Trench and camp. [volume] (Augusta, Ga.) 1917-1919, 1918-04-03
CHURCHMAN OF
ENGLAND SPEAKS
Tells War Conditions, What
Women Are Doing, and
Gives Warnings.

Tho Archbishop of York. speaking the
other day To q throng OF war work women
said In part as follows.
Il know that you In Philadelphia watch
With me. with thrilling hearts. the aplen-
did and magnificent defense my brothers
sOur enemy II hurting today against
those devoted regiments nil tho forces Of
hia night ard yet. In spite OF his over
wheIminG numbers that battered line SIN
holds. Steadily. inch by inch. It Is giving
ground mover Is II boing broken. the
whole line III being held ID hand, md be-
hind 1t liz civilization ITSELF"
Woiuen's Heroism.
Whist the women Of Great Britain have
done, how thoy haze quietly and quickly
taken the places of men gone to the
gone into the most dangerous part Of
aitIen-nsaIging factories declining. In
ofie cago. three tirnea after as many hor-
rIblo explosions. to be relieved from their
work. but have insisted that their dam
ser was nothing compared TO that Of the
b0ya.' how British women IN English
hospitals and behind the French lines
nurse end tend tho desperately wounded.
forgetting self and facing the same shells
which ahatter their men: these and all
the ether nlultitudirous forms Of war
work which the women OF Britain have
siiouldered from the FIRST were carefully
explained TO American women by the
archbishop Of York yesterday afternoon.
It Is difficult for You In this country
analHng swiftness with which war came
about. You have thought about IL for
months art months. gonle 81 you believed
that you should hsve been Ia II before
you could do to help those nations which
you held already IN your hearts as allies;
but war did not come bone. to YOU.
After Eleven Months
.Hyen now. after eleven months when Il
has actually been your war, only few
your men have been In places Of danger.
Yeu laave not seen from the first as my
people have, streams Of Your own conn
ing home broken to YOU for healing. You
cant realize what, Il was for the most
peaceful nation In the world to be turned
YOU cannot realize how. overnight al
moss, Our women and girls became the
rear guard Of cur fighting force.
The thing which mperiis most terribly
the spirit of our people IS the shortness
Of food. / have known men who have
given their sons TO fight and die for their
country, given them with smile upon
their lips. falter ait that necessity Of saw
Ing to the hungry workman returning
after days hard work or to the chill
dren deuending on him for nourishment.
There Is no bread no meat no butter
and no margarine"
10 me II Is the saddest thing in the
world the way It goes to the mothers
heart to refuse the little cries for food
and the most wonderful thing In the world
that they can refuse II and hold out In
this fight. Think of this trial Of my
countTymen: they deserve ali the help
Americans can send them. Give IL la
them through the Sneeded-up building of
ships, ! reioieed this morning when in
YOUR magnificent Hog island wards + had
the opportunity of telling thousands OF
your workingmen what we viii owe to
them II they win do for In this greatest
service That Of building more and ever
more ships
Aoainst Ferocity.
The archbishop pleaded with the women
fOr their forgiveness IL he Frankly point
"a out 10 them sofe Of the dangers tying
In walt for them In the work which III ai
probability lies before them He urged
the INTO beware OF gossip. declaring that
i would be impossible to measure the
damage done III England BY careless
spreading OF unf0unded rumors
He begged them TO hold to their indig-
nation against the Impossible thing which
Is Germany. but never to let thelr sndig-
ration descend to the level Of ferocity.
He warned them against the excitment
af trying to find new social level
through the doing OK war work. Of talk
Ing about my Bit and last, Of the In
evisahle danger Of sex excitement. which
L IL. he warned. peculiarly the duty Of
women to guard against.