. Is not that a new experience giving self-respect? Eve o...	Mobilizing Woman-Power	Blatch, Harriot Stanton	1856	1940	['en']	24	{'World War, 1914-1918 -- Women'}	PG10080
But it is not to be concluded that it is all beer and skittles for Eve. With a pay envelope and a vote come responsibilities. Public sympathy has backed up laws cutting down long hours of work for women. The trade unions, with a thought to possible competitors, have favored protecting them from night work. Has Eve bee...	Mobilizing Woman-Power	Blatch, Harriot Stanton	1856	1940	['en']	24	{'World War, 1914-1918 -- Women'}	PG10080
What common sense would lead us to expect in the hypothetical case of an alien man, has happened for the woman worker. Oddly enough she has not herself asked for this protection, but it has been urged very largely by women not of the industrial class. Women teachers, doctors, lawyers, women of leisure are the advocate...	Mobilizing Woman-Power	Blatch, Harriot Stanton	1856	1940	['en']	24	{'World War, 1914-1918 -- Women'}	PG10080
The woman with a pay envelope must not, then, be willing to swell the family budget by turning her children into the wage market. For if she does, she creates a dangerous competitor for herself, and puts in certain jeopardy the virility of her nation. But in this war time women have secured more than new and larger pa...	Mobilizing Woman-Power	Blatch, Harriot Stanton	1856	1940	['en']	24	{'World War, 1914-1918 -- Women'}	PG10080
But first let us get the simple skeleton of the various allowance laws in mind. The scale of the allowance in different countries adapts itself to national standards and varying cost of living. The Canadian allowance seems the most generous. At least one-half of the soldier's pay is given directly to his dependents. T...	Mobilizing Woman-Power	Blatch, Harriot Stanton	1856	1940	['en']	24	{'World War, 1914-1918 -- Women'}	PG10080
In the United States the general policy of exemption boards, as suggested by the central authorities, is most disciplinary as regards women. Their capacity for self-support is rigidly inquired into. Our men are definitely urging women to a position of economic independence. The aim is, while securing soldiers for the ...	Mobilizing Woman-Power	Blatch, Harriot Stanton	1856	1940	['en']	24	{'World War, 1914-1918 -- Women'}	PG10080
VIII POOLING BRAINS "Employ them." This was the advice given to a large conference of women met to discuss business opportunities for their sex. The advice was vouchsafed by a young lawyer after the problem of opening wider fields to women in the legal profession had been looked at from every angle, only to end in t...	Mobilizing Woman-Power	Blatch, Harriot Stanton	1856	1940	['en']	24	{'World War, 1914-1918 -- Women'}	PG10080
Our efforts at combination are a mere mushroom growth compared with the generations of training our big brothers have had in pooling brains. War and the chase gave them their first lessons in cooperation, nor has war been a bad teacher for women. Just as the Crimean War and our Civil War put Florence Nightingale and C...	Mobilizing Woman-Power	Blatch, Harriot Stanton	1856	1940	['en']	24	{'World War, 1914-1918 -- Women'}	PG10080
Naturally there were many efforts more foolish than effective in the universal rush to help. America was not peculiar in this, nor for the matter of that, were women. War!--it does make the blood course through the veins. Every generous citizen cries aloud, "What can I do?" Perhaps men are a little more voluble than w...	Mobilizing Woman-Power	Blatch, Harriot Stanton	1856	1940	['en']	24	{'World War, 1914-1918 -- Women'}	PG10080
Not only does this directing of manual work stand to the credit of the Chapters, but they have given courses of lectures in home nursing and dietetics to thirty-four thousand women, and in first aid; ten thousand classes have been held and seventy-five thousand certificates issued to the proficient. Certainly one obje...	Mobilizing Woman-Power	Blatch, Harriot Stanton	1856	1940	['en']	24	{'World War, 1914-1918 -- Women'}	PG10080
