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Show " A 'MILLION AND A HALF WOMEN ARE MAKING WARSUPPLIBS J Uncle Sam Is Relying on the : Fair Sex to Keep Up the Flow of Munitions. ) liy EDWARD .1. GOEWEY. "If the women munition workers of Franco should cease work for twentv i minutes the cause of the Allies would be : lost." ; This was the statement made by General Joffrc some time ago when the men in . olive drab from the United States were just beginning to make their iipponrnnee on French soil. And if the statement wns startling then it is even more significant when applied to present conditions. More than 1.000,000 men nt arms from the U. S. already are iV. Europe, either on the fishtin? lines or preprint? to go to the front to assist in subduing the Hun by force, and more millions from all parta of the United States will be "over there" before long. Hut no matter how great an army the United States may senJ abroad, the object for which the Allies arc striving cannot he obmincd unless the fightt'ng men arc kept fully supplied with the munitions of war; nnd the latt;r task, n vital one. is falling lnrgoly upon the shoulders of the women of America, who have been summoned for .service to fill the places of the men called to tli colors. The war has opened to women a variety of employments hitherto regarded exclusively exclus-ively as men's work, nnd of tho nearly 10,000.000 women in the United Stales at work to-day J ,500.000 arc engaged upon war orders, and this number is going to be increased constantly as more nnd mori men arc summoned for oorvicc in the Army and Navy. These "women employed upon war orders or-ders are making supplies for the direct support of their sons, brothers, husbands and sweethearts at the fighting front. While In other Industries Immediately nf-I nf-I felted by the war an additional 1.CO0.000 are laboring, and these Torm the second line of defence, and the watchwords which must suldc them until the termination of the conflict are "speed up." BAS HOSE.N Iters- WoKEH JMM VZACB. VfOB-KE.K.S' p. 3P- VOJUING- OH PJLO TCTIL xSTf X MZX GASMASKS (ioTTOK |