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Show H HURT BY TASKS OF WAR 1 Bl M , ON ( P MtkK. International News St run staff t or-rei or-rei ondent. ' ' l.-' 'i.l Tlo- iii"b:li.atlon Of V women In modern warfare is almost IibbbbbbbI as detrimental in its effect upon the JH future of the human race la the c- I luul loss In men killed and permanent- H This is the conclusion reached by French dot '"v U'.rinK- two-year H stud; following the armistice They LH find that Die employment of womei f luiiiik' tin war in exhausting work I formerly reserved for men has serf- ; iously weakened their vitality, and thev H jM suffer This condition, they say, holds U good in France, England, Germany and everj 1 1 t- where the IH mobilisation ..t n rfl and lo a certain extent in the United , ,i u , , m i r w ere JH employed In inuilltlon works l l w ( on l iNt i WORK, j In France a very large percentage IH of the women and girls who worked jH in munition factories during the war ,H for v oi k when thi rB jH sis in, began manufacturing automo- IH biles and other products- Only a few H who occupied positions as technical H expert! aOUght their old places again. gJH The employers attribute this largely 1 10 the fact that the women could not lH bear up under year of hard toll, al- J though It is conceded that thousand returned to their homes, their hus- B bands having been demobilized follow- 1 the Ol th" thousands of women employ- JJH ed on the Paris subway lines during M nd fl sellers and punchers on!) a fe"a score, working al ihe last two named I H remain The subway companies fJH onlv employed wives or daughters of 1 mobilized male employes during the fJH Mil tit sllM. WOMI N I n the governent Servlc and in H I many business houses where women 1 :epl,i . d mules during the war very H l uge part of them remain, chiefly be- fJH cause they aeqept smaller salaries than . IJH 'men. No serious attempt has been jBBJSS made to oust th women from thei. Jobs to take places for returned sol- 1 1 was ihe ease In England. As JJH mattei of fact, there apparently has been plentv pf work to go around for 'all the poilus when they doffed their PJBBJ blue and returned to civilian life. There Is one rav Of optimism In the "BBBB iieports of Dhylclans and sonologists lH who hkv'e given the mutter serious stuiiy. The fea.i that immoraliiy among women would increase by leaps and bound as famll) ties were shaken dur- lug i hi api ntly ground JH There has been no Increase in tn SJSJSSJS number of recognised prostitutes m Palls Sine the war. the police "COll- BSJSJSJB trol" records show The figure remains BBJBJBJJ i the same eboin KO.OOO, with an estl- pjJH mate by sdCiolaglsta that perhaps -'5.-!000 more guln part of their llvjfJinpod 'in the same manner, but are not un-'del un-'del police survclllaie I |