Show Winona Wilcox Writes bout Today's Best News Picture 6 1 s I II I Countess of Drogheda at work in a potato field By Winona Wilcox When somebody was waR needed to keep the thc plow In the tho furrow the Countess of Drogheda County Kildare Ireland didn't stop to get some natty knickers fitted She Sho stepped right out In her hersa s a gay little house gown and did her biL She is an earls earl's wife and she's sho's just one of or many fine ladies ladles overseas who have literally put their hands to the tho plough to help the armies of ot the al al- al lies Famine always has Its chapter Inthe Inthe in inthe the histories of war Those who study the labor market In this country al already already already al- al ready hint at a world famine America has haR vast farm lands and willing farmers but not half halt the la labor labor la- la bor hor needed to harvest victory crops Now this is the place where here some somo women will wili stop reading The countess countess coun coun- tess Is Interesting enough but the tho re relation relation re- re I lation between agriculture an and victory womans woman's labor labor- and famine amine simply bores them And yet If Jr American women would put their well trained minds upon this tremendous national problem ana aria pUt ut their capable hands upon the tho hoe or the b berry rr basket or tho the milk pall pail the they could save thousands of oC pounds of ot I food they could banish the fear tear of ot famine Camine am Inc Tho The women who live on the farms are arc already doing twice their share Clarence Ousley assistant secretary of ofa a agriculture recently paid them this splendid tribute Most of them are arc in the kitchen before be before be be- fore forc daylight and long after dark the they cook and sew and g generally tho they wash tho they cultivate the gardens they care for the poultry they make the butter and often the they work In the fields They arc are truly and to the limit of oC their strength and their mar- mar patience the helpmeets of ot their husbands The They are arc the worlds world's strictest economists and Its most laden heavily burden hurden bearers for while whilo they take on the burdens of or vo vocation vocation vo- vo cation callon thc they do not lay la down the burden burden burdon bur bur- den don of ot sex the they bear benr children and the they grow old prematurely And then Mr Ousley makes this suggestion I 1 can enn Imagine no finer thing thing- for tor a city woman to do a In this war emergency emerS' emerS ency than go to the tho farm for tor tho the harvest or for fOl son other period of ot labor strain to help her countr country sister bear these burdens of kitchen and anda farm a rm It seems to me that some of ot the splendid zeal zealot of our American city I women to to render war service serice might find satisfaction In the farm homes I Heres Here's a a. call for ever every girl who I has had a vision Islon of at searching battlefields battlefields battle battle- fields at night with stretcher bearers Here Is a message to be he written In the minds and hearts and souls of ot the women omen who admire the energy of the Countess of Drogheda I Its It's merely sentimental dissipation emotional waste to weep over starving war var orphans unless the tears prompt to action perhaps among the pots and kettles and dishpans of a farmhouse I l kitchen at III harvest time Why leave leac all the bra brave deeds for tor forthe forthe I the women east of ot the thc Atlantic |