Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1917-07-17

VT TASHINGTON July "A few weeks ago a KHAKI
w clad regiment marched through the streets e OF
" London on its way France London is useu
ghts yet crowds lined the sidewalks cheering
and waving farewell Proudly and right gallanuy ue
regiment marched with the erect carriage ana n[h'
assured tread soldier; with hats Jaunuy
cooked, and short skirts hutterng IN the pree%e' N
soldiers women!
Months go. British military authorities started
recruiting large number of women clerks ana me-
chanics putting them through strenuous course
of physical training The idea to send them 10
France to relieve who were occupying POSITIONS
other than the trenches. There now some Twelve
hundrd women, with firm, hard muscles and strong
constitutions French zone doing military
strictest kind of military discipline
They actually fighting, although even that may
They filing Jobs of military cooks CLERKS,
carpenters drivers, who have been moved
the front
Beside the Russian women's Regiment of Death
which proposes fight in the trenches under the same
conditions as men, womans of Great Britain
would of minor significance if it were not for uhe
fact that it is British After three years of war In
which she has proved invaluable citizen the BRUSH
woman is just beginning break through the conVen-
tional cocoon British man built for her. woman
is still forbidden practice law in England She can
hold any important political position
Not long ago. a young woman was elected petty
sons clerk of a civil criminal court in the place
of her father held the position for forty-ive
years. The young had helped her father with
hold position But the local authorities were
informed the judges that IT was against
the law for woman be a court recorder. The young
lady a of determination, has been taking
from court 70 court. with the help OF the
Woman Association Ireland, but the result
is still doubt.
In view condition, 1t lis remarkable to find
the British woman clerk the battlefront
of France During past three years politics have
been forgotten England. of the men have
and the have been too busy to devote
much time to the ballot. They have worked with an
energy was all greater because they hoped for a
reward In the end they deserve sympathy. For
cordng to best reward has been very
slight.
the beginning of the war. when the women be-
gan to organize for work, the government gave
understand that their assistance would neces-
sarily have be limited There certain things
women for and they to stick to these
Germany had five hundred thousand in NUM-
before England had fifty thousand Fin
ally 1t was the private corporations in England who in
their empoymet both in the factories and
in railways police departments. In other fields,
too the government proved stubborn. When the
attempted handle the problem of Belgian refugees.
the government would lend assistance pre-
perfected ii very ineffcently But such opposition met
it's defeat in encounter with medical
The medical women all the United Kingdom
offered their services to the government in it's
time of need only refused. Undiscouraged, the
women then went France and France received them
gladly December. 1914 the first hospital at the