Salt Lake Tribune | 1918-12-06 | Page 13 | Queen Asks for Help of Women

OUEEF ASKS FDR HELP OP WOMEN Declares British Empire Needs Aid of Daughters at This Time. LONDON, Dec. 5. (British Wireless service.) Queen Mary has issued the following fol-lowing message to the women of the empire: em-pire: "A few months ago, at the height of our anxiety and strain, I sent a message in the name of the women of our lands to our men fighting for us across the seas. Now In the hour of victory I should like to give a message to the women of the empire. During the war they have heen given the high privilege of service, they have risen to the great opportunity and have proved their courage, steadfastness and ability. I have been allowed to watch and appreciate their work in manv parts of the country, and my heart Is 'full of admiration and gratitude for what 1 have seen. "I earnestly trust .that, though the thrill and glamor of war is over, the spirit of self-sacJ-lflce and helpfulness which it has kindled will not waver. A 'new era Is dawning on the world, bringing with it many difficulties, fresh responsibilities and serious problems. "Parliament has secured for the wholo country greater opportunities of more thorough and varied education, but it will depend on the parents whether these opportunities op-portunities are used to the full. We all rejoice that plans are afoot for bringing to an end the existence of such bad and crowded housing as makes home life almost al-most impossible. "Today, more than ever, the empire needs her dnughters. For In the larger world of public and industrial work women are daily taking a more important impor-tant place. As we have been united in all work, whether of heads or hands. In a real sisterhood of suffering and service ser-vice during the war, let us go on working work-ing together with the same unity of purpose pur-pose tor the resettlement and reconstruction reconstruc-tion of our country."