Show German Women Might End W War r in Week By Halting Stream of Supplies to Army By Marguerite MarshallA Marshall MarshallA I WOMANS WOMAN'S revolution revolution- may end II A the war This theory i la is advanced in inThe The White Morning i Gertrude Atherton's latest book boole One of our most roost brilliant novelists and women of letters Mrs Atherton describes with startling clarity and precision of ot detail do- do i tail tall the effect on the world war of an uprising of German women They would not strike Th They y would not launch an army against the army in France and Flanders Very simply this is what the maddened women omen of ot otI I Germany accomplish in The White I Morning Every and ammunition factory every aerodrome and public hangar save those taken possession of by powerfully armed aimed squads of women women wom worn en every arsenal every warehouse for Cor I what lubricating oils were left every telegraph and i wire every railway station near near either I frontier with thousands of cars and miles of track had been destroyed si- si si si-I si The armies would be isolated without arms or ammunition but what they had on hand or could manufacture in the invaded countries no food but what they had in storage They could not fight th the tho enemy seven days s longer If the enemy allies heard immediately of the revolution through neutral channels and believed In it after so many false alarms the finish I I I M OER rv U k kw L w I i ATHE A Ag e to THeIR eRr Me NOT ANIO 1 o MARR S I H of the German Gelman forces Corces would come In ir I two days I asked an army officer of ot high rank what would happ happen n on the warfront war warfront warfront I front if women rebelled in the tha fashion i I have described Mrs Mis Atherton told me yesterday esterday and he ho said the war would e over in seven days days In in two days If the story were believed by the I allies I am not a prophet Mrs Atherton continued earnestly but I do feel that such a situation as the one I have havo de depicted depicted depicted de- de in The White hite Morning is a strong possibility No 10 one can know any anything thin about the German woman from a cursory ob observation observation oh- oh of ot her even from Cram a single tourists tourist's summer But before beCore the war warI I had an apartment in Munich for seven years I got to know many wom women n from Crom many different ranks of society and they gave me surprising confidences Nowhere in the world I think is there such bitterness against men menas as is felt by German Germau women Numbers of t the younger women I told me roe that never in any circumstances circumstances circum circum- I stances would they marr marry They had hadI seen too much of the tho domestic I tyrant I in their girlhood homes to wish to marry one They were silently but butI I none none the less completely in revolt against man as they knew him Now No add t to td this sex antagonism I this seething rebellion the tha physical and psychological effects of four long years of ot war in a country shut off from Cram the world German women have not had enough food to eat for years and as they have voracious appetites they are suffering both from hunger ant and dys dys- They have seen their children die le like flies from malnutrition AUthe All AU the children arc are emaciated and wail continually for food sleeping little playing less ress stunted In their growth I and threatened with disease Men and women above the age of ot 60 are c dying from malnutrition and from tuberculosis losis even as the children are dying lorn Women en have seen their daughters unmarried unmarried un un- un- un married or widowed apportioned to official fathers whose names perhaps perhaps perhaps per per- haps the girls do not know lonow There Thero are fatherless children in Germany as aswell aswell aswell well as In Belgium If Jf they only had a leader surely they are in the tho mood to rebel and end the war Their rebellion as I see it would mean the overthrow of tho the thoI family the establishment I of a German republic and equal rights for men and women But Dut could the women a accomplish such a tremendous thing even with I I asked Would they be e strong enough 7 German Cerman women are stronger than German erman men even in their present starved condition Mrs Irs Atherton re replied replied replied re- re plied confidently The army of Germany Germany Germany Ger Ger- many is rotten with social disease S S Your Tour typical German Cerman woman is brawny and vigorous Then Ihen too she is sly and and cunning She could concoct concoct concoct con con- a rebellion and spread It over the country under the the- very the very eyes of l such men as still remain behind the fighting It Tt never would occur to a Ii Ger S I Ir r J too cc i I I II I II I I f. f L l GER Mi Z t man male for that matter that a n. fe female female te- te male of his iris race could in any wa way barm harm or dominate him The German woman is made of or the same stuff as the German Gennan man She too Is efficient she too can be taught to act in unity with h her r sisters She too would be capable of Schreck- Schreck frightfulness If it necessary to carry her point And think how brow she commands the situation In the munitions factories she is supreme there are but a handful handful handful hand hand- ful of men in each shop to perform the heaviest labor The transit facilities are in her control even the railroads leading back from the front There I are few men In Germany today except cripples and the aged What chance would they have against aji an Amazonian army But if It the women rose might not a terrible vengeance be taken upon them later I suggested Or would the themen themen themen men at the front b be glad of an alibi which would permit th them m to lay down their arms arms I Many common soldiers rs would feel that agreed Mrs Atherton They hate their officers And I do not be believe believe believe be- be lieve an army of ot men could be found who would turn its guns against an army of ot women If the women re rebelled rebelled re- re belled belied of course one result of their uprising would be woman suffrage and social and economic equality with men They would be ashamed any longer to let men abuse them and women are dominated by men only when they let letI themselves be dominated I Besides think how vastly in the majority women will wili be after the war No 10 I do 10 not think they need fear consequences consequences consequences con con- sequences if if they hey revolted There are mutterings concluded Mrs Atherton When you OU hear that German workers that the industrial classes are complaining about the war you may know that Is only a aI I phrase for women who are German GermanI industry ind just now Given a leader I and who knows how the fire tire will spread |