Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-06-26
HOW WOMAN WORKERS
GET AROUND THE M. P.'S
Take Officers to Dances in Fords
When Forbidden Rides in
Army Limousines.
BY JUNIUs b. WOOD.

Special Cable to The star and the
Chicago Daily News. Copyright. 1919.
COBLENZ, Germany. June Is (de-
layed).-When Ford breezes around
a bend in the road with a general
or some other ranking officer in the
front seat beside the chauffeur and
two giggling young women in the
rear seat there is reason for it. The
reason is not the lack of high power
er rank than major who are accus-
toned to riding in them, but the
young women. When the military
police started enforcing the order Of
Brig. Gen. Malin Craig, chief of staff
riding in Army cars without special
permits it seemed that the fair MEM
bers of the expedition were out OF
luck. For several nights the cars of
various young aviators and gray
haired higher officers usually occupied
in carrying Y. NJ. c. A. entertainers.
Red Cross workers. telephone oper-
ators and other charmers to dances.
| officers club parties and moonlight
rambles were empty and the women
| walked.
But Problem Is Solved.
Then Mahomet-like came the solu-
ton. Because women must not ride
in Army cars there was no reason
why they should not ride in women's
cars. That is why so many high
| ranking officers are riding in Fords
these evenings. When an officer in
vites a young woman to dinner at
neighborhood resort these days. the
dinner Is contingent upon either the
girls furnishing the transportation or
going by train. Therefore, Y. NJ. c.
A. and Red Cross jitneys are much in
demand, while the unlucky Army
out shoe leather. All 10 a part of the
! Army game and every one takes 1t
good naturally.
Whats the difference?" said an off,
Ger jokingiy. MANY officers who are
lolling back in Army limousfnes today
VIII be hanging to straps or cranking
their own jitneys two months hence"
Turbulent Days for Workers.
These are turbulent days for the
woman welfare workers. Besides being
barred from the Army cars another or
der in Coblenz forbids their entertaining
officers and enlisted men in their billsts
after 1890 in the evening. That was
sufficiently harsh, in the opinion Of the
independent young women. but it was
worse when several overzealous M. P.
interpreted that it meant that they
HHu1t HOt Uc bCoH vi tue StEc0to dCCOIl-
panied by officers or men after that
hour, and started stopping and question
ing those escorting women home from
dances and entertainments.
1T is an outrage for which American
womanhood 10 going to demand an ex-
PLANTATION" declared one young woman.
You must think we are living in the
darkest days of Turkey
The embarrassed M. P. to whom she
was talking explained on the following
dQv that thu nr6Ar yuyoa Aoru
Gentle Hint Is Needed.
Reports published that the Y. NJ. C. A.
time to officers evoked a gentle hint
from the organization headquarters to
take more notice Of enlisted men. The
result IL that a woman in the Y. M. c. A.
soldier she meets. The casual observer
in Cobienz sees as many enlisted men
as officers strolling with Y. M. c. A.
workers or chatting on the shady banks
attached to the divisions is untiring
Some Of them are known by name to
nearly every man in the regiments to
which they are attached, and are con-
sidered a necessary part Of the organ
ization.
Each Of US dances with q hundred
different men every night the battalion
has q party" said ono Of two woman
workers. THESE are heavy workers and
not entertainers. Twenty Of the latter
compose the o-called Y. M. c. A. flying
squadron. Twenty nimble- toed young
women in uniforms embroidered with a
winged foot are touring the expedition
and providing dancing partners.
| Another Grievance.
The final grievance Of the welfare
workers Is that the Army is now un-
able to provide those going home
with cabins on the transports. While
the majority are basking at the re-
sorts in Brittany, many are availing
themselves Of the opportunity to see
Europe A. w. o. L. (absent without
leave). Two passed several days in
Coblenz last week without travel
orders. They dallied in French and
British areas and stopped in Brus-
sells before returning to Paris They
are contemplating visits to Switzer-
land and Italy. undisturbed by the
lack Of home going accommodations.
At least fifteen other unassigned
woman tourists have sojourned in
Coblens. where they took in the
any harm. but having a natural
American desire to sec the world.
You have no right to be here" an.
nounces the district M. P. to each,
Yes, but we are here" cheerfully
reply the women.
What can the NJ. p do whom he re-
members that the women left home
In America to help him and the other
men of the expedition? He cannot
lock them UP like he may the mas
culine A. w. o. LIS.