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Show 'Rely Upon Women. In the first year of the war th'c American Ameri-can army numbered 1.5f0.C00 men and 2.225,000 were lr camp, by July 1. It is anticipated that at least 2.KO.OO0 will be in France by the end of this year and that perhaps 2.M0.OCO moro will have answered an-swered the nation's call. Who, then, is to take tho places of these warriors that the business of the country may be kept ;olng and the needs of our fishting men here and abroad supplied? The women. The nation has given Its sons to fight for humanity and tho world's democracy, and so shall It bo called ujon more and more n every community, North. South. East and West, to give Its daughters to the great Industrial army needed England has more than 1.500.0CO women In the factories who have directly replaced re-placed the men at the front; the women of Fiance arc performing equally noble service Many of them arc doing highly skilled work and many are engaged mjon exceedingly dangerous tasks In the manufacture manu-facture of high explosives and really are risking their lives. And our women, now that the great call has come, will not fall behind their slslers In Eiirope nnd y 111 prove that tills nation has nothing to fear In depending for its military operations upon those who have been left behind, for they will math-tain math-tain Ihe necessary industrial efficiency. 'The newest women's industrial army to make war munitions directly for the government now Is being organized nnd will be stationed In divisions-of from l.tpo to 3.0C0 at each of the twonty-twb munition muni-tion cajitonnirnts being built by tho government gov-ernment In various parts of the country. The largest of these centres will be in the Stales of Xew Jersey. Pennsylvania, Georgia, Virginia. West Virginia. Ohio and Tennessee. And that the morale of f.hesc thousands of women workers may be maintained the United States lias called upon the Y. W. C. A., the mighty sisterhood of the Blue Triangle, to take entire charge of the recreation programme for all the cantonments. The Y. W. C. A. has cheerfully accepted the now task and the work will be carried on under the general direction of Miss Ernestine Friedman, Fried-man, nationnl head of the Y. W. C. A.'s Industrial War Work Department. |