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The Delta independent., 1919-01-10
Fell 300 Yards-Recovers.

captain w. T.. Gill, son of Sheriff
]. II. GIL of Montrose, had unique
but unenviable experience in the I'm
tied States aviation field in France.
He was over the Marne sector with
& French pilot when five GeiMaE ma
chimes attacked h.m. A straight shot
killed the pilot and the aeroplane
fell 800 yards. The captain writes
his father that the next thing he knew
he was in a hospital. For seven
weeks little hope was entertained for
his recovery.
The Delta independent., 1919-01-10

A mother in the Olathe section care
lessly set pail of scalding hot water
in the floor on wash day and her lit. e
daughter fell in, receiving burns which
necessitated the services of physi
clan for some time. VIII people never
learn?
The Delta independent., 1919-01-10

The controversy between the Mont
rose Press and the city officials
seems to have died down and all con-
cerned are working together in the
common interest of enforcing the
quarantine.
The Delta independent., 1919-01-10

local contemporary, in comment
ing on the death. of an old lady, says
that she was "a years, IL months and
81 days of age
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-05-04
1t Was Money
That Killed Lincoln

A woman denouncing the capital
lists as enemies of freedom conclud-
ed with saying that they had killed
Lincoln because he stood for free
dom.
A middle-aged woman said her son
was in the United States army. and
that in most things the United States
government is right; but with tri-
umphant emphasis she announced
THE Bolshevists allow women to
vote"
A brisk little woman answered to
the next name. II prefer living
under a civilized government and
never voting to vote every day un-
der one that has retrogressed to
barbaric methods in everything
else," she said. 81 like our presi-
dents better than any possible
soviet government, even when T
don't like them at all. In fact.
after hearing reports from Russia.
1t seems to me absolutely immoral
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-05-04
with the value to women of the
actual results of labor legislation.
Labor Legislation Should
Not Restrict Opportunity

IF a labor law restricts output
and opportunity, then it would be
clear what action should be taken
by those who believe in the larger
development of opportunities Of
women. If labor legislation means
that the community enacts into law
it's sense of what minimum stand
ards should be, and if labor legis-
lation is not a restriction upon the
workers, but such a restriction upon
adverse conditions as sets free the
best capacities of the workers and
in turn stimulates efficiency, labor
legislation becomes a means Of en-
larging opportunities for women.
"1n other words, l think that the
actual results, and not the theory,
must determine our decision on this
point. I confess it would give one
pause when one goes to state legis-
lative hearings to-day and finds
ranged on the same side, as we
found them in New York this month,
some suffragists who were setting
forth the theory of equality and OPP
posing the legislative programme,
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-05-04

United States last October by the
French government to study the
most up-to-date methods adopted
by our institutions. She is we'll
known to all the men and women
working for the solution of this
problem. Her chief interest in life
is LEuvre Liberatrice, but she is
a member of many other official
boards, has worked very hard for
woman suffrage and is chairman of
the Section d'Etudes Feminines of
the Musee Socialc.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-05-04

suppress the capacities of women.
another important step is before
us, and that is to change the con-
ditions Of employment of women.
We learned during the war that
these conditions were a matter of
national Importance.
Possibly a conflict may arise be-
tween the enlargement of oppor-
tunities for women and the methods
of improving the conditions of their
employment through legislation.
The question is, If we have labor
legislation for women only are we
thereby setting apart women as
wards of the state, and are we there
by handicapping women in the COM
petition with men in the enlarge
ment of their opportunities? My
personal view is that we must, first
of all, weigh in the balance the
theoretical right of women to be
equal before the law as compared
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-05-04
Equality With Men Is
As Important as Political
Equality

some employers and one representa-
tive Of the Women Voters Anti
Suffrage Party.
."The particular alignment of
forces opposed to a bill, of course,
may be merely accidental, but
nevertheless / wonder if we, as po-
litical suffragists, would be willing
to throw aside all that has been
gained thus far in enacting into law
certain minimum standards, above
which we can go forward, to give
women larger opportunities of ac-
complishment in industry. If legis-
lation be in the interest of larger
efficiency in industry, then it be-
comes an asset for the state and an
asset for women workers in the
state.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-05-04
and is now living in the town where
she was born.
Yet They Love
Their Babies


