The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1919-08-05

It are We women to do in this
r of a League of Nations? What
ire we to play in it?
.e time was when women were
considered as having any part in
concerns of government When
as little girl woman could not
NE will, she could not make a
d or transact any legal business
hout the consent of somebody
,; that is, if she were married.
n philadelphia, the Womans New
ltury club decided to build a club
Use and. after they secured the
ms and had everything all ready
they undertook to make con-
ct with the builders, they were in
med that they could not contract
h them because they were married
men and could not contract. But,
these disabilities were removed
they were enabled to contract,
men arose to their sovereignty. 1t
y not be super-sovereignty, such
bur senate seeks to guard us from,
it is kind of sovereignty which
very comfortable when you want
make a contract.
because OF this newly found power
men, more than men, understand
dignity that comes to a great ma
when it has the power to use it's
in deciding what it will and what
not do, and the ability under
i'll to make such contracts with
peoples that it will bind itself
.gnize in them the same obliga-
1nd the same rights which it
for itself
Women never had such an oppor-
ity in the worlds affairs before as
had during the war just closed. At
beginning of the war very little
Pntion was paid to- the women but
dually, as the man power began to
We for the front, anda the greater
d for munitions and other neces-
equipment of Mar demanded
ger bodies of, IeUSle in the service
the govern1ent. More and larger
lands were made upon women. un,
ea@e-ta|such a pass that it is de-
ID by every natioh which has been
ar that the war could never have
won if it had not been for the
of the women.
Women's War Work.
knd so through this cooperative
vice of the men and women we
e been able to reach this peace
[ch now is so very near and which
trust the senate of the United
ties will not retard, as no other ma
save Germany has any desire to
so.
Iuring the war women were called
n to serve and the response was
versal. We women in America
ther sacrificed nor served as did
women of the other countries.
were not called upon to do it,;
as far as the country needed our
vices, as far as it made demands
n us for any particular line Of
k, we were ready to do what our
rnment asked
have been able to count the
who died in the field. We are
that five million men in this war
d in battle and that two million
re died from wounds received in
tie and that two million more died
disease in the hospitals, making a
{ total of nine million men who
But when we speak of the cost
e in this war we enumerate only
en- who died. We have made no
meration of the women. We have
no enumeration of the children
10 not know the vast bodies OF
anu liO nave DctD
ghtered. women who have been
aged and who today are filling
mad-houses of France and Bel.
n and Serbia and all the other
IS which have been overrun by
mics. We know nothing about
horrible results which have come
the lives of the women or of the
of this war in women as well as
cost in men. :.
While we were called upon to serve
ing the war, what was Il for? WHY
B it that women responded as they
respond? Why was 1t that as one
man we came together and said tC
government, What shall we do?'
sanizatiOn, Not Enthusiasm