Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1917-07-17
BY Frederic j. HaSkin

under British women thrown open. This hos
pita is considered of the most efficient in
France and it is entirely by women to doc
tors nurses cooks and ambulance drivers.
After this Great Britain slowly began realize it's
mistake Gradually have been admitted into all
fields of work until there is woman's army
working in the very midst of battle in France and two
prominent women Mrs. Sidney Webb and Dr. Marion
Phillips been asked the British com
mission reconstruction. Thus the British women
have made during the past three years
but they have had to fight for every step of it,
In France, from the beginning it has been different
The feminine influence in France since the days of the
French Revolution has always been great AS rule the
Frenchwoman gifted with a practical commonsense
and business judgment equal to that Of her husband
and when she speaks tho listen to her. There
women have made and broken cabinets without the
weapon of the ballot.
When broke the French government imme-
diately realized which it should
have to rely its 1t sought to help rather
than hinder them. AS the started
filling the places of in the munition factories the
government threw open all the technical schools to
them that that they might the train
ing. When the women philanthropic workers started
their campaign for the of Belgian refugees and for
the destitute children OF northern France the
only did not Interfere but ordered
feet to provide the headquarters of the woens soce-
ties in Paris with lists of all the refugees in his district
Through this cooperation of the government thirty
thousand Belgian families brought together fed.
clothed and put to work into school.
the of France wrestling
the problem of rehabfitating and viii
ransacked and left practically deserted by the in
vaddng Scores villages de ruined and
devastated the harvests swept the cattle
and the population between the OF fifteen
and sixty deported by the German army. Not cow
a chicken left, dog Only the old and the chill
dren have been spared and they dn need of
thing in the way food and clothes. remains
organize these deserted provinces the
under cultivation, restock the farms
with cattle and put the population to work.
tremendous tasks following another
rapid succession. the women of France have been
called and again put forth almost superhuman
They have had to build whole provinces while
the enemy destroying But at time
have they failed themselves clearly
political good toward which their travelling
n realize to the fullest extent the
part all the world Will play in winning
the They that all nations at depen-
upon labor of their They realize fur
pendent upon the attitude with which perform
realizes it, too misses opportunity
courage them.
The three years of have changed only the
conditions affecting European women, but also
There is hardly in the belkgerent
has suffered Practically
in France her black badge of loss around
ARM the of England, although less frank.
have all paid personal sacrifice to As
British woman said, I'VE already
past. Our personal joys We only In
the universal joy of who engaged in
making for future generations of women"