Many of the young "victimes de
guerre" were wives and mothers be-
fore the war took their husbands
away and sometimes separated them
from their children. Many are fac
ing the alternative of being deprived
of seeing their husbands and chill
dren again or of returning to their
families and abandoning another
tiny piece of humanity because the
husbands will not permit the little
Boche child to enter the family.
This problem is hard one for the
woman to face, as the mother heart,
in nine cases out of ten, clings to
the most helpless Of her offspring.
Many women in this difficult posi-
ton, through no fault of their own.
are refusing to abandon the tiny
babies and are seeking employment
in the cities in order to support
themselves.
A twelve-year-old girl whom I
found washing her clothes in the
splendidly appointed laundry, hav-
ing been left unprotected when only
ten years old in one of the northern
towns, was victimized by the Ger
man soldiers, rescued after two
years and sent to Louvre LIBERIA
trice for shelter and help. Nine.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-05-04
Bolshevism and Sweet YOUNG
Things

for woman to acknowledge being
a Bolshevist.
A Russian said that the Russian
peasants did not want Bolshevism;
they wanted the soil to work with
their hands.
He was followed by Bolshevist,
who said, eff the peasants want the
soil they can have it, for the Bolshe-
visits say, There it is, take it,
The next woman, who tried to
crowd more than she coherently
could into two minutes, sounded
very much like water running out
of an overturned jug. II am an
educated woman and will not do
domestic work. When the capital
lists say they will do something for
you, don't believe them. It's all
camoufage. And don't work eight
hours; work four or three or two
Another sweet young thing
wanted to know, in an injured tone,
why the Bolshevist could not get
into the papers.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-05-04
What One Man Saw

First aoe heard but only half be-
heued achat wom,ex victinas of Ger
man lust a0ere suffering IN the occu-
pied regions of France. Then we
saa0 at Evian the child mothers,
freed from captivity, bring back
their Boche-bred babies. Is the
area Of the liberated region in-
creased, so also increased orr kno,vI-
edge of 1ohot a0onaea, old and young ,
haze endured under German bond
age.
Horrible as Uere these tort,syes
for groaUn a0omen, aUhem the victiw,s
mere children of tacelue the degree
OF bestiality reached completelu
7'un'bed a0ith misery the sufferers
and those to aohom they acre dear.
and reuotted the mere Observer Of
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-05-04
New Work for
Women Wanted

''The war, of course, has changed
conditions for women in industry.
In the first place, it has demon,
strated the Importance to the ma
ton Of women's work, and, second,
it has produced a new attitude of
mind toward the desirability of a
greater variety Of occupations for
women.
During the war everybody was
eager to see women take up some
new work. The enlargement of OPP
portnnity for which women strug-
gled before the war suddenly re-
ceived national endorsement.
"But with the signing of the
armistice we began to realize that
after all this change of attitude
might not be permanent. We have
some instances of reaction to the
traditional attitude, notably, of
course, in the Cleveland streetcar
case. There have been other con-
spicuous cases. In Duluth some
time ago strike started in foun-
dry. The first item of the mems
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-05-04
This Includes Girls
Of Other Nations

Louvre Lib6ratrice is not in
tended as a charity, but as tenn
porary home for few months. or
years. depending upon the help
needed. AS soon as practicable
work is found for the woman or
girl, either in some private family
or in some trade, If she knows one.
Many times the girls have left to
get married or to go back to their
parents.
1t was only natural that the Brit
ish, too, should send the girls found
imprisoned by the Germans to the
shelter presided over by Nine. de
Saint-Croix in Paris. Some of them
are ten, twelve or thirteen years
old; all are peasant girls with brill
liant compilations and sturdy
physiques. Some of them had been
held as the private property Of one
German officer, but others, after
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-05-04

