The Canon City record with which is consolidated the Canon City cannon., 1919-01-30
French Women See
American Movies
oBy United Press,


Paris. Jan 10.-tay Mail.) Moving
pictures ard education are not easily
divorced these days.
Another role than that OF pedagog
now fails upon the film drama Its
new mission is to make and iuresify
morale. Possibly It will play the part
of employment agency to the women
of France
To them after their four long years
of labor in munition shops behind the
lines the moving picture. isi taking
courage.
The French woman who has re-
Gently lost her job In the munitions
shop is finding through the medium
of moving pictures that there are
other Jobs for women than those Gre
ated by the urge of war.
Living her life within the. doors OF
her own home. realizing the necessity
for being good cook. a good house
keeper and something of a seamstress
and miiliner. the woman of France
found herself. quite unprepnred when
the war broke out. But despite her
many handicaps she went. II will be
many a long day before the world will
cease singing the praises OF those
women of France without whose work
NJ. Clemenceau is said Co have re-
marked: The war could not have
gone on 20 mirutea.r
The war went on ana the armis,ice
was signed. And today the French
women are faced with a greater prob
lem than any brorgif % than by war.
My home il gone. Ny relatives
are dead What shali do. Where
shall l go next?''.
These are questions that are trou-
bling the Ffench women now that the
war Is over
For mauy the, questions will be an
swered through moving pictures
While the war was In progress the
men ini cantonmeuts In France were
entertained with views OF what was
doing at home. IN many OF the Lib
erty theaters pictures were shown
that stimulated morale by bringing
cheer and facts to the minds and eyes
OF the boys
If this eouid he done while the guns
| were rattling overhead. why not the
more adequately In an after-war pro
| gnamy
| Thus has the American Y. W. c. A.
argued. And II II largely to show the
women of France the kind Of WORK
that women of the world are doing
that this organization has brought
moving picture exhibit to France to
be shown in its foyers tsociai rooms
in industrial district). hotels tor
women war workers and huts for the
nurses
In all the certers opened by the Y.
W. C. A. IN France under its l26 sec
retaries these pictures are 10 be
shown
Beside Industrial phases the sxhIbit
contains many pictures or large cities
In America and other countries. There
Is better baby" AIN. wbirh shows
the most modern methods of infant
care A series Of national child wei
fare charts. dealing with the follow
Ing subjects is included in the exhibit.
Prevention of tuberculosis In child.
hood; care for saving mothers and
babies lives; early habit forming:
growth through play: growth through
study ard growth thr0ush work.
Showing the work chat women may
do and are doing, successfully nxe
pictures of women engaged In various
sorts Of factories. other than those
connected in any way with war or war
emergencies: vssws of the cedery In
dustry OF Florida: women Mt work In
rural districts. and n picture showing
use Of modern farm implements.
4 These films have been collected sy
Miss Sutherland Griffith of Los An
geles, Cal. who formerly was mov-
ing picture actress and who knows
the industry from the inside out. I'm
der Miss Griffith's direction IL liz
plarned also to have pictures made OF
Y. w. C. A. work In America and other
countries.
One OF the big film ventures OF the
Y. w. c. A. is now being carried ON In
France by DIR. Katherine Bement
Davis. formerly commissioner OF char.
ity and corrections for the city OF New
York and moro recently head OF the
woman's department OF social hygiene
for the United States government. Tn
der her direction pictures descriptive
OF all the Y. w. @. AS activities In
France are being made. These ars