The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-11-22

Yaea detached from home. brought
rocetAer for highly specialized busl-
ness, under discipline AND rules
which separate them from the rest
81 The population, these youngsters
remain bone Of the bone. flesh of the
nesh, and spirit of the spirit OF the
e,oaptry from which they came. l
saw them in the foothills of France
from Kansas, from Tennessee. from
Illinois, from Maine, from California.
tsTae French poilu is the Ameri-
cans companion,instructor working
shoulder 10 shoulder with him or
sitfsas in the doorway of French
cottage with him, inventing sort OF
-asssA>neck Esperanto. You explain
Ire s.I1sicQltias TO the poilu. En-
aseas he says, but these Americans
are making things go, you know.
They know how TO 60 q good job and
s asg job, an6, sapristi, they are very
QuFcss'
Nothing which have read pic
tarss the organized energy OF France
and England, the union of all the
forces OF the countries, spiritual and
material. economic and social, for
the maintenance of their armies and
their navIes, for the conservation and
concentration of their strength. No
one who has seen France and Eng
land can believe that the forces so
Sorganized will not remain IN a large
degree effective after the war. The
spiritual and social renaissance. the
economic changes brought about by
The conflict, will be incalculatly
potent in repairing the waste Of the
war.
Everything calls America to gem
erous rivalry with France and Eng
land in the organization of our ma
tional efforts. All that / saw before
il sailed in August, all that l have
read from home in cable dispatches
and in letters, promises that we shall
respond worthily, unrealizing and I'M
prepared as we may have been in
the past.
81 shall not speak at length of the
part which women are playing in
France They always have had a
large share in the domestic economy
of their nation. They always have
done some part of the work which
has made veritable gardens Of the
farms Of France. Husband and wife
/ together keep the French inns and
| the French shops. During recent
years young women have followed
the American example and have gone
/ into offices.
F, "But the most striking change Is
/ In England. where. In a general way,
the division of labor between the
sexes was like that in America.
now see in military uniforms belong
1 ing to the royal flying corps young
women of education. who have vol
lunteered as machinists and repair
workers have seen such young
volunteers at Havre, marching to and
from their work, uniformed and dis
ciplined.
"The chauffeuse who brought a
government car to take me out on
an GRAND the other day was the
daughter of celebrated diplomat,
who had been a fellow-ambassador
! with my father. Yesterday l met a
young woman whose husband, gen
eral now in comm and of a brigade.
has lost an eye and hand; she is
now waitress In restaurant.
There are. in England, over 200, 900
women on the land, who contribute
something to the garnering of the
crops, but more to the care of horses
and cattle, and have made the dairy
maid of fiction living reality of
England. There are perhaps half a
million high-hearted girls whose
labor on munitions maintains the
armies in the field"