A very worthy pooling of brains, because springing up with no tradition behind it, was the National League for Woman's Service. In six months it drew to itself two hundred thousand members and built organizations in thirty-nine States, established classes to train women for the new work opening to them, opened recreat...	Mobilizing Woman-Power	Blatch, Harriot Stanton	1856	1940	['en']	24	{'World War, 1914-1918 -- Women'}	PG10080
Perhaps holding the helm has become second nature to men simply because they have held the helm so long, but I am inclined to think they have a very definite desire to have women help steer the ship. Surely the readiness with which they are sharing their political power with women, would seem to indicate their wish fo...	Mobilizing Woman-Power	Blatch, Harriot Stanton	1856	1940	['en']	24	{'World War, 1914-1918 -- Women'}	PG10080
If women individually are looking for a soft place, if they are afraid, as one manager expressed it, "to put on overalls and go into a vat," even when their country is so in need of their service, it is futile for them to ask collectively for equal opportunity and equal pay; if they individually fail to prepare as for...	Mobilizing Woman-Power	Blatch, Harriot Stanton	1856	1940	['en']	24	{'World War, 1914-1918 -- Women'}	PG10080
[Illustration: Down the street they come, beginning their pilgrimage of alleviation and succor on the battlefields of France.] And why should it be necessary to urge that while scores of young men are dashing to death in endeavors to learn to fly, there are women unmobilized who know how to soar aloft in safety? They ...	Mobilizing Woman-Power	Blatch, Harriot Stanton	1856	1940	['en']	24	{'World War, 1914-1918 -- Women'}	PG10080
IX "BUSINESS AS USUAL" It is a platitude to say that America is the most extravagant nation on earth. The whole world tells us so, and we do not deny it, being, indeed, a bit proud of the fact. Who is there among us who does not respond with sympathetic understanding to the defense of the bride reprimanded for extra...	Mobilizing Woman-Power	Blatch, Harriot Stanton	1856	1940	['en']	24	{'World War, 1914-1918 -- Women'}	PG10080
But the discipline will not come from the gods. Nor will our government readily turn taskmaster. The effort must come largely as self-discipline, growing into group determination to win the war and the conviction that it is impossible to achieve victory and conserve the virility of our people, if any considerable part...	Mobilizing Woman-Power	Blatch, Harriot Stanton	1856	1940	['en']	24	{'World War, 1914-1918 -- Women'}	PG10080
[Illustration: How can business be "as usual" when in Paris there are about 1800 of these small workshops where a woman dips Bengal Fire and grenades into a bath of paraffin!] I do not mean to under-estimate the value of economy in the well-to-do class. There is no doubt that shop windows on Fifth Avenue are a severe ...	Mobilizing Woman-Power	Blatch, Harriot Stanton	1856	1940	['en']	24	{'World War, 1914-1918 -- Women'}	PG10080
The richer a family is, the more it saves by the use of skilled service. The poor, clinging to their prejudices and refusing to trust one another, do not profit by coöperative buying, or by central kitchens run by experts. Money is wasted by amateurish selection of food and clothing, and nutritive values are squandere...	Mobilizing Woman-Power	Blatch, Harriot Stanton	1856	1940	['en']	24	{'World War, 1914-1918 -- Women'}	PG10080
Definite use of savings has been provided for in the United States. The government needs goods of every kind to make our military effort successful. Camps must be built for training the soldiers, uniforms, guns and ammunition supplied. Transportation on land and sea is called for. The government needs money to carry o...	Mobilizing Woman-Power	Blatch, Harriot Stanton	1856	1940	['en']	24	{'World War, 1914-1918 -- Women'}	PG10080
Central municipal heating is not a wild dream, but a recognized economy in many places. Municipal kitchens are not vague surmisings, but facts achieved in the towns of Europe. They are forms of war thrift. In America no such converting examples of economy are as yet given, and not an appeal has been made to women to s...	Mobilizing Woman-Power	Blatch, Harriot Stanton	1856	1940	['en']	24	{'World War, 1914-1918 -- Women'}	PG10080
