Ripley County democrat., 1918-03-01
ALL BRITONS TO
! DO Their BIT
Government Begins Final 1Comb
Out" for Men to Swell
Military Ranks.
WOMEN MUST DO Share
These Unable to Fight Are Called for
Other Necessary service--Eeon-
omy Of Effort, Expense and
Material Demanded.

London.-With 100000 men in un
form, and with other millions, bot
men and women, engaged In occup,
lions hardly less directly concerne
with the wars prosecution, Englan
Ia organizing one more "comb out" [
find men for military service, and bot
men and women for other essentia
employments. The appeal for men
don uniforms and for workers is a,
companied by a renewed insistenc
upon the utmost economy Of every ei
fort, expense and material. Econom
ts the watchword of the new natIona
service campaign under the dlrectio
of Sir Auckland Geddes, minister 0
national service.
"Womnn's clothes are the grave O
an enormous amount Of human encr
gy." he snid. "New hats alone absorl
the work Of millions of fingers, an,
whatever effect they may have tha
effect certainly does not include help
ing to beat the enemy.
If we are to make the great ef
fort TINT we should make, IL we reall,
are going to make the greatest effor
In our history, our Imagination mus
be QuickeHed to understand the effec
OF our smallest actions. Everywhere
In practically every home, we are vast
Ing something. I nm sorry to say tina,
we have great organizations which ex
list to encourage waste" r
Only Necessities Of War.
Sir Auckland insists, the govern
ment Is beginning to insist, the people
are beginning to understand, that con.
sumption to great extent has got to
stop. The producing capacity Of the
country has got to be saved to turn
out the absolute necessaries Of life
and Of war.
The case is being laid before the
British people now In the very sim
plest terms. Not only Is everybody
urged to eat the lcnst possible amount
OF food necessary to maintain good
physical condition bur everybody Is
told that he must wear his clothes
longer must be satisfied with patched
boots, must cut down his expenditures
for every kind Of luxury, for amuse.
ment.
But that is only the beginning. The
hands that would hive been occupied
In making the new dress that my lady
is not going to buy and that therefore
will not be made: the fingers that
would have employed themselves pre-
pairing the confectlon Of q hat that is
going to be forsworn; the skin and
hnndicrft that would have found oc-
cupation producing suits Of clothes
that are not going to be bought or
worn: all these must find employment
Of another kind; employment at pro-
ducing the things necessary. and alb
solutely necessary, to nationaHlife and
national war.
Domestic Service 4 Problem.
Particular attention Ii being given
to the problems OF domestic service,
which represent immense wastes of
human energy. Nowadays a woman is
likely to lose her social standing II
The advertises for servant, especial
y II she mentions In the ADVERTISE
nent as many English housewives do,
hat her establishment is based ON the
'utler and three maids model, or the
'utler, houseman and four maids
model. or something Of that sort. For
Ier advertisement Is likely to become
he basis Of derisive comment BY folks
rho wonder why the butler 10 not in
inform and some of the maids at
sast In munitions fnctory. r
While the authorities who are hunt
lg for man power and woman power
assist that altogether too much Of II
wasted In domestic service, house.
olders declare that II Is becoming |
ractically impossible to get service
all. Moreover, II is likelyto con.
nue. 50 for a long period, because
'omen, young and old. who have
listed the satisfaction Of that more
dependent existence that Is vouch-
lfed to other workers are almost
ithout exception determined that they
Ill never so back into domestic serv-
e.
Here Is the formula for the mobill-
'tion Of national man power and ma
onal financial resources. Discharge
'ur servants and see that they get
listed In national service. Save the
oney that you would hive paid them
wages and buy war bonds. The
'vernment win pay that money to
'ur former servants as wages for
akfng munitions. The rest Of the
oney TINT you saYe By reason of cir
mscribing your domestic establish
rnts win be deftly taken away from Il
u By the government through Its In
rumentallties Of taxation and used
maintain the armies In France and Il
almost all the other quarters of the
,rld. Another energy that Ii helng
pped Is the great class Of women
10 have never imagined TINT Ii was
It Of their life to engage ID eainful
cupation. There are fewer of them
England By good many hundreds x