The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1916-05-13
WAR is HELPING
WOMEN CAUSE
And It Will Not Be Necessary
for Them to Smash Windows
to Get Their Rights.

ROME. Italy, May BIT won't DO
necessary for women to smash win
dows and go to Jail to get their rights
when this war Is over" said Miss Girls
tobel Pankhurst to correspondent
OF the Associated Press during her Wis
1t here for the purpose OF forming
closer organization of the women Of
Italy with those OF France and Eng
land
This war is helping the cause Of
women wonderfully" she continued
We are helping the men with all our
might. with all our strength, and am
sure they will appreciate this fact
when the war Is over. Besides, Europe
then Will be mentally and spiritually
nifty years ahead of where II was be-
fore the war started. There has been
land, France, Italy and Russia are do
amount Of physical destruction caused
by 1t. but one cannot exaggerate the
mental awakening It has brought. and
4 this means broader outlook on the
! position Of woman.
Mental Male Revolution.
This mental male revolution was
sorcly needed both in England and in
] WI j ittl mat III ItlDlllS W
down Germany, as the women OF Eng
amid. France, Italy and Russia are do
ing. by their physical work. we are
putting down the great enemy OF wom-
ankind. The kaiser, you know. has
always frustrated the efforts of Ger
man women to rise from their sub
ordinate position. and he typifies the
attitude OF the German men. At that,
however, the German women will have
TO fight out their own salvation after
the war. along with the men. They
won't get any help from us. There has
been too much internationalism here
tofore. Now, it will he a matter for
each nation TO solve many OF its own
problems and in particular the German
nation.
England has been driven out of con-
seryatism. at last. We women have
shown English men that we are worth
something. that we are not inferior
creatures. ] am sure that II women
had n say in the conduct OF the
war England would have been ready
quicker. One of our misfortunes has
been that the young men, the OPEN
minded men. have gone TO the front to
fight leaving the old. slow minded men,
in charge. Take the case of the effort
10 get steel helmets for the men so
that they might be protected from
bullets and especially from bits of ox-
ploding shells. After these helmets
had proved useful in France, the old
men in England were still discussing
the ACCESSIBILITY Of using them.
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supplying Of their soldiers with pro-
tecting helmets. do you suppose they
would have hesltated to manufacture
them in hurry? Women are too
efficient for that. Besides their very
love would have urged them on.
Women Know How.
Possibly the largest lesson for men
in this war, MS regards us, is that
women know how TO do mans work. |
and often better than men themselves
English women are driving motor cars.
IRE working in the factories. on the [
farms. everywhere. In England we
have moro learned the lesson of the .
dignity of labor with the hands, and ,
with woman's hands AT that. Today
no woman in England, no matter what |
her rank, Is afraid to work. and this is /
lesson we in England will not forget
after the war. That's one reason why
l have ALWAYS admired the people in
the United States-thev appreciate the
honor of labor OF hard work. and arc
not ashamed Of it. God pity them ri
their wealth makes them ever forget
this truth.
This dignity Of labor. OF woman's
labor is going 10 have large influence
on the marriage question. on the aues-
tion Of ronulation. II has hccn asked:
What will hecowc Of the young men Of
Europe OF marriageahle are after the
var IS over. when there are not enough
hnGhards n 70 around or whom the