Women Wanted; The Story Written in Blood Red Letters on the Horizon of the Great World War (Paperback)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: ' CHAPTER III HER COUNTRY'S CALL ONE Thousand Women Wanted! You may read it on a great canvas sign that stretches across an industrial establishment in lower Manhattan. The owner of this factory, who put it there, only knows that it is an advertisement for labour of which he finds himself suddenly in need. But he has all unwittingly really written a proclamation that is a sign of the times. Across the Atlantic I studied that proclamation in Old World cities. Women Wanted ! Women Wanted ! The capitals of Europe have been for four years placarded with the sign. And now we in America are writing it on our skyline. All over the world see it on the street-car barns as on the colleges. It is hung above the factories and the coal mines, the halls of government and the farmyards and the arsenals and even the War Office. Everywhere from the fireside to the firing-line, country after country has taken up the call. Now it has become the insistent chorus of civilization: Women Wanted ! Women Wanted ! But yesterday the Great War was a phenomenon to which we in America thrilled only as its percussions reverberated around the world. Now our own soldiers are marching down Main Street. But their uniforms still are new. Wait. Soon here too one shall choke with that sob in the throat. Oh, I am walking again in the garden of the Tuileries on a day when I hadseen war without the flags flying and the bands playing. It was dead men and disabled men and hospitals full and insane asylums full and cemeteries full. " You have to remember," said a voice at my side, " that all freedoms since the world began have had to be fought for. They still have to be." So I repeat it now for you, the women of America, resolutely to remember. And get out your Robert Brownings ! Read it over and over again...