Evening star., 1923-06-30
Text Of Speech Delivered
By Executive IN Montana
Administration Failed to Lead Aid Er-
pected by Those Who Planned to Break
Up Unions, Harding Declares.

nomenon wriught? BY putting every
body at work. BY inducing everybody
to work to the limit of strength and
capacity. BY paying the workers at
rates which enlisted their utmost eager
ness to produce the limit. Yes. IL you
please. by letting labor and capital and
all engage more or less in
at the expense of society
as whole Unheard-of wages were
paid to people who in other times would
have been considered quite incapable of
earning them. but who. under the slim
ulus of the emergency. became effective
and absolutely necessary factors in the
industrial organization. Particularly
was this true of the women, young and
old. who took up tasks in the shop, the
field. the transportation systems, and
behind the lines Of combatants, such as
had never before been assigned to them.
And the women made good SO emphat-
ically, so impressively, that as today we
look over the whole field of the world
and the world conflict we
realize that something very much like
a revolution was effected In the varied
Of the industrial COM
munity.
Viewed in the retrospect. we see
more clearly than ever the sordid
side of war. ! have said before, and
now, that If war must come again
God grant that 1t shall not,-then we
must draft all of the nation in carry
ing 1t on. 1t is not enough to draft
the young manhood. 1t is not enough
to accept the voluntary service of
both women and men whose patriotic
devotion impels their enlistment. 1t
Will be righteous and just, 1t will be
more effective in war and marked by
less regret In the aftermath, If We
draft all of capital, all of industry.
all of agriculture. all of commerce. all
of talent and capacity and energy of
every description to make the SUI
preme and united and unselfish fight
for the national triumph. When We
do that there will be less of war.
aglow with unsullied patriotism, un-
touched by profiteering in any service.
Hopes to Prevent War.
OF course, we are striving to make
conditions OF foreign relations and
so fashion our policies that we may
never be involved in war again. If
we are committed to universal serv-
ment of every American resource and
compensation except
the consciousness of service and the
exaltationS in victory, we VIII be
slower to make war and more swift
in bringing II to triumphant close
Let us never again make draft on
our manhood without as exacting a
draft on all we possess in the max
ing Of the Industrial, financial, COM
mercial and spiritual life of the re-
public.
Evidence of Change.
If we had been in a state of mind
to philosophize about it all. 1 think
we might have recognized that
women have been for a long time
preparing themselves for this tre-
mendous incursion into the field or
industrial production. For a long
time before the war began there had
the women against the old ideals or
the Victorian period. For three or
four, decades, the more venturesome
women had been timidly breaking
away from the old-fashioned nome
and its old fashioned ideals. Even
those who viewed the new-woman
movement with greatest misgiving
and least approval had already been
compelled to recognize that new
and revolutionary idea, was taking
possession of them. We might tterate
and reiterate, and theoriZe and dog
matize. upon the old thesis that the
place for woman was In the home,
but we will have to admit that de-
spite all our preachments, all our
urgings, all our misgivings, woman
wasn't staying there. She was teach
ing in the schools, she was account
ing for perhaps a majority of the
graduates from the high schools and
a big and increasing minority of the
student community in the colleges
and universities. She was practicing
law and medicine, preaching sermons.
working in the shops, the offices, the
a competitor with her brother in al
most all the departments of produc-
tive effort and activity.
Women First Reserves.
Then came the war, and all at once
even the most dubious among us re-
allied that the women, everywhere,
the first line OF industrial
reserves upon which society must fall
back in it's great crisis. They volun-
they could be useful and at once es-
tablished their right to a new and
more important industrial status.
They built ships, they operated mu-
milton factories, they learned to per-
form the heaviest and most difficult
tasks; they titled the fields. fliled the
offices, largely conducted the hospf-
tails and even served as most useful
auxiliaries to forces on the battle-
field. Not as a boon, but as a duty,
full partnership in the conduct of
political affairs was conferred upon
them.
All this has inevitably worked a
profound change in the relation of
woman to the social and political or
ganiZation. We may approve 1t or
disapDrove it, we may view 1t with
satisfaction or with misgiving. but
the fact is before US that woman has
taken a new place in the community.
And just as her participation in the
industrial sphere expands, so her
relations to the home and its inter-
est is necessarily contracted. Whether
we account 1t wise or otherwise, we
to take the modern mother more and
more away from the control, the
training, the intellectual guidance
and spiritual direction of her chill
dren. The day nursery. and after that
the kindergarten, begins to care for
her children in the earliest years;
after that come the public school,
the high school. the college and the
university, taking over from her
more and more of the responsibility
and influence over the children. We
may entertain the old shioned
prejudices against this development,
but we are compelled to recognize
that under modern conditions a large
and increasing proportion Of women
are bound to be at the same time
mothers in the home and industrial
producers or professional workers
outside the home, or else they must
be denied the service and response
bility of motherhood.
Relations Nodded.
Frankly, I am one of those old
fashioned people who would be glad
IL the way could be found to main
tain the traditional relations of
father, mother, children and home.
But very plainly these relations are
in process of a great modification.
The most we can do, to the utmost
possible extent, is to readapt our
conditions of industry and of living
so as to enable the mothers to make
the utmost of their lessened oppor-
tunity for shaping the lives and