Arizona republican., 1917-08-05
WAR |S BRINGING
 WOMEN ID FORE IN
 LAND IF THE HAREM|
Republican A. P. Leased Wire1

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 ROTTERDAM, Netherlands, Aug. f. Even in the land of the harem the | war is bringing women into public en- 1 ployment and the public eye. Hard shocks are being administered to old preJudices in Turkey, woman's age | long seclusion is being assailed and it l will be strange indeed if the facts re- corded in the latest letter of the l Niewe Rotterdam Courants Balkan correspondent do not have a lasting eff | feet on the general position of women l in the East
 Such announcements as the minis ' try of war requires women for office and warehouse duties at a commence ing salary of 400 piasters (equivalent to normally about s19) month" emanating from the department of im- perial posts, telegraphs and telephones, | the Turkish Red Crescent (Turkish Red Cross). the railway companies and the municipality can now be read daily Tn the papers of the Turkish capital, says the writer quoted. The notices 1 particularly add that the candidate must present written statement from | the head of her family that she has been given permission to accept such 1 work
 They are signs of the times, testify ing to the prevailing dislocation of or dinary life, in Turkey. Women are not 1 only permitted, but openly invited to i come and do mems work, beside and among men, and even in public More over, they are offered immediately a salary of $19 a month, while, in ordi- nary times, a male beginner had to serve the first few months for nothing.
 Since the beginning of the war living at Constantinople has become two or three times as dear as before. and longer hours are worked even in the pubic departments. Nevertheless, the conservative Old Turk, cannot vet bring himself to grant his women folk the permission required by the govern l ment.
 The more levies of young and oldei men are called to the coiors, however the greater the need of substitute labor becomes. Women and girls are more and more in demand for occupations Whlch, according to Turkish idea, are unsuited for them.
 It Is still for the greater part Greek. LeVantine and many Jewish women ana women subjects of countries allied 7, With Turkey. who have given ear to the calls for women labor PracticaIlv no Mosiem women are to be found en gagged Tn office work. It is chiefly in the telephone service and the offices O fthe ited Crescent that Moslem wom- el are to be found. and then only q few Some Moslem nurses have alsc recently made their appearance in the dressing stations and the war hospi. tais. but they wear a white cloth ST wound round the head, and pinned to- gether under the nos\ that only eyes and nose are visible Armenian womer snow Just a little inclination for pub
 ilc occupations
 mere IS still no thought in the Fla 6, or utilizing women as conductors or
 traln or street car as coachman. mai carriers or the like. The more men arr
 incorporated in the army the more i,
 recourse had to ever younger lahor
 Wlth the result that schoolbovs fror
 lhe middle classes, boys of IA to II
 years or age, are to be seen acting a.
 tram conductors and even as drivers
 IL IS pretty generally acknowledged
 that the women employees give satis.
 action, and. indeed, are quieter anf less exacting than men, It is even de.