Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-04-23
V1HAT is going to be done about the excess of Eng
w lish after the war?

w lish after the war?
Already before the war the amounted to
some 100000, and increasing steadily. We have
already 10000 dead from the flower of the nation
and about 10000 permanently disabled and fear be-
fore all is over that face the loss of nearly
million and half Of British brcadwnners and potental
fathers
What is going to be the result after the war;
There are two principal effects that have to be con,
sdered. The future generation and work 1t is almost
impossible to consider these questions separately in
these days they absolutely interdependent and vet
ell conditions will have changed much after the war
that must examine the factors in each question
before coming to the Joint future
What is going to happen?
Some three million going to return after
months of openair life condition of physical fitness
which they did not know possible; with an outlook
broadened incredible extent with minds that have
been toned and tuned by constantly facing death
Is the clerk going back toll with bent shoulders on
an office stool for pittance after perhaps leading
platoon company in the icd Is the sergeant going
back to be an agricultural aborcr? the lieutenant or
company sergeantmaor domestic or the vic
torous soldier to the factory mine?
Some trades and professions of course they will 60
back to, but the conditions of all forms of work will
have to be materially changed although there are going
to be thousands who will seek different form of en-
ployment with responsibility and more freedom
And women In the meanwhile working They
have found that there is practically no form of wage
earning that they cannot d. and do satisfactorily Will
those who have just made this discovery go willingly to
rearing children in cramped and cherries uuarters9
Some may, but most will not
Yet the wastage of lives must and will be replaced
and the increase Of trade after the war
must be to- Women will undoubtedly. in enormolsy
increasing numbers. continue be wage earners; men
and women must higher wages, have higher
standard of living and enjoyment and yet child bearing
must increase and infant mortality must decrease
How is it to be done7 How women to rear chill
dren feed children, husband and themselves and yet
keep their jobs in factory and office
The answer seems to be of necessity word-co.
operation The cooperative dining ROOM the co-opera-
tive nursery Think what difference to the bulk Of the
population just these two things would make. The clean
wholesome food in light clean, bright rooms prepared
by trained cooks instead of badly cooked badly served
scraps In dingy kitchen And then the saving of ex-
pense in the buying of large quantities instead of in
ha porths in the fuel in the preparation and the pro-
ductve force Of the workers properly fed instead Of
starved or stodged.
Then the children, what it will mean to the rate of
infant mortality to have the babies hygiencaly looked
after and fed is ncacuabe, and that is an enormous
gain to the country, when pause to think that more
babies die the total of our killed in the
to date.
Add to these cooperative aundries, and YOU have
broken the back of domestic work. it, as sure to
come IN time we have proper dwellings in towns for
working peoplenot the dirty gloomy tenement of for
mer days, but bright, clean, tasteful flats with hot
water and heating from central furnace and electric
at price to suit modern wages and domestic drudpery
would be practically done away with
You have the foundation here of clean wholesome