One of the few occupations left to mother after the disruption of her sphere at the end of the eighteenth century was the preparation of food. In the minds of men, food, from its seed sowing up to its mastication, has always been associated with woman. Mention food and the average man thinks of mother. That is the Ada...	Mobilizing Woman-Power	Blatch, Harriot Stanton	1856	1940	['en']	24	{'World War, 1914-1918 -- Women'}	PG10080
In the same way, when food falls short and the victualing of the world becomes a pressing duty, the governing class adopts a thesis that a politically less-favored group can, by saving in small and painful ways, accumulate the extra food necessary to keep the world from starving. The ruling class seeks cover in primit...	Mobilizing Woman-Power	Blatch, Harriot Stanton	1856	1940	['en']	24	{'World War, 1914-1918 -- Women'}	PG10080
It may be the truest devotion to our Allies to challenge the individualistic rôle recommended by Adam to mother, for it will hinder, not help, the feeding of the world to put women back under eighteenth century conditions. Food is short and expensive because labor is short. And even when the harvest is ripe, the savin...	Mobilizing Woman-Power	Blatch, Harriot Stanton	1856	1940	['en']	24	{'World War, 1914-1918 -- Women'}	PG10080
All this is a commonplace to the business man, who knows that the evolution has gone so far that ten percent of the married women of America are in gainful pursuits, and that capital ventured on apartment hotels brings a tempting return. But the Adamistic theory is based on the dream that women are contentedly and eff...	Mobilizing Woman-Power	Blatch, Harriot Stanton	1856	1940	['en']	24	{'World War, 1914-1918 -- Women'}	PG10080
It may be the brutal truth, taking bread as the index, that only a quarter of the processes carried on in the home turn out satisfactorily, while of the other three-quarters, a just verdict may show that mother gets a "little too much lye" in the soap, cooks the preserves a "little too hard," "candies the fruit just a...	Mobilizing Woman-Power	Blatch, Harriot Stanton	1856	1940	['en']	24	{'World War, 1914-1918 -- Women'}	PG10080
Then, too, the Adamistic theory weighs and values the housewife's time as little as it questions the quality of the home product. Any careful reader of the various "Hints to Housewives" which have appeared, will note that the "simplifying of meals" recommended would require nearly double the time to prepare. The simpl...	Mobilizing Woman-Power	Blatch, Harriot Stanton	1856	1940	['en']	24	{'World War, 1914-1918 -- Women'}	PG10080
In the same spirit the Adamistic suggestion to Eve to save coal by a "heatless day" is met by the cold challenge of the riotous extravagance of cooking in twelve separate tenements, twelve separate potatoes, on twelve separate fires. The Adamistic theory, through its emphasis on the relation of food to Eve, and the al...	Mobilizing Woman-Power	Blatch, Harriot Stanton	1856	1940	['en']	24	{'World War, 1914-1918 -- Women'}	PG10080
The fair grounds are reached. Adam has prepared the setting. It has no relation to mother's needs. It was a most thrilling innovation when in the summer of 1914 the Women's Political Union first set up big tents at county fairs, fitted with comfortable chairs for mother, and cots and toys, nurses and companions for th...	Mobilizing Woman-Power	Blatch, Harriot Stanton	1856	1940	['en']	24	{'World War, 1914-1918 -- Women'}	PG10080
This was not as mother used to do. Mother's ways are being investigated and discarded the whole world round. At last accounts half the population of Hamburg was being fed through municipal kitchens and in Great Britain an order has been issued by Lord Rhondda, the Food Controller, authorizing local authorities to open...	Mobilizing Woman-Power	Blatch, Harriot Stanton	1856	1940	['en']	24	{'World War, 1914-1918 -- Women'}	PG10080
