The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1918-01-21
Government Begins Final "Comb
Out" for Men to Swell
Military Ranks. NAV.
women MUST DO Share
Those Unable to Fight Are Called for
Other Necessary S~ervice-Econ-
omy Of Effort, Expense and
Material Demanded.

items hardly less directly concerned
with the wars prosecution, England
is organizing one more comb OUT TO
find men for military service, and both
men and women for other essential
e%mployments. The appeal for men to
don uniforms and for workers is ac-
cOmpanied by a renewed insistcncc
upon the utmost economy OF every et-
fort, expense and material. Economy
is the watchword of the new national
service campaign under the direction
of Sir Auckland Geddes, minister OF
national service,
"Woman's clothes are the grave Of
m enormous amount of human cner-
~" he said. New hats alone absorb
the work of millions Of fingers, and
whatever effect they may have that
effect certainly does not include help
ing to beat the enemy,
IF we are to make the great eff
fort that we should make, if we really
are going to make the greatest effort
in our history, our imagination must
be quickened to understand the effect
Of our smallest actions. Everywhere,
in practically every home, we are vast
ing something. I am sorry to say that
we have great organizations which ex-
list to encourage waste"
Only Necessities Of War.
Sir Auckland insists, the govern
ment is beginning to insist, the people
are beginning to understand, that con-
sumption to a great extent has got to
stop. The producing capacity of the
country has got to be saved to turn
out the absolute n~ecessuries Of life
and Of a
The case is being laid before the
British people now in the very sim
plest terms. Not only is everybody
urged to eat the least possible amount
of food necessary to maintain good
physical condition but 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 have been occupied
in making the new dress that my lady
is not going to buy and that therefore
Will not be nude; the fingers that
would have employed themselves pre-
pairing the CONNECTION Of a hat that Is
going to be forsworn; the skill and
handicraft that would have found &C.
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 national life and
national war.
Domestic Service a Problem.
Particular attention is 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 if
she advertises for q servant especial
~ if she mentions in the ADVERTISE
ment, as many English housewives do,
that her establishment is based on the
butler and three maids model, or the
butler, houseman and four maids
model, or something Of that sort. For
her advertisement is likely to become
the basis Of derisive comment by folks
who wonder why the butler is not in
uniform and some of the maids at
least in a munitions factory.
While the authorities who are hunt
ing for man power and woman power
insist that altogether too much Of it
is wasted in domestic service, house
holders declare that it is becoming
practically impossible to get service
at all. Moreover, it is likely to con
tinue SO for a long period, because
women, young and old, who have
tasted the satisfaction of that more
independent existence that is vouch-
safed to other workers are almost
without exception determined that they
will never 60 back into domestic sery-
ice. -
Here is the formula for the mobiii-
z%ati0n4of national man power and IA
tional financial resources: Discharge
your servants and see that they get
enlisted in national service. Save the
money that you would have paid them
in wages and buy var bonds. The
government will nav that money to
your former servants as wages for
making munitions. The. rest of the
money that you save by reason Of cir
,cumscribing your domestic establish
ments will be deity taken away from
you by the government through it's in
strumentalities of taxation and used
to maintain the armies in France and
in almost all the other quarters of the
world. Another energy that is being
tapped is the great class of women
who have never imagined that it was
part of their life to engage in gainful
occupation. There are fewer of them
In England by a good many hundreds
Of thousands than there were before
the war. But there are still many Of
them, and the effort Is to enlist them
for useful service.
Special meeting of Degree Of Hon
or will be held in K. of G. hall this
evening. aeF