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Show r . MM ! MM Women France's Hope Not The Politicians Franco nnd all. It means must be restored for the Bake ot civilization ! ? and It Is the French women who ).'. I must mainly t do It, not ithe -polltl- & clans, declares Ida M. Tarbell In the ; June number of the New Red Croae magazine. "Let the politicians do their best i or worst," the writer continues, "it is not they who will lift and save France. It has got to b6 done front the bottom, down wliere people live in love and labor. And U Is the women wo-men who will play the chief part there. Their task In the peace which has come Is not unlike that of the j pollu In the war that Ib past. They L come to this work with tho most tor- I" rlble handicaps." The handicaps Miss Tarbel finds, are not merely the fact that Franco has been strlppe'd of tho flower of i; its manhood while thousands of otli j. erB have come back from the war Fj mutilated for life, but aUo include M the problems of employment. Mnny a of tho women who went Into muni- t4T " tlon plants will not return to their old work, some because they have been rendered unfit, so mo because , they have succumbed to tho Inunra-erable Inunra-erable lures ot Paris, some because there Is not work for them. There Is the principal rub. But, concludes the writer, It is tho handicaps which force them to their big task. |
