The sun., 1918-07-15
W. A. A. C.'S GET GLAD
HAND IN THE ARMY
Soldiers Accept Women as
Comrades, as They Have
Proved Their Mettlc.
MILITARY MEDAL TO ONE
Girls Accept Restrictions, Pre-
fer Living In Tents and
Gain in Health.
ny PERRY ROBINSON.

Special cabis Dsspdfeh to Trr srS from "a.
London Times
Copyright. 1915: oil RICH. reserved
WITH THE BRITIsH ARMY IN FRANCE,
July 14.-Beyond doubt the waacs-the
members Of the women's Auxiliary Army
Corps, numbering many thousands-ar.
excellenty justifying their existence and
have become honorably incorporated
into the army. Whatever quiLzical hesl-
tatIon there may have been at hra on
the part Of the soldiers TO accept women
frankly as comrades has disappeared
Has not a member OF the womens
corps within the last week received the
military medal for conspicuous gal
lantry? 10 there not a memory OF those
who were killed by German bomb
which dropped directly into their shelter
In q trench7
Nor Is 1t only by these outstanding in.
cidents that the corps has earned II,
right to be treated as solderly com.
rades; II earns II daily by earnest and
unobtrusive work smartly carried ont
under strict discipline in a great number
of spheres In the back areas OF Francs
There the need Of recruits Is urgent,
for every one who comes releases man
for military service; perhaps the partlc.
ular man directly released may not bs
lt for work In the front line, but he can
do something else and release another.
who IL pushed up in front. SO every
woman who Joins the corps Is so much
contribution to tire solution OF our nah
power problem.
The life. with its discipline and
healthy oomradeship, is of inestimabs
advantage to the girls themselves. Let
ma IA 1tar -
the corps to whom spoke yesterday
morning. One was a forewoman. which
corresponds with sergeant or IN this
case perhaps sergeant-najor; the two
others were workers. The FIRST until she
enlisted had been in an insurance Office
in London /; Of the other two one was q
domestic servant in a London suburb
and the other a typist in a Glasgow
once.
The members. according to where their
lines are cast, may live in bile,s
houses or hutments. or under canvas
tents. All like the tents best. even In
winter. and life under canvas seems TO
be healthier. but everywhere there ara
the same discipline and consciousness
Of doing honorable work. the same sense
Of clubship and comradship.
The profit Is no less to the individual
than II Is to tho empire. and beyond the
immediate bensnt to the empire of tho
help they are rendering In the war Is
another and perhaps greater benefit A
very wise person standing by me as
watched and spoke with members OF the
corps said:
!! Consider what splendid mothers
these girls are going to make in the
next generation"
The discipline and restraint in such
matters as the curtallment Of movement
and the hour of retiring at night are
necessarily and wholesomely strict, ~
they are In the army itself. The girls
| accept and welcome them because 1t Is
| the discipline Of the army. A Girl N
domestic service at home would reser'
intensely such rules as are prescribed for
her here, saying she was being 'f:'
upon because she was a girl and not =
man, but hero the rules apply n tNe
men and the girls are glad 10 submit
| for that very reason, as II proclnr's
their oneness with the fighting fore.