Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-07-11
HELPLESS WOMEN
BIG WAR PROBLEM
England Faces Serious PROPOSE
ton of Caring for Those Left
to States Mercies.
CHARITY MUST BE GIVEN
Wives, Married and Unmarried,
Will Be Shown Same Con-
sideration.
CHARITY MUST BE GIVEN
BY w. ORION TEw-xoN.

~ W. VNhoN W. AoNs
LONDON. July 1O.-London. while it
grinds on in its slow way in the effort
to gain recruits enough to complete its
armies. is facing another and much
more serious proposition in making
provision for the women who have been
left to the gentle mercies of the state
as result of the war. Wives of SOL
diers-married wives and unmarried
wives-and soldiers children have to
be taken of. The effort OF all
organized charity now is directed to
this end, and to the end that the un-
married women be afforded, as nearly
rs possible. the same opportunity that
Is given their more fortunate sisters
While it is a fact that the war
baby publicity which has spread all
over the world was not justified by
the facts, the truth remains that many
girls and women nave been left at home
TO fight n social battle while their
men are at the front
ARCHBISHOP IS TAKING
AN ACTIVE INTEREST
The Archbishop of Canterbury is
taking an active interest in thes,
women. In meeting where 500 dele
gates from all parts of the kingdom
were called to confer upon this prob
lem, he stated:
There is binding obligation on
every one of US to attend to the well
fare of the unmarried as we'll as the
married wives of our soltiters.-- --Be-
cause the fathers have gone away. or
because the mothers have failed to
sanction their union through the
church, is no reason why the child
should not have help and attention in
his uprearing"
This, of course. expresses the atti-
tude of tbs Anglican Church toward
the war baby" and it is popular one.
Countess Ferrers has paved the way
for the recognition of the rights of
unmarried wives by the organized
charitable associations of London, and
Is leading in the work OF providing for
the coming of these children, whose
fathers WILL in many instances. never
return from the battle fields Of France
and the Da rdanelles.
In the MAN, the efforts Of such
women as the Countess Ferrers is di-
rected toward providing work for the
mothers and prospective mothers which
selves, rather than depend entirely
upon charity. This movement has a
twofold purpose. In the first place, it
is accepted as a fact that home train
Ing is better than institutional up-
bringing. And, in the second place, it
is hoped thus to hold the mother to a
purpose which will result in her being
a credit to the country
Since the war has started most of
the. regulations regarding the LIQUOR
trafhc have been forced onto the
statute books by the conduct of women
rather than of men. 1t seems to be
the first thought of the woman in
trouble to get the nearest pub" and
there try to stifle the fire of circum-
stance in "ale" or bitters
No rules have been laid down for
the treatment of these cases 1T being.
according to the Archbishop of Canter-
bury. far easier to do the right thing
by judging each applicant for aid on
her own merits.
SEEKS TO FIND WORK
FOR HELPLESS WOMEN
The National Political League and
Council is preparing to find work for
many of these women, as we'll as for
other widows of the war, and to this
end an exhibition will be held late in
July at the home Of Lady Cowdray.
who is intensely interested. Others
who are fostering this movement are
Lady Denman, Countess Brassey. the
Marchioness of Londonderry, Lady
Isabel Margesson and the Right Hon.
Henry Chaplin. NJ. Il.
Opportunity for women to replace
men in all the industries will be sought
by this council. and arrangements will
ha
they choose TO follow:
Downing Street and the War Office
have n daily battle with the army of
cranks that is at present besiesine
London with countless plans to end the
war. IL is no unusual scene to see a
man rush up to an attendant at one or
the other of these places and demand
brea thlesSly an Interview with Lord
Kitchener or the Prime Minister. His
business always is to end the war.
One Of these interesting individuals
had plan whereby he was to make
the twcnty-Six German states fall out
and proceed 10 tear each other to
pieces. while England and France
marched unmolested"toB Berlin. Another
had prepared a substance which, IL it
were used to paint the nun of war
ship, would defect any OF the enemy's
shells or torpedoes.
The submarine activity OF Germany
brought to light genius who claimed
the power TO explode any section of the
sea in which submarines were operat-
ing. His invention went begging. how
ever. when IL was discovered that the
explosion would be as fatal to the per-
son using IL AS to the enemy. The in
ventor OF a smoke ball. which would
enable any ship TO HUE from a sub,
marine" or which would conceal the
largest city from threatening Zep-
pelin." never got beyond the War once
ante-room with the model which ms
proposed to explode, as a sample. and
he cools his heels there in company
with the man who has perfected-on
paper - wind -jamming contyivance
which will hurl their own poisnnoua