Show Editorials by Women I WOMEN AND WAR BABIES By MARGUERITE MARGUERIT MOOERS MARSHALL II l French government has lias safeguarded the economic future b bof T THE of its war babies by arranging for state adoption In one way or another the English government is likely ik lr to make similar provision It is within the power of the women of France of England of America to solve the real pro problem lcm of the war babies babies and and of the peace babies who are their little brothers brothels in misfortune It is women wom worn en II and women alone who might lift the weight of abominable I social injustice from every baby everywhere born without benr fit of or clergy When we read that the children of a criminal oni e were hanged burned or beheaded according to the punishment meted out ont to the guilty man himself we ive are arc appalled at nt the blind brutality brutal it ity of the proceeding liven Even Charles Dickens' Dickens pictures of the helpless helpless help help- less children of a debtor playing about his prison made thousands weep Yet ba babies ies just as helpless just as guiltless ss society punishes with pitiless ostracism because their-parents their have regarded the marriage law For jor a n mercifully brief Slaughter of the thc Innocents has been heen substituted a lifelong Torture forture of the Innocents Why should not ever every womans woman's club every ever suffrage organization tion phd pledge e itself in individually and collectively to be at least as fiS asfar asfar far as ns the governments of men to gel help not hurt the war babies ba ba- a- a bies of the corning coming g generation Y Those who urge urge that hat refusing to penalize these little victims encourages immorality also argue that providing free school lunches for the thc children of penniless parents encourages put pov I erty Already we Ave have begun to answer that the children shruM not suffer for the tine poverty of the fathers How long Ion must children be e a vicarious social sacrifice for the sins of the time fathers 0 1 |