Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1916-01-07


join the army, but not yet called 10
camp, because they cannot be epulpP-
ed. After the enrolment of sueh men
4under the Derby ugroup PLAN a plain
khaki band, four and a haii inches
wide, an embossed red crown al lts
center. is fastened upon the arm Oh lhe
recruit by buttons, and, wearing this
evidence of willingness" n badge Oh
patriotism, he continues at his oa'iy
work. It serves to warm oil The nag
ging employer of whom | have spoken
But there are Objectionable features
to this ingenious idea. In addition,
the attested man carries an identihca-
ton card, which he must produce on
the demand of a policeman or recruit
ing sergeant.
He becomes, verbally, "a ticket-of-
leaveu man! This constitutes a spe-
cies of espionage liable to be made
uncomfortable.
No t'militarismn in Prussia eve ex-
ceeded this! A man leaves home in
the morning, not knowing but that he
will be in a training camp by night.
Such is life for men in SHERRY Eng
land, this Christmas season.
Bot [ have not finished Talking
about the part woman Is called upon to
NAV in this appalling crisis.
Mrs. Pankhurst is reported to be
g%ratuitously managing a provision
store in the Soho district, the owner
aud his two ons having gone to the
trenches, leaving the little shop as the
only means of supporting the wife
mother of four small children.
This is the woman they imprisoned
and forcibly fed!
Yes, less than two years ago there
were people in England-and, [ regret
to say, in this State, as late as last
November-who opposed giving to
women equal status with men "be-
cause they couldn't go 10 war and
fight"
My esteemed friend, Rossiter John
500, is one of these logicians. These
ladies who are taking the places of
the clerks, accountants in banks,
checkers in wholesale warehouses, and
even assuming the absolutely neces-
sary activities of lower rank of trade,
are represented on the firing lines by
the men whose work they are doing!
l wish every opponent of woman's
equality had read the thrilling adj
dress, of Mrs. Oliver II. p. Belmont at
Washington recently. AS she conclu-
siyely- proved. the burden of warfare
ultimately falls upon woman, because
it is she who has to bear, nurture and
raise the material of which armies are
made.
Now, an additional burden is laid
upon woman.
Florence Nightingale and Clara
Barton performed services for their
country equal to those of any man in
the ranks on the Crimea or upon the
battlefields of the Civil War. They
saved hundreds of lives that other
wise would have been lost.
10 me, the prompt response of the
women Of Great Britain is quite 10
contrast to the tardy cooperation of
the laboring element in that most
highly industrial country.
Virtually every woman in England
AND Wales accustomed to manual la
boz, already has her task; the woman
of leisure is the only available resource.
Britons and Americans have been
want to ridicule the Dutch because
their women were always at work-in
fields, in shops and in factories. In
dustrial cooperation of French women
is accepted, as matter of course, and
the rest of the world knows to what a
condition of financial strength the uni
vefsal thrift of its women, as well as
men, has brought the French nation.
But England SCOTS no more!
Days Of bitterness have come and the
true grandeur of the British character
10 no way so clearly shown as by the
splendid courage with which national
danger is met by the women of Eng
land.
Imagine what it means to the
daughter of ga belted earl"-a girl
raised in luxury, toadied by Britons
aud people of other nationalities
especially pig-eared Americans), bav-
ing a box at the opera, her name on
the list of every fete at Albert Hall or