New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-01-10

tnAt armies can be improvlscd as want
ed. This is the true spirit Of the
Pacitst. Il has prevailed here. II will
prevail wherever war is thought in it.
self the worst Of evils; and peace I'm
itself. no matter al what price, the
greatest OF all blessings. II there rs a
danger, our President shuts his eyes to
II. and implores US to shut ours. He Is
against even an inquiry into the actual
military condition and military needs
Of the country. Essentially, therefore,
he and Mr.. 81. Loe Strachey are opposed
TO each other But the British editor
thinks II desirable 10 pstronize the
American President and to applaud him
for not meaning what he says. The
same note is heard in other papers. SO
far as have seen. there is no other
reason for such English approval Of
Mr.. Wilson's message as has been pub
licly expressed in English papers; eX-
cept the general and of course. laud-
able desire TO cultivate good feeling.
What Three Women Are Doing.
The kind of war-service which the
women Of England and the women Of
America are doing fills much less
space in the papers than that Of the
men, yet il is almost finer. You hear
something, ! suppose, Of the great
charities OF many kinds Differed by
Queen and Princesses and Duchesses
and the like. and the great papers
give accounts OF these, side by side
with their own enterprises. But how
much is known, or can be known, OF
private efforts They are known in
private, but they remain private. In
any case IL is impossible to mention
names. II is known that houses are
given up for hospitals, but what OF
the nurses? The business of nursing
in these days has become scientific;
only a trained nurse is allowed 10 look
after wounded. Women meet that by
submitting themselves TO training.
met such a woman some time ago az
a house in the country: who explained
what she was going to do; and was
asked whether she liked II.
III hate il. but | am going through
with It. How can woman SIT sim
in such days as these"
That was three months ago, or four:
To-day she has learnt some part oil
the business. and has learnt TO love
II. She is, or was, a woman with
large social interests; all Of which
She has renowned for the war; as
she has almost all her other many IN
terests in life for this one interest.
know a girl who has already done
much in other ways since the war be
gan. Now she is going abroad, not
as nurse. but as orderly" In British
hospital in France.
II shall hate it, but I am At for
nothing better, and ! must do some
thing"
There is q third whom / met last
sunday. To my question where she
had been she answered:
"Dunkirk. where | have hospital
10 look after. ! 60 over every ten DAYS
or so, spend three days in seeing, that
things are right, and come back.
As there is no service to Dunklrk,
asked her how she went and came: =,
ooh. the Admiralty takes me and
fetches me again when the work IS
Between any English Channel port
and the French coast the waters are
alive with German mines and German
submarines. neither Of which distln.
quishes between ships Of war and OF
neace. But to these perils this lady
seemed 10 give never thought. .,
These are three examples. Each OF
the women has a beauty Of her own;
each coming out of full life into TINS
new life: in itself. at least TO oegn
with. a horrible life; each sacrihc!ng
what she had always cared most LOT.
They take up this mission not from any
personal sorrow or loss by war but
each Of them because, like Luther she
"cannot otherwise" There are multi
tudes Of others; as there are multi
tudes whose share in the distress, OF
stricken fields is further than TINS;
But l offer you three instances out OF
sS0ieo G. W s.