Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1917-03-06
BY FREDERIC J.
. HASKIN.
ENGLAND AT WAR. V.-The Share of the Women

mobiles and are doing other things for which they
have the physical endurance and what might be caeo
manual equipment So far as the wore 0i Io
women in munitions factories is concerned II ca
he said definitely that shows evidence of an expert
ness which exceeds that of the trained man.
The women of England doing today work which
calls for a high order moral physical courage
In departments of the munitions factories
slip of fingers breadth may mean the destruction OIL
hundreds of lives. The women who do the delicate
work in the chemical departments of the war supply
factories literally lives in their hands when
their benches They make no boasts OF Inelr
bravery, but every man England is proud OF the
woman doing bit make her country victor
believes to be war of free institutions
against threatening militarsm.
Get up early in London and along the far roads
leading in from suburbs and you will meet the
light dairy market wagons coming into town laden
with their food products and all driven, motor and
horse alike, by They have taken naturally
to this work and when they get into the crowded
streets the city they guide their horses their
machines not only with the skill of the men whom
they have succeeded on the drivers seats but with the
calmness and the confidence Of the veteran Of the
crowded traffic routes.
Go farther along these roads into the country and
visit dairy and the stables Of the farmers
and market gardeners. Women, young girls perhaps
part doing the milking. the feeding OF
cattle, and tile grooming of the horses They
hands and stable hands in and they
how do the work, and, that they it,
they seem satisfied with it a life occupation.
Boys come back is perhaps quite another question.
This matter Of the of mind IN the part of
women regarding occupation the war brings
up quite a serious question which day
swered. Women have gone to work at all kinds of
vocations and avocations The economic status OF
woman has changed and it may be that the economic
status of the land must change with England
today is confronted with war; when the is
will confronted with a problem to read
just working conditions that trouble avoided
and bala Of in the 1aho and
worlds be kept even.
There have been those in England to hold that the
work which the women are doing in the hospitals repre-
the highest line of endeavor In a this may
be but it is agreed generally that it is true
woans work in the hospitals represents
work. in other words, 1t is the disqualification of
woman's desire to serve humanity.
Hospital work is particularly trying because II
gets on nerves" The IN hospitals must
steel themselves suffering, vince in the
presence of pain Hospital work Tor women is soul
trying but nevertheless the feeling
tering suffering is essentially the work of woman
Hence, the thought In England is that the
goes into other fields OF labor is doing
country which should stand Just high a plane
that of the rsrvice for the sick and wounded.
Thes are few tasks left England which are with
tbs strength Of do that they doing
heaviest work must be done by able-bodied men,
but doing work today which three years ago
was supposed be beyond the limits Of their
strength. They have become Injured to certain kinds
physical labor, We the physicians
they receiving bodily benefit from at one
time would have been thought body-breaking effort.
England. everyone knows, the elevators are
called lifts Always prior to the were oper-
ated by Now and girls at the levers
the lifts in all the hotels and such buildings
a supplied with them.
all the railroad stations there what are called
buffets where breakfasts, luncheons and dinners
and hot and cold temperance drinks to the
soldiers outgoing and incoming The women do all Of
the work of waiting the soldiers, preparing the
food and of operating the buffets. waitress 20
superintendent the entire establishment in their
hands The work is businesslke and effective
In fact. English women are at work along every line
of and peace endeavor And they their hearts
in their work They have living confidence that their
country is to win the war. a living pride in the
feeling that they helping her to