The evening world., 1920-11-09
Such Women as Anne Nor
gan and Her Co-workers
Helped Us to Save Yer
dun-The World Needs
the Hand of Woman to
Bind Up Its Wounds"
Marguerite Mooers Marshall.

Marguerite MOOers Marshall.
n ENEIiAL ROBERT GEORGES
4 NIVHbLG has just arrived as
tho French delegate to the eel
cbratlOn OF the Mayfiowcr Terccn-
tenlrN And this is the message this
stately splendid soldier gave me FOR
American women when he shook
hands with me in his suite at the
Waldorf-Astoria just before he de-
parted for Washington:
"As women helped men to win
the war. so women must help mon
TO win the peace. French women,
American women. must stand
shoulder to shoulder with their
men, and with each other, in the
struggle against such exploiters
of our returned soldiers as the
conscienceless profiteers on the
one hand and the incorporate
radicals on the other. In the
period Of reconstruction, which is
now upon US, the services of
women are needed as impera-
lively as in the period Of strife
Through which we have passed"
In the few moments / had with
Gen. Niye.ic, between an important
and a private luncheon
served in his apartments, | asked him
about the part women should play in
these troubled after-the- " AZ years,
because | knew Of his deep and can
did appreciation Of the work Of
women during the waG particularly
of American women. He stiu remem-
bers that. And discovered that this
gallant soldier even shares, in his
own mind, with the American women
the credit for his supreme military
achievement.
at have always said" he remarked
L simply. that it was such
women Us Miss Anne Morgan and her
who helped US to save
Vcrdun The devotion and sympathy
Of the women behind the lines can
not be everest mated"
And he nodded smiling concurrence
Wien l quoted to him u clever and
charming observation Of his military
colleague, Marshal Petain. said the
latter to friend OF mine:
THE war has caused me to change
my idea Of women. Once l thought
the business OF women was to inspire
us with ideals which they would then
prevent us from carrying out. But
to-day they are our sisters and citi-
zcns with US in the great republic
o. courage"
That, | am sure, is also the opinion
of Gen. Nivelle. For he smiled wisely,
confidently, when l asked him II he
thought women, now that the nervous
and stimulus Of war
work are removed, would see and
perform their new duty Of helping
men to win the peace.
"Surely women will rise to
their opportunity" asserted Gen.
Nivelle. mo one can doubt il.
woman to bind up it's wounds. In
the devastated areas Of the in
vaded countries, where tho work
of material reconstruction is nee
esSary, there is much work for
women and even now they are
DOING il nobly-both your coun-
trywomen and mine.
"In rCCoustruCtirE the world in the
larger sense, women, as yOu say, must
play as important a part as they
played during the war years. To win
the peace, women must bC better
wives, better mothers, better workers,
than ever bcfOrc-and they will not
fail the world in any Of these roles!"
CEN. NIVELLE emphatically is not
~ ono of those distinguished men
who look as iC they had never done
except sell tea over coun-
tcr-an honorable occupation but in
no way removed from the common.
place. Gen. Nivelle IS the sort Of per-
son Of whom one asks, instInctlvely,
"Who Is hc?'
Tall--hc must stand at least . feet
iO-with the shoulders and waistline
of a soldier; calm, gestureless, con-
troIlcd in expression, his colorless
rather fair face almost unlined, al
though ne is in the early 3 ties; his
eyes Of clear wintry blue that sug-
gcsts his English mOther-and that is
warmed delightfully."- by, his smile; his
hair silver -gold-anothtr English in
heritancc, perhaps; the upturned
points OF his blond mustacl2 and the
dino ~ ulsn smnlnnI- nnlnI SnrtInn Ism