The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1923-04-05
Plight
BY MILTON BRONNER
Special Cable to NEA Service and Ke-
nOsha Evening News. Copyright
1923 by NEA Service, Inc.

1928 by NEA Service, Inc.
London The problems created by
Eufope's 100000 "superfluous" wo-
men and girls will solve themselves
in the opinion advanced today by w.
Il George, worldfamed "sox-special-
ist."
These 100000 are doomed to die
old maids their normal desire for
husbands, homes and children unsatis-
fed = because there are not enough
men to supply them with mates.
( George has paid particular attention
to the complex problems arising from
this situation. Economist, sociologist,
essayist and novelist, he has been in
terested in every aspect of the situa-
ton, from fhe biological to the remain
tic.
"The present preponderance of wo-
men over men in Europe is due more
to the losses of men in the war than
all other causes put together" says
George. therefore, it is temporary
situation.
"The present generation will last 80
or 40 years. Then it will pass off the
scene. But the present generation will
be the parents of the next generation
and that next generation, as usual, will
be about evenly divided between the
sexes.
Losses in Industry.
"For the time being | think woman
is worse off than she was before the
war economically. She seems to have
lost much of the ground that she gain
ed during the war.
whole industries were created dur
ing the war in which wo.nan sold her
services. Many of these have passed
out of existence This, together with
the rightful insistence that ex-service
men be given jobs, has helped beat
down women's wages and thus made
things harder for them
Socially there has been a big adj
vance for women. Before the war
men met women only socially. During
the war men met them in a business
way.
MEN learned that women were cap
able; that they could do the job assign
ed to them; that in certain lines they
could hold their own with us.
Zone of the immediate results in
England was that the professions were
thrown open to women.
Learn Team Work.
During the war women learned to
do teamwork The friendships and
comradeships formed among women
during that period have in many cases
been kept up; and that is a splendid
thing for them and for the world.
Morally think woman is no worse
off as a result of the war and the
consequent preponderance of women
over men. That there has been some
hysteria, that there has been some
looseness in thinking, talking and act
ing no one will gainsay. But l do
deny that it has been on any such
scale as some people charge. There
are now and always have been in the
world three classes of women:
'Those who can't be plucked.
"Those who may be plucked.
"Those who are easily plucked.
81 don't think the aftermath of the
war has appreciably changed the num-
bers in the three classes Of women. If
you watch the courts you get pretty
definite line on things.
Lesson of Divorces.
"There are three periods when mar
ried persons take their trouble to the
divorce Judge:
"'In the first year, those who ought
never to have been married at all.
They were totally incompatible, could
never get along, and the breakup
comes soon.
"In tire fifth or sixth year, the rest
less men and women who find the mar
riage tie irksome.
"In the. seventeenth to twentieth
year, those who have not found happi-
ness in marriage but who have endur-
I'D the yoke for years because they