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MOBILIZING WOMAN-POWER
HARRIOT STANTON BLATCH
Jeanne d'Arc.--the spirit of the women of the Allies.
MOBILIZING WOMAN-POWER
HARRIOT STANTON BLATCH
TO THE ABLE AND DEVOTED WOMEN OF GREAT BRITAIN AND FRANCE
Who have stood behind the armies of the Allies through the years of theGreat War as an unswerving second line of defense against an onslaughtupon the liberty and civilization of the world, I dedicate this volume.
HARRIOT STANTON BLATCH
CONTENTS
FOREWORD BY THEODORE ROOSEVELT
III. MOBILIZING WOMEN IN GREAT BRITAIN
IV. MOBILIZING WOMEN IN FRANCE
V. MOBILIZING WOMEN IN GERMANY
VI. WOMEN OVER THE TOP IN AMERICA
XII. WOMAN'S PART IN SAVING CIVILIZATION
ILLUSTRATIONS
Jeanne d'Arc--the spirit of the women of the Allies
They wear the uniforms of the Edinburgh trams and the New York Citysubway and trolley guards, with pride and purpose
Then--the offered service of the Women's Reserve Ambulance Corps inEngland was spurned. Now--they wear shrapnel helmets while working duringthe Zeppelin raids
The French poilu on furlough is put to work harrowing
Has there ever been anything impossible to French women since the timeof Jeanne d'Arc? The fields must be harrowed--they have no horses
The daily round in the Erie Railroad workshops
In the well-lighted factory of the Briggs and Stratton Company, Milwaukee,the girls are comfortably and becomingly garbed for work
The women of the Motor Corps of the National League for Woman's Servicerefuting the traditions that women have neither strength nor endurance
Down the street they come, beginning their pilgrimage of alleviationand succor on the battlefields of France.
How can business be "as usual" when in Paris there are about 1800 ofthese small workshops where a woman dips Bengal Fire and grenades intoa bath of paraffin!
Countess de Berkaim and her canteen in the Gare de St. Lazarre, Paris.
An agricultural unit in the uniform approved by the Woman's Land Armyof America.
A useful blending of Allied women. Miss Kathleen Burke (Scotch) exhibitingthe X-ray ambulance equipped by Mrs. Ayrton (English) and Madame Curie(French).
FOREWORD
It is a real pleasure to write this fore