Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-06-20

makers, who have insight and vision
and who have made their fortunes by
the exercise of these rare qualities.
The Atlantic division of the Ameri-
can Red Cross had the model works
rooms of the continent during the
war. 1t felt the responsibility OF as
sisting the people in this crisis, Tor
crisis it is. No one doubts that;
neither the producer nor the consumer
deceive themselves.
1t not only felt the need to organize
for relief in the alleged piping tunes
Of peace, but it realized that the or,
ganization must be speedy ana Wen
when the need for war supplies was
the most urgent thing in the world.
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1t remembered it's amazing success
in preparing and sending to Europe
four million garments for the poor 10
wear. 1t remembered how eagerly the
women went to work at THIS ancient
and honorable task, that OF economic
inr the fabrics of a continent and re-
arranging them into what was attrac-
tive and acceptable.
It realized something behind the
pressing need, something that every
one feels but has not put INTO action,
the desire and demand OF tnousands
of women to go on with world work.
They got in the harness and liked II;
Now they dislike idleness. They feel
the pressure of futility. Tney nnlsn
their housekeeping. their car caro- s,p pas gan
thy for the busy days when me was
sharply scheduled. They want the
urge of something vital to do.
They were happy in the exercise OF
pressed by machinery, that vast ma
chinery that lifted the common, every
day tasks from their shoulders and lett
them complaining and restless or seek
ing industry through useless ana de-
vitalizing channels.
They do not want the unhappiness Of
war DAYS repeated. They do not want
to sew with a frightening nutter1ng In
their hearts, with cold hands ana a not
head because the casualty lists were
getting heavy ana tnat orea und mn I,l.ial
which begins their name tralled. Ike a
CHASTITY and ominouS comet, longer and
longer tail behind 1t.
But they want to work They want
to feel they can help Letters by the
thousands come each month to the Red
Cross headquarters asking for work, for
organized work, something that Will
/ draft each woman into a soldier for her
country in peace as well as war.
] So the Atlantic division of the Ameri-
thinking cap. These women must be
used was the thought. Peace has its
| terrors and they are upon us. The world
is distraught. Clothes have become
luxuries. Many children are in rags in
this country.
| Click, went the great wheels of the
worlds relief machinery.
Keep the women at work on garments
| for our own people was the new creed.
! Organize the work as if the people of
the planet depended for their life upon
| it's efficiency. Galvanize the war chap
| ters. Show women the way to the path
to aid the poor and then turn their at
| tention to the need of the work for their
own families. Cry conservation of fab
ric, so the world cannot cry back that
! it has no fabrics for clothing.
| Show women that the one or two new
frocks and suits for children are not
| enough for the season and that there is
, no necessity to sit down and wall; that
every one is not compelled to stint
/ themselves to the point where cleanli-
ness is fight; when a need Of variety
| becomes an obsession.
! Show them that the wardrobe can be
doubled. tripled, by ingenuity and the
stimulation of suppressed talent That
the good fabrics of other days that were
intended to stand the wind, sun and
rain, can be turned into good clothes by
work. IS
When the women OF America find
| that their organized work will bring
| about more than four million gar
ments for the poor children of their
own towns and farms and villages