hours and those who work under
adverse conditions, and we must see
the problem therefore in relation tn
the progressive improvement of
working conditions and in relation
to the labor movement.
There also we come again to the
very important fact that progress
for women industrially and eco
nomically cannot be gained apart
from the progress of the labor move
ment as a whole. On the other
hand, the progress of women is not
necessarily assured by the progressl
of the labor movement as a whole
We have, therefore, the interlocking
of the two questions, the woman
question and the labor question. and
the connection must continually be-
kept in mind.
81 believe that the women in
America who have striven for politi-
cal suffrage must be on their guard
in their attitude to the industrial
problem, making sure that they are
not prejudging the solution through
fear of change. Their moral force
is needed in industry because thew
have proved that in politics they are
not afraid of the principles of de-
mocracy, nor do they fear to meet
new conditions by changing meth
DDS"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-05-04

these byutolities to the point of mad
ness.
But here we're the victin,s, mann
aOlth the aUful, but, nevertheless,
human evidence of their mnrtyrdom.
What to do Nth the 4Uomen, mana
Of then, diseased; Whot to do with
the babies of loathed paternity, aDns
and is q staggering problem. There
are only fen thousand of these
u'ctims, but enough to make o. world
of Uretchedness.
The problem is not being solved
wholesale or by set rule. Some
mothers acamt to keep their children.
The state vil take care of q Boche
baby as 1t 1ciU care for any other
aoaJ. But the case of mothers is
not so easily disposed of. They need
not only medical, but, still more,
moral aid.
One Of several privately supported
refugees for 1oomem and child vic-
TINS Of the Han is described in this
story of q uisit to L'Euvre LIBERIA
t''ice IN Paris, where the best of all
the "treotment" giuem is removing
from the sufferers mind the FEELING
that she is forerer uncleon and nm
Outcdst.
The serrice to aUhich this "Gupre"
Is no1o denoted is not that for auhich
1t acas founded. IT. is using its erpeYi-
e"ce IN the reclamation of prosti-
tutes for the reconstruction, moral
and physical, of lust's most un,vill;no
victims.
DANIEL T. PIERCE.
Er-Director Bureau of Public In
formation, American Red Cross.
France.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-05-04
Mr Gributtc
| 1nStitt1tc %
The New Citizen

demands was that five women who
had been employed in the coremak-
ing room should be dismissed.
enlargement of opportunities
for women means a great deal to
women because Of the energizing
stimulus which will spur them on
when the public shall come to be-
lieve that women are capable of all
the varieties Of occupation that men
are capable Of, granted the estab-
lishment of heaithful conditions for
both men and women.
eff, on the contrary, you are con-
tinually telling women from the
time they are little girls that GER
tain occupations are theirs and GER
tain occupations belong to men,
and that when girls go into in
dustry they can look forward in
any event only to earning the wages
Of a woman, and not the wages
of man, you will continually
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-05-04
Little Girl Victims of War


their first seducer had either gone
away or wearied Of them, were kept
as slaves in the occupied towns
where they were found by the Brit
ish.
On one mending day the girls were
sitting around a table in the first
house putting their simple dresses
in repair. The smallest, a child of
twelve, with dresses up to her knees,
but with the face of woman of
thirty, was making lace very swiftly
by means of bobbins and system of
pins on cushion.
This industrious little person
looked up brightly as we came in
and showed with great pride the de-
sign she was following. Two months
ago this "vlctime de guerre" was
found in critical condition, after
nine months of slavery. She will
probably stay several months longer
at L'Guvre Liberatrice and then be
allowed to continue periodical treat
ments after a suitable home in pri-
vate family is found for her.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-05-04

in recovering lost children and in
procuring work for them"
Nine. de Saint-Croix has not only
studied the questions involved in her
work as president Of L'Euvre
Liberatrice from the French and
American viewpoints, but as chair
man of the International Committee
of Equal Moral Standards and
Traffic in Women of the Interna-
tional Council of Women. For many
years she has been in constant
touch with women in all parts of the
world who are studying these prob
lens. 1t can be assured that the
women and girls who find assistance
at the Louvre Liberatrice will re-
ceive the best the world has to offer
them.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-05-04
And Then a
Mother Spoke

