The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1917-05-10
Every Woman In.


With mer marching away to war
with guns on their shoulders and other
meu working the fields and counting
the money which must be raised to pay
the cost Of participation in world war
tie feminine population mus not get
the idea that she is being forgotten or
overlooked The chivalry of American.
manhood is going to protect woman and
hey place in war as well as in peace but
the chivalry of American woman is go
iaG to be expressed in a demand that
she do her part in bearing the burdens
Of war Every woman Of Kenosha,
who has in her the red blood of patriot
ic Americanism is going to find a way
to help the nation, II may not be the
big way but Mt that women are going
10 find something to do besides sit at
home and weep Anna Steese Richard
son, y woman who has stirred other
women by her power to write good
stories, makes an unusual appeal TO the
patriotism of women at this trying
time She gets under the mask that
has covered q lot of the women of the
nation and makes a plea to them for
unselfish devotion 20 the nation In
her call to the women Of America to
do their full patriotic duty now she
scvs:
Fifty years have passed since
American women have ben able to
4 rj,,o Oe
Since the days when your mother
and mine scraped lint and prayed for
the reunion Of a divided nation, we
women of America have come into won
derful privileges
Co-education has become a magnif-
icen5 reality. In many lines of industry
ard commerce we have attained
treasure of economic independence of
which our grandmothers hardly dared
to dream. Medicine and the law have
opened their doors to us as practition-
crs. Statutes have been revised in
croasing our rights When the sover-
cign body of our government was called
to decide tho grave question of declar-
ing war, a woman sat in that historic
hall and cas- her vote.
For these privileges we must pay
in added responsibility. In this grave
crisis we must d Sc in the measure of
our opportunities. We must prove that
because of these advantages, we are
stronger, more purposeful, more re-
sourceful, and if possible, more pa
triotic thar our grandmothers.
How shall we reach this high stand
ard How can we prove that we have
profited by our privileges and oppor-
trpities?
"First, b. rising superior to the pet
ty things vhich~yeara of prosperity
have transformed from Injuries into
necessities Like Martha of old, some
Of us still cumber our days with much
serving We have come to concentrate
on such petty problems as curtains
which shat rouse the envy Of our
friends; new frock in which Daugh-
ter Edith shall outshine her young
friends; a machine which shall outstrip
our neighbor IS.
"Today if we are to prove ourselves
worthy Of the privileges with which
progress am our country have endowed
us we will see something bigger than
neighborhood rivalry beyond the old
mended curtains at our vindows-men
marching forward - right wrongs.
Daughter Edith is no longer the fam
lily beauty to be declSed in nigh priced
finery, but woman whose country may
call her to perform those grave duties
FOR which her broader education has
fitted her che high-pcwer machine no
longer stands Tor personal ease and
pleasure 1T becomes messenger at
the service of the government And
this transformation of the family view
point, of orr national life, must come
through women. Instead of II must
have, we must learn to say, i do not
need. For thero is so little that we
really need, so much that we can give
to world which calls as it has never
called beforel