With a million and a half men drawn out of the country and ten billion dollars to be expended on war material, making every ammunition factory a labor magnet, it seems like the smooth deceptions of prestidigitation to answer the cry of the farmer with suggestion that men rejected by the draft or high school boys be pa...	Mobilizing Woman-Power	Blatch, Harriot Stanton	1856	1940	['en']	24	{'World War, 1914-1918 -- Women'}	PG10080
At first the students were paid twenty-five cents an hour, the same rate as the male farm hands. The men objected, saying that the young women were beginners, but by the end of the summer the critics realized that "brains tell" and said the girls were worth the higher wage, though they had only been getting, in order ...	Mobilizing Woman-Power	Blatch, Harriot Stanton	1856	1940	['en']	24	{'World War, 1914-1918 -- Women'}	PG10080
With these sound ideas as its foundation the camp opened at Mt. Kisco, backed by the Committee on Agriculture of the Mayor's Committee of Women on National Defense of New York City, under the chairmanship of Virginia Gildersleeve, Dean of Barnard College. At its greatest enrolment the unit had seventy-three members. W...	Mobilizing Woman-Power	Blatch, Harriot Stanton	1856	1940	['en']	24	{'World War, 1914-1918 -- Women'}	PG10080
The opinions expressed in this letter are as generally held as they are mistaken. In the first place, the theory that the country-bred woman in America is stronger and healthier than the city-bred has long since been exploded. The assumption cannot stand up under the facts. Statistics show that the death rate in the U...	Mobilizing Woman-Power	Blatch, Harriot Stanton	1856	1940	['en']	24	{'World War, 1914-1918 -- Women'}	PG10080
Refusing to be in the least crushed by government neglect, far-seeing women determined to organize widely and carefully their solution of the farm-labor problem. To this end the Women's National Farm and Garden Association, the Garden Clubs of America, the Young Women's Christian Association, the Woman's Suffrage Part...	Mobilizing Woman-Power	Blatch, Harriot Stanton	1856	1940	['en']	24	{'World War, 1914-1918 -- Women'}	PG10080
The mobilization of woman-power on the farm is the need of the hour, and the wise and devoted women who are trying to answer the need, deserve an all-hail from the people of the United States and her Allies. XII WOMAN'S PART IN SAVING CIVILIZATION Men have played--all honor to them--the major part in the actual conf...	Mobilizing Woman-Power	Blatch, Harriot Stanton	1856	1940	['en']	24	{'World War, 1914-1918 -- Women'}	PG10080
Starvation has swept across wide areas, and steady underfeeding rules in every country in Europe and in the cities of America, letting loose malnutrition, that hidden enemy whose ambushes are more serious than the attacks of an open foe. The world is sick. And the world is poor. The nations have spent over a hundred b...	Mobilizing Woman-Power	Blatch, Harriot Stanton	1856	1940	['en']	24	{'World War, 1914-1918 -- Women'}	PG10080
The Great War, far from checking the movement for social welfare, has quickened the public sense of responsibility. That fact opens the widest field to women for work in which they are best prepared by nature and training. Many keen thinkers are concerned over the question of population. One of our most distinguished ...	Mobilizing Woman-Power	Blatch, Harriot Stanton	1856	1940	['en']	24	{'World War, 1914-1918 -- Women'}	PG10080
The flagging spirit needs the inspiration of art and music. To secure them in the future, state and municipal effort will be demanded. Women are born economizers. They have been trained to pinch each penny. With their advent into political life, roads and public buildings will cost less. Through careful saving, funds ...	Mobilizing Woman-Power	Blatch, Harriot Stanton	1856	1940	['en']	24	{'World War, 1914-1918 -- Women'}	PG10080
With increasing numbers of women entering the industrial world, with ever widening extension of the vote to women, and the consequent quickening of public responsibility, together with the recent experience of Europe demonstrating the importance of care for all workers, both men and women, there is ground for hope tha...	Mobilizing Woman-Power	Blatch, Harriot Stanton	1856	1940	['en']	24	{'World War, 1914-1918 -- Women'}	PG10080