Surely, / have been listening to
women and men who are without a
country" began pretty little
woman who looked tired. 81 have
been so busy washing the ears. of
young America that / did not know
until tonight that you existed.
Like most mothers, I have come
nearer working twenty-five hours
than two, but although l have been
overworked l have taught my chill
dren to respect life, liberty and prop
erty. have taught them that he
who takes life is murderer, and he
who prevents liberty is despot. and
he who takes property is thief.
And [ do not believe that they or
any other real Americans will ever
consent to live under a government
organized for public pillage. And
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-05-04
HOnOrabIy Wounded

her infant boy in one of the northern
towns occupied by the Germans. The
factory where she had worked was
destroyed, but she needed food for
herself and the baby, so she did
washing for the German officers.
Soon she found herself separated
from her baby and unable to escape.
After ten months of living death
she was arrested by the German mill
tary police as being dangerous to
the health of the officers and was
IN prison for several months before
being rescued and sent to Paris for
treatment. Her baby had died and
she was in dangerous physical and
mental condition, which may require
a year or more for even partial re-
covery. Nine. Muller, the director.
has every hope, however, that the
quiet, homelike atmosphere with
which she is surrounded will make
life possible for her.
One girl, seventeen or eighteen
years old, came to the house early
last fall. She did not want to re-
turn to her family and vowed that
she would not allow her German
baby to live. This girl was taken
into the home of one Of the mem
bers of the board of Louvre Liberia
trice, treated as a member of the
family, and eventually grew in
tensely fond of her little girl. The
baby died. the little mother was
persuaded to go back to her parents.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-05-04
Twelve to Fifteen
The Usual Age

Nine. Eugene Simon, general sec
rotary of Louvre Liberatrice, has
stated officially that IS per cent of
the women and girls violated by Ger
man officers were not professional
prostitutes and that many among
them were from twelve to fifteen
years old.
"These young victims were gen
orally the daughters of the north"
says Nine. Simon, "the embroiderers
from the Vosges region and the
young girls from the farms along
the Aisne and the Somme. Among
them we find little lassies of twelve
and a half years, who have been
for two years with enemy soldiers.
Thanks to the supplementary
pavilion which we have been able to
build, we have nursed and cured
many of these poor little invalids.
and later placed them in families or
restored them to their families. On
June z, 1917, at the request of the
lnstitut Prophylactique, we coop
Grated with the service at Nanterre
and organized dispensary and a
medical service. We have assisted
many Of these women and young
girls to find their families and aided
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-05-04
Lady Cops in Washington Are
Efficient

ington force. Imra Buwalda, a grad
uate of the University of Califor-
mia, and Ethel McQuistan, Il news
paper woman from Philadelphia, are
other college girls who have passed
the training and become full-fedged
policewomen. Miss Buwalda is
planning to go to Hartford, Conn,
to do police work.
Applications have come to the
Washington Police Department for
few months training for women
who desire to become policewomen
in Boston and Detroit. The depart
ment may develop into a training
centre to which police departments
all over the country may send for
women to head their bureaus.
college girls make good police
women" said Mrs. Van Wrinkle,
"and school teachers Of several years.
experience have an excellent back
ground for this work. We are hop
ing to add a few of them to our
force"
Mrs. Van Wrinkle came to Wash
ington last year to work for the
United States Food Administration.
She went into the Woman's Bureau
of the Metropolitan Police when it
was established last September.
Mrs. Maud Spingarn, of New York
City, was then head of the bureau.
The work of Mrs. Van Wrinkle in
Newark, N. j., is we'll known in
New York. She is a graduate of the
New York School of Philanthropy.
She was for three years financial
secretary of the Newark Bureau of
Associated Charities, and later took
part in the child's hygiene work
in Newark. She was president of
the Women's Political Union of
New Jersey for eight years, and
was an investigator of child labor
for the Consumers League in New
jersey.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-05-04
Women Need More and Different
Jobs, Not Restriction of Their
Opportunities

