The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1916-07-16
FEMLNISM MAKES
BIG STRIDES NOW
Declares Eugene BrienX in Dis
CuSSing the Future Of the
Women of France.
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tho future OF the women OF France
He predicts "a violent phase In the
war of sexes when the soldiers come
home and has thereby provoked
lively discussion of these questions:
VIII woman suffrage be advanced
: by the war?
VIII women now replacing mon N
all sorts of occupations hold thelt
places and come into competition
with the discharged soldiers?
viii they compllcatc the labor
problem by accepting the wage scale
=. for mans work? es
VIII their extended participation
: lin industrial life separate them more !
from men?
Fierce Competition.
"rhc competition between male
and female labor will be fierce" ac-
cording to NJ. Brieux, and he de-
. clares that women will abandon
7 the career of house wife while young
girls, having learned how to provide
y for themselves. vii no longer look to
man rs II prospective protector"
q Marcel Provost. another Accidents
clan. also sees coming "a great fall
} Ing off in sentiment, due to the PEN
ury Of men," and he expects the wo-
men who have learned to use the .
: lathe making projoctlles will turn
ont parts of automobiles and all
kinds of machinery after the war, He
il less pcsslmistiC than NJ, Brieu1 as
to the intensity Of their competition
with man.
Maurco Donnay agrees with his
two conrerccs of the academy that =
women will do more manual labor =
In factories and take more active q
part in mems occupations generally,
but he thinks there will be SO much
to do that proper division Of labor
, will prevent harmful conflict. 10.
Emancipation Sure.
DR.. Madeleine Pelletier, one Of the !.
leading French suffragets. who says
she "despalred of femlnlsm before
the war" now thinks that tho neces- :
stiles Of life are going to impose what
years Of propaganda failed to effect
the emancipation OF women" II,
1.-THE war" she says, will put
France, ms well as the other belll-
gcrcnts, face to face with crushing
financial problem and the state will
be unable to support the millions OF
mothers, widows and orphans de-
prived of their natural protectors, In
stead of a meagre pension" she anti
> CIpates. "the country will provide
for them by giving them occupations
in which they will earn their own
comfortable living" -
AS to domestic life. Madame Pel-
letter looks for complete trans
=, formation of the household to put
! 1t in accord with new conditions,
Dirty dishes will be laid out on 3
| the doormat to be taken away by
s specialists who will deposit them
properly cleaned In the same place..
she thinks. Stockings will be darn-i3I
| ed by other specialists leaving the =
women Of the family TO earn theiA
price of two pairs In the time they.l.
would take to stop up the holes oi,5s
one. -.
Specialists to Darn. 81
Cooking, as well as dlshwashlng-s.
and darnlng," she adds, will be NJ
done by specialists while the lady y
of the house concentrates her atten-. :;
ton upon the shop or the factory.
Madame Peletier, as well as the 4
AcademlcIans, neglect the question
MS to what viii become of the chill
dren. ut will be quite necessary for
France to think of the children,
though" writes u woman temporarily
working at the lathe. Future gem
erations," she points out, must
make up the wastage of war In hui.
man life and nothing could be more =
inopportune now than encourage
ment of the separation of womRn.A,
from the home and the smotherlng =
of family sentiment"
Hundreds Of women contributing
to the discussion agree with the sem
timent of the woman of the lathe. In
reply to 1t NJ. Brieux reminds then19w
that every married man who fallsoi
on the battlefield leaves widow: u
that every young man killed leavesla
a widow by anticipation widow
without weeds; that all these added
to the widows, orphans and motherg
that had lost their protectors Ish
fore the war make up formidah n
army of women for whom husband "a
cannot be readily found and who
most be permitted to make q living. 80
eve allowed ourselves to be SUR "a
prlsed by war" says NJ Brleux; let al
us not be surprised by peace; LET
us think right now Of what shall be
the fate of these victims"
No Cheap Labor ~
women will work in Franco
after the war as they always have
done" answers one correspondent
"but they will put no obstacle in the
way Of men. If employers are tempt.
ed by the prospect Of getting cheap
labor they will be met by this gen. +
eral doctrine equal pay for equal y
work; the woman that runs a lathe
after the war will get mans pay for E
her labor" 80.
"The best way of caring for the ~
interests of women after the. war is
to look out first for the men" is the
opinion of another female munitiona'7
worker" when the victorious solsa
diers came home he will find in woS
man a companion and callaboratoE
instead Of a competitor. The only
thing to do now is to reassure those
who are fighting for US so that theys.h
may come back to their fresldea5s
without anguish" sa5
1.-THE long separation will revealoa
in new light the joys Of hearth and q
home" says another. Even hosa Il
who never appreciated it will realiEsg