Your communication will be received as strictly confidential. It is urgently requested that Members' names and detachment numbers should be filled in legibly. Yours faithfully, MARGARET HEMPHILL MEDICAL CERTIFICATE 1. Name 2. County No. of Detachment 3. How long have you been acquainted with her? 4. H...	Mobilizing Woman-Power	Blatch, Harriot Stanton	1856	1940	['en']	24	{'World War, 1914-1918 -- Women'}	PG10080
2. Permanent Postal Address. Present Postal Address. 3. Telephone No. 4. Telegraphic Address. 5. Detachment County and No. B.R.C.S. St. John Brigade. St. John Association. 6. Name and Address of Commandant of Detachment. 7. Rank in Detachment. 8. Time of Service in Detachment. 9. Age and Date of B...	Mobilizing Woman-Power	Blatch, Harriot Stanton	1856	1940	['en']	24	{'World War, 1914-1918 -- Women'}	PG10080
31. Name and Address of Head of College or School, recent Business Employer, Head of Government Department, Secretary of Society or some other person who can be referred to for a report on your qualifications for the work selected. (The Quartermaster of your V.A.D. could be given if you have worked in ...	Mobilizing Woman-Power	Blatch, Harriot Stanton	1856	1940	['en']	24	{'World War, 1914-1918 -- Women'}	PG10080
_Application No._ _For Official use only_. CONFIDENTIAL. WOMEN'S ARMY AUXILIARY CORPS FORM OF APPLICATION N.B.--No woman need apply who is not prepared to offer her services for the duration of the war and to take up work wherever she is required. 1. Name in Full (Mrs. or Miss). 2. Permanent Postal Address. 2a. Sta...	Mobilizing Woman-Power	Blatch, Harriot Stanton	1856	1940	['en']	24	{'World War, 1914-1918 -- Women'}	PG10080
(a) Name. Profession or Occupation. Address. (b) Name. Profession or Occupation. Address. (c) Name. Profession or Occupation. Address. An offer of Service can in no way be regarded as a final enrolment. _I hereby declare that the above statements are complete...	Mobilizing Woman-Power	Blatch, Harriot Stanton	1856	1940	['en']	24	{'World War, 1914-1918 -- Women'}	PG10080
Distributed Proofreaders The Boy Allies At Jutland or The Greatest Naval Battle of History By Ensign ROBERT L. DRAKE AUTHOR OF "The Boy Allies Under the Sea" "The Boy Allies In the Baltic" "The Boy Allies on the North Sea Patrol" "The Boy Allies Under Two Flags" "The Boy Allies with the Flying Squadron" "T...	The Boy Allies at Jutland; Or, The Greatest Naval Battle of History	Hayes, Clair W. (Clair Wallace)	1887		['en']	14	{'World War, 1914-1918 -- Naval operations -- Juvenile fiction', 'Jutland, Battle of, 1916 -- Juvenile fiction'}	PG10081
This great ship was new in service, having been completed only a few years before the outbreak of the war. She was constructed at a cost of $10,000,000. She was 720 feet long, of 27,000 tons burden and had a complement of almost 1,000 men. For fighting purposes she was equipped with all that was modern. In her forward...	The Boy Allies at Jutland; Or, The Greatest Naval Battle of History	Hayes, Clair W. (Clair Wallace)	1887		['en']	14	{'World War, 1914-1918 -- Naval operations -- Juvenile fiction', 'Jutland, Battle of, 1916 -- Juvenile fiction'}	PG10081
They were going back where they would get another chance at the enemy, should he again venture from his lair. Forward, upon the upper deck, stood two young officers, who peered into the darkness ahead. "To my mind," said one, "this beats a submarine. Just look about you. Consider the size of this battleship! Look at h...	The Boy Allies at Jutland; Or, The Greatest Naval Battle of History	Hayes, Clair W. (Clair Wallace)	1887		['en']	14	{'World War, 1914-1918 -- Naval operations -- Juvenile fiction', 'Jutland, Battle of, 1916 -- Juvenile fiction'}	PG10081
