Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1916-05-18

WAR HELPING WOMANS CAUSE
 SAYS PANKHURST
Leader of English Suffs Saws Women Will Get
 Rights Without Fight.

be necessary TOT women to smash win dows and go to jail to get their rights when this war is over,' said Miss Cristobel Pankhurst to a correspond ent of The Associated Press during her visit here for the purpose of form ing a closer organization of the wom- en of Italy with those of France and England
 "This war is helping the cause of women wonderfully" she continued. I"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, Eu- rope then will be mentally and spirit ually 50 years ahead of where it was before the war started. There has been an exaggeration, for instance, of the amount of physical destruction cauSed by it, but one cannot eXagger ate the mental awakening it has brought, and this means broader outlook on the position of woman. "This mental male revolution was sorely needed both in England and in Germany. 1 feel that in helping to down Germany, as the women of Eng land, France, Italy and Russia are do 1 ing, by their physical work, we are putting down the great enemy of womanhood. The kaiser, you know. has always frustrated the efforts of German 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 heretofore. Now, it will be matter
 for each nation to solve many of it's own problems and in particular the
 German nation.
 English Conservatism Disappears.
 England has been driven out of conservatism, at last. We women have shown English men that we are worth something, that we are not in ferior creatures. 1 am sure that if
 women had had say in the conduct
 of the war England would have been
 ready quicker One of our misfor
 tunes 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 helmets had proven useful in
 France, the old men in England were
 still discussing 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- fracture them in a hurry? Women
 are too efficient for that. Besides their livery love would have urged them on.
 Possibly the largest lesson for men
 in this war, as regards us, is that
 women 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 have once more learned the les son of the dignity of labor with the
 hands, and with woman's hands at lthat. Today no woman in England, no matter what her rank, is afraid to
 work, and this is lesson we in Eng land will not forget after the war.
 That's one reason why have always admired the people in the United
 States-they appreciate the honor ot labor, of hard work. and are not ! ashamed of it. God pity them if their
 wealth makes them ever forget this truth.
 Il Marriage Only Sensible Thing. "This dignity of labor( of woman's labor, is going to have large influ-
 ence on the marriage question, on the question of population. It has been Iasked: What will become of the Iyoung men of Europe of marriageable Iage after the war is. over, when there Iare not enough husbands to go around Tor when the men feel themselves toe poor to get married and assume the Responsibilities of family life.
 "Well, the women who must go un . married will bear their hard lot as lthey have always borne it; they wil Iwork and keep on contributing thei1 P services to the nation, in a greater de ! gree than in the past. But we mus : admit that a happy marriage is th' : only sensible thing for any woman land think that the marrying man. :, fear of poverty will be gotten aroun'
 in this way: Women are ready t. t twork now outside of their homes Ithere is no longer any stigma at tached to it, and they will keep o1 t doing so, joining their wages wit | that of their husbands to maintain tn