Arizona republican., 1918-09-18

es we had three years ago. And they work for the shop now, and not against it. They're different girls. l wouldn't-a a believed ten dollars a week would a turned the trick; but it's sure done it."
 Perhaps suggested his acquaint- ance, "the girls are cheerful and com petent because they aren't afraid of poverty. Maybe they are motived by hope of getting on in the world and not motived by the terror of slipping down. Does that not make them stand by the shop instead of working against it? Isn't it a developed middle class feeling that accepts the shop as their kind of people now"
 Search me, Cap-I give it up. just only know what l know and see what l see. And never again-you hear me man-neVer again does our shop go back 10 men. The ten or twelve dollar skirt has made a hit with me, Have cigarette"
 Womens Net Gain
 The net gain of women in this war all over the world is, of course, gain in fellowship.
 But after all fellowship will be futile if it does not bear fruit. And the first
 
 and women in Europe surely Will be a wider and deeper influence of women upon the destnies of the European world. And who can doubt who knows woman, that her influence will be thrown first and heaviest toward a just and lasting peace.
 Often while we were in London dur | ing the last days of our stay, when the meaning of the war gradually wes | forming in OVr minds we talked of these 1 things. There are two Henrys-one, | the owner of a story building in i Wichita. the editor of a powerful and profitable newspaper; the other a pro- | tagonist, a sentimental idealist. To mo this was the greatest charm-this in finite variety of Henrys that was for ever turning up in our discourse. The owner of the Beacon building and the | publisher of the newspaper had small use for my theories about the import ance of the rise of woman into fellow ship with men in the new democratiza- tion of the world. He refused to see the characterization of the world in the war. To him the war meant adjust ment of boundaries, economic advant- ages. and realignments of political and 1 the world But to the other Henry. to , the crusader whom l had seen many times setting out on the quest for the grail in politics. throwing away his political fortunes for cause and a creed as lightly as a man would toss aside a cigar stub, the war began tC mean something more than it's military expression.
 From the Eager Soul
 And one night as we sat in our room 1 waiting for dinner a letter came III from the Eager Soul, with some trink- cts she had sent over to us by messen- ger to take to her mother in Denver After telling us the news of the hospi- tal and of Auntie and of the wound il the Young Doctors hand. she wrote
 70 how I hate war-hate it-hate it And this war of all wars. I hate it worst It is so ruthless, so lnexorably cruel so utterly meaningless. viewed al clos range Yesterday they brought mo into Northern France, and I spent the twi light last night looking over the ruins c ! the local church. It is the most i'm portant small church ir Northeil | France and contains one Of the carries
 ribbed vaults in France, they say. I ! was built abou; HOG, and now the thin' [ is smashed. It is what our artillery , nen call one-shot church th l waste of it-churches. men. homes creeds. How many one-shot creed . have pcrisned IT. this hclI-fire, Stil out of tNe old | suppose tho new vii corae liut I haze talked 10 women. [ } pra .ani Ncm"r ia thcir home $. to nub. wrn iu h"srtais: to women in | ! { atps ard Wemen on tAe a ;ns. ( {. . know that if the Lew wCI.d bi...s