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Show Man Power. - We read of man-power these days; human power is a better term, because be-cause it emphasizes the fact that the women and children also consititute a great factor in this war. In the final j victory every man, woman, and child in America can and should have a part. In comparing the man power of Germanywith that of the United States it must be borne in mind that a much larger proportion of the manual labor of the man power of the Nation is performed, per-formed, is exerted by the German women than by the women of America It is said that in peace times the women constituted 42 per cent of the agricultural and industrial labor of Germany. They work in the fields, in the factories, in the mines, at the very hardest and most laborious tasks, doing do-ing the work only done by men in this country. With a great proportion of the German men in the army, it is not improbable that women now constitute by far the larger half of German manual labor. The women of the' United States are nobly, unselfishly, manfully, one may say, bearing their share of the burdens of war. By the grace of God and the power and courage of America the fate of the German women is not and will never be theirs. But it wilr be with their assistance and cooperation and their full assumption of the burdens and duties of the day that the United States is to exert its full power in ridding the world of that intolerable German kultur which makes brute soldiers sol-diers of the men and slaves of the women. w. s. s. |