Word: women
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...matter of habit, and the defences are well organized and trainee through long practice. To the Germans they are comparatively new, and they cannot yet have obtained such an efficient defence. The attacks have been delivered in the great factory region of the Rhine, where the men and women, working all day at top speed in clanging manufactories, cannot relish the noise and confusion of an air raid...
...spite of the Susan B, Anthony Amendment there are few men who will admit that women are as yet superior in initiative and originality. Man has long regarded woman as the great source of inspiration for his accomplishments, but he has fondly thought the creative ability his and his alone. The service of our women in the present war has gone far toward destroying completely such an assumption, and a few years may find it thoroughly obsolete...
...recent action of Radcliffe College gives this selfish masculine theory a further push toward refutation. The young women of that institution have organized a farm unit which will spend this summer raising food, not as dilettantes of backyard gardens, but as farmers of the real school. With food ranking equal to bullets as far as war necessities are concerned, the Radcliffe plan is true patriotism. We do not need Battalions of Death or Squadrons of Amazons, but the more Maud Mullers we have during this war summer, the greater our strength against Kaiserdom...
...what we should call a mascot for them. The lad lived with them for three months in the trenches. At the time of the Italian retreat these Zouaves were ordered to Italy. The colonel took the boy back of the lines and left him with some sisters. These good women provided for the orphan for two months, and, being out of funds, they placed him in a school...
...proper assistance is given them. All farmers need more labor than they can now secure, and many need additional equipment. To supply the latter the Government should, directly or through the manufacturers, give the farmers credit to buy the labor-saving machinery they need. To fill the first want, women and men engaged in non-essential industries must be induced to undertake farm labor from patriotic motives or by virtual conscription. The failure of the campaign for voluntary aid last summer suggests the latter alternative. It should raise no more opposition than conscription to fill the armies...