Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1918-07-07

A wounded Anzac had come to
America to lecture. He bore some
honorn bic scars on his body, which
were symbolized by stripes on his
arm. A woman touched the stripes
and asked him what were his worst
wounds. He described one, which
was a clean hole made by a bullet.
In his informal Anzec manner, he
asked II she would like to see II.
She would So would everyone else
at the luncheon. So he showed her
the bullet hole below the collar bone.
How very disappointing she
exclaimed. II expected a great
CASH"
The Amaze buttoned his collar
thoughtfully, and turning to the table
said Now, | ask you, what are We
going 70 do with women IL they begin
TO expect so much Of men in this
war;"
And what will they do with them?
Men have begun to expect so much
of women and women OF themselves
that the situation is the most vitality
interesting thing on this planet, next
10 the war.
Women are gaining so much more
by this war than they ever demanded
Dear-hysterical.
Once We were contented race:
then we became an unquiet sex: then
we became a restless force; and then
we became llmylitant power.
Those with the keenest visions saw
ahead uf them Il long struggle. They
outlined the propaganda OF sef-cdu-
cation for women; they. lectured 10
men and Of nren concerning what We
Bnould have in the way OF industry
npd Commercial opportunity. When
ever men said that we were not SUI
iIciently educated to take over the
commercial burdensaof the world we
retorted that we would never be
educated II we did not begin TO
study.
What the War Brought 20 Women.
1t was to be a long war, argued
tie visionists. No 'cne expected
crisis that would revolutlonize ar
fairs ana throw women into the
places they desired and demanded
Then the war broke all traditions.
Circumstances did for women what
all the propaganda in the worid
could not have done for half CEN
tury, or probably more. But-and
IA
had been educated up to their jobs
during the last five years by the con-
Fant appeals 20 their ambition and
(sSpira lions.
\ What a topsy- -turvy kind of exis-
tence this thing called life is! You
ssrsye and importune, turn and twist
Tor something that you want and
that Is denied, and then, rising up
from the earth like spirit comes
the opportunity through no seeking
OF your own and In a way that was
never visioned or encompassed by
your brain.
When the volunteers were sue
ceeded by the draft. and when Pro-
vost Marshal Crowder's' drastic
slogan, Work or Fight" took men
by the millions out of their chos-
en- fields of endeavor the world
OF commerce, industry and educa-
ton made frantic appeals TO women
and held out to them as a gift what
1t had denied them as a right.
This situation has developed in the
last two months with rapidity that
is startling. Possibly. the prepara-
tions for war which have been made
by this country and which seemed
SO laggard to impetuous people, have
begun to move with the immense
impetus OF large force that has
finally been pushed to. the top OF a
hill and sent down on a smooth in
cline.
Things are happening so fast and
hard that we seem to be getting |
into the war for the first time.
Everything begins 10 count and tell
Men are leaving, men are fighting |
over there, men are giving up their
positions over her, million more
are being called, million more are
being thought Of ships are launched,
money is forthcoming. o
This rapid action is taking away
the breath OF many people, and 1t
IS right in this particular little seq
ment of the war that women are
vitally concerned.
We must work in every depart.
ment OF industry that man has here
tofore occupied. No one realized
how quickly this demand for female
Industry would arise. AS have
said, everything that the visionists
have begged for, has happened
through & circumstance for which
women can take no credit and which
they did not work out through any /
schemes OF their own.
Now, how is II all going to turn