The two hurried after the officer who had accosted them; and while they are attending to the wants of the inner man, as Templeton termed their appetites, we will take the time to explain how these two lads came to be aboard the giant battleship, steaming into the North Sea in search of the enemies of Great Britain and...	The Boy Allies at Jutland; Or, The Greatest Naval Battle of History	Hayes, Clair W. (Clair Wallace)	1887		['en']	14	{'World War, 1914-1918 -- Naval operations -- Juvenile fiction', 'Jutland, Battle of, 1916 -- Juvenile fiction'}	PG10081
Here he differed from Frank, who had something of a temper and was likely to do something foolish on the spur of the moment if he became angry. Jack had served as a damper for his friend's anger and enthusiasm more than once. That they could fight, both boys had shown more than once. Jack, because of his huge bulk and...	The Boy Allies at Jutland; Or, The Greatest Naval Battle of History	Hayes, Clair W. (Clair Wallace)	1887		['en']	14	{'World War, 1914-1918 -- Naval operations -- Juvenile fiction', 'Jutland, Battle of, 1916 -- Juvenile fiction'}	PG10081
Up to this time the German Sea fleet, as a unit, had suffered comparatively little damage in the great war. Sheltered as it was behind the great fortress of Heligoland, the British sea forces had been unable to reach it; nor would the Germans venture forth to give battle to the English, in spite of the bait that more...	The Boy Allies at Jutland; Or, The Greatest Naval Battle of History	Hayes, Clair W. (Clair Wallace)	1887		['en']	14	{'World War, 1914-1918 -- Naval operations -- Juvenile fiction', 'Jutland, Battle of, 1916 -- Juvenile fiction'}	PG10081
But these supplies were not great enough to take care of the whole German population. In the conquest of Russian Poland, Germany had improved her lot somewhat, for the fertile fields had immediately been planted and a good crop had been reaped. And the one thing that prevented Germany from importing the things that wo...	The Boy Allies at Jutland; Or, The Greatest Naval Battle of History	Hayes, Clair W. (Clair Wallace)	1887		['en']	14	{'World War, 1914-1918 -- Naval operations -- Juvenile fiction', 'Jutland, Battle of, 1916 -- Juvenile fiction'}	PG10081
This was the situation, then, when the _Queen Mary,_ with Jack and Frank aboard, steamed down the Thames and out into the North Sea to take up again her patrol of those waters; and there was nothing to warn those on board of the great battle that even now was impending and that was to result disastrously for Great Bri...	The Boy Allies at Jutland; Or, The Greatest Naval Battle of History	Hayes, Clair W. (Clair Wallace)	1887		['en']	14	{'World War, 1914-1918 -- Naval operations -- Juvenile fiction', 'Jutland, Battle of, 1916 -- Juvenile fiction'}	PG10081
"You must have a little German blood in you, Frank," said Jack, with a smile. "If I didn't know you better, I would think you were sticking up for them." "No, I'm not sticking up for them; but they do things we seem to be afraid to do. To my way of thinking, we should have gone and cleaned up Heligoland a long time ag...	The Boy Allies at Jutland; Or, The Greatest Naval Battle of History	Hayes, Clair W. (Clair Wallace)	1887		['en']	14	{'World War, 1914-1918 -- Naval operations -- Juvenile fiction', 'Jutland, Battle of, 1916 -- Juvenile fiction'}	PG10081
Also, strict watch was kept aloft. For almost nightly now, huge German Zeppelins were sailing across the sea and dropping bombs upon the coast of Kent, upon Dover, and close even to London itself. It was feared that one of these monsters of the air might swoop down upon the battleships and, with a well directed bomb, ...	The Boy Allies at Jutland; Or, The Greatest Naval Battle of History	Hayes, Clair W. (Clair Wallace)	1887		['en']	14	{'World War, 1914-1918 -- Naval operations -- Juvenile fiction', 'Jutland, Battle of, 1916 -- Juvenile fiction'}	PG10081
There was no telling whether the Zeppelin sighted by the man at the gun would attack the ship, but Captain Raleigh considered it best to be on the safe side. That was why he had left orders to be called immediately should an enemy appear. Again a bell tinkled in the engine room, following an order from the commander o...	The Boy Allies at Jutland; Or, The Greatest Naval Battle of History	Hayes, Clair W. (Clair Wallace)	1887		['en']	14	{'World War, 1914-1918 -- Naval operations -- Juvenile fiction', 'Jutland, Battle of, 1916 -- Juvenile fiction'}	PG10081
