Arizona republican., 1918-04-07
WOMEN IN WAR NUT SUFFERERS
 BUT WORKERS

The address ot Miss Brenda Frank lyn before the Woman's club last | Wednesday night on "The Balance of [ Power" has been widely and favor ably discussed by the ladies who were | present. This was one of several | talks in Phoenix and vicinity by Miss F'ranklyn on the war, in which she has presented phases of the great | conflict which are less familiar than | those of which there are daily dis | cussions. She deals more particular ly with the part of women in the war and she presents the views of an educated woman and widely -traveled | and read Englishwoman.
 Women in the present war are talk 1 ing a far more important part in the conflict than they have in any previous war. In earlier wars women only suffered; in the present struggle they are taking mans part. Never before" said Miss F'ranklyn, have the women of the nations been mobilized for official war service as in England and France today, where there are literally millions of women engaged in the intuition factories, on the railways and in the shipyards. It will interest you to know that the 1 greater part of our dreadnaughts, the greatest battleships on the ocean, are built mainly by women. The famous British tanks are made almost entire ly by them; they have taken over the agricultural work of the country and now large armies of women, trained and disciplined exactly like soldiers are serving immediately be- hind the lines as signallers, army fNT.v-r oharr clerks, telephone operators, in short, in any capacity save that of actual fighting, not to mention the im- mense activities of their Red Cross organizations and the heroic army of women nurses and doctors. They have been able in every imaginable way to relieve their men of the fighting line, and they have done their duty with a capability, thor oughness and self sacrificing devotion that has been the wonder and ad- miration of their nations"
 The lecture, proper was the speak CTS view of the causes, the point of view of the efforts, the point of view of the efforts used by each anu all of the combatants on either side, military, diplomatic, financial and ec- onomic and all these, she said, re- solved themselves to the question of the balance of power. It is only by careful study of all these con- tributins factors that the individual may so place her efforts that the ultimate balance of power may weigh on the side of right.
 The speaker has come from a country long and intimately concerned with the affairs of it's neighbors She had travelled through the warning countries long before the war and though it may be said that the war was unexpected there was something in the air that affected the people.
 Excusatory of the slowness with which on this side of the Atlantic the war has been comprehended, Miss Franklyn said: T realize how tre- mendously difficult it has been for the people of this country, absorbed IS they were in the development of it, separated from the other great nations of the world by thousands of miles, and brought up in an atmos- phere which affected your whole out look on life, to realize to the full lust what had been taking place in Europe. To you the war came as q bolt from the blue, as the advent of an inexplicable return of the savagery of prehistoric times, and it required insult after insult on Gernany's part to bring to you a realization that in these scientific days, distance is almost annihilated and that she was aiming 70 bring you too, into her mad dream of world conquest
 large and important section of the lecture deals with the rise and growth of autocracy in Germany un- der the genius of Bismarck This vrovpth had fG hooirripo i,, lS47. True, there was autocracy be- fore that but it was not alarmed for itself; it was not concerned with democracy; it was neither fearful of 1t nor jealous of it. But at length democracy had so spread and was touching even the Germanic states.
 Bismarck's plan did not involve merely the creation of a large and powerful army; it included the edu- cation of the people by means ofthe press and the schools; under form, of paternalism which until lately we regarded in this country as most admirable and which might be con- sidered a model for all, the people became economically dependent upon The state. It was easy to inculcate the belief among Germans that they were superior people. And by this time all power had been diverted into the hands of the ruler. The em- peror had become the state.
 Miss Franklyn presented a map or which it was shown that only 6 pitiably small part of the earth's surface was under autocratic rule that the doctrine of democracy Wal constantly spreading. But this show. Ing meant little. There was no con centration of democracy and much O it was worthless in a struggle be- tween autocracy and democracy. Tn, democracy of Russia and China ha! a place and nothing more on tn. map; the influence is felt nowher, else.
 Tt would seem.' said Hiss Frank lyn, that democracy would hav' little to fear from so small a section of the worlds community, but be no deceived; there is law of energ, governing the relation of forces tt mass. which operates just as surel. and fatally in affairs human as il those physical, and this law assert that power accumulates in myers ratio to the square of it's distance in other words-given a power suc as autocracy, which is capable c filling. and wishes to conquer tn world, concentrating that power, tn forces it commands in one spot, il exact proportion to the extent of tn concentration, will be the destruc tiveness of it's force; and in this fun damental truth governing energy O any plane is to be found at one an the same time the reason why Ger many can defy the world and wh democracy whose forces are scattere over an immense area must pull it self together and unite with all tn
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