The Cordova daily times., 1916-05-25
WAR |S HELPINC WOMEN, SAYS
 PANKHURST

ROME, Italy, May 15. - Tt won't be necessary for the women to smash windows and go to jai' to get their rights when this war is over," said Miss Cristobel Pankhurst to a cores pondent of the Associated Press duE- ing her visit here for the purpose of forming a closer organization of the women of Italy with those of Frasce and England
 "This war is helping the cause Of women wonderfully she continued. eve will appreciate this fact when the war is over. Besides, Europe then will be mentally and spiritually fifty years ahead of where it was before the war started. There has been an exaggeraton, for instance, of the amount of physical destruction caused by il, but one cannot eXageer- ate the mental awakening it has brought and this means a broader outlook on the position of woman.
 This mental male revolution was. sorely needed both in England and in Germany. | feel that in helping to down Germany, as the women of England. France. Italy and Russia are doing, by their physical work, we are putting down the great enemy of womankind. The Kaiser, you know. has always frustrated the efforts of German women to rise from their S. bordinate 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 heretofore. Now, it will be a matter of each nation to solve many of its own problems, and in particular the German nation.
 England has been driven out of conservatism at last. We women have shown Englishmen that we are worth something, that we are not inferior creatures I am sure that if women had a 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 to get steel helmets for the men so that they might be protected from bullets, and especially from bits of exploding shells. After these hel- mets had proven useful in France, the old men in England were still dis cussing the advisability of using them.
 If women had been in charge of the supplying of their soldiers with protecting helmets, do you suppose they would have hesitated to manu- facture them in hurry? Women are too efficient for that. Besides their very love would have urged them on.
 Possibly the largest lesson for men in this war, as regards us, is that wo- men know how to do mans work, and often better than men themselves. English women are driving motor cars, are working in the factories, on the farms, everywhere. In England we 1 have once more learned the lesson of the dignity of labor with the hands, and with women's hands at that. To- day no woman in England, no matter what her rank, is afraid to work, and l this is lesson we in England will not l forget after the war. That's one req son why I have always admired the people in the United States-they ap- preciate the honor of labor of hard work, and are not ashamed of it. God pity them if their wealth makes them ever forget this truth,
 This dignity of labor, of woman's labor, is going to have large influ-