Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-01-15
BATTLE OF THE SEXES
FOR INDUSTRIAL LEAD
AFTER WAR PREDICTED
Struggle of Women to Hold
Places Now Occupied in
World of Trade to Begin
After World Conflict
Ends
CONDITIONS IN EUROPE

CONDITIONS IN EUROPE
After the world war is over greater
war Is scheduled to follow This war, as
predicted by Professor Marshall Phillips
o. London. will be between the sexes In
all the countries. English men will line
up against English women; the field VIII
be the industrial Battle-Ground of the
wor d.
Or. simon Patton. professor OF eco
Monies AT the University of Pennsylvania,
secs IN the change that is bound to come
through the employment of women in
trades formerly piled by men only. re-
adjustment cf n General displacement,
The hausfrau type of woman is grad
ua'ly disappearing. and the war has been
hurryng the process. The war is read
justing life for the era what is about to
come, said ~" professor today.
I'm the earliest period man was the
, hunter and woman the ngriCulturist. The
, next step found woman lodged in her
home and the man at his business. The
third period is here That is all this talk
about sex war means.
FIT FOR New FIELD.
"perscnallv | find that woman have
certain qualities that fit them for posi-
tons hitherto monopol.zed by men. Two
thirds Of the work in my office is eff
0tltNllN uOnt ny NOIltll anu MUeH 4 tdUlt
here no women were employed here. Take
our trolley system Any woman can fill
the position OF conductor on the pay-as-
you-enter car few years ago the con-
duCtors lot was not an easy one; today
1t is.
From my own knowledge i say that
IL women had something to do they would
be happier. The modern woman, who
need not do the actual work in her home,
is an abnormal woman. In an abnormal
position, she develops into suspicious
woman, jealous of her husband, and In
time the home Is disrupted
"Of course IL the woman has a large
family she has much to do. But the op-
purtunities for work opening UP for the
woman who wants TO do something have
been enlarged by the war.
"And most OF all In the country where
least expected. In Germany. The con-
trast between the broadening of the field
for women in Germany and England is
as black is to white. In Germany the
Government has opened the doors of all
its industries to women: the hausfrau
Is necessary outside of the home in order
that Germany may prove her self-suf-
ficlency
IAN trades and professions are open
to her In England a woman may enter
trade when and where the trade union
sees fit. She consequently is filling the
least coveted positions
workers are massed into industrial
unions. similar to our Industrial Workers
of the World. This organization takes in
all workers, regardless of sex. The
unions in England are trades unions: each
section of trade is organized apart from
every other. These unions object to hav-
ing women fill the places Of tho men who
are at the front. Therefore they threaten
to strike If women are employed in the
shops.
"In England n woman is allowed to fill
the positions the men don't want for
themselves And in Germany. the coun-
try where before the war suffrage meet
ings were held underground, the Govern
ment has invited them to come out from
the Kinder. Kirche and Kuche and help
In the struggle A letter from friend
in Germany, of my own age. tells me that
30 members OF her family, her children
and relatives. both men and women. are
fighting for the Fatherland. Old barriers
have been broken down in the military
caste, in the University class, as well as in
the industrial class"
Doctor Patton Is opposed to the theory
that overpopulation was one of the causes
of the European conflict He believes that
at the root of this international war are
race hatreds. He does not agree with the
followers of Malthus that there are too
many people In the world. or rather. that
there were before the war began. The
world Is underpopulated. says Doctor Pat
ton.
1.-The world is underpopulated today"
he said. I'm my own field the demand
for teachers of economics exceeds the
supply. The truth is, that above certain
/ level there are ten jobs for the right man;
below this level, there are ten men for
the one job. OF course II man spe-
clalizes in Sanskrit or HIndustanee, he
may have some difficulty in placing him
self
REIMBURSEMENT COMING.
"The modern problem Is for the man
to adjust himself in the industrial world,
for wherever a woman has proved herself
more efficient she will keep the job.
81 can easily meet the objection that
women are taking work away from men
by coming into competition with them.
That Is the old hausfrau idea, which Is
nowhere dying harder death than In
Germany. 1t is obvious that the family
accustomed to spend weekly the earnings
OF the husband. say $50 makes a limited
demand ON food and materials. The fam
lily income let us say, doubled by the
woman, amounts to $40 a week, and the
weekly outlay Is close to that amount.
This family will consume more under the
new regime; more people will be EN-
ployed to supply the increased demand
OF this class.
1.-The normal woman has come into be-
ing; the abnormal woman-the woman
without employment. held by tears and
lamentations within the boundaries of
house-is dying out. The German effi-
cheney of using the best at its command
has led to the demand for woman 10
take her place in the position for which
she is fitted.
''The rest of the world Will. as usual,
predict, follow her footsteps of efficiency"