The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-01-08
DIR. Buttrick, Head of Gener'
al Education Board, Tells
of Condition Abroad
WOMEN SERVE CAUSE
IN MANY CAPACITIES
These Days You Would Feel Very
Much Like a Slacker-Energies of
Empire Fully Organized

NEW YORK, Jan. S.-Dr. Wallace |
Buttrick, president Of the general ell |
ucation board. who recently returned |
from an educational mission in Eng
land, described to the members of the |
Rockefeller Bible Glass at the Fifth |
Avenue church some of the social and
economic Developments in that cOun-
try as the result of the war. The ener
gies Of the entire nation, he said, were
turned to the task of prosecuting the
war to be successful finish. The whole
population, according to his picture Of
conditions there, yibrated with deter
mination to make the struggle against
German miltarism a winning struggle.
Without wearing khaki in England
these days, he said, you would GER
tainlv feel very much like Stacker.
Despite by sixty-seVen years ! felt
verv much like one. Those who do not
wear a uniform wear some kind Of a
badge indicating that they are either
exempted from service, or that they are
helping the government in some branch
Of work essential to the prosecution Of
the war. Not only tae common people
but ROYALTY is taking part III the war.
/ England IS one heart and one soul in
| this war, and nothing will swerve her
| from the determination to win it =
| Dr. Buttrick was especially impressed
with the work that is being done in
/ ENGLAND to make disabled and crippled
soldiers useful to themselves and so
ciety. The construction of artificial
i limbs, Dr.. Buttrick pointed out. has
! been developed to slch an extent that
/ soldiers are restored to their former
vacations, and made as capable OF earn
ing a livelihood a. they had been be-
fore the war, Those who by reason of
their liabilities cannot return to the
occupation they pursued before the war
are taught trades to which they arc
more adaptable. The government
makes every conceivable effort to re-
store the wounded soldier to economic
usefulness. No man is discharged from
service until he has mastered some
trade
Discussing the work of the British
women in the war, DR.. Buttrirk said
that during the last three years the
women Of England had proved them
selves adaptable to MANY vocations
from which they had been previously
excluded. Thousands Of girls drafted in
to the activities of the large industrial
centres are familiarizing themselves
with wider range of work than they
had ever known before.
Or. Buttrick described his impress
>ions Of the French battle front.
The French, lie said. "valiantIy
held the line until the British cot in
and now the British and the French
are holding the line until the Ameri
cans Get in. The sooner we ioin the
allied forces. the sooner will this FIGHT
for civilization and democracy he won
There has not been enough arpre
, cl"tlon OF the work that has thus fal
r been accomplished by the British NAVY
The navy has swept the German raider,
Of the seas. 1t has bottled up the Ger
5 man fleet and is Doing splendid WORK
2 III every possible direction. Too mucI
/ praise cannot be given to the gallant
merchant marine and the sailors, whc
face the perils of the sea every das
: without q sign Of fear