"Another shot!" commanded Captain Raleigh. Still no result. "Funny she doesn't rise and try and escape," said Frank. "No, it's not," returned Jack. "They don't know anything about this new anti-aircraft gun. They believe they are out of range." "Well, they're likely to hit us with one of those bombs, and then where wi...	The Boy Allies at Jutland; Or, The Greatest Naval Battle of History	Hayes, Clair W. (Clair Wallace)	1887		['en']	14	{'World War, 1914-1918 -- Naval operations -- Juvenile fiction', 'Jutland, Battle of, 1916 -- Juvenile fiction'}	PG10081
Another cheer from the crew. The Zeppelin began to sink slowly. "Full speed ahead!" cried Captain Raleigh. "They'll sink us!" The _Queen Mary_ leaped ahead just in time. And then the Zeppelin dropped. With a splash it hit the water perhaps a quarter of a mile from the British battleship. Came cries from the men, caugh...	The Boy Allies at Jutland; Or, The Greatest Naval Battle of History	Hayes, Clair W. (Clair Wallace)	1887		['en']	14	{'World War, 1914-1918 -- Naval operations -- Juvenile fiction', 'Jutland, Battle of, 1916 -- Juvenile fiction'}	PG10081
With a cry of alarm, Frank also sprang to his feet and divested himself of his coat and shoes. "Stay close, men!" he commanded. "I'll lend a hand if it's needed." He, too, leaped into the water. Rapidly, Jack swam close to the wreckage. He continued to call to the German, and while he received an answer each time, he ...	The Boy Allies at Jutland; Or, The Greatest Naval Battle of History	Hayes, Clair W. (Clair Wallace)	1887		['en']	14	{'World War, 1914-1918 -- Naval operations -- Juvenile fiction', 'Jutland, Battle of, 1916 -- Juvenile fiction'}	PG10081
Jack lent a hand and they dragged the German from beneath the wreckage. Then they towed him to the boat and other hands lifted him in. Frank and Jack clambered aboard. "Give way!" said Jack, sharply. The boat moved toward the battleship; and even as it did so, the mass of wreckage suddenly disappeared from sight with ...	The Boy Allies at Jutland; Or, The Greatest Naval Battle of History	Hayes, Clair W. (Clair Wallace)	1887		['en']	14	{'World War, 1914-1918 -- Naval operations -- Juvenile fiction', 'Jutland, Battle of, 1916 -- Juvenile fiction'}	PG10081
They shook hands and walked off. "Well, that's something to liven things up a bit," said Frank. "Yes; but I didn't know they were doing such things in time of war." "Neither did I; but it seems they are." It was late that evening when Lawrence again approached the two lads. "You're in luck," he said to Frank. "We are ...	The Boy Allies at Jutland; Or, The Greatest Naval Battle of History	Hayes, Clair W. (Clair Wallace)	1887		['en']	14	{'World War, 1914-1918 -- Naval operations -- Juvenile fiction', 'Jutland, Battle of, 1916 -- Juvenile fiction'}	PG10081
"We're going to get even with you this time, Reynolds," said Captain Raleigh. "Oh, no you won't. The score will be two in our favor after today." They became silent as four men, two from each ship, made ready for the standing broad jump. The jumping was superb. After eight attempts one man from each ship was eliminate...	The Boy Allies at Jutland; Or, The Greatest Naval Battle of History	Hayes, Clair W. (Clair Wallace)	1887		['en']	14	{'World War, 1914-1918 -- Naval operations -- Juvenile fiction', 'Jutland, Battle of, 1916 -- Juvenile fiction'}	PG10081
A one-inch bull's eye was substituted. Frank fired first. He scored a clean hit. Simpson also hit the eye, though not so squarely. Still it counted a hit. Now the bull's eye was reduced to half an inch, and at seventy yards it seemed almost impossible to hit it. This time Simpson was to fire first. Carefully he took d...	The Boy Allies at Jutland; Or, The Greatest Naval Battle of History	Hayes, Clair W. (Clair Wallace)	1887		['en']	14	{'World War, 1914-1918 -- Naval operations -- Juvenile fiction', 'Jutland, Battle of, 1916 -- Juvenile fiction'}	PG10081

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