4 N n. APPEAL to the Women
~ Voters League for oppor-
tunities for women in in
dustry was made in st. Louis by
Miss Mary Van Kleeck, chief of the
Women in Industry Service of the
United States Department of Labor.
Miss Van Kleeck's speech has re-
Gently been given out in Washing
ton.
"If all the women who have strug-
gled for political democracy can
now bring to bear upon the problem
of industrial democracy the same
wisdom in method of accomplish
ment, the future will be very bright
for America" said Miss Van Kleeck.
"a man who has been a somewhat
conservative leader in the trade
union movement remarked in an
interview the other day that he did
not believe suffrage for women
would change fundamentally the
Industrial conflict, because women
would divide on exactly the same
lines as men with reference to in
dustrial interests. The difference
seems to me to be this: The
struggle for political suffrage is
fresher in the minds Of the women
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-05-04
Europe Did It,
Too

Early in the war European cities
put women on their police forces.
A recent report of the inspector of
constabulary IN London shows that
the women on police forces in Eng
land and Wales have been increased
from 164 to 276. The Inspector is
quoted as saying that he hopes the
increase will be maintained. Eighty
six of the English policewomen
were on ordinary duty In uniform or
in plain clothes.
Some of the small boroughs of
England will not find whole time
employment for their policewomen
and the inspector suggests that the
boroughs develop a part time sys-
TEN of employment for police
women. He believes that it may be
possible to continue the services of
patrols of the National Union of
Women Workers and other organi
cations. In the factory districts
that were speciak police areas dur
ing the war the number of women
that have been "sworn in" as con-
stables gradually increased in Eng
land throughout the war.
In the United States, Los Angeles
was the first city to put women on
police duty after this country en-
tered the war. At present Chicago
has the largest number of police
women. Other cities that have
notable women's bureaus in the DO
lice departments are Baltimore,
Rochester, New York and Newark.
Washington was the first CITY to
have woman traffic "cop." The
work of Mrs. Leona King, Wash
ington's traffic policewoman, has
made material for many stories.
Before the armistice was signed
Major Pullman said that he would
give other women places on the
traffic force If they were needed.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-05-04
Down With Dollars
and Sense!

But after time the New Citizen,
boiling over with anger, forgot her
lifelong poise.
II swear, if you snort like that
again I will leave you," said Friend
Husband, now plainly a man of
wrath.
When all questions had been an
swered by the speaker the members
Of the audience who had sent up
their names were allowed the floor
for two minutes each. The first
speaker, a woman, paved the air,
and at the top of a high falsetto
voice raved about the capitalists,
and, in conclusion, said, "All they
care for is money, and if they do
not watch out they will not only lose
their money but their heads"
The applause was thunderous as
she took her seat.
The next, sweet young thing,
deplored the fact that she could not
get arrested. II have said lust as
much as some who are in Jail, and
still am free. Just my fool luck, l
suppose"
Then youth, probably in his third
year of high school, spouted volumes
of oratory about our reactionaries in
Congress.
There followed two or three men
who we're applauded by the same
ones who had applauded the other
speakers; but they spoke such
broken English that no one else
knew what their points were or when
they made them.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-05-04

DAR1S, April -"What are
the French women doing to
help the young girl victims of
the German army of invasion?" I
asked Nine. Avril de Saint-Croix
to-day. She answered by taking me
to the western part of Paris near
Auteuil, where, in a large court
yard with flower gardens, arc the
three houses Of Louvre Liberia
trice which she herself organized
seventeen years ago. Here | met
and talked with some of these un-
fortunate children.
Nine. Avril de Saint Croix is the
first woman in France to have Or
gained scientific prophylactic treat
ment for women and girls. She is
president and founder of the
L'Guvre Liberatrice, which started
by opening small house where
girls and women could go for treat
ment without submitting to ques-
lions.
There are now three good-sized
and splendidly equipped houses
within the courtyard, and during
the next month a large chateau at
Nanterre will be opened. Nine. de
Saint-Croix is a recognized author
ity, having been sent over to the