Show the old settler my dear san Jua ners in one of the institutions where I 1 spend a lot of time the war in I 1 I 1 the last six months has changed the working force of men mostly to women it has made ja a great I 1 diff difference eren ce I 1 don dont know au fust st how ato to define it although there is is no doubt about its being more pleasant and better in many ways for one thing there is less noise and bluster there is an atmosphere of greater refinement refi nemen less loafing and more prompt application to duty this same thing seems to have happened in many of the large factories and other institutions ot ol the united states it is asser asserted ed that the working force of men has in many caseres been substituted as much as 50 and in some cases as high as 80 by women and always with surprisingly 7 better results it is asserted J hat in in some isome cases where it was quite impossible to find an average of one man in ten that could do certain difficult work and do it well they had found among that number of women three or four that could learn the difficult job quicker than men had been learning it and could do it better and in less time this sets me to thinking il h las always been quite easy for me to get enthused over women but bu I 1 inherited a persistent tradition that when it comes to real judgment and ability women are ara inferior to men I 1 confess t that hat what I 1 am seeing and hearing as is about v to f force orce me to revise my schedule of estimates men have been running the whole show in this world for a long time and if they have not made a sorry mess of it then there are no messes As things are shaping now men are more than occupied with the stress of the emergency and they are forced to turn some of the show over to the women and it is a surprise if not a humiliation to find that instead of matters suffering for go continued on page 8 the old settler continued from page 1 ing to the wo nen they are han ban dic 1 better than before it may be that so many men will perish in the conflict that women beng in the overwhelming majority will take over the reins of government and it may be too that the way things ire are going men will see how much better women can do at the erfft 1 and will tell them 0 o n e it over and do what they canto canto correct the evils which have increased under mans ton ALBERT R LYMAN |