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Show I Sill WOMEN SHOULD HAVE JOBS f Love joy, Former Health Commioner of Portland, Hold Otherwise Sex Become Liability. DECLARES HIGHEST WORK, MOTHERHOOD Noted Woman Physician Says State Muit Recognize Debt to Mother. Fven- "n and rVf'r man for f matter, should do xomcthinc to i 'Iff her or hn existence Erilep onisn glf-" a m,irh 89 "h" 'ske ! M-rice she ' Hbillt. nn.l not! n uMt o ,hc rrnmunft " (nrom''n"n- f,n ;h" lnf;"sln" aib'r of women, of wartime ex-I ex-I I ftrince. who are flprkintr to il, various po of duty w.hirh beckon hlr aid In not war and the uaual ommunit problem. Dr Esther , Lovejoy futstday expressed this con (VtctJon. ' Erer woman ought to have . a Job." rr. I.ovejoy. who la one of the , oungest women of her profe-iMon Hat no- . rtholes, had STOOd op 1 1 ence. and ha known women, from the pleasure loving butterfly npe to the hop girl, and the mother of rrany children. From holding the unique position for a woman, that of Com ml5ioner of Health of Portlam). Ore.. OT J.o ejoy has Just been elected president pres-ident of the first Mod:, al Women's international association, composed ol woruen phyalcians and surgeons o' flf-teen flf-teen different countries. tr. Lovejoy added to her obsrrva tions of w oman durins her sun . v of the work being done by the Amcr an woman's Hospitals In France during the war At the Instance of the American Amer-ican Women's Hospitals. Dr. Lovejoy' pent several months In France studying study-ing the needs an.l problems of the French mother and ber children Lessons of the War. At her office in the headquarters of! 'he American Women's Hospitals, of; which she le chairman of the . ccu lie board. Dr. Lore jo? sr.id: "One of the lessons of the wur Is that the strength of a nation depehdel upon the conservation of the phvsical.1 mi-niai and moral heal'h of its people, i and In order to facilitate a world w ide program based upon this lesson, the recent conference of medical women from many countries was called here "Working for a common interest In' the upbuilding of the health ot the people of the various nations represented repre-sented at the conference, the In'rrna 1 ' tlonal association was formed as a re-! suit. "The war showed us women physl clans the value of training, beinc r !.' for an emergency. I believe this truth1 was borne home to scores of others. .i. mi uuiwivs woman no went overseas. Why, those tssflnen went overseas and discovered the world! They had not known the possibilities pos-sibilities of self-governruent that the i opportunity for sen ice afforded "Up to the tlrne of going overseas many of these women had not known i the real world, lor they had excluded : themselves from it. They had no understanding un-derstanding of what was worth while "But service taught many of these women the real bit; Important things of life. They have come back with a new sense of value of the things that count, and do not count. They also realize re-alize the satisfaction 1o be obtained from service given by a capable worker. work-er. And Lb oss women were capable They proved that. Why was Florence Nightingale a success" Because she had been trained for the work, which the necessities of the hour impelled her to meet lati r on. Time-Killmg 'Wicked.' "There is nothing so futile as kill ing lime This is the stuff that life Is made of. some one has said, and think of killing them, actually killing so much of life? Yet we often hear people peo-ple say, 'Oh, I did such and .uoh a tiling just to kill time!" It is realh wicked ! "But out of thi? horrible cataclysm, we have learned some lesson;. For n-'.ince. today there is to be seen a' growing tendency on the part of the' Individual woman to devote om" time' to ihe problems that assail us. and to I the intents of others in her community. commu-nity. "Every woman who did some war , work, whether In this country' or abroad, haa this newly awaken -d social so-cial consclenceness She knows that her experience has counted for something, some-thing, and that training Is the key-jnote key-jnote of all success, and should be ap-i ap-i plied to every phase of lifp. ' That la why I believe the women of the country today are coming forward In big newly organized groups, with the earnest purpose of trying to be of help In thi- r. idju-t m-fM of ot.r Me "For five years, thousands of wom- n all over the world have been In training through war service, and this preparation is helping them to meet the post war conditions of their respective re-spective countries, so I am told. "There can be no question of the ben fit not only to the community but to the woman herself, through service. "From a physical, mental and moral standpoint every human being Is better bet-ter for having employment, some keen interest In life Of course, that is to say. if they are employed in some healthful occupation with healthful hours, and If the work they do Is giving giv-ing them the satisfying sense of having hav-ing achieved something for themselves and for humanity. Health His Grea:es: Asset. "The greatest asset of mankind is anmui even, luviai iliu U1CI11HI.' Every human being should be Instructed Ins-tructed In the Importance of physical j health, and that no success is possible without it. For Instance, today there are many' Styles of dress that should actually be prohibited by law. Take for example1 some styles or shoes that have been I in ogue. The exaggerated height of heels give a woman a sort of horse-1 footed appearance. When a horse'. j foot has such a sirn of deformity a surglcial operation is performed to I bring it back to normal "But. I presume, such reforms will I oome in time with B change in sentiment senti-ment when women become more thoughtful on questions of health and I the value that good health plays in la woman's lite and happiness. This chance will come eventually j just as many others, and 1 believe these changes will be ror the real bene lit of society. "For instance, I sincerely hope to see the day when work for every proman Will not be question of .money, but one of ethics I believe that dav will come when there will be SO exchange of serice For instance. wh should I try to help another 'woman if she refuses absolutely to be of service We may live to see the following scene enacted, say, at a gov-1 eminent employment bureau: A woman, leading a dog on a string, ap plies for a servant They look her up. Why, she has no occupation, they find She toils not, neither does she spin She does nothing for humanity, nothing noth-ing for her.-eh Well, servants are scarce, and they don't waste a good Servant on that woman and her dog. Besides, a new idea has taken root in the world, and this new idea is that I every woman onht to do some useful work. Scenes of the Future. "To continue the illustration: A mother earning a babe in arms, and another child following behind, applies ap-plies for a servant. She has brought! her credentials with her. They are j ' isuftlctent. She g ( a rMn or two. if she liken "A woman who dor nothing all day but coddle a dog ia really anti social I think the number of children a woman has should act as an index to her social standing The more she has the hieh r In the social scale br 'landing should be "Thr Is no more Important work In the world than motherhood, and II should be recognized as such. But is it? ' Motherhood unprotected. Somr of the belligerent countries today depleted de-pleted in manhiH il. ar- cryinc out In alarm at this condition Some ol governments are offering a small money inducement, but the mother web knows that this Is not anywhere near ; the amount that will be required in addition to her own earnlnc to keep a child In healthy condition, even it jtt manages to keep from starvation Mothers who have seen their little 'ones sicken and die before their Wft for lack of nourishment, arc giving l serious thought to whether they should assume the responsibility ot ruoiherhood under such conditions. 'Them other oucht to be protected. We grant all sorts of pensions Why not one to the mother1 In time of na tlonal trouble, the son on whom she has lavished so much care and attention atten-tion she releases to the government. Wouldn't it be an equally fair thine that the Kovernment. in her time of distress, should afford her some protection pro-tection ? "Women today are considering the hich price of motherhood Classifying the work or woman, motherhood has too long been In the necleetcd Hs1 I think, as one of the results of war. that society is beginning to acknowl edge this met Here Is the hichest creative work we must all acknowledge." |