Show dt Y x f. f f e 0 f 1 M 0 I J t 11 a i i An En English Fire Com Company a Q A Mf 4 Girl in a Factory F ry I. I a Rescue Drill t t I rJ Jt J r.- r. r i 1 f hJ 7 r r J 1 T 1 I p rr- rr j 4 i b J 1 I d IG 1 t JJr ken Y Jr Y n r aril f rr 1 i I 1 4 f r J T y I A r v rr f y Ir i 1 I h i r j I ry 1 i t l y J Ii i it p t T r J d dJ t t J t f I r y 1 t 1 t. t j Q k r r J f r J f si t p 1 a y f r ri t 0 t i I I ar h f Y ir 0 0 0 1 0 1 v fe t 1 0 1 0 0 f h V.-T V. A ff ft r I 1 i heard a lot horse power and manpower It Ti hoe has r for the era of the tho war to bring forward the tho factor of woman power Not merely the mental power that evea J i y tiona-y critics critics were ready to yield to women but nerve and muscle Power Dower hay hav been demonstrated In aa an extraordinary way by the exigencies cies clea of the great conflict It la is an odd experience to glance glanca backward at the time when It was firs suggested that women might offer some help some physical help elp In tte 1113 countries drawn Into the war It was quite readily agreed that they might be of a certain usefulness Jn Its various manual ways Wrt dt critics of feminine limitations had It all aU cut and dried that could not of course rise to the heights of f certain forms forma of labor They could not It was pointed out manage machinery They I didn't have hare the kind of minds or the kind of nerves and muscles that Would for the Intricacies of mechanical things And then all the tho predictions of the bigoted ones onea went lh rong step by step women f Invaded the Industries r lifting r r. r JF the that men were compelled to lay down and taking their before engines of manufacture which r men hat hal perforce deserted It was an incredible r rr f J thin b lit lut tit It went on happening In England in n France in is Italy and then in the United States a 4 c r until belay Oday no tort sort of man can have reason to bo to find a woman managing and man man- any sort of engine yet contrived from irom steel drill to a locomotive In the engine r roe rooms m of the great ship yards for example where j two wo if dt the he pictures shown on this page were made made the spectacle cle of sturdy girls handling huge slid and intricate machinery and doing so as a n matter of ourse gives an Ins impression of revolutionary scarcely to be matched by anything yet flight bring about by the regenerating calamity of war x However much of patriotism may have gone I Itc c tc the r recruiting of women for these new tasks am std however much may be attributable to nov nov- pit y adventure and big wages it IS true true that women have yielded to the discipline of this new lie m lit a satisfactorily complete way and that s r 1 r t. t a Worker at i. i id d' d 0 Big Steel i r rI TAM Drilling I I Machine Ti wYl Vi r rV V. Jil J ft r vr V J t a La 74 lrA ra y fir L k L z r b r 1 11 f i r Y n t 3 1 1 y c P r k R Typical Worker in the Machine Department o of an American Ship Yard J f Z Zt t the they have In the matter of efficiency made good to n-d n gree that n nd no advocate of or feminism could have risked predicting prE ten tea years or or 1 years ago ngo The day of or woman power d dawned Impressively and power will be a factor to be reckoned with In that reconstruction of ot t tW affairs of or the world which must the completed work o of oC th the tho armies in Euro Europe It has been boen estimated that women worked In American and ami airplane plants this this' year y ar The total number of oC women wave wage earners in this country countr Is now close CIOS to The sudden cudden and violent necessities of of- war said H Hall ll Caine Calne some sometime sometime sometime time ago have called woman woman up to her rightful place as the partner co-partner of man and never as long as the world lasts can she step down from Crom It It Whatever may be Its war the bearings the rise of or women In Industry has been been- of or the profoundest t significance Opinions naturally vary as to tho the future u ure With regard to the big facts of ot the present and andor of or womans woman's accomplishment there is little opportunity for Cor variance of or opinion What women can ean do for tor Industry has been proved pro What Industry industry In ma may do for tor women for her economic situation her social situation situation situa situa- tion and for Cor her ber health remains for tor time to prove It has been pointed out with great force torce that the effect of or her Indus Industrial trill trial transfiguration must have upon woman a reaching far effect i and thin that this effect Is of Imm Immense nse concern to the world The future of oC the therace therace therace race must be directly Influenced b by everything that Influences her her her-her her physical well well-b well being her mentality her Ideals It Is cheering to be lie assured by some of oC the most prominent author ties tics that this effect is likely to be favorable fa to all all' the best aspirations of oC women |