The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1918-04-26
Women Of England Find in II a
Most Attractive and Lucra-
tive Professor.
HELP DRAW NET ON SPIES
system 10 Perfect; One Marvels How
German Secret Agent Can Slip
Through, but Slip Through
He Does.

educated woman In her service, the
postal censorship offers opportunities
for advancement not to be found else
where. The pay ranges from SIPS a
week while learning, rising by incre-
ments OF 81 to SIS q week. the maxi
mum for an examiner, with additional
war bonus. There are at least fifty
women earning more than $1,000 a
year. supervising thirty or forty exam
liners each. They have all risen from
the ranks.
Now they hold the proud title of ID.
A. G. deputy Assistant Censor), to
which they have been elevated not SO
much for their languages as for their
general capacity. One girl of nine
teen. engaged two years ago as q
typist at IS a week, rose to SIS with
In six months. Another, beginning at
$40. drew $40 within eight weeks.
Yet the plant of the deputy chief
censor Is that 'we cannot get enough
Of the right kind of women to be cen
sors." The latter Is the executive
head Of that vast machine. created
mainly for restrictive measures, which
yet feeds with valuable information
not merely the war Office. OF which Ii
now forms an integral part, but the adj
miralty. the foreign Office with its of
shoots. the propaganda department,
contraband committee, and ON which
the whole OF our blockade activities
are based.
Is there enough of the right kind of
women anywhere? The right kind Of
woman has many venues open to her.
Some offer service In France-adven-
ture. romance. the making of history,
the glamor OF the uniform and a
chance Of honor and glory. But the
woman censor. catch spies though she
may, gets but little limelight.
Hsrolnss In Bureau.
There are women In the censorship
today with three or more years service
who are not least among the hsroines
Of wal. They work In secret and In
silence. behind closed doors, and their
successes are hidden. They will not
even tell their friends where they
work. let alone what they do. Al
though the women examiners Of mails
number some 1000. against some 500
male examiners, there has been little
mention Of the ONE The recent
decision Of the authorities to remove
some Of the secrecy which shrouds the
woman censor will lead the right wom-
en- 10 apply for the work, though nat
urally there will be no disclosure which
can possibly be Of use to the enemy,
md the discipline habit Of calling ev-
erything confidential will continue.
Experience II not demanded of recruits,
sincs the work Of censorship was only
called into being by the harsh needs
q war, and the censor's ONCE itself
IL the only place where training and
experience can be obtained.
The necessary qualifications are not
merely languages. and what they do Ii
not Just to read ether peoples dull let
ters. % seems the general impression ;
Il u much more interesting than that.
There are women there who know no
tongue but their own; they have been
chosen for their judgment and their
unqusstionabls discretion besides their
education and general knowledge. One
would emphasixe the value of judg-
ment and the opportunities for exer.
cising II II II 4 question Of weighing
up facts and coming to wise and rea
sonable decisions the whole time. To
women with q happy blend Of imagi.
nation and common the work IL
absorbing. at times thrilling.
It 10 an experience and an educa.
tion. q privilege to be part Of this won.
derful mechanism. even as the hum.
blest Cos IN it, wheel Of progress; to
observe the details Of Its construction
and to watch 1t expand week by week.
Censor TIehtsns Net.
Tor a. the war 1widens the censor
throws his net still further overseas,
tiChtening It until one marvels how the
0srman secret service agent can slip
through it, manifold meshes. Slip
through them he does, and that II why
IT, country needs her daughters to
help to outwit him.
ID the women's army or navy the
ayeRags pay Of oficers II 1926 to sS75,
with free quarters. They must leave
their homes, and to the woman who IL
seeded In London this Il q di6iculty
Hat II the London dweller has not the
robost health that enables her all day
t. stand on her feet. though she car dc
aagood days work ION her head" II hel
fanfly falters ut the thought of France
let her come forward to the censorship
and stay in England. Here, n an or
dinary censor or examiner OF mails
~ viii have responsibility, with scope
~ individuality and the great chanc'
of bringing 4 spy to book by her keen
80 IN drawing close the NET.
Dives Stamps for Change.
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