Arizona republican., 1918-09-18
"The Martial Adventures of
 Henry And Me"

work, and when women may go into the world to work without losing their social positions. And this new order, this making the world safe for democ- racy as you call it, will rob civilization of it's most perfect tiower-the culti- vated woman who has developed under the shelter of our economic system. might as well shock your bourgeois morals now as later. So listen to this Here is one of the ways the women of Europe are suffering. l talked to a French mother this morning. Her in come is Gone-part Of it taxed away and the rest of it wiped away by the Germans in Northern France. Her son has only q second lieutenant's income In this chaos she can find no suitable wife for him. One who is rich today tomorrow may be poor. so the dear fellow may not marry. And he is look ing for a mistress. and his mother fears he will pick up fool. for only fool would take him on a lieutenant's sal ary. And the weeping mother told me sne would almost as soon that her son should have no mistress as to have a fool, For a mans mistress does make such a difference in his life, My friend is almost willing to let him marry some bright poor girl and go to work. The world never will know the suffering the women of Europe arc enduring in this war"
 Now we may switch off that record with the snort of woe which HenrV gave when he heard it. He was trying 10 tell a Duchess about prohibition in Kansas, who had never heard of either Kansas or prohibition and who was clearly scandalized at what she heard Of both. But Henry's other ear was open to what the embassy ornament was saying to me. On the other side of this record of the swan song of the lady of the embassy is this record. It is a mans voice. The man has risen from an American farm. hustled his way into a place where as manager If the London factory of an American concern. he works several hundred en- ployes.
 Another Future for Women
 Say. let me tell you something never again, Never again for mine dc the men come back into our shop. We may let dozen or so of 'em back to handle the big machines. But the next size which We thought that only men could handle-never again. And when they come back these men will have to work under women foremen. We thought when the war took our men bosses away that we should have tc close the shop. But say-never again | | tell you. And let me give you 2 ! pointer. You wouldn't know then | girls When the war broke out they were getting ten shillings-about s2.5l a week. the best of 'em. and they wer, mean and slovenly and kind of skinny and dirty and every once in a whil, l one would drop out, and the other girl.
 had a great joke about her-you know
 And they would soak the shop when. ever they got a chance, The boss ha,
 to keep right after 'ern. or they'd soldie
 on the job or break machine. or sligh
 the product. and they'd lie-why. man
 the whole works would stand up an,
 lie for each other against the shop.
 took five men Co boss them where Vi
 have one woman doing il now. An,
 say, it ain't the woman boss that's don
 it. We pay 'em more. Them sam
 girls is getting ten and twelve and if
 teen bucks a week now-LaMse ml : you ought to see 'em, Dressed up { Kill: fat, cheerful. wide-aNa!lei Goddle mighty. man. yon wouIdl't know CT } for that sGme mcasiy bunch of Srouch