Arizona republican., 1919-05-02
A Prisoner of the PLr6at-at1d, the shawl

And the shogi or licensed prostitutes, estim ,tet to number more than 5o,ooo, endure fate ever worse. They are driven to the Yosh;waras or vics districts by sheer necessity of making living They become virtual slaves under the burden of debt necessarily incurred to equip them for their profession. They are openly bought and sold.
 Again, in Japan one finds the coolie woman, not only helping to coal ocean liners, but assisting in driving piles for the building of bridges, and carrying burdens of every kind. And among the factory workers of Japan-in some of the factories shifts are said to be changed once every twelve hours-56 per cent women. And these women according to available statistics, paid between thirteen and fifteen cents day.
 Japan is provided for in the program of the Centenary. Japan's women to be relieved of their yoke, as well. So are the women of Korea and Malaysia, of Mexico and South America.
 So are the women of Africa-those 4o,ooo,0oo wild creatures of the jungle who are the prey of the strong whipped and worked like beasts; bought and sold and inherited like property; neither their childhood nor their motherhood held sacred.
 In North Africa, and all through the countries of the orient, millions of Mobammedan women must be liberated, not only from the purdsh. but iron, the xenana and the harem-the forbidden place of women.
 The Eenana and the purdah are obligatory upon all women who recognize the Koran. Both are symbols of the supservience and inferiorty of woman's position under Mohammedanism, and the zenana carries always the implication of polygany The yelled women of Islam are innumerable The secluded number many millions. In India alone there are 4o,oO0,ooo of the latber, and in North Africa, it is estimated, there 2o,ooo,ooo more.
 The seclusion of the harem deprives women of outdoor liberty and recreation. It affects their health and the health of their children. Many of these imprisoned women die of tuberculosis. Limited m their experience, permitted to only husband, father, brothers and nephews, their knowledge of life Is srall their minds seldom more than child minds
 For the sake of world democracy Methodism fin America believes that these wrongs must be lighted, these women lifted out of the subjectiun, the servitude, the contempt which surrounds all women of the oriental countries.
 Freedom for the women of the world means to the church the dispelling of ignorance through educatiom the substitution of Christian ideals for superstition and for creeds that have made pos sible the wrongs of women.
 The program for attaining these ends is definite and detailed. Schools, seminaries, colleges and universities are to be built in many countries Hospitals are to be founded and equipped, and made the center of systems of dspensaries Teachers, physicians, nurses are to be sent iron this country.
 All these will have behind them the major pur pose of the Methodist Centenary movement, th. establishment of the ideals of Christianity in every country, as foundation upon which women msy stand ip the work that is primarily theirs. tn, bufldine of the eworid democracy of the future