Show War Spinsters Spinsters' PleIs Plea Is Best Argument Ant Antiwar var vary By y RUTH MILLETT l Spain and China have furnished so many horrible and bloody pictures pictures pic plc- tures that we are becoming used to the physical aspect pf war- war almost hardened to it But a small newspaper paragraph paragraph paragraph para para- graph saying that spinsters had marched on London to deWe deWe deWe de- de We the Women mand pensions when they reach the age of 55 gives us another picture picture picture pic pic- pic- pic ture of war war war-a a side we seldom think about As a member of th the British parliament told those women more than a million men were killed in the war wh who might have been husbands to some of them We sometimes speak of the lost generation of men who were sacrIficed sacrificed sacrificed to the last war but we are likely to forget or never consider that a generation of women were also lost Its It's a gloomy picture that of often often often ten thousand women rallying to fight for the right to live alone on a government pension More gloomy when we begin to wonder how many of them are war- war I spinsters Its It's the best reason reason S we can think of for women opposing war Its It's all very well for talk about hating war because of the hardships and dangers it brings to the men they love But a picture that would strike I even closer home is one that affects affects affects af af- af- af their own lives the lIves the pIcture picture pic plc- ture of women being denied their chance at marriage because war kills off the m men n who might have been their husbands The war widow is a romantic figure And there is respect and pity even glory for gold star mothers But there is nothing at atall atall atall all to compensate the war spinster spinster spinster spin spin- ster for her loss |