Show AUTHOR PLANS PLAN'S TO DIVERT I WOMEN'S WASTED ENERGY TO DEFENSE OF AMERICA H Head ea ad o of Writers Writers' raters Defense Board Who Is Rousing Women to Action d' d The Thc Purely Decorative Useless Female Has Gone Out of 4 Y Fashion on Declares Mrs Elizabeth Bartol Dewing 7 Passing of the Parasite Among Women One of f the thes s Greatest Social Phenomena of the Twentieth Century r fc She Says By NIXOLA NIKOLA GREELEY GREELEY NEW V YORK Sept 23 Mrs Elizabeth Bartol Dewing has tackled 1 the job in the world world the the power of harnessing what she says is the greatest power o V of woman for the unused forces of As the Buffalo manufacturer pondered years Niagara and amI found finally a way to make them turn his factory wheels so 80 Mrs 18 Dewing has considered the wasted energies of women and has decided her pet idea the idea the idea of American defense to tp hitch th them the m to of TV Women Mrs Dewing is chairman of the committee for the operation Co-operation Writers raters of the American Detente Defense Committee with which Mrs Robert Lansing Mrs Charles S S. S o Whitman Mrs William Cummings Story Mrs Simon Baruch and other well known New York women are identified Mrs Dewing has written several books among them Other 0 Olne Peoples People's Houses and A Big Horse to Ride nide and she is the daughter of Thomas W. W D Dewing ln l one of our most distinguished painters t i v vS S v va vo t ry o F a a x xa a- a 1 P W tt Y t s S. S f I B y r j 5 J f life tn r s r. r o fr P. P Q h H k Y r f rr 1 r ff v J for r rJ j jH I jI f H I ff At r r sex set Women are the practical They dont don't theorize They get things done provided the things interest them announced this russet haired young young propagandist at Fifth avenue avenue ave ave- nue yesterday This is the age of woman woman's womans power But in how many mallY foolish ways this new found power of ours is frittered away Think how much of it is wasted in hi the pursuit of fashion how much of it is dissipated dissipated dissipated over bridge tables The times have given us new powers It is a ap apart apart part p rt of our rights rights our our new freedom I to to dress as we please to wear fur at our ankles and chiffon at our Shoulders and to wear so many colors at once at-once once that we look like the rainbow rainbow rainbow rain rain- bow on a spree I cant can't see that this matters particularly provided we give our serious thought to things more worth while Do you know I think one of the greatest social phenomena of the twentieth century is the passing of the parasite among women Today the best women have the Ideal of work of service Only the socially negligible woman lies in bed all morning morning morning morn morn- ing and plays bridge all afternoon The millionaires millionaire's daughter opens her desk at some relief society just a little littie little lit lit- tle tie later than the poorer girl has lIas to get et to the store Sometimes the rich woman may not accomplish very concrete concrete concrete con con- crete results with all her expenditure of or energy She may not know enough to But she sets the tile example of work worl She carries forward the ideal of service Why in the last ten years even the social climber has had to adapt her weapons to the new now spirit of the times She gives money to charity she Identifies herself with public movements suffrage movements suffrage or preparedness preparedness pre pre- or war relief She cant can't accomplish accomplish accomplish ac ac- ac- ac anything in this day merely by giving big entertainments and wearing a fortune in clothes and Jew jew- elry The purely decorative useless female fe fe- female male has bas gone out of ot fashion The second rate woman has not found foune it out altogether But she is learning rapidly She will seize soon the Idea that useless uselessness n ness s pretty ignorance Is is bad form Think what a tremendous thing it was for suffrage when the former Mrs Clarence Mackay l made it the fashion Hundreds of women flocked to her suffrage meetings merely because because because be be- bei i cause it was their only chance to to see flee A footman with a powdered wig But they lent the force of their numbers num num- hers bers ers to a gOOd Cause cause and gradually they gre grew more Interested in the le lectures lec lec- tures and less in what Mrs Mackay had on In other words their pow powers pow ers era were awakened to genuine usefulness use use- they were touched for the first time by the ideal of public ser ser- vice And in what way do you expect to divert the energies spent on clothes the curiosity excited by the footman's footman s wi wig to the cause of Ameri Amerl American can defense I inquired curiously Why if women will only study the question of war intelligently if they will seize the Idea that war that war means more than the chance that John or Henry will be shot if they will grasp the great truth uttered by E. E S S. S Martin that whether men shall be willing to die for what they believe believe be be- lieve in makes maltes all the diff difference rence between be be- tween a pigsty and paradise they will Ill have made a great adv advance ce Women temperamentally are pacifists pa pa- dusts ann and they are aro unwilling to accept accept accept ac ac- the idea of preparedness as peace insurance which it is A woman will die for the man she loves and ye yet t tio understand sometimes his willing willing- i MRS ELIZABETH BARTOL DEWING ness to give his life for the ideal he believes In Women are perhaps more moral and less ideal than men Women are throwing the weight of their great influence all the force of or their newfound powers against the idea of preparedness with the idea that preparedness means war Women Wom Wom- en in the so called peace movement have done harm to their country Men will always listen to women when they talk of peace They seem to regard it as a womans woman's subject and good women splendid women are hurting the propaganda of American defense by talking against it What can women do that they have not done I inquired at this point Rolling ideas is better than rolling bandages Mrs airs Dewing answered though that too Is good Let women wom worn women en talk about American defense at dinner parties if they cant can't make speeches They can get up bazars bazara to raise money to have leaflets printed If they are teachers they ran talk American defense to their pupils If they are writers they can use the tremendous power of the pen to wake America to the ideal of preparedness preparedness pre pre- to insure peace Josephine Daskam Bacon has written an article for us so has the widow of General Custer Every woman who can hold hole holda a pen or use a typewriter can help us us Mrs Dewing gazed at me pointedly hopefully A typewriter was dangerously dangerously dangerously danger danger- near us She is very charming and she wears the red crown of determination de de- termination on her ber well set Bet head I looked at her at the typewriter at my wrist watch and I said I would write the article This is it |