New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-12-31

from new or readily impressible city OK
presses Ierriot in hundred respects, and
oil the more Enthusiastically in these last
dirty months.
Lyons has given. during the war. in the
words OF General Iofrc, numerous
proofs Of charitable devotion, industrial
aeti, ity and patriotic confidence One Of
the city's happiest traditions has. indeed,
been the pety of its bourgeois, who have
had the repute Of giving more generously
TO foreign missions (to name but one
cause) than any other city in France. And
though one of the most Catholic Of French
towns. Lyons is also one of the most
Protestant, III wartime a patriotic rivalry
in good works has animated and united the
different clements in The population.
Schools. religious establishments and in
dustrial plants have, together with new
constructions. furnished the sites for mill
tary hosptals-some thirty of them. Pub
lie and private enterprise combined has
furnished some $1,000 hospital beds to the
armies of France And with the aid of
German prisoners Lyons is constructing
model City Hospital to replace the City
Hospital now outgrown; they call 1t the
H6pitol E'dih CoreU
LYONS it is WHICH, in the Mayors "Ecole
Joffre," originated in France the system OF
schools Of trade recducation" for mutt
lated soldiers. These schools train the
manned in such work as is least affected by
their disabilities or is not directly at
fected at all. When the "Ecolc Jofre' was
outgrown.' a larger school Of reeducation
vas opened at The Villa Touvielle, IN the
suburbs, city property. An emergency en-
terprise. but Herriot is building for the
future. even in opening trade school for
The mutilated.
after the war he explains. these
same workshops and gardens will serve
the purposes Of the Vocational Schools |
want to sec naugurated for our boys and
girls"
Significant is VI. Herriot's attitude tow
ard the wartime employment of women.
This he divides into classes: The service
which is emergency work, pure and simple
like that Of motorwomen and conductors
on street railways and that Of the women
who have literally conquered the now
meter and cannot reasonably be ousted 1T
the wars end The Mayor of Lyons even
goes so far as 90 name street cleaning as
one OF the iobs which the women Of Lyons
are doing better than men ever did it.
Effect To Be Determined
But TO the Mayor. the one truly I'M
portant question. Of all the questions IN
volved in women's work is the effect upon
the national birth rate. The encourage
ment or encouragement OF women in this
Industry or that will depend upon sta
tistics-eked out with common sense. But
according to NJ Herriot one reason for
the moral failure Of our old-fashioned IN.
dustralism has been its negligence Of hu
man and civic duties and relationships: the
factory OF the future must, in accepting
the work Of women, make possible and
even attractive the continuance of the fam
ily life: must provide, for instance, nur-
series where women may leae their young
children. and where. IN tne course Of the
day, they may visit them. There need be
no loss OF efficiency on the mothers part
because of such occasional Interruptions;
since professional efficiency experts have.
az a matter Of fact, urged the value Of oc-
casional intervals Of relaxation.
And while NJ. Herriot is speaking OF
women II is but fair to add that in all the
good work, ~ m. municipality Of Lyons.